2013/09/15: St. Clair West

St. Clair West is a so called “Streetcar Suburb”, as the development of this district started with the construction of the streetcar line 100 years ago. Part of the exercises around the anniversary was the Heritage Toronto Tour we joined last weekend (the longest university-books-reading-break I have taken last week).
Two old streetcars were running along the St. Clair line:


The old streetcar depot has meanwhile been converted into an "Artscape" with meeting rooms, offices and artist live-work spaces.

Some people were obviously very interested in watching the cab ride on St. Clair streetcar:

Our favourite building in St. Clair West is this funny ice cream parlor...

...which looks much better than the backside of this McDonald's.


On the way back home we made a detour via the Toronto Ukrainian Festival,"North America's Largest Ukrainian Street Festival" (and probably also the only one).


Highlight at the end of the post: by accident we met a very important, but not very likable person: Toronto's mayor Rob Ford (yes, exactly, the plump one in the middle)!