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This bridge was built over the West Don River, just east of Yonge Street and a little to the north the Yonge Blvd.

A view from Yonge Street looking west along Queen Street in about 1888. You can see horse-drawn streetcars and wagons, and gas lamps on the telephone poles (remember those?). Men and boys wore hats and women wore bustles, and the streets were…

The Bedford Park Volunteer Fire Brigade, pictured in front of John Atkinson's shop at Yonge and Bedford Park Avenue in about 1900.

This is a scene from the 1850s, depicting the Hoggs Hollow toll gate, situated in North Toronto on Yonge Street near York Mills. The neighbourhood itself is named after the Hogg family, who settled the area in the 1820s. They owned a whiskey…

"This block of dolostone, a magnesium-rich variety of limestone, was found buried in boulder-studded clay about thirty feet below the surface during the excavation of the Yonge Street subway in August of 1972. Outcroppings of Dolostone are found…

Black and white photo showing Cumberland Street facing east towards Yonge Street - this is one block north of Yonge and Bloor on the west side of Yonge. This photo includes #4 Cumberland, MacMillan's Health Products store, and also 773 Yonge Street,…

Handwritten on the photo by the original photographer "A young boy giving out handbills and an old man on Yonge Street in the summer of 1973."

When we closed Yonge Street

When we closed Yonge Street

When we closed Yonge Street