We've dined in most restaurants listed, and if we haven't, it's here because we called a friend for help. So it's really by pure dumb luck these photos are available in Toronto's archive.The team at Province of Canada reflected on their best dining experiences and made a food guide for where to eat in Canada's major cities. 1972 image of Wimpy's with chopped arches - Metro Toronto/TTC re-examining progress (images show cut-&-cover wooden cinder blocks covering Yonge Street) since Yonge subway extension was late - huh, Transit project in Toronto behind schedule? Unbelievable!!! 1963 image of "Donald's Hamburgers" with dual golden arches and Speedee - because Metro Toronto/TTC was examining feasibility of extending Yonge Subway line to Finch & where to put subway stations entrances & bus terminal Interestingly, we only have these Toronto archive photos of this Yonge-Finch McDonald's thanks to Metropolitan Toronto & TTC These (new and now current) licensee focused on Canadian supply chain and tried to be as independent from American corporate McD as possible - McDonald's Canada is only McDonald's with their own golden arches logo with "Canadian Maple Leaf". but they messed-up and screwed corporate American McD, so they lost the contract-license the Eastern & Western Canada license were rewarded to others around 1967. I suspect this McDonald's was part of the first Canadian franchise-license. If this is a copycat McDonald's, then someone spent a lot of effort to copy everything from a foreign restaurant chain that in mid-1960's basically nobody in Canada would have been familiar with since McDonald's were still starting out in USA and only had maybe 1-2 stores per larger American Cities. This 1963-67 Yonge-Finch McDonald's had the correct architectural design and even signage of the mascot for a McDonald's restaurant of that time period.
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