Big wood on the Toronto waterfront

Published January 31, 2023

While I don’t give tours of post-industrial Scarborough, on the few occasions I’ve driven past the intersection of Eglinton Ave. E. and Thermos Rd. with a passenger, I’ve pulled over and waxed poetic about the enormous, namesake factory that once produced insulated food and drink containers (demolished 2008) and the “Golden Mile” in general, and the myriad products once manufactured along this storied strip.

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