This is a rather simple cache, placed right in the heart of the strip malls, factories and parks of the Golden Mile. (Excerpt from http://www.citiesintime.ca/toronto/story/scarboroughs/) "For post–Second World War Scarborough, the Golden Mile lived up to its billing. A mixture of farmland and munitions plants along Eglinton Avenue between Victoria Park Avenue and Birchmount Road turned into a pot of gold for the municipal tax coffers.
"1949, before this became the Golden Mile"
It also fulfilled the 1950s suburban dream of living and working in wide open spaces. A beacon of modern prosperity, Queen Elizabeth II made a stop at the Golden Mile Plaza during her 1959 royal visit.
Scarborough Township purchased 225 acres of GECO’s wartime production facilities in 1948 with an eye to increase its tax base to fund anticipated growth. Within a decade, the Golden Mile boasted industrial plants owned by major manufacturers,, which created tens of thousands of jobs.
While the east end of the Golden Mile focused on industry, the west became a retail hub. Golden Mile Plaza was the largest strip mall in Canada when it opened in 1954, and was complemented by Eglinton Square to its south. Golden Mile Motors became one of the busiest automobile dealerships in the country. Many of those vehicles were driven off the lot into the subdivisions that spread across Scarborough to house the influx of workers, who boosted Scarborough’s population from 25,000 in 1945 to nearly 250,000 by 1964."
"1973, a much more familiar view for the modern Torontonian. Note the modified road network, and the shopping malls/buildings in the mid-left and right visible and in use today"
An area that was once dominated by grain silos and power lines became a propserous and transformed area rife with smokestacks and smog, and today is dominated by the MASSIVE metal tower just east of the now rebuilt Golden Mile plaza, a local landmark and a pretty neat structure in itself. It's a telecommunications tower owned by Bell Canada that used to be much more useful then it is now that the internet has come around. It used to be used for microwave frequencies, but fiber technology has made it less useful, and the tower now mostly remains as a radio tower....a quite tall one at 150 metres tall. Do note that this is a rather busy area, though the cache shouldn't be too muggle intensive. I actually hid this cache for two months (to the very day) in an unsuituable locaton and never bothered to change the cache location until now.... This is the 12th of a series of caches that have a loose connection....now go have some fun and find some caches!