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  • Hidden Toronto: Comfort Woman Statue

    What Pyeonghwaui Sonyeosang, also known as the Comfort Woman Statue. Where In front of the Korean Canadian Cultural Association Centre, 1133 Leslie. When Sunday, February...
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  • From churches to condos

    1. THIRD CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST (70 High Park) Murray Brown’s “modern classical” portico, with the warning Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me...
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  • Hidden Toronto: inside six churches surviving the condo crunch

    Canada’s mainstream churches are in trouble.  The United Church of Canada is closing churches at a rate of one a week – more than 400...
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  • Hidden Toronto: the end of Jim Addisons temple of treasures

    It was a mad, sad weekend when the vast trove of treasures found by the late Jim Addison was auctioned off to a crowd of...
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  • From avant garde to the absurd: The rise and fall of Davisville Junior Public School

    In the May-June 1962 issue of Canadian Art, architect Peter Pennington explained how post-World War II theories of “child-centred education” influenced his work in an...
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  • What is Toronto’s heritage worth?

    Heritage Toronto releases Changing The Narrative, its annual state of heritage report, today (Thursday, February 21). Since the province declared the first Heritage Week in 1985,...
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  • Can Ontario Place be saved from Doug Ford?

    When Ontario Place opened in 1971 as this province’s counterpoint to Expo 67, it seemed like something built by extraterrestrials. Architect Eb Zeidler’s pods, bridges...
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  • A year after the flood, Toronto Islands rebuild for storms yet to come

    On the Toronto Islands, where the homes of the more than 600 residents were either flooded or at risk of flooding during the deluge of...
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  • Hidden Toronto: our annual summer ode to the city’s best-kept secrets

    In Toronto, there are places so mysterious, they might as well be invisible. And there are buildings in plain sight that contain unseen stories, histories, industries,...
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  • Hidden Toronto: The War Memorials Of Harbord Collegiate

    At Harbord Collegiate Institute, The Soldier, by sculptor George W. Hill, was dedicated in 1921 to honour “These former pupils who died for humanity in...
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  • Hidden Toronto: Terracotta House

    In the 1890s, 30 years before he began work on the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy, sculptor Walter Allward refined his skills by making moulds...
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  • Doors Open 2018 hits highwater mark

    The first Journée Portes Ouvertes – Doors Open Day – was held in France in 1984. In 1990 the idea reached Scotland. It was there, in...
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  • The Bentway busts out in a big way

    It’s not a Yellow Brick Road, it doesn’t lead to Oz, and it’s not yet a kilometre long, but the first phase of The Bentway...
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  • Changing how we remember war

    There are more than 6,000 war memorials in Canada. In Toronto, war history is remembered in styles that run from the imperious, to the modestly...
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  • Saving Sunshine Valley

    Sunshine Valley, a landscaped community of 197 cottage-like homes, fits into the triangle between O’Connor, St. Clair East and Victoria Park in the former East...
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