Stories

Welcome to the pumpkin patch of Ghost Landing! Caterwaul Theatre invited a group of local artists to imagine more ghosts of CityPlace (and their own spooky stories) through a series of Jack-o’-lanterns. HINFOS Despite our close proximity, living stacked above others, we move amongst one another as ghosts. The building crane is our ghost of […]

Did you know: From 1916 until 1927 the Ontario Temperance Act prohibited the sale of alcohol in Toronto. Bootleggers ensured a steady flow of alcohol from the United States by travelling across Lake Ontario and delivering their wares to Toronto harbour under the cover of darkness.  Some of the buildings in Condoland have an infamous […]

Did you know: Much of the area that is now CityPlace was once the Canadian National Railway Lands, a busy track switching yard moving goods and people in and out of the city by train. In 1881 Henry Piper, an enterprising Torontonian, had a dead whale shipped by rail from Nova Scotia for display at […]

Did you know: Terry Fox and his courageous Marathon of Hope are memorialised in Canoe Landing Park by an artwork designed by Douglas Coupland. Every year the community hosts a Terry Fox Run around the park to raise money for cancer research.    Terry ran for 143 days, at about 42 kilometres a day, through the […]

Did you know: In 1847, a typhoid epidemic was brought to Toronto along with Irish immigrants escaping the Great Famine, and the terrible living conditions on the “Coffin Ships” that carried them across the Atlantic. When they arrived, the sick were forced to quarantine together in close contact in “fever sheds” built close to the […]

Did you know: Toronto is located at the convergence of the Atlantic and Mississippi “flyways,”which are important routes for migrating birds in the spring and fall.  It is estimated that more than one million birds die from window collisions in Toronto every year.  It started with the pigeons. Arturo didn’t find he could walk so […]

With 30 residential towers built since 2001, CityPlace has one of the highest population densities in Toronto. 18,000 residents call the community home, and their stories will shape how we remember this neighbourhood in the future. We the Ghosts of CityPlace, hereby set down in words: THE GRIEVANCES OF THE MODERN GHOST. We, who have […]

Did you know: Big and red ‘Tom Thomson’s Canoe’ sits overlooking the Gardiner Expressway. This public artwork created by Douglas Coupland is viewed by millions of motorists a year. Tom Thomson is considered an “unofficial” but highly influential member of the Canadian landscape painters known as the Group of Seven. An avid outdoors person, Tom […]

For a (very) brief period in the early 2000s CityPlace was home to a 9-hole golf course and driving range. “A Gentleman’s Guide to Golf” – As dictated by a Ghost (who wished to remain anonymous) upon discovering the sport at the CityPlace Golf Club in the summer of 2000. *Editor’s Note: The CityPlace golf […]