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Michelle Ross memorial
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Iconic drag queen Michelle Ross dead

March 30, 2021April 4, 2021 Rodger Burnside Crews and Tangos, drag queens, Gay Village, Glad Day Bookshop, Michelle Ross, Pride Toronto, Tribute

Drag queen Michelle Ross has died. The news came in tributes on social media from Pride Toronto and others over the past two days.

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Community loses social service legend

April 15, 2013 Town Crier staff Anne Johnston Health Station, CareWatch, Central Eglinton Community Centre, Charlotte Maher, POINT, Sherwood Park Residents Association, SPRINT, Tribute

Charlotte Maher made a career out of helping the groups that help midtown

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Jack’s way

March 15, 2013June 18, 2014 Francis Crescia Bridgepoint Health, Craig Scott, Don Jail, Jack Layton, Mike Layton, Olivia Chow, Paula Fletcher, Peter Tabuns, Toronto-Danforth, Tribute, Ward 30

Road named to honour late Toronto-Danforth MP Jack Layton

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Street naming planned as tribute to Jack Layton

February 19, 2013October 30, 2017 Che Perreira Bridgepoint Health, Don Jail, Jack Layton, Toronto-Danforth, Tribute

Roadway to honour former MP and councillor to form part of Bridgepoint Health’s new campus

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Tribute to John Brooks

June 9, 2010 Town Crier staff John Brooks, Philanthropist, Tribute

The Canadian and Jamaican flags were draped over the street sign as a symbol of his heritage.

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NEWS 

Champlain isn't only for Quebec

November 18, 2009 Town Crier staff Champlain, Tree planting, Tribute

There’s a new tree in Lytton Park and it’s there to remind Torontonians that Canada’s French heritage belongs to us all.

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth 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
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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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