Toronto!

[Dave@Toronto]

Beau Photo's website is a little better than it used to be, but it has never been their strength.
Call or email Nicole - you will get better information.
They can also place orders with a variety of distributors.

Okay great to know, thank you!

 

[choidavid]

I'm in Toronto, near High Park. New to these forums. Got into black and white darkroom printing last year, nothing too crazy. Just started learning RA-4, having fun with that. Printing lots during this pandemic. I mostly shoot portraits so I haven't been doing much of that lately.

I'm curious to see your prints! Do you have any that you can share?

Born and bred in Hamilton but would fly over Toronto from time to time ;-}
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whoa!!! are you flying a plane?

 

[cee_med]

I'm curious to see your prints! Do you have any that you can share?

Sure, here's some prints I've made. Need to get back into the darkroom soon, curious to see if my chemicals are still good.

 

[Dave@Toronto]

Sure, here's some prints I've made. Need to get back into the darkroom soon, curious to see if my chemicals are still good.

Those are excellent, thanks for sharing!

 

[PhotoJim]

Hello from Regina! I've been to Toronto about 25 times... people are surprised a guy from Regina can navigate Toronto freeways without a map or using his phone.

 

[choidavid]

Sure, here's some prints I've made. Need to get back into the darkroom soon, curious to see if my chemicals are still good.

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Wow they're amazing!

 

[KenS]

Welcome! I was also born in Toronto, but now live 1 to 3 hours to the west (depending on traffic).

For those not 'familiar' with the Canuckian pronunciation of the 'word' Toronto, It is usually pronounced
a "Tronna"

Ken (an ex Guelphite) who 'escaped to the Canuckian prairies those many years ago. [ ] (my is bad!)

 

[Sirius Glass]

For those not 'familiar' with the Canuckian pronunciation of the 'word' Toronto, It is usually pronounced a(s) "Tronna"

Ken (an ex Guelphite) who 'escaped to the Canuckian prairies those many years ago. [ ] (my is bad!)

A rare example of a silent 't'.

 

[mooseontheloose]

For those not 'familiar' with the Canuckian pronunciation of the 'word' Toronto, It is usually pronounced
a "Tronna"
Ken (an ex Guelphite) who 'escaped to the Canuckian prairies those many years ago. [ ] (my is bad!)

As a prairie girl from Manitoba, when I moved to Toronto the locals would recognize me as an outsider both for my pronunciation of To-ron-to and the fact that I was friendly and smiled or greeted people I didn't personally know.

On the flip side of things, one of my favourite shirts I ever came across here in Japan was a shirt my student was wearing. It featured the Toronto skyline and had TORONT written below it (which is how many Japanese actually say the word). Unfortunately he couldn't tell me where he had gotten it, otherwise I would have bought it for myself.

 

[MattKing]

Trawna or Hogtown - take your pick .
I still like "centre of the universe" though.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

More like Torono this days.
Two odd protests in downtown with roads blocking and four human made gridlocks on two major highways on my way for work on this Saturday. On return another one with complete shutdown of all express lanes. I'm glad we still have 680 AM with traffic updates.
Radio stations are not profitable anymore here. It looks like dash camera and phone with google maps traffic updates becoming nessesaty in GTA.

 

[BainDarret]

I was on the passenger side of the Cessna with a Pentax 645.


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[choidavid]

By the way, if anyone is interested in seeing my photos from my recent bike trek:

I biked from Toronto to Niagara Falls then back to Toronto! 303km in total...and it was BRUTAL!!!
More photos can be seen at here!

 

[Pitotshock]

Not from Toronto, but the countryside of Ontario. Renfrew County which in my opinion is a complete opposite of the big city, just fields and forest with the odd small town here and there. We need a forum section that is generic Canadian, although it doesn't appear that we discuss things here very often...

 

[Down Under]

Greetings from an old ex-Torontonian. I was born in New Brunswick but grew up and did my uni studies in Montreal. Then lived in Toronto for two years (late '60s), went to New Mexico, Arizona and California for a similar time, then overseas (Saigon, Bangkok, Australia), came back to Toronto in the early 1970s for thee years and then left again. So I'm from here, there and everywhere. In other words, an alien...

In Toronto I lived on Silver Birch Avenue in the Beaches which to me was the best place to be in Toronto. I have not revisited since 1990 so no idea what it's like now. Likely all changed. Looking at the few dozen Kodachromes I have left from that lost era, brings on strong feelings of nostalgia and memories. A few places in my life have affected me this way (New Mexico is another).

I now live in Victoria (Australia, not British Columbia) with my Malaysian partner. My life here is as remote from that I lived in Canada that I sometimes feel I am now on a different planet.

We will return to Canada for a long visit when the Covid restrictions are lifted and we can fly again. We hope to be about a week in Toronto and about the same time in Montreal, then New Brunswick for a month. New Mexico and Arizona on the return trek. This will be my last ever trip 'back home' as I will soon be too old to fly such long distances. Time passes so quickly.

I want to walk the entire boardwalk in the Beaches as I used to do in ca 1970 and find out if the deli cafe on Queen Street East not far from the Beaches Library still has cheese blintzes on the menu.

 

[alex-virt]

Hello everyone! I was born on the other side of the globe and have been living in Toronto for 20 years.

Here is a portrait of my artist friend Anna whose t-shirt illustrates the correct pronunciation of the word 'Toronto'.

Pentax *ist, Fuji Industrial 100.

 

[Terrence Brennan]

I'm not there, thank God. West is best.

I'll second that...almost. I'm not there anymore, either, but relocated to the Ottawa Valley in 1990, where I met my future wife, during the first night shift at my new job.

I was on my way home, having finished my shift plus an extra hour, and was sitting in my car, letting the engine warm up. It was August, but as I was driving a 1982 Diesel Rabbit, it behooved one to allow a diesel engine to warm up for a minute before driving. I was just about to put it in gear and leave, when the back door opened, and Leslie emerged, and said, "...the supervisor wants you to look at my machine...", a semi-automatic negative cutter, which was stalling and misfiring.

I went back inside, and didn't emerge for another 90 minutes. As I got into my car, and started the engine, I said aloud, to myself, "That darn Leslie, I hope I never have to talk to her again!!"

Well! Little did I know that seven years, two days and approximately nine hours later, we would walk down the aisle at our church, to fomally make our vows and be wedded.

 

[avangardphoto]

Toronto is great for street photographers

 

[Sirius Glass]

Toronto is great for street photographers

Welcome to Photrio!

My question to you is do you pronounce the second 't' in Toronto or not? What is the rule for dropping the second 't'?

 

[MattKing]

My question to you is do you pronounce the second 't' in Toronto or not? What is the rule for dropping the second 't'?

Historically, for Toronto ex-pats like me (since my youth), it is pronounced "Trawna".

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Over three years and OP was last seen here Oct. 2020...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Historically, for Toronto ex-pats like me (since my youth), it is pronounced "Trawna".

This can be confusing for those south of the 49° 23' North. What is the pronouncation rule for the Silent T? Turonno or Trawna?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Over three years and OP was last seen here Oct. 2020...

But @avangardphoto and @alex-vert just joined the thread. Laissez les bons moments rouler!

 

[Carnie Bob]

I am born and raised in Toronto , with a 18 year stint in southwest Ontario. I call it Toronto not Toronnna as do most people living here, it seems the rest of Canada is fixated with this misconception, much like how the Ammerriccannss like to say we the Canadian dish of choice is Poutine.

Also Toronto's team is not the Leafs but the Blue Jays which we grudgingly share with the rest of Canada.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I'm from Saskatoon. We pronounce it S'toon. Then we break into The Guess Who's, Runnin' Back To Saskatoon...and if people are really lucky, we throw in the Louis Riel jig.