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Sam the Record Man just prior to permanent closure.

Sam the Record Man just prior to permanent closure

This was the first Toronto Pride Parade I had ever marched in. It was great to march with Toronto Public Library colleagues, especially with the decked-out bookmobile behind us.

Some of my best memories of Yonge Street are from the annual Pride Parade. Hot July temperatures and sun would be very welcome right now.

A watercolour depicting F.C. Capreol's Commercial Sales Rooms, located on Yonge St., at the northwest corner of Melinda St. The artist based his image on a pen & ink drawing reproduced in Evening Telegram series "Landmarks of Toronto", October 20,…

"Ketchum was born in Spencertown, New York, and came to Upper Canada in 1799 to join his brother Seneca. In 1812 he took over a tannery on the south-west corner of Newgate (Adelaide) and Yonge Streets, prospered in business, and became one of the…

John Simcoe Macaulay (1791-1855) came to Upper Canada in 1821 and had a long career in York as a politician, businessman and Surveyor General of Upper Canada. He received from his patron, John Graves Simcoe a land grant of Park Lot 9, stretching…

My dad was an Irish immigrant from Belfast and it was such a struggle to raise a family in those days but he always walked so proud and dressed perfectly. A good man. He died in 1979.

Looking north to St. Clair, reveals, by evidence of the streetcar tracks that the Yonge subway is still a year away. The building on the east side of Yonge in the background is the 'Northgate Hotel' formerly the Rosedale hotel.

This picture shows the 970 (Armour Heights) bus, heading west from Yonge Blvd. and Yonge Street, on the last day of the Yonge Street trams.