What Lies Beneath Toronto?

[@laurelneedham5447]

Loved this special - thank you! I was born and raised in Toronto. My mother worked in the underground munitions factory, assembling bombs. She advised that many of those bombs ended up rusting away after not being shipped out. I spent my childhood digging in many places in the Humber River region, and found items I still have today, 50 years later. It's an old city, with no shortage of rich history for young minds which were never preoccupied with technology. Great work on this one!

[@BOOSETO]

@@laurelneedham5447 she may have worked with my Nanna! The ladies really came through in WW2! Every bomb, every fighter plane, every tank! They built them all!!

[@jefftaylor844]

Compared to many other cities in America and Mexico, Toronto isn't really all that old.

[@armchairobserver4747]

This is a h3ll of an interesting back story here

[@benandsylvia]

I am a "Scar-Bro". Born and raised at Danforth & Danforth , who can figure that out? I knew of many secrets; tunnels, sewer systems I explored,how to hack a Bell telephone booth to make free calls! But there are a few things in this video that I never knew! I love Canadian content. Thanks for all the hard work put into this feature. Simply amazing!

[@gulfy09]

@@benandsylvia how did you do it by dialing 1800 first

[@scottmatthews1039]

All was good, until they changed the moulded plastic, so you could no longer unscrew the earpiece.

[@liamoneill9793]

@benandsylvia Good old paper clip trick lol as many free calls as you want

[@Kerify]

Hahaha, I used to hack the payphones too 😂Free calls all day, every day! 🤣

[@grrrrrrr0]

Ahh yes the scarred bro from Scarborough

[@seanabbottband]

When I was a boy, we used to play on the grounds of the Lakeshore psychiatric Hospital, and we found our way into the tunnels, it was exciting and scary at the same time.

[@vapourlynx8418]

My high school, barely a kilometre north of the hospital had direct connections to the tunnels. It’s said that occasionally students would find their way into them. They were definitely creepy to say the least. The way in from the school you had to go past a training firing range, adding to the level of unease

[@DannyGirlPhotography]

Me too!

[@danwhitehead4913]

My grandmother was a secretary in the 60s and early 70s at whitby psych . I still have fond memories of exploring the buildings.

[@User-metaphys08]

Any corpses you find?

[@wolfygaming5328]

The old (witch now is)Humber college building by Kipling. Right?

[@barney6888]

I was born in Toronto in 1956. My best friend (Tony) and I decided one day to explore the big sewer that ran under Highway 401 at Islington. The water was over our waste and I wanted to walk through the current that ran from left to right up ahead. Tony said "no", turned around and walked out. I followed him out. His parents were more strict than mine and this is what I attribute my being alive here today. Or worse, Tony being lost and me going back to explain what happened. I thank God it didn't end that way. He was a good friend.

[@rickoleary7060]

Me and my sister did the same they eventually put cages over the tunnel we entered in but its crazy to think that was just there for kids to explore up till at least 2001

[@kiwali]

Are you talking about Tony Bianchi??? i think he is alive.

[@barney6888]

@@kiwali no, never met mr Bianchi

[@michaeljiang3821]

Tony’s wife is Rosa ?

[@barney6888]

@@michaeljiang3821 Cant remember his wife, except she was very pretty. It's been 30 or more years and this incident happened over 60 years go. Back when republicans were honest !! (Ike)

[@Starlababy]

All cities and towns are built on ancient bones. That's just what happens. Don't be creeped out by that. The can't hurt you, it's the living people you got to watch out for.

[@wheressteve]

100%

[@Nicole-oi6il]

You got that right.

[@AylanX]

Such a cavalier position on colonialism

[@BOOSETO]

​@AylanX Toronto wasn't colonized, it was purchased. A purchase from the Mississaugas that has been ratified 3 times.. Take your stolen land horseshit somewhere else.

[@Secretservice709]

@@AylanXcry more 😂

[@that8bitgamer82]

I'm born in Toronto, 42 now and there's things in this video I had no idea about. Thanks for the video 😊👍

[@AK.__]

Same

[@siriusfun]

Lifelong Toronto resident in my 50s. This was very well done - thanks!

[@PoppaBadger]

Congrats.👍🏼🙂 I was done after only 3 months. To chaotic!🤣👍🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@arrjay2410]

I lived in Toronto for 35 years and was aware of many of these underground elements. This is the most comprehensive summation of them I have ever seen. Unfortunately, a lot of the Indigenous and pioneer burial grounds were largely ignored prior to the 60s and 70s. Construction crews would just dig right through them and haul everything away.

[@jefferyyoung2580]

😊

[@jefferyyoung2580]

Ok😮

[@1ofmanyforJesus]

I knew about the Path, traveled it many years while living there. But all these other tunnels WOW! Mind blowing eh? Thank You for this well documented journey.

[@waynejohnstone3685]

I get lost in the path all the time. You have to know your street names and intersections to understand where you are in the direction you’re going, and not being from Toronto it’s tough. Also there are a lot of trick turns you need to know that are easy to miss. So I use my compass on my phone and just keep walking the general direction I need to go. It works!

[@Nicklafuego]

Phones have maps now too! That's what I use in Toronto 😊

[@hkbolo567]

Years of giving tours of the PATH made me a PATH pro. But the other day, I noticed a few additional interconnected tunnels which tripped me up. I highly recommend snow-free walking it on the regular for winter walking exercise.

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

...until one of our "allies" mucks around with the GPS satellites and suddenly it says you're in the West Edmonton Mall

[@wavular]

Hidden tunnels I and my Pals discovered as Teens,, though it pisses me off Ai. Can't pronounce Spadina properly.

[@wavular]

Yep, Toronto east end by the lakeshore has hidden tunnels we used to go party I, most don't know about tunnels we used to hang out in danforth rd and danforth ave, where warden Ave meets.

[@soo77777]

I live in Toronto and remember going by the lakeshore hospital ... I am a bit of a sensitive and I swear I could "feel" screams coming from the building ... never had that feeling before ... vowed to never go back again

[@tjeym8897]

😂😂😂😂

[@2Sugarbears]

Yes, I know.

[@yawaranwar1999]

I worked security there for 2 weeks - midnight to noon shifts. Saw a few supernatural things and another colleague aswell.

[@adammckenzie6074]

That’s been something people have said for years. I’ve lived near there for 30 years and always people saying that

[@chesterfieldjones1055]

I recall reading the story - years ago - of the gentleman who dug the tunnel, which he was going to use as an underground hangout spot. It was first thought to be something terrorist related when they first found the tunnel. I thought it was actually adjacent an airport but I must be misremembering. The police found some construction equipment and traced it back to a construction company. The police had commented on how impressive the work was. The construction company said that one of their employees (Elton) asked if he could borrow some equipment for a project he was working on. The police phoned Elton and left a voicemail to the effect of "Hello Elton. This is the police. Would you mind giving us a call about your little project? Thanks...". It was a really big story at the time and one I still remember fondly. Nice work, Elton. You're a very enterprising - and talented - young man.

[@Guillan80]

He’s in the history books now lol

[@MR-te5fk]

I’m from Toronto and the footage and insights are remarkable. Very well done. Will be following you guys.

[@cherylbristol5144]

Didn’t know all these underground tunnels existed. still waiting for the eglinton route to open, started a long time ago, maybe 14 years, still no set date to open it.

[@wolfygaming5328]

16

[@greggmcgivern1141]

When I was kid we use to travel all day in the tunnel systems throughout Toronto and Scarborough. We found all crazy stuff within including huge entrances to bunkers.

[@wolfygaming5328]

Cold War

[@johnwhite7331]

Very interesting video, done well. Such an interesting and informative view into the underground workings and history of Toronto. Thank You !!

[@jonathonc624]

I'm also from Toronto, born and raised - this video was great. Also got buddies in construction, some companies will say just keep your mouth shut if you come across bones. If they find them then all progress on the dig has to stop. Not ethical at all but, just thought I'd share that tidbit. I never realized there was that many burial sites below us but had heard that comment from a couple buddies of mine in the trade.

[@harrisonRL]

20+ years ago, I worked in one of the Mirvish-owned building at King and John St. A few of us got to know a very long-term building maintenance guy who told about how the discovery of archeological remains cause significant delays and expenses to the demolition and rebuilding of one of the properties. He mentioned, that a subsequent reconstruction site revealed more archaeological remains, if I recall, it was canon balls in this instance. The maintenance guy was instructed to remove the artifacts and dump them in the lake. Didn't surprise me one bit.

[@RLocksley]

I want to thank you for this incredibly detailed look at the city in which I was born and raised. You gave details that most would look past (e.g. "between Warden and Birchmount Avenues") and offered Canadians the courtesy of giving both metric and imperial measurements with each description. I knew most of the facts presented in this video, but there were a few that surprised me. A great look at The Big Smoke's history and hidden side. Thanks again.

[@Tailss1]

The whole of the area south of the Niagara escarpment used to be under water. I'm in Ajax ( just east of Toronto) and when digging footings for a neighbors deck we were bringing up gravel and shells and stuff that you would find at the bottom of a lake.

[@Grimsbygirl6950]

I'm from Grimsby, and my teacher (late 70s) told us that, too. The escarpment is actually sea level. You are the only other person I've heard say that.

[@Tailss1]

@@Grimsbygirl6950 You can find information about it online - something I found one night I couldn't sleep - interesting read.

[@jenniferbell5482]

Yes most of downtown Toronto is on landfill that is why when there is a ton of rain it gets flooded easily.

[@azizd1085]

The current cemeteries all over the world do not account for the billions of people that have lived and died before us. Unless you live in a country where the ancient people cremated their dead, there is no doubt that if you dig deep enough, you will find the remains of their dead. Homes and buildings are built on ancient cemeteries.

[@waynesbutler7834]

Go back even further like 12000 years ago and you have 2 miles of glacial ice covering most of Canada and northern US

[@somedude6683]

If you dig deep enough, you might find dinosaur bones that belong to the *_"Torontosaurus"_* 😄

[@darrelstinkmeaner4673]

They dug up a tyrannosaurus I believe. Which is fitting cuz we all say trawnuh anyway

[@PlayThroughTheGame]

where are the first nation bones?

[@richard594]

There's many there, saw two on Younge street last night.

[@seanlacroix]

@@PlayThroughTheGamewho cares

[@torontowalker17]

You sure it wasn't a Raptor 😂😂😂😂

[@katushasmusic]

What an interesting and informative video! Like others mentioned, I've lived in Toronto for half of my life and didn't know most of this information. Thank you!

[@danicampbell402]

This was very interesting! Thank you!

[@user-od9iz9cv1w]

Fascinating video. It introduced many aspects of Toronto I knew nothing about. I learned about underground aquifers the hard way. Toronto encourages redevelopment to increase density. An admirable goal to store more people in the same foot print. But it has been perverted by a trend to tear down small houses of decent sized lots and replace them with massive houses for wealthy families to bask in luxury. No intensification, just big single family dwellings. One of these projects started next to my house steps from the Humber river. Their excavation disturbed an underground aquifer causing my property to have sink hole that swallowed a 20x40 concrete pool and a bunch of features that were part of the house. Like the front entrance and a balcony. My insurance company has spent $5m over 5 years working to restore the property with deep foundations impervious to the aquifer below. Not fun. Thank heavens for good insurance coverage. The new house has sat empty for these 5 years all in the name of intensification.

[@pauly5418]

The trend of tearing down houses has been going on for a long time. Building ugly massive houses that are too large for their lots and with little backyard never had anything to do with intensification. The name for it is greed.

[@user-od9iz9cv1w]

​@@pauly5418 I agree with you. But I think it is worth noting that the builder argued in the appeal process that the house is big so it serves the City's strategic plan for intensification. It is ridiculous. It replaced a 4 bedroom home with a big 4 bedroom home. With double the floor space it has seven bathrooms and a closet off every bedroom that is larger than most bedrooms. Still will hold the same number of people as the house it replaced.

[@pauly5418]

@@user-od9iz9cv1w And neither does it improve affordability. Would your insurance company be able to sue them? My uncle and aunt used to live next door to a massive rebuilt home in Mississauga that also sat unsold for years until it was finally sold at auction.

[@user-od9iz9cv1w]

@@pauly5418 It certainly does not address affordability. Once the first one went several more are being replaced. Construction is 7 days a week. The insurance company is leading a law suit to recover their loss from the owner and all the firms in the build. I also add in my uninsured losses and pain and suffering. Generally the lawyers tell me the court has no sympathy for the home owner. 5 years of my retirement is worth nothing and they assume I should just be happy I had a hobby managing the restoration for 5 years. The fact we were worried to death and borderline suicidal means nothing.

[@Sudz79]

Humber College South campus.. as you've described... there is a plot of land (just east of Kipling and the Gardiner Expressway) where there is unmarked graves of those inmates that died building the asylum. Just FYI

[@n.b.3521]

Super neat video & I learned a lot! Minor, but you missed all the tunnels connecting the hospitals along "hospital row" that serve a similar purpose to the ones built for the mental hospital in the west end that you did mention. 😉

[@dianaholvik2554]

Yeah, I did some nursing student time in 1970 at what was then Toronto General Hosp and we walked various tunnels under there. Some of those tunnels were old as my clinical was in one of the oldest parts of then TO General, lit by occasional incandescent lightbulbs...spooky.

[@brisetta]

My nana worked in the GE factory!!! She put together shells and bullets!

[@kuillus]

No mention of the Knapp’s Roller Boat 10s of feet below the Gardner and Lake Shore? Lots of stuff below Toronto.

[@SneekyRafiki]

York university tunnel built by the construction worker wouldnt be investigated by FBI or CIA. They have no authority or duristiction in Toronto. Maybe NCIS or the RCMP. Also, the Humber Lakeshore College, i remember as a kid, we wondered around the abandoned psychiatric Hostpital. Looking into the broken hazed windows, we kids witnessed chains affixed to the walls. It creeped us out and we ran away from there. I can only imagine what horrible abuses happened withing those walls.

[@GEX-_-]

C.I.A. F.B.I. H.L.S. are permitted to operate within 100km of their border with Canada.

[@charlesdarwin7253]

Canada has an FBI task force. The RCMP is just the federal police agency.

[@mickosmile850]

​@@GEX-_-100km as the crow flies or driven?

[@Circus1990]

They collaborate

[@dillonhillier]

​@@GEX-_- they do not have carte blanche to operate anywhere here in Canada. They need permission.

[@BMDETAILING_14]

What an absolute stunning video I'm from Toronto and this was like wow. Thank you for sharing

[@kinggstergaming4136]

34 years.in Toronto and I had no idea about the PATH. Definitely going this weekend ❤

[@normaesquillo5463]

I think the PATH is the way to Forest Hill.

[@GlennTownley]

Currently Toronto's PATH system reaches only as far north as the Atrium on the northside of Dundas W. www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/8d9e-path-map-feb-2021.pdf

[@bobbbxxx]

You must live out in a suburb?

[@ameliapisano4779]

Thank you for making this film. Really enjoyed it. Will share. Btw Toronto is listed at 6.2 million today.

[@armchairobserver4747]

What Lies Beneath Toronto? Our hopes, dreams and happiness!

[@mandelish]

Well said - I leftin 2019 and never looked back. Toronto is a nasty city now.

[@mogir100]

Found that to be very interesting. Thank You

[@mychar1365]

I have been an excavator operator for 32 yrs. Trust me... All of southern Ontario is full of native remains. Ive seen remains found from brampton to Pickering

[@danishortcake4508]

I used to be securities messenger in the 90s and I knew every twist and turn of the P.A.T.H. Like the back of my hand. I could get you through there super fast. A friend used the analogy that you feel like a groundhog popping up at street level.

[@MKPiatkowski]

I worked retail in First Canadian at the same time. I could do the same. It's like a secret code for those who worked there.

[@sunnyb2317]

Wow - Amazing informative video - I subscribed within first 10 seconds - keep up the great work.

[@torontowalker17]

Interesting video born and raised in Toronto so much information awesome video

[@Lizard32192]

As a torontonian i will add that some of my old toys will also be found at the bottom of lake Ontario

[@dianaholvik2554]

This is great. I have lived in or near Toronto since 1965, taken the subway back in the "old days" and worked at York University in 1970. I've been in that underground shopping area...have had some scary dreams about being lost in it. I knew about the several rivers that were sent underground. However, there is a lot here that I never knew. It's fascinating. The sheer scope of the engineering and building is amazing. I especially loved the deep water cooling system...had never heard of it. And the history such as the old disused subways stations and lines, and even wilder, that whole munitions factory. Wow. And it was all really well narrated. Thank you.

[@Seventenitis]

And today the path sits mostly empty a ghost town of what it used to be, now its more of a tunnel for rainy days rather then shopping

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

Used to use the PATH to get from Union station to the clubs on Queen and Richmond during the wintertime. I have also been to the tunnels under Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital. Some friends of mine knew about the tunnels and wanted to shoot a music video down there for their band. Luckily one of the exterior access doors was open and no one was around. We spent a few hours in there and it was pretty creepy. We found one room that looked like there were a bunch of meat hooks hanging from the ceiling. Dont know if they actually were meat hooks but they sure looked like it. FUN FACT: Years Before Humber college moved in Lakeshore Psychiatric was used as the filming location for the Police Academy films.

[@motorv8N]

Great history lesson - thank you. It would be interesting to do a segment on the waterfront and how so much of it was an artificial creation to move the natural lake edge many blocks south of where it use to be.

[@charlesstade773]

And now we know why it is so difficult to build a subway. Who knew the constructors would run into so many obstacles.

[@LeloLambo]

Above ground high speed /advance train operations is long overdue.

[@robb8234]

Thankyou, that was visually fantastic! I live in Hamilton.. very informative that I didn't know.. yikes there's tunnels even below the lake level !!!, holy cow!!!

[@JohnthemapguyADHDMe]

Forgot front street is the original lakefront and everything below that is landfill

[@SilvanaHayward]

My husband worked at 3131 Lakeshore where Humber College is now back in the late 80s it was movie studio and he did security my husband and his brother went into the catacombs there I believe they said there are 5 levels going down the first level was lite up the first room they opened had old books and newspapers second room full of empty suitcases second floor first room was a morgue my husband said it was huge room he got scared told his brother I'm ready to leave so he did my brother in-law continued 3rd floor first room wheelchairs intervness stands the next floor was flooded but my brother in-law didn't go down to the bottom he said he shown his flashlight down the spiral staircase going down no more lights but at least 2 more floors they both said very crippy 😮

[@OutlinedVase743]

honestly i lived in toronto for my entire life and i and a lot of things in this video i didnt know. toronto is a very big city..

[@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming]

Always heard about High Park being a burial ground. There are many tunnel stories I've heard also, one was that certain schools have underground tunnels going from school to school which were used for WW2*. "We" know a tunnel exists but we don't know if they actually connect the certain schools together. 'The tunnel was once used for archery class.' Still waiting for the Eglington LRT line... R.I.P. to the one worker who died during the construction and R.I.P. to the High Schools WW commeration room.

[@natashag4210]

I went to central tech and I know 100% that there is an underground tunnel running from it but we were not allowed to use it

[@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming]

​@@natashag4210 it'd be crazy if it extends further then we think they do like from Western to Central, that'd be a literal underground railroad. 😅

[@eb9844]

@@RyanStonedonCanadianGamingthat would be quite a distance. 😮

[@sc0tte1-416]

Did you know, there are pipes that lead into the cold depths of lake ontario and then pumped through many of the highrises in the downtown core which are used as air conditioning?

[@sc0tte1-416]

Nevermind that got covered, should have waited till the end lol.

[@Nicklafuego]

​@@sc0tte1-416😂😅

[@hkbolo567]

Watch the video. Dude covers that. What they've missed out on was an opportunity to discuss the effort made to lock down all the service tunnels during the G20. That made for a good story. That, and the whole urban history of the Urbex group that put out 'Infiltration' magazine.

[@Nicklafuego]

@@sc0tte1-416 😅

[@SupraSav]

@@hkbolo567 Ah that 1 billion dollars that came out of tax payer money and no one batted an eye... I was too young to even vote but I remember that crime against Canada.

[@MKPiatkowski]

Lifelong Torontonian here and I knew about most of this. I worked in the PATH during the 90s and I went to York U in the 80s. By that point the tunnel from Ross/Stedman to Stong/Bethune was barely used because we were warned that a lot of SA happened there. I used the tunnel from Ross to Vanier/Winters/McLaughlin/Founders (guessing this is what you mean by college block 1?) all the time though. The tunnel to Stong/Bethune was so isolated because a building moratorium came down when the university was half-built so the other buildings that were supposed to feed into that system wasn't built until the new millennium. The underground Queen station is now being used as part of the Ontario Line transit project, which is designed to go from Science Centre station on the Eglington LRT down to Ontario Place, working as a downtown relief line. The way you pronounced Spadina and Danforth really hurt my ears but other than that I really enjoyed this. I now live in Scarborough and my bus ride home goes along Ellington, very close to that munitions plant I knew nothing about. Thanks!

[@stephenmcfarland377]

Nice video, there are a lot more interesting places/things buried under the GTA that for the most part have been forgotten about or were not made public knowledge in the first place. I grew up in Willowdale through the 60’s 70’s and early 80’s and wonder how many of my elementary school friends remember having to do our fallout training in case of nuclear attack and line up to go to the bomb shelters! The shelters still exist and remain in plain sight to this day but the entrance’s were buried under in the mid 70’s a few years after the drills stopped. I’m not going to say where they are because I have no doubt that someone would go looking for them and the property and landscape have to be respected, as I said though I wonder how many other people in my age bracket or older still remember them. Cheers people!

[@ronaldrondeau7870]

thanks great info

[@gulfy09]

Laurentian glacier runs under lake Ontario from Wasaga Beach area // high Park back then had a drinking well clean fresh water daily but they capped it off .. thanks for the Toronto video..

[@ALuimes]

Wasaga? LOL! I live there...

[@GlennTownley]

The map shown when referring to the Sandhill Burial Grounds actually makes no mention of it, at least not by that name. The Toronto Historical Association uses that name to describe what appears on the displayed map as "Indian Grave", a single grave long ago discovered but never seriously investigated. Even it's precise location is not known; it's believed to be near modern day Bay Street, south of Bloor. What IS marked on the map is the Potters Field Strangers Burial Grounds which once sat along the northside of Bloor from approximately the lane just west of the office tower at 1 Bloor W (on the northwest corner of Yong & Bloor), and over nearly to today's Avenue Road, running through where today's Bay Street and Bellair are found. When walking through the underground mall between Yonge and Bay, you're passing through the physical space where these burials were once located. This burial ground - once thought of as well to the north of the city - eventually was removed as the city spread towards the old Yorkville Village. The bodies removed from Potters Field were re-interred, some in the then-relatively-new Mount Pleasant cemetery and the remainder in the Necropolis cemetery.

[@KB-my2zk]

The war for Canada in 1812 was led by natives who battle planned over the vast terrain ranging from the Niagara Falls area to Scarborough. "Kanata" means village or settlement. It was previously the original york, hence new york. There's also Thanksgiving...

[@Goldz2741]

At approximately approx 90’ deep below the TD centre lays the abandoned Bank Vault with the gigantic steel doors still present. Also, the deep lake cooling is not all at that depth, only the inlet pipes are, which then take the water to the treatment and then cooling plant at a much higher depth. And if you want haunter mass graves, visit the beautiful and historic Camp Belford area.

[@Kuppling]

Toronto isn't the only area with tunnels, Dundas and Hamilton also have tons of underground tunnels that connect to all different types of buildings, there's a tunnel under my old high school that was accessible from the basement and connected to the old asylum, hospitals and even connected to the Hamilton Escarpment

[@RottenAnimal]

I was in the tunnels under the Lake Shore psychiatric hospital when construction was being done. When a patient died they would transport the body under ground to the crematory.

[@AK.__]

Very impressive. Thank you

[@Noneother-uy8rg]

Very informative

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

My place of business is in one of the original building of the munitions facility. The building is only one storey, but the steel roof supporting beam is massive and the brick wall is up to two feet thick. I have been one of the tunnels in the area. Maybe a dozen years back, an emergency bomb removal was conducted in the area and contact was made with Barbara Dickinson, a writer who documented the facility

[@MH_Bikes]

I supervised a factory on Malley Rd in the old war factory area, and back then access to the tunnels still existed. Most of the building are now gone, but even 30 years after WWII it was a positive reminder of the commitment made to defend democracy. V

[@creepythinman1978]

I was hoping there would be some ancient Lovercraftian netherworld filled with unspeakable Horrors beyond human comprehension but then realized that I could see that while walking on Yonge Street any day of the week!

[@saynotohookups]

Lol 🤣

[@Circus1990]

There are no thumb stones in High Park, just presumed burial grounds on the south-east side.

[@ReasonableRadio]

Small mistake: the stock footage you used for the eaton center is actually brookfield place which is another mall to the south connected to the hockey hall of fame

[@ALuimes]

At least it's footage from Toronto. Many vids use stuff from anywhere.

[@AdamQuattro]

Born and raised in toronto. My dads crew was involved in the withrow ave discovery of the native bones. It’s a crazy discovery!

[@mattaubie1199]

Amazing video too! Maybe there’s more untouched tunnels in the GTA that they still haven’t discovered

[@SociallyAwkward-h5h]

And that's just Toronto - could you imagine bigger cities...pretty cool!

[@MoshesBenkalebelzib]

Toronto is third biggest city in North America

[@SociallyAwkward-h5h]

​@@MoshesBenkalebelzibLOL i must have come from a different timeline than because I would have thought that it would have been significantly smaller than Chicago or LA - but wow it's pretty close.

[@MoshesBenkalebelzib]

@@SociallyAwkward-h5h I forgot about Mexico City so I think Toronto is fourth just above Chicago and under LA

[@ianmurchie1567]

I live in Oshawa, 30 mins outside Toronto but visit frequently on the Go train. I knew about path and old tunnels but the rest was FASCINATING 😱😁🖒👊

[@michaelmarcello3198]

Amazing video I really enjoyed it. I wish you would have mentioned the paranormal activity of the Keg Mansion tunnel on Jarvis...also the underground bunker at Downsview (Shepherd & Keele.) Another one to add was the ancient river under Eglinton West which I was told created massive problems for the LRT construction tunnels. 1 TTC worker mentioned there was soo much water.

[@gr84all]

@ 14:44 This needs to be further investigated, as this is a genuinely intriguing mystery! There is an interesting story there, somewhere..

[@StallionStudios1234]

I did an escape room in Casa Loma where you get to go through the tunnels. It was quite fun because its revealed at the end after you go through the tunnel and do the game you were never in Cansa Loma.

[@ALuimes]

How could you do escape room in Casa Loma when you where never there?

[@StallionStudios1234]

The entrance starts at Casa Loma but they lead you through underground tunnels to the escape room. They make you think you are still below Casa Loma when in fact at the end they reveal you are in another castle across the street. There are 2 big castles on the same street.

[@cheryljackson-e4m]

Yes almost like a Mandella effect! 😮??

[@and16942]

For people who haven’t been… Casa Loma is open as an escape room and they use the tunnels. It’s cool…it’s alright…. that’s about it

[@THR2000]

I would have liked for you to talk about the underground tunnels that connect all of the major hospitals in the downtown area. They are pretty creepy, they are always doing construction on them, and they are old too, I think. They connect Toronto General, Sick Kids, Toronto Rehab Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital and maybe one more. I had to use them a fare bit too, when I was in the hospitals. All the hospitals share equipment, I'm sure that SK has a Heli pad, and TG has the only MRI I think.

[@MikeWood]

Aside from the Narrator not fact checking local pronunciations to the point I struggled at times to figure out where they were referencing, this was really interesting. Nice to see the tunnels at York U get some love. :)

[@neliademelo6176]

There is another city underneath Toronto. Accessible through some of the really tall skyscrapers downtown. Their elevators go down beyond the parking lot. You come out at an underground city. Under Bloor street. With high end shops. Cars on the road, and pedestrians on the walkways. This is not a secret, but many do not know of this.

[@runningfromabear8354]

In England I knew farmers who said nothing when we found iron age remnants. It was too expensive to have archeologists on their land, best not to notify authorities. Looks like Canada is continuing English traditions 😅

[@bgee461]

It's a stupid law to have private citizens responsible for archeological digs.

[@beer1for2break3fast4]

@@bgee461 Yep I wouldn't tell anybody either. Can't afford that.

[@Francinefearles]

The land shouldn't have been sold in the first place. Stolen land zero respect for cultural history and ancestors that aren't yours. Gross. If you don't decide to dig up the land to develop it you won't have to pay if you come across a grave yard dim wit.

[@ut18729]

All around the world ... all the time. civilizations move on, and on and on. BTW you didn't mention the tunnels that are underneath the harbour and it's connection to the islands

[@sean367]

I doubt they would've missed that one.

[@steflynn7772]

What? I’ve never heard of tunnels connected to the islands from harbour front. I don’t think this is right. I’m off to research this now lol

[@valon18]

i worked with the crane that carried and lowered the Deep lake project (fused) pipes into lake ontario in hamilton and also spent lots of time working inside the eglinton crosstown…. also walked through the humber tunnel to go from the S to N side of that complex also crane work related

[@julieboynton2638]

Amazing - thank you for your work!

[@riassslave558]

i'm from Niagara Falls but now live in Vancouver & haven't seen southern Onscario since 1997 sure sounds & looks like a totally different place then when i left in the winter of 1991 but that was inevitable but seeing this video with 'The Path' & all the changesi don't regret moving west one little bit!

[@MrSomethingElse]

My Lunch Break is rubbing his hands together, nodding sagely. Good work Pal.

[@SupraSav]

So.. what's for lunch?

[@WaZaaap6]

How 6.5 millions in TORONTO&GTA. It's crazy. Comparing to 2019 and Today,it's DOUBLED. 🤯

[@ianlassitter2397]

Yup and by no means has it grown because good, honest, hard working people came. People came to take from the city and those that support it and not give anything back. Those seeking handouts for nothing or to abuse the tax paying citizens as criminal and manipulator activists have flooded in.

[@friendlyshopper3991]

International students

[@WaZaaap6]

@friendlyshopper3991 yea the ones screaming on the streets that because they came to study here they must be given PR&CITIZENSHIP..

[@Savannah-b8z]

I love your videos 🎉

[@suezaple4950]

WOW who would have ever known This is wild yet interesting .

[@jeninlight]

Mary Fix Creek, near Trillium Hospital at Hurontario and The Queensway, goes from a lovely looking open creek upstream of Queensway, into a 10’ diameter, 60’ straight drop of a doom tube down into the bedrock. Don’t let your kids play near there!

[@sc0tte1-416]

I lived in cooksville and never knew that

[@MyDarkspyro]

29:33 I still remember that at one spot the subway go above ground for a very brief time over a bridge this was almost 6 years ago

[@christopherfidler3019]

3 million people live in Toronto, yes it's the fourth largest city in North America but another 6 million people live in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) which are all the suburbs around the city of Toronto so collectively there are about 9 million people.

[@Paganreptiles]

There is a whole under ground town beneath scarborough aswell 😉

[@natashag4210]

Where in Scarborough...

[@Paganreptiles]

@@natashag4210 im heading there on saturday with a few others we have the keys to open iron gates

[@ALuimes]

@@Paganreptiles Where IN, not where IS.

[@kendralillie4686]

Thanks I was born here and still live down town

[@PanchcoandLefty]

Please do Quebec City or Montreal next

[@dbell8142]

The Wendat people lived along the shores of lake Simcoe, lake huron and lake Ontario - there are sites all around that part of ontario - the people of my nation were born, lived and died in Ontario - these are some of them Thonnacona site, North Riverdale, Wiacek site, Barrie, Vaughan, and several sites along the St-Lawrence and several in land rivers - Wendat were reduced to two groups from warring with the 6 nations and disease - 300 went to USA and 300 went to Quebec - Ontario is also Wendat land - Tiawenhk aweti’

[@jonhutchinson2902]

Super cool. Been in those castloma tunnels, just last year.

[@Eric_from_Toronto]

I seen a documentary about Draining the Great Lakes and there was some irky info about Lake Ontario when they scanned the lake bed. I lived on the lake at the time and it was a stormy night coincidentally.

[@infocalypse3754]

26:33 SIr Winston Churchhill Provincial Park is in Alberta. That's quite an impressive redirection.

[@canadianperson4830]

Part of the show Beauty and the Beast was filmed in the tunnels under Casa Loma. That was a good time. They filmed late at night and early into the morning. I would wander the unpopulated dark halls between 2 and 4 am for a couple of weeks. Couldn't find any ghosts. 😢

[@susanb.4965]

@@canadianperson4830 Very cool! They were probably watching you.😉

[@canadianperson4830]

@@susanb.4965 🤣🤣🤣👍

[@susanb.4965]

@@canadianperson4830 👻🎃Happy Halloween! 🤭

[@Alesha_Lewer]

Yes let’s go! Just getting ready for bed and love falling asleep to these videos. Thank you!

[@ryv]

Enjoy!

[@Oldjongcrow416]

​@@ryv😳👈how...¿ Dey sleep f👀!

[@dadgarage7966]

I know. It's like when you were a kid and someone reads you a book before bed.

[@bradleylaford1526]

Toronto is interesting because it isn't boring...It's large & heavily populated. University of Toronto boasts 22-23 Libraries! Fabulous place

[@challengerpklowlgj-world298]

17:30 loool that’s was me and my friends tunnel crazy people still talk about it great video 🤙

[@miggyfixx6418]

Cool video, but ya missed what could be several tunnels, one for sure. There is a tunnel connecting Island Airport to the mainland, that one definitely exists. About 700 meters from that tunnel, is the remains of Fort York. Fort York is a star fort, along with another on the CNE grounds, and star forts wherever they are found tend to have vast tunnel networks under and around them. When I went looking, I did find anecdotal evidence of there once being an old tunnel system connecting the bowels of Fort York with a couple of important buildings in the neighborhood...