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Torontopedia! - Your Wiki in The City

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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 Torontopedia! This TorontoWiki is a website about Toronto, Ontario, Canada that anyone can edit without knowing about web-stuff. This project is an interconnected community effort to explore, discuss and compile anything and everything about Toronto — especially the little known, enjoyable things. This guide is continually being updated, expanded, and improved.

Everything on this site has been written by someone in or around Toronto because they want to share what they love (or loathe) about our city. You can learn more about Torontopedia on our Wiki Community pages. You can search the site by using the box on the upper right of every page, or you can use the pre-sorted links below to go to the most popular sections.

" Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself. " Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Toronto's Second Poet Laureate

If you're new, check out our Introduction. Still have questions? You can ask it on our FAQs page.

Here's a random page: Rees Wave Deck

Before registering your UserName...

Please read the Importance of using your RealName page to find out why we ask everyone to register using their real first and last name. UserNames should be your First and Last names with the first initial of each name capitalized without any space inbetween. Please don't just use your first name!

Example: if your real name is "Dona Jafri", we ask that you choose DonaJafri as your UserName when you first register your Torontopedia account, and not just DonaJ. Thanks!

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Add Your Event - For upcoming events check out the Events Board. If you know of any events, post them at the bottom of the Events Board page!

Featured Page

clif-vertical-poster.jpgCLiFF Poster. Canadian Labour International Film Festival

The Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF) is Canada's first national Film Festival focused on Workers and the World of Work.

It's Grand Opening is in Toronto on Sunday November 22, 2009, 4 p.m.- 7 p.m. with Free Admission at the Sheraton Hotel Downtown, 123 Queen Street West.

Labour and work related Films continue playing all week at the Bloor Cinema in The Annex with an Awards Night on Saturday November 28, 2009.

You can watch a live stream of the Opening Ceremonies on RabbleTV:

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Ready for a new mystery picture?!

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.

Edit Torontopedia

Anyone can log on, and add to Torontopedia! While there are a few tips and tricks to learn, it's pretty easy, and you can easily edit without having to learn anything.

Torontopedia News

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.


    Check out the Archive for older news.


"The hydro fields that loop and sprawl around the city. There's something vaguely menacing but majestic about them. As a child, the towering metal giants always looked like hulking female forms to me, in dresses, holding their arms out to support the wires." — Jane Farrow, Executive director of Jane's Walk and the Centre for City Ecology



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