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Jarvis Street Baptist Church

The Jarvis Street Baptist Church is located at 130 Jarvis Street, on the northeast corner of Jarvis Street and Gerrard Street East. The Church has its origins in a small group of people who first gathered in October of 1818, in what was then York, Upper Canada. By 1832, the congregation had moved to Lombard […]

Jarvis Street Heritage

I’ve been working on this post for months, off and on. Originally I had entitled it Jarvis Street Mansions and thought I’d focus exclusively on the remaining mansions from Jarvis Street’s so-called golden era. As I walked up and down Jarvis Street capturing shots for this post, I encountered a fair number of buildings that, […]

New Condo Construction on Jarvis Street

The condos continue to rise on Jarvis Street. I took a walk down Jarvis this afternoon to check out the building progress. 314 Jarvis Street Future home of JAC condos. The McClear Digital studio used to occupy this building. It was CHUMs first live recording studio (built in 1948). RCA took it over and turned […]

Mural Update: iPot Cannabis

Back on December 6, 2022 I published a post about the colourful murals outside a semi-neglected, mostly-deserted building on the southwest corner of Jarvis Street and Queen Street East (141 Queen Street East, to be exact). The only merchant in this sketchy-looking place is the iPot Cannabis store; a parking lot consumes the rest of […]

City Walk on a Foggy Day

This post was originally from a couple of weekends ago when the weather was not cooperating. I am reposting this one as I don’t believe it was published recently given all my trouble with my automated sender. This post is one-part city walk mixed with two-parts photography experiment. Does anyone remember what sunshine looks like? […]

From The Vaults: Blackout!

Time for another post from what I call From The Vaults – pictures and events from Toronto’s past. Here is a Toronto event I’ll never forget as long as I live. Twenty years ago, everyone that summer was asking… …Where Were You When The Lights Went Out? On Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 4:11 PM, […]

TOcityscapes is One Year Old!

That’s right – I started this blog on July 31, 2022. Happy First Birthday! Thank you to all my loyal subscribers for sticking with me all this time. There’s still a lot more TOcityscapes to come! If you’d like to take a look back at the year that was, I’ve created an Archives page where […]

“Brickman”

Brickman was created by a German abstract group called Inges Idee in 2010, and sits at the corner of Jarvis Street and Adelaide Street East. Commissioned by Aspen Ridge Homes as part of the City of Toronto Private Developer Percent for Art Program. Brickman is an urban figure, both abstract and figurative blending elements of […]

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