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We were very poor students living on Charles Street but our view included a bit of Yonge. We couldn't afford to go to movies and theatre. How lucky that all the parades in Toronto went down Yonge. There was the Santa Claus Parade and also the…

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…