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View from mr father's store.

Paige Credit Jewellers (Paige's)
357 Yonge Street



Geri Paige Gans

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…

A traffic jam, 1914-style. This view looking north on Yonge Street from Granby Street shows the Yonge, College and Avenue Road trolley cars lined up.

I wonder which was faster: the trolley car, the horse, the bike, or motorcar?

Courtesy of…

The street cars used to go a lot further north back then! Courtesy of Toronto Public Library.

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…

The Subway and the Street: How Underground Transit Transformed Yonge Street
This talk will explore the ways in which the subway has altered daily life for Torontonians and the built landscape around Yonge Street since the 1940s. With historian Jay…

Looking north from Yonge Street to Eglinton Avenue.

Courtesy of Toronto Public LIbrary