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The Globe and Mail Published April 13, 2021 Scott Norsworthy/Scott Norsworthy During Toronto’s last great construction boom—which lasted from, say, 1955 to 1980—something magical began on a random day in 1959. A few dump trucks loaded with, perhaps, pieces of a Victorian-era, carved sandstone building (demolished to make way for a new, glassy one) were dumped into the lake at the foot of Leslie St. in the city’s light-industrial east end. Eventually, with the construction of the Bloor...