TORONTO – A new app is allowing people to interact with Toronto’s history and the stories of the city’s most famous – and infamous – individuals.
“Toronto in Time,” is a free mobile app for Apple and Android products that highlights Toronto’s history with photos, slideshows, trails, and stories for roughly 150 sites across the city.
The app’s features include profiles of the “inventors, artists, entrepreneurs, bank robbers, visionaries and dreamers” who highlight points in Toronto’s history, according to a press release issued by the city on Wendesday.
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“It brings history alive and enables users to compare the place where they are standing with what it looked like decades ago. It is a great tool for students, visitors and Torontonians alike,” said Councillor Michael Thompson in a press release.
Whether the user is in Greektown, Yorkville, Cabbagetown or Queen West, the app utilizes the geolocation information of the mobile device to present stories from that location.
Downtown users can see a detailed history of Canada’s First Municipal Park – Queen’s Park – or a “then and now” presentation of the former Adelaide Courthouse where the city’s last public hanging in 1862 took place.
The app was developed by the Historica-Dominion Institute which made a similar app for Vancouver.
The app’s development was funded by Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports, and the Department of Canadian Heritage and is a legacy project of the 1812 bicentennial commemoration.
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