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The Brain of Toronto
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
North of Bloor, Yonge tends not to elicit such high emotional and cultural impact, as it passes through some of Toronto's more genteel…
North of Bloor, Yonge tends not to elicit such high emotional and cultural impact, as it passes through some of Toronto's more genteel…
The Watchmen
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
Though Toronto derives its name from an aboriginal word, examples of First Nations public art around the city are rare. One giant exception…
Though Toronto derives its name from an aboriginal word, examples of First Nations public art around the city are rare. One giant exception…
Tags: aboriginal, bay and college, first nations, public art, read, sculpture, story, toronto, totem poles, yonge street
Early Toronto gay bars
It was here that Toronto's early gay bars were located, including the St. Charles Tavern at 488 Yonge (a former firehall that today sports a recently refurbished Victorian clock tower) and the Parkside Tavern at 530 Yonge (now a twenty-four-hour…
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…
Yonge starts appropriately right at Lake Ontario. It’s an inauspicious beginning to such a mythical street – at least it is right now…
Yonge Street, 1911
Summary: stereograph, unmounted. People walking, on bicycle and streetcar.
From Library of Congress, Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b43049 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b43049
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-96947 (b&w film copy neg.)
From Library of Congress, Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b43049 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b43049
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-96947 (b&w film copy neg.)
Tags: bicycles, pedestrians, picture, pictures, stereographs, street cars, streetcars, toronto, yonge street
Exorcist Staircase
This "exorcist staircase" is the semi-secret north entrance (or escape) into Severn Creek Park, above buried Severn Creek. The staircase is accessed just east of the Rosedale Subway Station entrance along Crescent Road. Magical rural hideaway just…
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,…
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Toronto 2013 - Review
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is a charity event to raise awareness about violence against women and to raise funds for the White Ribbon campaign, the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women.
The interesting thing about…
The interesting thing about…
Sporting Life 10k 2013 - Race Review
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…
Runners and walkers got to hustle down Canada's most…
Tags: 10k, 2013, Camp Ooch, Camp Oochigeas, Get Out There Magazine, races, running, running events, Sporting Life, toronto, video, watch, yonge street
"Making the Scene in 1960s Yorkville" by Stuart Henderson
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…
Tags: 1960s, audio recording, beatniks, counter culture, hippies, lectures, toronto, yonge street