The Origins of Street Name in Toronto's Ward 5

Most history gets written at scale. The big arcs, the famous names, and the events that made the newspapers. Robson went the other direction. Ward 5. One corner of the city. Street by street, block by block. Who got named here and why. What was here before the streets arrived.

This is the kind of research that no institution funds and no algorithm finds, it's the obsessive local work that only gets done because someone cares too much to leave it undone. Toronto's story is made up of dozens of micro-histories like this one, most of which never got written down.