It has to do with the interesting history behind Toronto’s long-time association with the electric streetcar and the fiasco created by Bombardier’s Transportation Division’s failure to ...

Now a symbol of Toronto that adorns everything from postcards to t-shirts, the CLRV streetcar - and the streetcar network as a whole - almost never made it into the 21st century.

This simply amazing episode of the Primitive Entertainment show "Things That Move" broadcast on the History Television focuses on Toronto and our love for the streetcar.

Until the construction of the subway in 1954, Toronto had a much more extensive streetcar network than today. New Toronto, Mimico and Long Branch in … ...

“I like these streetcars because they have a history in Toronto,” says 37-year-old Kenneth, riding at the back of one of the old trams on line 511, running along Bathurst Street.

To these Toronto artists, the streetcar is an icon. On Dec. 29, the old-school vehicles take their last ride.

In last week’s column I wrote about the last days of the hundreds of tiny 16 passenger Toronto Street Railway (TSR) horse-drawn streetcars that were the backbone of… ...

Toronto, Canada's biggest city, is known for a few things: the iconic CN Tower, the ice Hockey Hall of Fame, great food from around the world and its historic streetcars.

“I like these streetcars because they have a history in Toronto,” says 37-year-old Kenneth, riding at the back of one of the old trams on line 511, running along Bathurst Street.

"I like these streetcars because they have a history in Toronto," says 37-year-old Kenneth, riding at the back of one of the old trams on line 511, running along Bathurst Street.