Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

From Stunt by Claudia Dey:

Toronto Island is a sandspit. From above, it appears as a collection of rocks smoothed flat for luck by a nervous hand. Marbled by water, it is composed of fourteen islands in total, the archipelago coming together in a thick hook shape at its western end. The island was formed over the course of 10,000 years. After the Scarborough Bluffs were bullied into being by the last ice age, Toronto deaf under a kilometre of ice, the bluffs were carried by wind and currents to form a peninsula. The night of April 14, 1858, a storm broke the peninsula’s neck, separating it from Toronto for good and founding the island. It was, like so many things, born out of a natural and lengthy violence.

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I’m starting a recurring feature on this here blog excerpting representations of Toronto in literature. I’ve realized that in the last few years I’ve read quite a few books set in my adopted hometown and thought it might be interesting to show you how these fine writers have chosen to represent Hogtown.

I admit the idea was blatantly borrowed/ripped off from Dan Hill’s ridiculously smart City of Sound blog.

Without further ado. The first installment.

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The bridge goes up in a dream. It will link the east end with the centre of the city. It will carry traffic, water and electricity across the Don Valley. It will carry trains that have not been invented yet.

Night and day. Fall light. Snow light. They are always working — horses and wagons and men arriving for work on the Danforth side at the far end of the valley.

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There are over 4,000 photographs from various angles of the bridge in its time-lapse evolution. The piers sink into bedrock fifty feet below the surface through clay and shale and quicksand — 45,000 cubic yards of earth are excavated. The network of scaffolding stretches up.