Have you ever aimlessly wandered on google streetview? Just pressing the forward key over and over again to see what was past the next screen refresh? Maybe I'm alone in this strange waste of time. But, I have a feeling I'm not. On my travels – if you can call them that – I've come […]
If you’re at all interested in skateboarding culture, this summer has been a busy one for online content. Many popular blogs and online magazines have posting a tonne of content recently.
We are in the midst of a “dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.”
For those of you with a smartphone – either andriod or iPhone – and a curiousity in the history of Toronto there maybe an app out there for you. Toronto in Time is an application that shares over 150 stories related to Toronto's past. There are many different ways to find information. You can browse […]
This post will examine high quality resources that examine the Eglington-Scarborough Crosstown and the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension.
On July 18th, 2012 I had the opportunity to listen in on the American Library Association’s 12th Annual Virtual conference. Speakers from all around the world spoke on a wide range of topics. The buzz word of the day – err, phrase – was Makers Space sometimes referred to as a hacker space; a physical […]
When a long weekend strikes the tradition of packing up, hitting the road and getting away runs deep in the culture of this city. But like so many Torontonians, I have neither a car nor a cottage to getaway to. It doesn’t really bother me, because on a long weekend after everyone has fled, the […]
On March 19th the Royal Ontario Museum celebrated it's 98th birthday. On 3:00pm on March 19th, 1914 fifteen hundred people gathered to watch the Governor General – Prince Arthur – officially open the ROM to the public. The history of ROM dates back long before the 1914 opening, but in 1912 the Province of Ontario […]
When one thinks of ghosts, generally we think of the souls of the dead coming back to haunt the living. Rarely do we think of buildings. In Unbuilt Toronto Mark Osbaldeston argues that “ghosts come in many forms [and] the most ephemeral are the ghosts of things that never were, the buildings that were themselves […]
Parks are vital to social and cultural life of Toronto. In this post we will explore Dufferin Grove Park, located just south of the beautiful and much beloved Bloor/Gladstone Library in Toronto's west-end. Dufferin Grove Park Dufferin Grove spans two city blocks and is full of huge deciduous trees. It boasts a community centre, pizza […]