Why do these Yorkdale shoppers look happy as they begin their browsing or shopping experience? Perhaps it’s because they took the subway instead of motoring to the mall. Anyone who has driven into the Yorkdale parking lot during the weeks preceding Christmas knows it’s not an experience for the timid. While we suspect it was [...]

Toronto1960-11 from davide tonizzo on Vimeo. Compared to heritage properties from the 19th and early 20th centuries, Toronto’s architecture from the 1960s and 1970s doesn’t often receive much love. While some period structures like the curving towers of City Hall have become iconic, the merits of the modernist qualities of others are fiercely debated: great [...]

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. Holiday shopping at Yorkdale in the 1960s. Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist. Christmas shopping is upon us, which means it’s time for the claustrophobic to avoid approaching most of Toronto’s shopping malls. [...]