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This is a scene from the 1850s, depicting the Hoggs Hollow toll gate, situated in North Toronto on Yonge Street near York Mills. The neighbourhood itself is named after the Hogg family, who settled the area in the 1820s. They owned a whiskey…

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

The condo towers begin to thin out at Finch, and the remainder of Yonge and North York is low-rise-and-bungalow-heavy. Though there are…

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…

The farms and cows are no longer on this corner. It was developed and the Town and Country Square mall was built in the 1950's. It is now called the Centrepoint Mall.
Courtesy of Toronto Public Library