Torontoist » railway http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:22:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Historicist: Head-On Calamity

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Derek Boles noted in Toronto’s Railway Heritage (Arcadia Publishing, 2009) that the accident occurred a mile west of the Sunnyside level crossing, seen here in 1907. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds [...]

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Photo by khalijkhazar from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. One of the city’s most popular annual events, Doors Open Toronto, returns this weekend for a ninth edition, welcoming the public for free into 150 important, historic, and just plain interesting buildings across the city. It would be virtually impossible for one person to take in all [...]

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