October 2009
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"Who provides the female voices that announce TTC...
To facilitate its new automated stop announcements, the TTC equipped its fleet with GPS monitors connected to a TTC stop database. Regardless of the time between stops, the vehicle will always know where it is, and, unlike distracted drivers, will never forget to call out a stop. The project was all very in-house: the pre-recorded voices belong to TTC employees Susan Bigioni (subway) and Cheryl...
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"Why do we say Spa-DEE-na House, but Spa-DIE-na...
In 1818, doctor, lawyer and politician William Baldwin built a simple, wood-framed house on his 200-acre property a few kilometres out of town. He named his estate after the Ojibwa word “espadinong,” meaning “small hill.” When Dominion Bank founder James Austin bought the estate from Baldwin’s heirs almost 50 years later, he retained the name, but built a grander home that is the Spa-DEE-na House...
"What are the origins of Avenue Road’s name? It’s...
There’s an old joke that claims the road was named by a cockney-accented surveyor who planted his stake in the ground and declared, “Let’s ’av a new road.” Alas, Avenue’s true origins are rather more prosaic. The boulevard we currently call University Avenue actually started life as two parallel roads separated by a median. The eastern half was called Park Lane, after the tony London route of the...
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Overheard (on the streetcar)
mom (to kid): grab my hand, sweetie, it's time to get off.
pause
kid (to me): my mom likes to get off.
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