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Spadina Road continues atop this escarpment in front of Spadina House, one of Toronto's largest mansions. Casa Loma is also nearby. The house and the street are named after the escarpment, the word ishpadinaa meaning "[it is a] hill" or "rise" in the Ojibwe language. Spadina Road continues north through the wealthy neighbourhood of Forest Hill.
Spadina Museum (/ s p ə ˈ d iː n ə /), also known as Spadina House, is a historic mansion at 285 Spadina Road in Toronto, Ontario, which is now a historic house museum operated by the City of Toronto's Economic Development & Culture division. [3] The museum preserves the house much as it existed and developed historically.
Chinatown, Toronto (also known as Downtown Chinatown or West Chinatown) is a Chinese ethnic enclave located in the city's downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is centred at the intersections of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West.
510 Spadina (310 Spadina during overnight periods) is a Toronto streetcar route in Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. The line started operating in 1990 and was extended in 1997; overnight service was reinstated in 2015.
According to the BC Music Review, it was also one of the venues of Toronto's punk scene. [8] The hotel was renamed the Global Village Backpackers in 1997 and the once seedy hotel became a welcoming youth hostel to Toronto, Ontario. [1] With 190 beds (four people per room) it was the largest youth hostel in Toronto. The hostel closed on January ...
The TRC's Belt Line route operated both ways on King Street, Spadina Avenue, Bloor Street, and Sherbourne Street. [1] [3] [4] After its creation in 1921, the TTC (then the Toronto Transportation Commission) combined, amalgamated and rationalized the tracks, routes, and rolling stock of several privately held streetcar companies.
The station opened in 1978, as part of the "Spadina" extension of the subway line from St. George to Wilson station. The 1995 Russell Hill subway accident happened on August 11, 1995, when a train southbound from St. Clair West station rear-ended another stationary train just north of Dupont station. Three people were killed and 30 were taken ...
The CNR Spadina Roundhouse was owned by the Canadian National Railway, built in 1928 (by Anglin-Norcross of Montreal). The purpose of Spadina Roundhouse was the pretrip inspection, service and repairing of the motive power of passenger trains , including locomotives and Budd Rail Diesel Cars terminating, or originating at Toronto Union Station .