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2 unusual facts about Bloor–Danforth line


Bloor–Danforth line

Due to the opening of the Bloor–Danforth line and the additional services that were required, a new set of trains were purchased from the Hawker Siddeley group.

MiWay

The system also connects with Brampton Transit to the north, Oakville Transit to the west, York Region Transit to the northeast, and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to the east, including the Islington and Kipling subway stations on the Bloor–Danforth line.


Achilla Orru

In Toronto, Achilla Orru was also well known as a TTC subway musician, often playing at Bloor-Yonge subway station.

ANC-Halfords Cycling Team

David Akam,Nigel Bloor, Bernard Chesneau, Stuart Coles, Mike Doyle, Tim Harris, Stephen Swart, Terry Sweeney, Adrian Timmis, Chris Whorton.

Avenue Road

At its southern terminus, it runs between two of Toronto's major hotels, the Park Hyatt (on the northwest corner of Bloor and Avenue Road) and the Four Seasons Hotel.

According to local legend, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe was surveying the old town of York and came to a spot on Bloor Street and pointed north.

Bloor Cinema

The Bloor Cinema was repeatedly selected as the best repertoire cinema in Toronto by Eye Weekly.

Bloor Homes

Bloor Homes is an Enlish housebuilder based in Ashby Road, Measham, Leicestershire, although it has a Derbyshire postcode (DE12 7JP).

Canadian International Air Show

Performers fly in from Pearson, as well the island airport on nearby Toronto Islands, and so fly over the downtown area, with staging and holding primarily from Dufferin across to Jarvis and up to Bloor.

Choctaw code talkers

The first combat test took place on October 26, 1918 when Colonel Bloor ordered a "delicate" withdrawal of two companies of the 2nd Battalion, from Chufilly to Chardeny.

History of the Toronto Transit Commission

Instead, a proposed extension on the Danforth end of the Bloor–Danforth line was built in 1985 as the L-shaped Scarborough RT line, which went from Kennedy to McCowan Station.

Islington-City Centre West

The Toronto Transit Commission's Bloor–Danforth line was extended into Etobicoke as far as Islington in 1968 with the establishment of Islington station at Islington Avenue and Bloor Street West.

Rochdale College

The 18-storey tower that once housed Rochdale at 341 Bloor Street is now known as the Senator David A. Croll Apartments.

Sherbourne Street, Toronto

In 1838, following the Upper Canada Rebellion, seven blockhouses were built, guarding the approaches to Toronto, including the Sherbourne Blockhouse, built at the current intersection of Sherbourne and Bloor.

St. Andrew's United Church

Located downtown near the intersection of Yonge and Bloor it is a combination of five other downtown Toronto congregations.

St. Paul's-Avenue Road United Church

In 1980 the congregation merged with Trinity United Church on Bloor, west of Spadina Avenue to form Trinity-St. Paul's United Church.

St. Paul's, Bloor Street

St. Paul's, Bloor Street is the regimental church of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada.

The Leveller

Members, who met for collective meetings initially in the Euston and Kings Cross areas of north London, and later in Brixton, included: Roger Andersen, Nick Anning, Julia Bard, Imogen Bloor, Dave Clark, Andy Curry, Brian Deer, Tim Gopsill, Cheryl Hicks, Terry Ilott, Phil Kelly, HO Nazareth, Mike Prest, Jane Root, Rose Shapiro, Russell Southwood, Dave Taylor, Adam Thompson, John Verner, Ian Walker.

Toronto Railway Company Belt Line

The Bloor streetcar was extended from Jane Street to Woodbine Avenue, and remained in operation until it was replaced by the Bloor-Danforth Subway line in 1968.


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