Starts with R (BIGGEST/SMALLEST/LONGEST/SHORTEST/OLDEST)
ROCKER
FAVOURITE
RING
A Claddagh ring is a traditional Irish ring that symbolizes love, loyalty, and friendship:
Heart: Represents love
Crown: Represents loyalty
Hands: Represents friendship
The ring's design originated in Claddagh, County Galway, and the modern form was first produced in the 17th century. It's now popular around the world as a symbol of love and friendship.
The ring can be worn in different ways to indicate the wearer's relationship status:
Right hand, heart facing out: The wearer is single
Left hand, heart facing in: The wearer is committed, usually after marriage
For the letter of the week for this round I am going to go with all things TTC, Toronto Transit Corporation.
Letter R Royal York in Red
The station was opened in 1968 in what was then the Borough of Etobicoke.
The original plan for the Bloor-Danforth extension to Islington had different stations than what was eventually built. The stations were to be at "Montgomery" and "Prince Edward", instead of Islington and Royal York. This was probably because these two streets were the ends of the Kingsway shopping district. However, it was decided to include only one station in the Kingsway, at Royal York.
Yes, we have a Royal York Hotel downtown on Front St. far removed from this station. So why the name??
Royal York Road was named after the original destination of the road – the Royal York Golf Course (now St. George’s Golf and Country Club). The course itself opened in 1929 as an added attraction for guests of the same-named luxury downtown hotel. Its entrance was relocated from Royal York Road to Islington Avenue after the hotel sold the course.
I stepped outside to get the first photo above, and saw this awash in red.
RETIRED
Toronto Railway Museum tweeted this out last Sunday.
Oct 26, 1990: the last day of scheduled operation for subway cars from the TTC's original fleet built in Gloucester, England. The TTC had called for tenders for its first subway cars in February 1951, while the Yonge Subway line was under construction. 1/3
FAVOURITE
Red Rocket Coffee on the Danforth.
Red Rocket is used to refer to the older streetcars.
The term "Red Rocket" was only taken up by the TTC as a marketing slogan in the early to mid 1980s. It was in widespread use throughout the 1970s thanks to John Downing of the Toronto Sun, who applied the nickname during a series of articles attempting to bend the will of the TTC in favour of retaining streetcars. John Downing got the idea for the term from John Bromley during a lunch meeting between the two and Mike Filey. John Bromley originally coined the term on March 30, 1954, to (in his words) "facetiously" describe the slow Gloucester cars operating on the newly opened Yonge line. The term remained in limited use amongst John Bromley's friends during the fifties and the sixties until John used it during the lunch meeting with John Downing, and the idea took off like a (ahem) rocket.
The first will be the same, except we’ll work our way through the alphabet. The second and third will be different each time.
Hosted by Friday Finds and this is V4 or round 4!!!
For this round of the alphabet I am going to celebrate Canada's 150 birthday by showcasing towns across the county.
We'll be criss-crossing across the country, from the Atlantic coast of the Maritime provinces of Nova Scota, New Brunswick and PEI to Ontario then to Alberta back to Ontario and into Quebec and then way out west to the Pacific coast in British Columbia. We also stop in Manitoba, Saskatchewan. We covered 9 of the 10 provinces.
Starts with R Regina - Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, wife of the Duke of Argyll, who was then the Governor General of Canada, named the new community Regina (Latin for queen), after her mother, the Queen. giving rise to frequent use of the sobriquet Queen City.
Our longest-reigning monarch visited province in 1959, 1973, 1978, 1987, 2005.
As princess Elizabeth made her first visit to Canada with Prince Philip.
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