As most know, the Toronto Islands are comprised of three small land masses – Hanlan’s Point, Centre Island and Ward’s Island – joined in an arc. Ward’s Island is on the east side of the Islands. Unlike Hanlan’s Point and… Read More »Ward’s Island
Watching a suggested video on YouTube a few days ago reminded me of a fascinating urban relic in Toronto: the Hearn Generating Station: The Hearn Generating Station (named after Richard Lankaster Hearn) is a vast decommissioned electrical generating station down… Read More »Hearn Generating Station
In a city of drab subway stations, the Museum station on Line 1 is currently a welcome exception. Museum station opened to the public on February 28, 1963 as a stop on the University subway line. Located south of the… Read More »Museum Subway Station
History In decades past, “the stockyards” at Keele Street and St. Clair Avenue West were just as the name implies: stock yards where cattle, sheep and pigs were slaughtered and sold for human consumption. The property began as a 30-acre… Read More »Stock Yards Village
The lone row home at 54 1/2 Saint Patrick Street dates back to Toronto’s slums in the late 19th century. Built somewhere between 1890 and 1893, this bay-and-gable relic from a bygone era once was one of six identical, structurally… Read More »Toronto’s Half-House
Passing through the busy area of Yonge and Dundas last week, I encountered a new claw machine arcade called Ohyo Spree at 340 Yonge Street. Apparently Ohyo Spree has a twinned store in Empress Walk in North York called Ohyo… Read More »Ohyo Spree
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