#queen station

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Canada’s first subway opened along Yonge, running 4.6 miles from Union to Eglinton in 1954.

The first stretch of the Yonge Street line took four years to build and was designed to move a peak load of 40,000 people per hour in the downtown core. It opened in 1954.

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A Diminished Legacy.

Once the legendary travel system of Our City; now the punchline of its diminished legacy.

Alternate Current Photography © 2017 DO NOT CROP/EDIT/REPOST

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#977 - Subway Murals - Queen station

Most subway platforms are, by their own nature - pretty boring. Aside from bare walls that have the occasional advertising piece, clocks and news tickers,  most subway stations in Toronto are pretty drab.

There are a few stations that defy that. Queen station is one of them. It has a fabulous painting by living Canadian artist  John Boyle. The mural has 4 icons on it: 1 ) The Simpsons and Eaton Centre buildings 2) City Hall 3) John Graves Simcoe, who founded York, which became Toronto and 4) Nellie McClung. 

If you don't know who Nellie McClung is, you should. She was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist, who with four other women became known as the "Valient Five" and fought for the right for women to be eligible to sit in the Senate. She forever helped change the rights of women across the country. 

[loveyoulikeasailor]

sooo there was just a shooting in toronto....

as soon as we got on the train we were on our way to the next station and we found out that there was a shooting at the station we were headed to! like WTF! my first trip to toronto and we were a good 10 minutes from being involved in that shooting. if we had gotten on the train a few minutes earlier we would have been in the station when it happened. COOL. 1 persons dead and 8 people are injured. oh and the location of the shooter isn't known. byebye toronto. it was fun while it lasted.