It just wouldn’t be summer in Toronto without the street festivals. Pretty much any weekend from June to September there is a festival happening in the city, sometimes two or three events on the same weekend. The Toronto Chinatown Festival… Read More »Toronto Chinatown Festival 2025
At 819 Yonge Street, just south of the Church and Yonge Street intersection, you will find a Heritage Toronto plaque for Conrad The Raccoon. Who is Conrad The Raccoon you may ask? Well, ten years ago, this dead raccoon on… Read More »Conrad The Raccoon
For a couple of years now I’ve passed by this beautiful site but never stopped to look closer – my loss, until now. I first discovered The Garden of Lost Boys last winter but wanted to wait until it was… Read More »The Garden of Lost Boys
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
OK, I realize Toronto Pride is not really a TO Cityscape, per se, but it’s a major event that shakes up the city once a year, so I think it’s worthy of coverage. Love it or hate it, Pride was… Read More »Toronto Pride 2025
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