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What’s the story with this little cemetery?

April 2, 2015October 2, 2017 Shawn Star cemetery, Ezekiel Gooderham, Hoggs Hollow, York Mills Baptist Church

If you’ve ever walked along York Mills Road just east of Yonge, you may have stumbled upon a single lot-sized tract of land housing a couple dozen graves hidden behind a hedge and an old rusty fence.

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NEWS 

Students design new bike racks

February 3, 2010 Town Crier staff bikes, cemetery, Design

A funky new bike rack is coming to Mount Pleasant Cemetery this summer.

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NEWS 

A heartless crime

October 15, 2009 Town Crier staff cemetery

Imagine arriving at the gravesite of a loved one to find you’ve been the victim of a despicable crime.

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THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

Empringham Hotel 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danfoirth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan
Mt. Pleasant loop being built
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan
Hay wagons on Yonge Street
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan
Avoca bridge being torn down
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Streeter staff

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