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In this 1689th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with the official Toronto historian of the Toronto Mike'd podcast Jeremy Hopkin about Old City Hall. This episode is exactly 1:20:48. You can liste...

Okay, it was the Junior World Series, but it still counts.In 1926, the Toronto Maple Leafs (they got the name first) went 109-57, winning the pennant by 8 games before sweeping the Louisville Colonels...

A few of weeks ago, while searching the Toronto Telegram online archive for aerial photos of the historic industrial waterfront, I came across a remarkable series of about 40 images from 1965 by Teleg...

Muddy York is Toronto's #1 history podcast. Tune in to learn more about the schemers and dreamers who created the city that we know today.

Stanley Street was the most notorious street in Toronto in the 19th Century. Its route ran a very insignificant half kilometre between Victoria and Nelson (now Jarvis) Streets. It is this lack of distinction in geography married with its very important social makeup that frames the story of Stanley Street. Stanley was not even the … Continue reading Toronto’s Notorious Stanley Street →

It took more than 20 years to build the current Union Station. Over the next century, new lines like TTC, GO and VIA would arrive, it would nearly be knocked down to make room for a new development ca...

In 1972, the Toronto production of Godspell featured one of the greatest casts in the history of theatre, including Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, Dave Thomas a...

General plan of a toll house and gate, c.1845. This illustration appears as an inset on the Map of a portion of the Province of Upper Canada shewing the improved roads, produced by the Department o…