There's still lots of good content on TVO and similar channels, as well. Unfortunately the conservatives are (and have always been) trying to destroy those channels for dumb ideological reasons by cutting their funding over time.
Great Video! Only 2 things to add. 1. Dundas and Bloor are the only 2 streets in Toronto to intersect each other twice (Around Bloor, Dundas and Kipling area and right on TTC's Dundas West Station). 2. As of 2019, the overpass at Dundas and Kipling has been demolished and Dundas was rerouted. Dundas now intersects at Kipling and curves northward east of Kipling into Bloor St W Intersection.
@@kidcutiBloor took over from Dundas east of Kipling as the main east-west street of Toronto because it ran straight and why Highway 5 left Dundas there to follow it eastwards instead.
I really like that a random Kei truck drove past you on old dundas for a moment. It was so out of place to see something like that show up. In all seriousness, this was a really informative video!
@@GordonSlamsay They're really cool. I have a friend who works with vehicle importing and insuring right-hand drive vehicles. I'm considering buying one in the near future!
@@joshabooth I seen only 2 for sale within the gtha area (a Sambar and a Carry) they just seem so much more practical than whatever sludge the big 4 have crapped out in the last 30 years
@@GordonSlamsay I absolutely agree. The closest thing to a normal truck I've seen released in the last 15 years is the ford Ranger and even that thing is gigantic. If you're interested in checking out some vehicles, feel free to get in contact with me and I can send you some links to check some out.
I lived on Dundas at Highpark and worked in the Junction there for a good few years. Dundas is a great street with so much variation in community from end to end. Great vid. I'll be back.
THAT WAS GREAT!!!! Thanks from an old guy who grew up in T.O. and knows Dundas very well from one end to the other, including the straight parts west of Six Points. Very informative, and now at last it all makes sense!
Dundas St "route" was originally a native trail which followed the shoreline of glacial Lake Iroquois. In many locations along Dundas, the shoreline slope can still be seen on the south side of Dundas.
thank you for including more maps, it makes it so much easier to follow along. you’re videos are becoming more and more enjoyable. i can’t wait for the next ones!!
As somebody who's very recently moved to Toronto and wondered why Dundas is so peculiar when walking on it, thank you for making this and satisfying my curiosity. Your video makes me like the city even more!
Longtime Toronto resident and you just blew me away with this video. So interesting! Now, what about when Dundas goes north of Bloor and meanders through the Junction? Just excellent work sir, thank you.
There's a bar called Bathurst Local right by the Alexandra Park jog and it has an antique map hanging up showing Dundas in all its pre-realignment glory, along with all the other road network oddities that have gotten ironed out over the years. Lovely thing to look at while having a drink. Would love to see a video exploring how Toronto's street grid came to feature so many absurd jogs and misalignments at every arterial. (Lansdowne/Jameson is the stuff of nightmares, and that's just scratching the surface...) I've always assumed it had to be due to the way the land was parceled out along division roads and developed lot by lot with no cohesive urban plan, and the historical maps I've seen more or less confirm this, but I've never gotten in the weeds enough to learn the full history, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
I stumbled on your video about some of the odd street names. With each video I watched , I had more questions so I kinda binge watched a bunch! The unusual names and the meandering of some streets have both been subjects of study at some future date, You have kindly compressed those all into a few short minutes for me. You have a great delivery and make the videos thoroughly enjoyable! Another topic I'm hoping to see somewhere is a walkabout through some of the older neighbourhoods and a closer look at exterior detail on older buildings, esp in the downtown area . This would be of historical significance, simply because Many of these neighbourhoods will not exist within the next few years, what with the rampant destruction of older streets and built form, due to endless condo construction. I live a few blocks south of Bloor. and Sherbourne. When I go to Greenwin Square on Bloor, I always walk up Huntley St. with well kept old homes, gardens and shady, quiet, tree-lined streets. That will all soon be a memory, replaced with hot, scraped off sidewalks lined with glass and steel skyscrapers, no shade from the scortching heat and gales of wind so fierce, they will knock you down. Not a pleasant thought. I have actually started to take photos of the charming streetscapes and of each house that will be demolished, just to preserve the beauty of our city, of once was.
On parts of Dundas east of Boulton you can see the houses that used to be on Whitby avenue and are now on Dundas sitting above the grade of the street with the old sidewalk that goes off at an angle from the street. And farther east there are a bunch of garages that face Dundas because it goes down the line of what was once a back alley.
Great content and good, straight forward delivery. This is what a longer episode of 'Structures' would have been like. Thanks again for your work, have a good day.
As someone who lives in the town of Dundas, I found this very interesting. In particular, the part about the street being stitched together was something that I didn't know. This does seem to be a theme that I noticed when driving to London. The road is frequently named Dundas street but often switches to another name for part of the route.
The name change to Governors Road is actually in Dundas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundas_Street#/media/File:Dundas_St_Governors_Rd_streetsign.jpg One thing I wonder but have never heard mentioned is the where the original route ran through the Niagara Escarpment between Dundas and Waterdown. I guess it might have followed Olympic and York Roads, instead of being rerouted to and breaking at Clappison's Corners.
thanks for the video! Any plans to do a video on the Esplanade/St lawrence market area? I had a conversation with a man on the Go train that claimed to be a student of one of the architects involved in the project. He walked me through some of the goals given to the teams that designed the neighbourhood and my own walks seem to verify some of what he said.
Coincidentally, this popped up on my feed while on a vacation to Toronto. Very informative, and I love the history! If you don't mind me asking, where do you typically get your information/sources from? Keep up the great work!
My sources vary from one video to another, and many times I'll be looking for information in one place and it will lead me to another with a detail I hadn't found before.
Thanks for your support! I have never looked into those two streets so I don't know why they got those names. I do know that mall is a much older term that didn't originally mean a bunch of shops; Merriam-Webster has a page on the etymology of that word that might be interesting.
I love this! I wish you could go more into the detail of what happened to all of the little streets when Dundas extended East of Boulton. So many streets got cut off and or split!! Tiverton is also such a weird little street! The stretch between Pape and Jones etc. Anyway, love this!!
Very interesting history! Thanks for publishing it! I have a poster made from a Toronto map from 1854, and it shows many of the small streets and kinks with their original names. Others were simply non-existent or fields at that time. I found it interesting that at that time, King & Queen were clearly laid out as main streets, but the next main street above that was College, then Bloor. Everything in between was just small local streets.
An interesting video would be about the Wychwood Park neighbourhood, interesting history, beautiful place in Toronto, which could be expanded to the local area around it and how it's always used for movies!
Not sure how this came up on my feed, but I'm glad it did. Fantastic video! I also love the dry sense of humour: "Now here are 2000 words..." I chuckled at that. Nice one Steve! New subscriber!!! 😊
Great vid Steve, love the specific Toronto history. The informational content is superb. However, when you're talking about a specific subject, it would help to show a bit more of it! For example, when you're talking about Old Dundas street, the one third of the subject is being blocked by your body. The vlog style is engaging and visually interesting, but an establishing shot of the important streets would give the viewer a better sense of place and feel better to watch. I think you're pretty close to indie youtube greatness, and if you added a few tweaks you could fully immerse the viewer in the subject you're talking about. Thanks for reading (if you're reading, that is, lol)
Awesome content. Having brought up by Leslie and Dundas, I hold fond memories of the area. Btw, perhaps consider a gimbal when taking videos while walking. The shaking takes away from what is otherwise a fantastic video.
lived at the corner of Parliament and Dundas all through the 80's and early 90's, went for a drive thru the area last time I was back in Toronto and it's changed a whole lot since then
Wow! that was very insightful! We need more videos like these. As a Gen Z I really appreciate video like these. I wish I was born earlier to experience how great Toronto was back then. Maybe someday, you'll be able to produce a high-quality documentary of Toronto's legacy.
Toronto and what is most of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes was French controlled for 200 plus years until 1790. What happened 1790? The French Revolution and the lose of most of its colonial control in the greater globe. Lord Simcoe Graves established British control and they ran the French inhabitants out and into defeat, in a brief nutshell of this country's colonial existence.
@@Phukugoooglification French settlers were never much of a presence in Ontario as they mostly ignored it for some reason, which is why it became so Anglo.
This video is fascinating to me! While I don't live in Toronto now, most of my life I did. I know many of the streets mentioned here. I am particularly looking forward to watching next "The Lost Bridge on Lawrence Avenue" as I can remember before the current Lawrence was put through straight. (Also before the DVP.) Which killed the skill hill there, which I also remember skiing at. Last time I checked (not that many years ago) the poles were still there for the Poma Lift, even though it was decades since they had been used.
The cat in my avatar was Tuxx. Sadly, she developed cancer and passed away earlier this year. My new cat is very shy but maybe once she comes out of her shell she may agree to be in a video. Time will tell!
I waited until the last few minutes and you did indeed mention the street I lived on for a quarter century.. Dagmar. The city "expropriated" all the land behind the south properties and built uniform garages for each home. I had a solid concrete fort in the backyard underneath our garage when I grew up!😁👍
Thanks for the video. I used to live on Roncesvalles Avenue, which merges with Dundas St. West a little south of Bloor where the Dundas West Station is. I always thought it was weird how from Yonge St. heading west towards Roncesvalles, it gradually got more north, then went quite a bit north of Bloor, only to head back south of Bloor further west, near Kipling.
Gerrard is also a little bit weird (Although not quite as much). There is even a part at the edge of Little India that you have to leave Gerrard in order to keep following it from a few blocks north. I never really thought about the history of these streets. This video was pretty awesome.
very interesting video! If you haven't done one already, can you do a video on the changes to Toronto's shoreline and how and why there was so much infill.
I do have a video on how Toronto's shoreline has moved since the end of the last ice age, including changes humans have made to it - th-cam.com/video/rMTM0cyQ51o/w-d-xo.html
Good video - it's always fun delving into the history of Dundas St. and how it came to be. As far as the area just west of the Don River goes, originally the streets east and west of Wilton Crescent had different names - west of Wilton Cr. was Crookshank St., and east of Wilton was Beech St. Over time the name Wilton expanded to take over the neighbouring streets, until Dundas came and absorbed the whole lot of them.
Thx. A video on the history of Rosedale streets would be cool as it also has many winding streets unlike the rest of Toronto’s very grid-like orientation. Has an interesting history of bridges, the Glen Rd bridge now almost finishing it’s latest reconstruction.
@@ALuimes Actually no:- that would be the area between Dovercourt and Gladstone from Queen up to Afton (formerly Saurin St):- it was an old racetrack owned by the Denison Family and was subdivided circa 1875 when Canadian Pacific built their Parkdale Station nearby and horsecar service was extended west from "old Dundas St" (now lower Ossington) out to Sunnyside:- it was quite "modern" in its time with water mains and sewer pipes and gas mains carrying "town gas" distilled from coal and even gas street-lamps.
@@ALuimes Yes, actually if you think of (North) Rosedale as a predecessor of Don Mills with a wide winding streets designed primarily for automobiles according to the ideas of Ebenezer Howard and Frank Lloyd Wright it could be considered more "modern" in that sense. Btw, the original "Rosedale" was the area along Jarvis between Queen and Bloor and then circa 1900 the area north of Bloor was developed as "North Rosedale" while the area to the south remained as "South Rosedale" and then after 1945 the area to the south declined sharply and became a "skid row" and "North Rosedale" was called just "Rosedale". Contemporary developments were High Park-Sunnyside followed by Kingsway-Old Mill which were both developed by Home Smith from 1900 to 1960 and later Forest Hill developed through the 1920s and after WW2 that type of street pattern became the accepted "norm" of suburban planning and even the City of Toronto tried to inflict this retroactively within the inner city. The old Denison racetrack was developed by Thomas Saurin and it was "modern" in the sense that a single developer subdivided and developed the whole thing and it was fully serviced with the new sewer mains and watermains and gas mains being retrofitted into the older parts of the inner city plus it was intended for affluent commuters who travelled to work downtown via railway and horsecar:- it looks very Victorian and old-fashioned and quaint to us today but it was very much an early form of comprehensive pre-planned real-estate and suburban development in the late 19th century. Before that time everything was done piece-meal on an unplanned basis with a few lots here and there being added gradually around the edges of the city year by year. When electricity from Niagara Falls finally reached Toronto in 1906 it triggered a massive boom in light industry powered by electric motors and then Toronto "exploded" demographically and the city expanded massively and quickly from 1906 to 1928 with a hiatus during WW1 but after 1918 motor vehicles also expanded in number very quickly. Btw, the second Denison racetrack was later established at "Dufferin Grove" but in 1956 it was redeveloped as "Dufferin Plaza" and then in 1974 as "Dufferin Mall":- it is Canada's first "shopping plaza" and still remains very successful and one of its quirks is that more people arrive there by public transit than by automobile and walk-in traffic is also very significant. There's actually quite a few books about the history of different Toronto neighbourhoods and different TPL branches have history books for their districts but now the Internet has brought a whole new way to present Toronto's history:- all of this is especially useful to urban-planning students, in my day it was soooo hard to find out anything about anything before they sent in the bulldozers to clear it all away.
this history is interesting thanks for making the video, one odd thing I noticed in my travels was while driving down the DVP I noticed this old bridge over the don river that was not connected to any roads i finally looked at the goggle stat view which names it old eastern ave...i always wondered what road used to connect to this unusable bridge and why is it still there ?
That used to be Eastern Avenue! There's a mention of that, along with a map that should help, in my video on the Lower Don River - th-cam.com/video/xjZehqJc43s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FMm4BYMs_ENhPoAG
I appreciate that they keep a single name for a street for as long as possible. Always made me wonder why the dichotomy of St. George and Beverly, College and Carlton, Uni Ave and Avenue Rd, etc. Now I know why!
Thanks dude! I always thought it was really interesting when i go down dundas street with my grandpa to the polish deli! ^-^ Edit: just realized you have more videos on toronto which is very helpful! I want to learn my away around better especially on public transit!
This is the kind of surprisingly informative video you would have seen between programs on TVO back in the day. Hope you can keep making them!
I use to love tvo kids lol
TVO still exists. Actually it's one of my favorite TV channels.
There's still lots of good content on TVO and similar channels, as well. Unfortunately the conservatives are (and have always been) trying to destroy those channels for dumb ideological reasons by cutting their funding over time.
They still have shows like this.
@@Loyatyispriceless I too was a TVO kids kid
Lived on Dundas & Spadina for 6 years, always found it weird how bendy this street is.
Thanks for answering my lingering questions lol
Im so happy the algorythm blessed this video and showed me this channel
yt algo has been bad lately, but i was thinking the same!
Agree! ❤️❤️😊
Great Video! Only 2 things to add.
1. Dundas and Bloor are the only 2 streets in Toronto to intersect each other twice (Around Bloor, Dundas and Kipling area and right on TTC's Dundas West Station).
2. As of 2019, the overpass at Dundas and Kipling has been demolished and Dundas was rerouted. Dundas now intersects at Kipling and curves northward east of Kipling into Bloor St W Intersection.
i was hoping to learn more about that bloor st relationship in the west
smaller streets but markland and millroad intersect twice as well
@@devan7485that’s true! Same with Markland and Bloor.
@@kidcutiBloor took over from Dundas east of Kipling as the main east-west street of Toronto because it ran straight and why Highway 5 left Dundas there to follow it eastwards instead.
I love seeing this type of content about Toronto! Keep it up Steve 😃
I really like that a random Kei truck drove past you on old dundas for a moment. It was so out of place to see something like that show up. In all seriousness, this was a really informative video!
Only trucks I want on the streets these days (and the only truck I want to own)
@@GordonSlamsay They're really cool. I have a friend who works with vehicle importing and insuring right-hand drive vehicles. I'm considering buying one in the near future!
@@joshabooth I seen only 2 for sale within the gtha area (a Sambar and a Carry) they just seem so much more practical than whatever sludge the big 4 have crapped out in the last 30 years
@@GordonSlamsay I absolutely agree. The closest thing to a normal truck I've seen released in the last 15 years is the ford Ranger and even that thing is gigantic. If you're interested in checking out some vehicles, feel free to get in contact with me and I can send you some links to check some out.
@@joshabooth get a Sambar then get the VW bus front end, would look awesome cruising the GTA!
Love the "links in usual places". Allows me to really get context into what you say. Keep up the excellent work.
And it's quicker than saying the whole spiel about links for every single link in each video :-)
Also Love the Edna Boyle gestures 😂
I lived on Dundas at Highpark and worked in the Junction there for a good few years. Dundas is a great street with so much variation in community from end to end. Great vid. I'll be back.
I miss the polish bakeries and stuff
THAT WAS GREAT!!!! Thanks from an old guy who grew up in T.O. and knows Dundas very well from one end to the other, including the straight parts west of Six Points. Very informative, and now at last it all makes sense!
Brings back memories of my childhood
As a new comer to GTA, thank you for your informative videos!
Thank you so much for your support! I'm glad you enjoy my videos.
GTA, also known as the video game Grand Theft Auto
@@dariusanderton3760 CUTE!!! 🤣
What a gem of a channel, thank you for putting these togather!
Dundas St "route" was originally a native trail which followed the shoreline of glacial Lake Iroquois. In many locations along Dundas, the shoreline slope can still be seen on the south side of Dundas.
I do not know who you are or why I'm here but you have a very endearing personality. I enjoyed listening to your informative insight, cheers.
thank you for including more maps, it makes it so much easier to follow along. you’re videos are becoming more and more enjoyable. i can’t wait for the next ones!!
Glad you like them!
I just discovered your video today. Great information on Dundas Street. I grew up near Runymede and Dundas.
I love that depending where you live you can live North of/South of/ East of Dundas St. West all while at the same address
I always wondered why the houses on Dundas east of Bolton seemed like they were facing backwards or the wrong way. Very interesting and informative. ❤
As somebody who's very recently moved to Toronto and wondered why Dundas is so peculiar when walking on it, thank you for making this and satisfying my curiosity. Your video makes me like the city even more!
A straightforward informative video with no obnoxious presentation. I appreciate that a lot.
Longtime Toronto resident and you just blew me away with this video. So interesting! Now, what about when Dundas goes north of Bloor and meanders through the Junction? Just excellent work sir, thank you.
I didn't even know about Old Dundas. super cool.
There's a bar called Bathurst Local right by the Alexandra Park jog and it has an antique map hanging up showing Dundas in all its pre-realignment glory, along with all the other road network oddities that have gotten ironed out over the years. Lovely thing to look at while having a drink.
Would love to see a video exploring how Toronto's street grid came to feature so many absurd jogs and misalignments at every arterial. (Lansdowne/Jameson is the stuff of nightmares, and that's just scratching the surface...) I've always assumed it had to be due to the way the land was parceled out along division roads and developed lot by lot with no cohesive urban plan, and the historical maps I've seen more or less confirm this, but I've never gotten in the weeds enough to learn the full history, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
I stumbled on your video about some of the odd street names. With each video I watched , I had more questions so I kinda binge watched a bunch! The unusual names and the meandering of some streets have both been subjects of study at some future date, You have kindly compressed those all into a few short minutes for me. You have a great delivery and make the videos thoroughly enjoyable!
Another topic I'm hoping to see somewhere is a walkabout through some of the older neighbourhoods and a closer look at exterior detail on older buildings, esp in the downtown area . This would be of historical significance, simply because Many of these neighbourhoods will not exist within the next few years, what with the rampant destruction of older streets and built form, due to endless condo construction.
I live a few blocks south of Bloor. and Sherbourne. When I go to Greenwin Square on Bloor, I always walk up Huntley St. with well kept old homes, gardens and shady, quiet, tree-lined streets. That will all soon be a memory, replaced with hot, scraped off sidewalks lined with glass and steel skyscrapers, no shade from the scortching heat and gales of wind so fierce, they will knock you down. Not a pleasant thought.
I have actually started to take photos of the charming streetscapes and of each house that will be demolished, just to preserve the beauty of our city, of once was.
Thank you! I have a couple of ideas for possible future videos that might be of interest to you, so keep your eyes peeled.
I just wanted to say I really liked this video. You've got a new subscriber in me!
Very well put together video. Thanks for sharing!
Your content quality has improved drastically! Always happy to see one of your videos
On parts of Dundas east of Boulton you can see the houses that used to be on Whitby avenue and are now on Dundas sitting above the grade of the street with the old sidewalk that goes off at an angle from the street. And farther east there are a bunch of garages that face Dundas because it goes down the line of what was once a back alley.
As a former courier on these roads I appreciate your work.
Great content and good, straight forward delivery. This is what a longer episode of 'Structures' would have been like. Thanks again for your work, have a good day.
this is actually really informative and interesting about the city im living in. great job!
This was fun to follow with a map. Thank you!
As someone who lives in the town of Dundas, I found this very interesting. In particular, the part about the street being stitched together was something that I didn't know. This does seem to be a theme that I noticed when driving to London. The road is frequently named Dundas street but often switches to another name for part of the route.
The name change to Governors Road is actually in Dundas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundas_Street#/media/File:Dundas_St_Governors_Rd_streetsign.jpg
One thing I wonder but have never heard mentioned is the where the original route ran through the Niagara Escarpment between Dundas and Waterdown. I guess it might have followed Olympic and York Roads, instead of being rerouted to and breaking at Clappison's Corners.
1:24 love the timing of that vehicle crossing the river!
Super informative video! I’ve travelled Dundas many times and it’s great to learn some of the history behind it’s wonky route. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing and informative video!
Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for your support!
I really like your video format, simple and to the point.
thanks for the video! Any plans to do a video on the Esplanade/St lawrence market area? I had a conversation with a man on the Go train that claimed to be a student of one of the architects involved in the project. He walked me through some of the goals given to the teams that designed the neighbourhood and my own walks seem to verify some of what he said.
Hmm ... nothing planned in that regard, but thanks for the suggestion - I'll keep it in mind.
That junction of bloor dupont and dundas always messed up my internal compass. Great video.
YOU ARE A LEGEND!!! please keep it up this made my day
I go down Dundas regularly and the questions often crosses my mind. Now I know! haha. Thank you! This was really cool!
Coincidentally, this popped up on my feed while on a vacation to Toronto. Very informative, and I love the history! If you don't mind me asking, where do you typically get your information/sources from? Keep up the great work!
My sources vary from one video to another, and many times I'll be looking for information in one place and it will lead me to another with a detail I hadn't found before.
I just started watching your channel! Amazing work you do !!!! Very informative! 👍👍👍I just subscribed!!
Worth a like and subscribe. Thanks for the hard work putting this together.
Very interesting video, by any chance do you have any info on the naming of "The East Mall" and "The West Mall" ?
Thanks for your support! I have never looked into those two streets so I don't know why they got those names. I do know that mall is a much older term that didn't originally mean a bunch of shops; Merriam-Webster has a page on the etymology of that word that might be interesting.
Dundas Street is definitely bendy. Quite a lot of information in such a short video. Thank you for sharing your findings with us! (-:
I love this! I wish you could go more into the detail of what happened to all of the little streets when Dundas extended East of Boulton. So many streets got cut off and or split!! Tiverton is also such a weird little street! The stretch between Pape and Jones etc. Anyway, love this!!
I just started watching your stuff, love it haha. Dundas street never ends to me as somebody who use to live in Guelph and didn't know the area well.
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Excellent content. Thank u friend, keep up the good work!
Just subscribed! I love how informative and detailed the video is! Great job!
Very interesting history! Thanks for publishing it! I have a poster made from a Toronto map from 1854, and it shows many of the small streets and kinks with their original names. Others were simply non-existent or fields at that time. I found it interesting that at that time, King & Queen were clearly laid out as main streets, but the next main street above that was College, then Bloor. Everything in between was just small local streets.
Great history of the street. I drive along Dundas in the east end all the time because I enjoy the meandering.
Great video! love hitorical contents like this about Toronto!
This video was awesome! Love learning more about the city I live in, keep up the great work, Steve. 😊
An interesting video would be about the Wychwood Park neighbourhood, interesting history, beautiful place in Toronto, which could be expanded to the local area around it and how it's always used for movies!
Finally, a have you ever wondered video where i actually wondered it.
Not sure how this came up on my feed, but I'm glad it did. Fantastic video! I also love the dry sense of humour: "Now here are 2000 words..."
I chuckled at that. Nice one Steve! New subscriber!!! 😊
Steve, I don’t know who you are but now I’m subscribed to your channel. I’ll check out for the links in the usual places.
Great vid Steve, love the specific Toronto history. The informational content is superb. However, when you're talking about a specific subject, it would help to show a bit more of it! For example, when you're talking about Old Dundas street, the one third of the subject is being blocked by your body. The vlog style is engaging and visually interesting, but an establishing shot of the important streets would give the viewer a better sense of place and feel better to watch.
I think you're pretty close to indie youtube greatness, and if you added a few tweaks you could fully immerse the viewer in the subject you're talking about. Thanks for reading (if you're reading, that is, lol)
Thanks!
Really interesting dude. Well presented!
This is really great!
Great video. Love learning about my city
This was great thanks for the info!
Just got this video in my recommended page. I'm glad I clicked. Great video.
Great video, Steve, really informative! Liked and subscribed....thanks for this!
Awesome content. Having brought up by Leslie and Dundas, I hold fond memories of the area.
Btw, perhaps consider a gimbal when taking videos while walking. The shaking takes away from what is otherwise a fantastic video.
Yeah, or at least I need to walk more slowly and smoothly :-)
lived at the corner of Parliament and Dundas all through the 80's and early 90's, went for a drive thru the area last time I was back in Toronto and it's changed a whole lot since then
Fascinating. Excellent research work.
Wow! that was very insightful! We need more videos like these. As a Gen Z I really appreciate video like these. I wish I was born earlier to experience how great Toronto was back then. Maybe someday, you'll be able to produce a high-quality documentary of Toronto's legacy.
Toronto and what is most of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes was French controlled for 200 plus years until 1790. What happened 1790? The French Revolution and the lose of most of its colonial control in the greater globe. Lord Simcoe Graves established British control and they ran the French inhabitants out and into defeat, in a brief nutshell of this country's colonial existence.
@@Phukugoooglification French settlers were never much of a presence in Ontario as they mostly ignored it for some reason, which is why it became so Anglo.
@@ALuimes You have no idea what you are talking about. Nice try Russian or Chinese or Azberistan info warrior.
Awesome video, used to live on Dundas west and truly amazing
Great info. Thanks for walking the distance aswell. New sub 🇨🇦 🍁
This is a great video. Lots of good info, well presented 👍
Excellent video. Well done!
This video is fascinating to me! While I don't live in Toronto now, most of my life I did. I know many of the streets mentioned here. I am particularly looking forward to watching next "The Lost Bridge on Lawrence Avenue" as I can remember before the current Lawrence was put through straight. (Also before the DVP.) Which killed the skill hill there, which I also remember skiing at. Last time I checked (not that many years ago) the poles were still there for the Poma Lift, even though it was decades since they had been used.
What an interesting topic! Thank you!!!
Amazing work like always Steve.
p.s whats your cat's name
The cat in my avatar was Tuxx. Sadly, she developed cancer and passed away earlier this year. My new cat is very shy but maybe once she comes out of her shell she may agree to be in a video. Time will tell!
I just found your video and I watched the whole thing. Well Done!!!
I waited until the last few minutes and you did indeed mention the street I lived on for a quarter century.. Dagmar. The city "expropriated" all the land behind the south properties and built uniform garages for each home. I had a solid concrete fort in the backyard underneath our garage when I grew up!😁👍
thanks for this knowledge!
Thanks for the video. I used to live on Roncesvalles Avenue, which merges with Dundas St. West a little south of Bloor where the Dundas West Station is. I always thought it was weird how from Yonge St. heading west towards Roncesvalles, it gradually got more north, then went quite a bit north of Bloor, only to head back south of Bloor further west, near Kipling.
As a native Dundasian, I take offense to being lumped in with Hamilton, regardless of what the census says. Great video!
lol well who takes out your garbage and all your other services
@@Andytess91 we did ourselves until the great amalgamation of 2001 gosh
Gerrard is also a little bit weird (Although not quite as much). There is even a part at the edge of Little India that you have to leave Gerrard in order to keep following it from a few blocks north. I never really thought about the history of these streets. This video was pretty awesome.
keep up the videos love watching!!
very interesting video! If you haven't done one already, can you do a video on the changes to Toronto's shoreline and how and why there was so much infill.
I do have a video on how Toronto's shoreline has moved since the end of the last ice age, including changes humans have made to it - th-cam.com/video/rMTM0cyQ51o/w-d-xo.html
I really enjoy your videos!
Very interesting video
It is, isn't it
Very interesting Steve.
Regarding weird roads and bridges, the history of Fourth Line in Oakville is actually really interesting too
Great stuff buddy
It’s cool to see how the city changed !
I've only been to Toronto once but I distinctly remember biking down this road while trying to find the Kenny v Spenny house
Very informative, thank you sir.
Good video - it's always fun delving into the history of Dundas St. and how it came to be. As far as the area just west of the Don River goes, originally the streets east and west of Wilton Crescent had different names - west of Wilton Cr. was Crookshank St., and east of Wilton was Beech St. Over time the name Wilton expanded to take over the neighbouring streets, until Dundas came and absorbed the whole lot of them.
Thanks for the info! So my guess about Crookshank was right, but I hadn't seen a reference to Beech before.
Thx. A video on the history of Rosedale streets would be cool as it also has many winding streets unlike the rest of Toronto’s very grid-like orientation. Has an interesting history of bridges, the Glen Rd bridge now almost finishing it’s latest reconstruction.
Rosedale is Toronto's first "modern" subdivision.
@@ALuimes Actually no:- that would be the area between Dovercourt and Gladstone from Queen up to Afton (formerly Saurin St):- it was an old racetrack owned by the Denison Family and was subdivided circa 1875 when Canadian Pacific built their Parkdale Station nearby and horsecar service was extended west from "old Dundas St" (now lower Ossington) out to Sunnyside:- it was quite "modern" in its time with water mains and sewer pipes and gas mains carrying "town gas" distilled from coal and even gas street-lamps.
@@evemarie1605 I was referring to Rosedale having a modern suburban-style street network.
@@ALuimes Yes, actually if you think of (North) Rosedale as a predecessor of Don Mills with a wide winding streets designed primarily for automobiles according to the ideas of Ebenezer Howard and Frank Lloyd Wright it could be considered more "modern" in that sense. Btw, the original "Rosedale" was the area along Jarvis between Queen and Bloor and then circa 1900 the area north of Bloor was developed as "North Rosedale" while the area to the south remained as "South Rosedale" and then after 1945 the area to the south declined sharply and became a "skid row" and "North Rosedale" was called just "Rosedale". Contemporary developments were High Park-Sunnyside followed by Kingsway-Old Mill which were both developed by Home Smith from 1900 to 1960 and later Forest Hill developed through the 1920s and after WW2 that type of street pattern became the accepted "norm" of suburban planning and even the City of Toronto tried to inflict this retroactively within the inner city. The old Denison racetrack was developed by Thomas Saurin and it was "modern" in the sense that a single developer subdivided and developed the whole thing and it was fully serviced with the new sewer mains and watermains and gas mains being retrofitted into the older parts of the inner city plus it was intended for affluent commuters who travelled to work downtown via railway and horsecar:- it looks very Victorian and old-fashioned and quaint to us today but it was very much an early form of comprehensive pre-planned real-estate and suburban development in the late 19th century. Before that time everything was done piece-meal on an unplanned basis with a few lots here and there being added gradually around the edges of the city year by year. When electricity from Niagara Falls finally reached Toronto in 1906 it triggered a massive boom in light industry powered by electric motors and then Toronto "exploded" demographically and the city expanded massively and quickly from 1906 to 1928 with a hiatus during WW1 but after 1918 motor vehicles also expanded in number very quickly. Btw, the second Denison racetrack was later established at "Dufferin Grove" but in 1956 it was redeveloped as "Dufferin Plaza" and then in 1974 as "Dufferin Mall":- it is Canada's first "shopping plaza" and still remains very successful and one of its quirks is that more people arrive there by public transit than by automobile and walk-in traffic is also very significant. There's actually quite a few books about the history of different Toronto neighbourhoods and different TPL branches have history books for their districts but now the Internet has brought a whole new way to present Toronto's history:- all of this is especially useful to urban-planning students, in my day it was soooo hard to find out anything about anything before they sent in the bulldozers to clear it all away.
this history is interesting thanks for making the video, one odd thing I noticed in my travels was while driving down the DVP I noticed this old bridge over the don river that was not connected to any roads i finally looked at the goggle stat view which names it old eastern ave...i always wondered what road used to connect to this unusable bridge and why is it still there ?
That used to be Eastern Avenue! There's a mention of that, along with a map that should help, in my video on the Lower Don River - th-cam.com/video/xjZehqJc43s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FMm4BYMs_ENhPoAG
for some strange reason I thought the intro music was going to go into a song about dundas st. cool info, lots of research I bet
I appreciate that they keep a single name for a street for as long as possible. Always made me wonder why the dichotomy of St. George and Beverly, College and Carlton, Uni Ave and Avenue Rd, etc. Now I know why!
I love these
Thanks dude! I always thought it was really interesting when i go down dundas street with my grandpa to the polish deli! ^-^
Edit: just realized you have more videos on toronto which is very helpful! I want to learn my away around better especially on public transit!