Today we’ll take a short, rainy-day walk across Richmond Street West, roughly from Simcoe Street to John Street. Prior to researching it, I knew in general that this street was of historical significance in terms of Toronto’s old warehouse district.… Read More »Richmond Street West
600 Parliament Street in St. James Town is a visual reminder of resistance to the area’s development in the 1960s. Sitting on Parliament Street near Wellesley Street East, I have passed this building hundreds of times; every time I pass… Read More »600 Parliament Street
At 188 Carlton Street, on the corner of Bleecker Street, sits St. Peter’s Anglican Church, now known as Dixon Hall Neighbourhood Services. The English Gothic Revival-style building was constructed between 1865 and 1866, with additions and modifications over the years.… Read More »St. Peter’s Anglican Church / Dixon Hall
The latest Toronto structure succumbing to the wrecking ball are the A, B and C wings of the Michael Garron Hospital (formerly known as Toronto East General). Located at 825 Coxwell Avenue, corner of Coxwell and Mortimer Avenues, these old… Read More »Demolition, Michael Garron Hospital
I’ve always loved walking down the short stretch of Glen Road from Howard Street to the Glen Road footbridge. To me it has always exuded a quasi New York feeling with its walk-up apartment buildings and Victorian houses, capped off… Read More »Glen Road
There’s nothing quite so rewarding in street photography as setting out for the day, having no destination in mind; you merely wind through the city with your camera wherever your feet take you, recording the city as it goes about… Read More »A City Stroll in Black & White
If I had to assign Toronto apartment buildings a theme song, it would be Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust. For decades I’ve passed by 88 Isabella Street, a 14-story rental building borne from 1960s architecture. It has always been… Read More »So Long, 88 Isabella Street
The Water’s Edge Promenade stretches from Sugar Beach near the foot of Jarvis Street, past Sherbourne Common, ending at the foot of Parliament Street – for now. There are future plans to keep extending Water’s Edge Promenade further along the… Read More »Water’s Edge Promenade
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
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
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