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Historian Stuart Henderson discusses the fascinating dynamics of a hip community of beatniks, hippies, and greasers that made up one of Canada’s most infamous counter-cultural neighbourhoods near Yonge Street. The talk was part of the inaugural…

This talk discusses various episodes surrounding the building of Toronto’s original Yonge Street subway line during the late 1940s and early 1950s, with particular attention paid to the impacts of construction on local merchants and residents, and…

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…

I have wonderful memories of shopping trips with my aunt to the old Simpsons store. She would buy me white gloves each spring. I remember the attention the Sales woman showed us. Then we would walk northwards, window shopping on our way home. It…

Wow! An interior shot of the newly opened Metropolitan Toronto Library in 1977. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library.

This is my favourite Yonge and Gerrard Story.

My father was a mechanic at Gorrie's car dealership which was where 40 Gerrard St. apts. are across from Ryerson Theatre in the 20's. A number of mechanics were just pouring only oil down the…

Sheppardson's Queen's Hotel was on the west side of Yonge St. It burned down and was rebuilt.

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…

intersection of Yonge st and Bloor st

intersection of Yonge st and Bloor st