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" Together, the writers of a city end up collectively writing that city. "

Dionne Brand,

Toronto's current Poet Laureate

Welcome to the community wiki for Toronto, Ontario, Canada! This project is an interconnected community effort to explore, discuss and compile anything and everything about Toronto — especially the little, enjoyable things. This entire site is maintained by the people who use it: Everyone can edit this website!

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Scramble Intersection

Spring is almost here, and it's time to get outside and walk!

Yonge and Dundas downtown is one of the busiest intersections in Toronto and is also a Pedestrian Scramble Intersection.

Here you can walk all you want in any direction... until the time runs out!

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Can you guess what you are looking at? And from where?

Anything covered in Torontopedia! is game.

Unsolved Mysteries! Guesses and spoilers! - Older mystery pictures are saved and guesses are catalogued. Here are some helpful non-binding rules on what makes a good mystery picture.

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The wiki currently has 3254 pages and counting.

2012-04-29: [WWW]Torontopedia.ca will shortly be redirected to [WWW]TorontoWiki.org. All pages will continue to work. Torontopedia usernames will continue to work. Username Passwords will have to be Reset the first time you login to TorontoWiki.

2012-03-25: [WWW]Torontopedia.ca is becoming [WWW]TorontoWiki.org.

2011-12-17: On Twitter? Follow [WWW]@Torontopedia on Twitter!

2010-08-26: Torontopedia surpasses 3,000 pages.

2009-10-13: An upstream provider suffered a power issue that caused Torontopedia to be offline early this afternoon. For system outage information, you can also follow the [WWW]Torontopedia twitter feed.

2009-06-22: At 12:01 a.m. City of Toronto workers CUPE Locals 416 and 79 have announced its 24,000 members are now on strike. TOStrike and Parks are Not Dumps! wiki pages created.

2009-04-15: Toronto Mayor David Miller allows his [WWW]Twitpic photo of Anne Mirvish holding the Ed Mirvish Way street sign at dedication ceremony honouring the Late Honest Ed Mirvish. Making this the first ever contribution to the Toronto wiki by a sitting politician.

2009-03-19: Just in time for Spring, The Secret Swing becomes the wiki's 2,000th page !

2008-10-25: T.O.P. will have a table at the 3rd Annual Yes In My Back Yard YIMBY Festival - Come and visit Torontopedia.ca in person in Room 207! If you ever wanted to meet Torontopedia in person, today's your chance! 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. in The Bloor Room at The Gladstone Hotel. FREE.

2008-05-13: The Crawford Street Bridge becomes Torontopedia's 1,500th page. It looks back upon the now buried bridge in Trinity Bellwoods Park which will soon have a Heritage Toronto plaque highlighting this part of our city's (buried) History.


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