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The Rivers That Once Ran Through It

In his new book of photographs, Rivers Forgotten, Jeremy Kai reveals the underworld of Toronto's long-buried rivers and water systems.

Just south of Dundas on Crawford Street is a series of faded blue waves connecting a pathway that runs from Shaw to Gore Vale Avenue through Trinity Bellwoods Park. On a snowless winter day, runners still nonchalantly jaunt across it, their minds focused on their pace or the music coming from their headphones—unaware that if [...]

Subterranean Bicycle Lanes

When last we caught up with urban explorer HI-LITE, he was perched on the jib of a tower crane, hundreds of feet above downtown Toronto. This past weekend, HI-LITE, along with a handful of other urban explorers, cycled to the suburbs to participate in a subterranean bike ride known as the Toronto Drain-Bike. On a weekend in which thousands cycled to conquer cancer, and hundreds biked in the nude, eight other cyclists made a 12 kilometre bike trek entirely underground.

Ask Torontoist: Tall, Green, and (Kinda) Smelly

Ask Torontoist features questions posed by you, and answered by our elite team of specially trained investigative experts (also known as our staff). Send your questions to ask@torontoist.com. Reader Ross Pryde asks: What’s the deal with the large green pipes that stick out of the ground at Gerrard Street and Alton Avenue? Ventilation stacks at [...]

It’s a Waterful Life

Photo by bensonkua from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. So you think you know the history of Toronto’s water? Taddle Creek used to flow down Philosopher’s Walk, Garrison Creek used to flow through Trinity Bellwoods Park, all of the land below Front Street used to be in the lake, and R.C. Harris built everything; what else [...]