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One thing I keep wondering is how this bridge survived Hurricane Hazel. Hazel washed out the Don River bridges on Bathurst, Sheppard and Yonge, but this one survived.

These are NOT my photos! These are photos that have been posted by Mustapha and others earlier, I'm just making comments on the handful that mean something to me. (I'm not about to take credit for someone else's hard work)

Amazing. I've walked through this park several times, with no idea that it used to be a large pond/inlet This now explains something. One of the apartment buildings on Edgewood (called 'Berkley' on the map above) has a large sunken parking lot along the side. I'd always wondered why they went...

You're spot on about the Cemetery having once gone all the way to Yonge, as seen in this aerial photo. I think I read somewhere once that the long narrow shape of the cemetery is due to the fact that it used to be an airstrip. Up until the mid-late 90s there was a public greenhouse at the...

Dempsey Brothers Hardware was a great place. Smelled like old wood, and they had EVERYTHING. If I dig around in my parents garage even today I'll probably find something with a Dempsey price sticker on it. I still have a small claw hammer that I bought with my allowance years ago. If you want...

Gladly This is a reference point for surveyors and engineers, allowing them to determine heights in the area. BM - Bench Mark No (80)76 - the serial number for this particular bench mark. Notice that it was originally just numbered 76, it was renumbered and the extra digits were stamped...

Finally, the end! It's taken me something like 10 days to read through this entire thread, but worth every minute. Guess I should introduce meself. Toronto born (end of the 1970s) & bred, grew up in the Yonge & Sheppard area. Went to McMaster for my undergrad, which is where my avatar comes...