Nightmare fuel department...

5a) And if you take the Governor's Road route, especially in fall Mineral Springs Road and Sulphur Springs Road are beautiful, winding routes to take around Ancaster.

5) Hwy 2 is a classic trip, which I often do long stretches of between Tilbury and the GTA. Branches include Governor's Road (mostly old Hwy 99) from Paris to Dundas, or Dundas Street (old Hwy 5 from near Paris into the GTA).

3) From London, any number of back roads will wind you up to St. Mary's and Stratford if you feel like heading NE.

4) For really long and leisurely, join Elgin 24 at Port Stanley, then follow connecting routes along Lake Erie before turning north at Port Dover.

1) There's a "middle" route of county roads that will take you through all of the towns that lay between 401 and Hwy 3 from Blenheim to Dutton. We're talking Ridgetown, Rodney, West Lorne, etc.

2) North of Hwy 2, take Middlesex 14 from outside of Bothwell. Nice alt route to London via Glencoe.

It's rare that we spend less than 7-8 hours going between Toronto and Windsor wandering the back roads. So many good options, and always finding new ones.

From the looneytunes community on Reddit: Norman Normal (1968) Explore this post and more from the looneytunes community

And there's Norman Normal, which was turned into one of Warner Bros.'s final cartoons...

www.reddit.com/r/looneytune...

My favourite of the bunch was Album, where electrical instruments began creeping in. As Sandifer suggests in her thread, the version of Kisses Sweeter Than Wine is killer.

I listened to my dad's copies of their 1960s catalogue A LOT when I was a kid, though weirdly only one side of each album.

Side 2 of their 1962 debut
Side 1 of Moving (1963)
Side 2 of Peter Paul and Mary Album (1966)
Side 1 of Late Again (1968)

I have no explanation why this was the case.

Quite enjoying this lengthy thread reviewing the discography of Peter, Paul and Mary...

Today is an absolutely glorious day to be out and about the city.

(The arguing with a bot part, which feels so ludicrous)

Right now having an argument with Adobe's customer support bot over cancelling my Photoshop subscription.

This is the world we have allowed to happen.

(That was the story I got when I asked)

Ontario: where you promote your province’s wine industry by allowing a vino produced in Australia to pay for prime “cross-promotional” space in the section dedicated to celebrating local vintages.

We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself.

Context does not simply exist. It is built through research, interpretation, and critical analysis.

What stories have you uncovered in the historical record?

#TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

How Ontario consolidated its school boards — and set the stage for education fights that still rage today | TVO Today The province slashed thousands of boards. Critics warned of government interference

With Ontario's school boards and trustees in the news cycle today, it's a good day to repost my TVO @therundowntvo.bsky.social piece on school board consolidation during the 1960s. #ontariohistory #onpoli

www.tvo.org/article/how-...

The Wayback Machine is the only way I can find some of my older work for defunct outlets.

Some of those outlets who are blocking its use won't be around forever...

Tonight's research project has me sifting through works released in 1984 to mark the 150th anniversary of Toronto's incorporation that make me realized pretty much everybody was trying to do a tie-in.

The covers I usually worked on during slow periods at my office job, which was fine with my managers as they viewed it as a way to teach myself Corel Draw (and later Photoshop) to produce graphics for other department projects. I suspect this was an early one - they got better as time went on...

When I was a kid, I made a lot of mix tapes. That habit carried into the digital era. Just rediscovered some of my old mix CDs from the 2000s - this one was one of my better “oldie” mixes and got a lot of play in my car…

New from me at TVO: Bill 100 is repugnant to democracy. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

April 9: Marmalade or Coffee? Are a 1970s magazine ad and a venerable downtown Toronto mural connected?

Cleaning up some drafts over at the Curio Emporium, today's post features a marmalade expert who may look slightly familiar to anyone who has roamed near Sankofa Square over the past few decades... #TOHistory

jbscurioemporium.substack.com/p/april-9-ma...

We’re Hiring a Peel Reporter | The Local The Local is looking for a talented journalist to join our team as a staff reporter covering civic issues in Mississauga and Brampton.

Starting this summer, @thelocal.to is making Peel region a regular part of our reporting. And we’re hiring a full-time reporter to help launch it! Final day to apply is today. thelocal.to/were-hiring-...

View from Pape Avenue pedestrian bridge

Charting commercial change in Kensington Market...

schoolofcities.github.io/kensington-m...

I find they are the worst for trying to to push other products on you when you are not in the mood to receive a sales pitch.

(I worked for them briefly a decade ago and recall a wider corporate meeting where upper management declared their main business was selling products)

April 9: Marmalade or Coffee? Are a 1970s magazine ad and a venerable downtown Toronto mural connected?

Cleaning up some drafts over at the Curio Emporium, today's post features a marmalade expert who may look slightly familiar to anyone who has roamed near Sankofa Square over the past few decades... #TOHistory

jbscurioemporium.substack.com/p/april-9-ma...

I think I'm really beginning to feel the benefits of taking a week off to recharge my batteries. My brain's belief that I should be working all the time is not a healthy one, lemme tell ya.

Good news for researchers: the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario's collection of newspapers is beginning its migration onto the Internet Archive.

This collection has been immensely helpful for my work.

#cdnhistory #ontariohistory

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