Apr 05 2020
April 2020 Spanning the Etobicoke Creek, on the border of Mississauga and Toronto, sits a small, unassuming bridge, known as the Middle Road Bridge. While the bridge now carries only pedestrian traffic, this historic concrete bowstring truss bridge was the first of its kind in Ontario, and was once a part of the road that …
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Apr 01 2020
April 2020 The iconic Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion is a landmark on Toronto’s waterfront, an almost 50, 000 square foot pavilion constructed in the Beaux Arts style. It’s also one of the few remnants left of the Sunnyside Amusement Park, a popular amusement park in west Toronto that operated from 1922 until closing in 1955. Opened …
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Mar 21 2020
March 2020 Known to the locals as Valley Inn, this picturesque cove on the western edge of Burlington Bay/Hamilton Harbour at the end of Burlington Heights, was once along the main land route between Hamilton and the East Flamborough Township village of Aldershot, now a part of the City of Burlington, in southern Ontario. This …
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Mar 19 2020
March 2020 Just west of Ancaster, Ontario, in the Dundas Valley, sits the burnt-out shell of an abandoned stone mansion on a former estate property known as The Hermitage. The 165-year old ruins and the property are now a tourist attraction for hikers and those interested in the paranormal, maintained by the Hamilton Conservation Authority. …
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Mar 18 2020
March 2020 In the downtown core of Oakville, Ontario, sits a small three-storey, century-old building with a link to the early era of modern public transportation in southern Ontario. Built in 1906, this building was the eastern terminus station for the Hamilton Radial Electric Railway (HRER). The HRER began business when they received their charter …
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Mar 17 2020
March 2020 The small community of Holland Landing, Ontario, played an important part in the early history of Upper Canada, now known as the Canadian province of Ontario. Today, it has a monument in a community park that has an interesting history. Holland Landing was the northernmost point of the original alignment of Yonge Street, …
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Mar 12 2020
March 2020 Like most cities, Toronto has a spotted history of preserving buildings and structures from the past. Most times, old buildings and structures are torn down to make room for new ones, all in the name of progress. In some cases, it’s simply too expensive to repair them, but especially in the case of …
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Mar 08 2020
March 2020 When the Ontario government of George Stewart Henry began the process of expanding and converting the Middle Road into a new Toronto to Hamilton highway in 1931, it was originally conceived as a work relief project during the Great Depression. Originally a dusty, rural concession road, the Middle Road, which ran parallel to …
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Mar 05 2020
March 2020 For centuries, going back to the days of ancient Rome, lighthouses have lined shorelines around the world to serve as a navigational aid and to warn boats of dangerous areas; like a traffic sign on the sea. The Queen’s Wharf Lighthouse is a wooden, 36-foot octagonal lighthouse, sitting on a small plot of …
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Feb 24 2020
February 2020 On Elgin County Road 4, south of St. Thomas, Ontario, sits a complex of vacant, inter-connected Queenston Limestone, Art Deco buildings, done in a Pavilion Plan style, on a 650-acre property. This is the former St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital. Opened in April 1939 as the Ontario Hospital – St. Thomas, the facility already …
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