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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 6d

Fire in the sky #Toronto #sun #midtown #exploring #walk

Bright sun seen over a building in midtown Toronto

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Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social · 6h

Tigers and Mariners are tied up through nine innings.

First step to the 20-inning evening that #Bluejays would love to see!

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 6h

This is a playoff baseball #Tigers #Mariners #MLB #ALDS

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Toronto Railway Museum @torailwaymuseum.bsky.social · 7h

Oct 10, 1975: the City of Toronto serves formal notice of its intention to designate Toronto Union Station under the Ontario Heritage Act. The designation would have given the building far more protection than National Historic Site designation, which also occurred in 1975. 1/2

The Front Street facade of Toronto Union Station, May 1971. Photo by F. Ellis Wiley, City of Toronto Archives.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 9h

Auction listing for "Lights of a City Street":
tinyurl.com/575z6jt8

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 9h

From the Hudson’s Bay Company Collection — now being sold after HBC’s bankruptcy.

I feel we should ask City of Toronto or the Toronto Public Library, or the AGO to acquire this painting and keep it public within the city it depicts.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 9h

Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith’s "Lights of a City Street" (1894)
Yonge & King at dusk — will soon be up for auction.

A luminous, living snapshot of downtown Toronto.
Auction: Nov 19, 2025.

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 9h

Very valid point you make. Many hate on Toronto because it seems like the popular thing to do - without ever visiting the city

John Griffin @jagrif.bsky.social · 10h

I'm from Van and when folks there tell me why they don't like TO I suggest maybe they just don't like big cities. They are aghast pointing out that they live in Vancouver after all. 😐

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collburns.bsky.social @collburns.bsky.social · 10h

I really hope the Toronto Blue will be indulging in some coconut pie before their games.

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John Griffin @jagrif.bsky.social · 10h

Incredibly accurate but at least Toronto has gotten this far with those folks. Those same people are what's holding other Canadian cities becoming big cities.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 14h

There's a lot to criticize about Toronto (waves hand broadly at my life's sad work) but like 50% of of it just people who don't like big cities & don't want to admit it.

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 10h

Well said!

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tinywires @tinywires.bsky.social · 16h

It's nearly 4am here in my corner of the world and it's the wrong presale day. I'm off to dream about the concert. Good night/morning, bsky friends

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 14h

Oct 10, 1922: Outdated streetcars being loaded onto CNR flatcars at TTC Hanson Yard (Coxwell Ave. & Hanson St.) to be shipped to Northern Ontario, where they would serve as emergency housing after the Great Fire of 1922.

#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 13h

The start, Woodbine Race Course, Toronto, October 10, 1907

Known as Woodbine from 1874, in 1963 it was renovated and renamed Greenwood, until its closure in 1993.

Postcard, gift of Norman Attikin
Toronto Public Library

#horseracing #postcard #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Joseph V 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @monkeeparts.bsky.social · 13h

Thanksgiving weekend time for some baking, Cinnamon Rolls just out of the over, had to do a taste test. Always make extra cream cheese frosting

#Baking #ThanksgivingCanada #Thanksgiving #Canada

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 12h

104 years ago today: CNE Coliseum construction site — Position 4, south facade looking north - Oct. 10, 1921.

#coliseum #winterfair #sports #arena #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #exhibition #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Thomas 🇨🇦 @faudio.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Friday Everyone! We made through another one. Wishing everyone peace, love, and hugs.

Some more big deck energy. It's been a lot this week. We made it almost to the turn.

Colour photograph. A wood deck stretches out. Framing can be seen in the background. The Royal York Hotel is in the distance

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 16h

This makes me so happy ❤️

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Lord Hræfn, esq. @xneardark.bsky.social · 17h

It has begun #Rush50 #YYZ

My place in the queue for Rush 50 Something tickets. I am 44,732rd in the Queue.

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photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social · 17h

I got 'em. Well, it. #RushFamily

Confirmation of purchase of a ticket to see Rush in Toronto next August

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 16h

Agreed!

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CarnivorousReyn @carnivorousreyn.bsky.social · 17h

Great old CN Tower
#Toronto #yyz #tdot #canadasky #history #blackandwhite #photo #cntower #masseyhall #downtowntoronto #cities

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 17h

So sad to see my friend Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social of the Toronto Star retiring her talented pen. Her wit and wisdom will be truly missed. I hope she pops in from time to time and graces us with her sparkling takes. Thanks for sharing.

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 17h

Miss that place!

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

North west corner of the Yonge St. & St. Clair Ave. intersection, 103 years ago today - Oct. 9, 1922

📸: Alfred Pearson
Courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives.

#yongestreet #Yonge #OTD #OnThisDay #1920s #alfredpearson #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #toronto #canada #hopkindesign

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Toronto Railway Museum @torailwaymuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 9, 1921: the Toronto Transportation Commission extends the Bloor West streetcar line from Runnymede Road to Jane Street. This later became the west end of the cross-town Bloor route, the second busiest streetcar route in the city after Yonge Street. 1/2

TTC streetcar No. 2220 on the Bloor streetcar line just west of Dundas Street, heading westbound to Jane on November 28, 1924. Photo courtesy of the Toronto Transit Commission archival collection.

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