 | Toronto walking tour: Spadina Avenue - Fashion District These video clips were taken during my walking tour with famous Toronto historian and tour guide Bruce Bell on July 16, 2007. After meeting at the famous and eclectic OCAD Building (I call it the "gift box on stilts") just south of the University of Toronto, Bruce took us past the Grange, Toronto's oldest building, past the Art Gallery of Toronto to some of the mansions along Beverley and Baldwin Streets. Along the way Bruce explained to us the early history of Toronto, and the family compact -- a group of extremely wealthy and powerful English families that used to rule Toronto in the early days. We then walked westwards to Chinatown and the ethnic mix of the Kensington Market area which started as a Scottish market, then became a popular Jewish residential area in the 1910s and 1920s (evidenced by two local synagogues) and morphed into the diverse, multicultural and hip neighbourhood that it is today. Vendors sell fruits, vegetables, cheeses, dry goods, meat, fish, vintage clothing and all sorts of other unique items in this Bohemian neighbourhood. A great variety of different ethnic restaurants caters to eclectic tastes. We then visited Denison Square and admired a statue of one of Toronto's popular actors, Al Waxman, the "King of Kensington". We then continued on our walk through busy Chinatown to Toronto's Garment district along Spadina and Queen Avenues and then headed east along a variety of restaurants and bars on Queen Street West to end in front of the Italianate palace occupied by City TV. Along the way we got informed and entertained about Toronto's history from a small English enclave that started in 1793, to the exciting, vibrant and multicultural metropolis that it is today. You can read the full story at http://www.travelandtransitions.com/stories_photos/chinatown_kensington.htm. The clips from this walking tour are part of my "Toronto Favourites" series and many more of these discoveries are to come. I am actually a travel writer, and whenever I am not out of town, I write about the city that I live in: Toronto, a city that has many cool places. I love to get out and explore the city and discover some new cool spots, and now you can enjoy them with me. Feel free to check out some of my 700+ articles and interviews on http//www.travelandtransitions.com. My personal travel stories are located at http://www.travelandtransitions.com/stories_photos.htm. Also, my FREE travel ebooks containing stories from my trips to destinations such as Sicily, Havana, Mexico City, New York City, Chicago, Florida, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Halifax and many others are going up right now at http://www.travelandtransitions.com/ebooks.html |
 | TTC Hawker Siddeley CLRV 4069 (2/3) (Part 2...Aledale Rd. to Queens Quay) Part 3 will be the bus ride to Union Stn. [Heres the title to part 3--- TTC Orion VII Hybrid to Union Stn. (3/3 |
 | TTC UTDC/Hawker Siddeley ALRV #4220 Ride aboard one of TTC's UTDC/Hawker Siddeley ALRV streetcars, unit 4220, as it travels eastbound on Lakeshore Boulevard West via Route 501 Queen. |
 | CN tower & streetcars Movie clips of TTC streetcars as seen from the observation deck of the CN tower. Includes a clip of a GO train at the base of the tower; November 2005. |
 | TTC PCC 4549 on Fleet ROW July 1st 08 eastbound trip along Fleet ROW aboard TTC PCC 4549 first trip of the year. We will pass a memorial service for a 21 year who was drunk, traveling 30Km over the speed limit, going the wrong way and hit a streetcar head on. Westbound lane is ready to open. |
 | TTC Streetcar 12 View from the back of a streetcar on St. Clair Avenue West (Part 1) |
 | TTC 504 cross Queen St A view from a TTC King St 504 Streetcar as it cross Queen St July 17-08. Driver change take place and had to wait for the new driver. |
 | TTC Breakdown at Spadina Station TTC Crew hooking up push bar to move disable car at Spadina Station July 10-08 |
 | P.S. Kensington A couple scenes from a Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market, Toronto. August 24, 2008 |
 | Not In Service This is how I feel everytime I see a TTC vehicle that's not in service. I'm angered, then saddened. But then I realize that it's not so bad because I wasn't Jonny and I didn't have to go pee. |
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