Clik here to view.
Old Pottery Road walking tour
Frequent northbound travellers on the Bayview Extension have probably noticed the “Pottery Road” street sign pointing to a glorified supermarket driveway at the top of the hill, just south of Moore...
View ArticlePottery Road: The original Toronto Bypass
Somewhat related to my previous post, Pottery Road has a little-known connection to another Toronto street: Davenport Road. The East York Library monograph Fascinating Facts About East York (and some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring on the Spit: Quonset hut
This old Quonset hut is familiar to anyone who has gone for a stroll or bike ride on the Leslie Street Spit. Shawn Micallef wrote an article in the Star last fall about the history of Quonsets in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Old Indian Line: Part 1
Way up in the very northwestern corner of the city, the old Indian Line used to mark the boundary between Etobicoke and Peel Region (Mississauga and Brampton). The road carved its way through farm...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The leading edge of bad slogans
Ah, Etobicoke. The Leading Edge of Metro. Or the ass end of Mississauga, depending how you look at it. This may have been the lamest slogan of the former Metro municipalities, with the probable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Abandoned DVP on-ramp
Driving down the DVP a couple of weeks ago, I noticed an old roadway cutting through the brush just north of York Mills Road. I had a pretty good idea of what it was, but a quick look at Google Maps...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I'm from the government, and I'm here to…
…expropriate your farm, board up your house, and let much of your land lie fallow while we spend 40 years trying to justify building a huge and unnecessary airport on prime agricultural and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lost Passmore Avenue
Passmore Avenue looking west from west of Beare Road. If you’re familiar with Passmore Avenue in Scarborough at all, it’s probably as an unremarkable industrial street that runs in two discontinuous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Report Card, 1935
I can tell you one thing for sure: if I’d gone to Ryerson Public School in the 1930s, I would definitely have failed sitting, standing, and walking correctly and coming to school well rested. But I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Newmarket Canal
There’s an interesting piece of history hiding in the outer reaches of the GDA (Greater Dodgeville Area, loosely defined as any place I can reach by bike) just north of Newmarket: the scattered...
View Article
