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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…

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…

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 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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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.)

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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…

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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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…

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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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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…
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