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This view is looking south from Wellesley Street.
Does anyone remember when the streetcar ran along Yonge Street?

Courtesy of Toronto Public Library

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A gruesome picture for Hallowe'en. Just off Yonge Street, on Richmond Street between Bay and Yonge was the Toronto School of Medicine.

The first school of medicine in Toronto was established in 1842 and the dissecting rooms were built on the…

Every step you walk on Yonge street has a memory, and a story to tell. The next time you walk past the Hummingbird Centre at Front and Yonge... think of this: On June 29, 1974 the worldfamous Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov ducked out the…

The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010

If Woody Allen set movies in Toronto they would be shot at Yonge and Eglinton. It’s vertical, the sidewalks are full of people wearing…

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In 1976, my cousin was visiting from Alaska. We hopped the bus to the big smoke on our own to take in a movie -- Jaws -- at the Cineplex in the Eaton Centre. To our smalltown eyes, it was dazzling -- the coolest theatre we had ever seen! The movie…

The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010

Inside City Hall, a building that had its political power sucked out of it when the megacity was created, there are happy photo montages of…

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Hurricane Hazel struck Toronto on October 15, 1954.
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