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The reason there aren't any straight through streets between Queen and Bloor is because of the Park Lots - 100 acre lots with 660 feet frontage on Lot/Queen Street. History! https://torontofamilyhistory.org/simcoesgentry/

hi Goldie I read in the 'Leaside' book that the Thorncliffe Park area was annexed to the town of Leaside in 1954. So Thorncliffe Park was part of York township to 1924, then East York, then Leaside, then back in East York in 1967 when they were combined. Also the entrance gates which once...

Is this before the before?

They got the fill from the Glendonwynne Road area - this photo is titled 'Glendonwynne Avenue pit where fill removed to fill in Bloor and Clendenan Hollow'

Interesting, because Target had a grocery section (and so did Zellers). I think the Canadian Tire at Laird & Eglinton should move to the old Target space.

From 1981:

Yes - City Hall Loop http://stevemunro.ca/2012/01/02/a-look-back-dundas-cars-near-city-hall/#jp-carousel-10923

Just putting your two photos together for comparison...

By 'sort of' I meant that the original bronze plaques were remounted on the new monument, while the cross from the top of the old monument is now lying flat in front of it. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2011/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-40227.pdf

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I think it was moved up the street (sort of)...

Dundas East between the railway tracks and Jones in 1947 and 1956

That's because Dundas East (and west) is a bunch of streets - and back lanes in this case - strung together. 53 Dagmar was lopped off from 55 Dagmar for the extension

Entrance to Sunnybrook Park - the stone gates - which are also over 1 km from Leslie & Eglinton https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7200536,-79.3608938,3a,75y,269.44h,85.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2x0XDJIobXwVURptUlNU_A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I'm a local. To me, Wilket Creek Park is at Leslie and Eglinton, where I used to toboggan down the Leslie Street slope many many years ago. Now it's all trees. Sunnybrook Park is a 2 km walk/ride from Wilket Creek Park or a 2 km walk/ride from the Sunnybrook Hospital entrance. Serena Gundy...

They didn't put up a poll, but they did ask 'the public'. That's where some of the revised station names came from. https://www.metrolinxengage.com/en/engagement-initiatives/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-station-names...

How the TTC lost and found its subway style "Until the billboards came down at College station, the dusty but otherwise intact tile had been hidden from public view for more than 30 years. The reemergence attracted a significant amount of attention on social media—someone even wrote “love...

A College Station kitchen http://retrorenovation.com/2015/11/12/ideas-decorate-green-tile-kitchen/