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Snow removal on Yonge St. just south of Temperance St., December 1922.

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Snow removal in 1922, by shovel, cart and horse! Not a salt truck or plough to be seen.

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SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT YONGE STREET

Like all my grandparents eight sons, the eldest - my Uncle Hugh - had an unquenchable thirst for adventure and wealth - wealth, meaning security, in those days. In his early twenties, he and a younger brother, Harry, took off for the gold fields,…

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Sporting Life 10k 2013 - Race Review

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The Sporting Life 10k is not only an easy and fast race, but it is now the largest running event in Toronto and the 2nd largest in Canada with 27,000 registered participants this year! Woo!

Runners and walkers got to hustle down Canada's most…

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St. Clements Avenue, 1903 -- Barely recognizable!

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This early photo shows the view west along St. Clements Avenue from Yonge Street. In the distance is the Anglican Church of St. Clement, the home of Canon Henry B. Osler's house, and Woodley's house which later became the rectory.

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Strangers' Burial Ground

On the northwest corner of Yonge & Bloor, beneath the CIBC, lies the York General Burial Ground, Toronto’s first non-denominational burial ground. Also known as the Stranger’s Burial Ground, or Potter’s Field, this is where people who did not…

Tags: cemeteries, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Necropolis, Potters Field, read, stories, story, Strangers Burial Ground, yonge street, York General Burying Ground

Street car on Yonge Street, north of Yonge Blvd., in Hogg's Hollow

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The street cars used to go a lot further north back then! Courtesy of Toronto Public Library.

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Subway Boys

I remember being in the Yonge subway the day after it opened,in March 1954. It was quite exciting. I was a young boy at the time. My friend and I rode the subway that day. Later,a TTC employee shouted at us because we had been racing along the…

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Temporary bridge over the Don River (1955)

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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.

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The Art of Yonge and Davisville

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

At Davisville, the TTC’s headquarters building (the McBrien Building) was built after the Yonge subway line opened in 1954 but it is now…

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The beginning of Yonge Street

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

Yonge starts appropriately right at Lake Ontario. It’s an inauspicious beginning to such a mythical street – at least it is right now…

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