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Enjoying Toronto’s Architectural Gems – 19th century facade Within BCE Place

May 3, 2012 johndougtaylor

Many film companies have included the stone facade of the old building within BCE Place in their movies. It is indeed an impressive structure. It

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Toronto’s Architectural gems – Old City Hall

April 22, 2012 johndougtaylor

In the heart of Toronto’s financial district, each day thousands of people pass the Old City Hall. The reverberating sound of the bells in its

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Enjoying Toronto’s architectural gems – the Bay at Queen and Yonge Streets

April 18, 2012 johndougtaylor

If ever a building qualified as a place where thousands visit each week, but is rarely noticed, the venerable Hudson’s Bay building at Queen and

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Enjoying Toronto’s architectural gems – Campbell House

April 16, 2012 johndougtaylor

Campbell House’s special exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the relocation of the historic house from its original location on Adelaide Street to the

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The cast iron fence around Toronto’s Osgoode Hall

April 14, 2012February 1, 2021 johndougtaylor

                Diagram of the fence in the exhibition at Osgoode Hall The fence at Osgoode Hall, on the north side of Queen St. West, east

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Memories of Toronto’s Shea’s Hippodrome Theatre

March 6, 2012 johndougtaylor

In the 1950s, as a teenager, I remember sitting in the plush seats of the enormous balcony of Shea’s Hippodrome Theatre on Bay Street, a

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Memories of Toronto’s Sunnyside on a hot summer day

July 21, 2011June 28, 2021 johndougtaylor

“The glories that were Sunnyside are of another day,” to paraphrase the words of the song popularized by Tony Bennett. During a recent heat wave,

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Atelier Cafe Lounge in the Gurney Stove Foundry at King and Brant streets.

April 30, 2011June 21, 2021 johndougtaylor

  Today I had lunch at Atelier Cafe Lounge on King Street West, located within the building that once housed the nineteenth-century Gurney Stove Foundry.

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