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A lot went down – this will help you remember.

Winnipeg is known for its harsh winters but Assiniboine Park provides a beautiful escape from the winter blues.

Over the decades, the market has evolved into a quirky space full of murals and local buskers.

As the city’s main thoroughfare, Yonge Street is arguably Toronto’s most famous street and is itself considered a major landmark.

Toronto’s “vanishing music venues,” have made headlines this year, touching on concerns that Toronto is losing nightlife attractions — one of the main draws of city life to begin with — during the condo boom.

A detached home in Leslieville was advertised for $1,850. A four-storey South Parkdale apartment house could be had for $10,000.

Toronto neighbourhoods like the Bridle Path and Rosedale are often associated with the region’s wealthiest residents. But beyond the city proper’s borders there are a number of high-priced estates.

By the late 1830s, King Street was Toronto’s undisputed main east-west commercial thoroughfare.

Canadian seniors have an average debt balance of $29,973. Of that total, mortgage debt contributes a whopping 48 per cent.

The 12,000-square-foot historic mansion is located on a sprawling lot measuring roughly one acre, so hosting mixers of Ford Festian proportions shouldn’t be a problem.

See what Winnipeg looked like through the 1929 to 1939 Great Depression.

The visual is presented in the report “No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012,” published in the American Economic Review.

GTA real estate has seen a number of boom-and-bust cycles over the years, and a local realtor has charted half a century’s worth.

Vancouver winters aren’t always mild.

The stretch of Queen Street West from Yonge Street to Bathurst Street features both some of the city’s biggest retailers and most important civic structures.

The absence of mega developments is noticeable but so is the lack of crowding when looking at photos from past decades, including these 13 from the Toronto of the ‘70s.