The following sources, primary and secondary, provided the basis for much of the information I included in this website. Thanks to these photographs, recordings, articles, and scholarly works, the historiography surrounding Toronto, rapid transit, community, and technology is greatly improved.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Alexandra Studio Commissioned Photographs. Photographer. "Mayor Allan A. Lamport (centre) and Metro Chairman Frederick G. Gardiner (second from right) at official opening of Yonge Street subway." March 30th, 1954. Series 1057. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/thumbnailImage?src=/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/fo1257/ser1057/f1257_s1057_it8962.jpg&id=arc_first&width=300&height=300
Alexandra Studio Commissioned Photographs. Photographer. "Ontario Premier Leslie M. Frost and TTC staff at official opening of Yonge Street subway." March 30th, 1954. Series 1057. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/thumbnailImage?src=/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/fo1257/ser1057/f1257_s1057_it8990.jpg&id=arc_first&width=300&height=300
Alexandra Studio Commissioned Photographs. Photographer. "Mayor Allan Lamport (right) and TTC staff at official opening of Yonge Street subway." March 30th, 1954. Series 1057. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/thumbnailImage?src=/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/fo1257/ser1057/f1257_s1057_it8993.jpg&id=arc_first&width=300&height=300
Canada Pictures Limited. Photographer. Canada's First Subway Line. Toronto. From City of Toronto Archives. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. http://www.toronto.ca/archives/canada_first_subway/images/7090-1.jpg
Eric Trussler Fonds. Photographer. "People Using Subway." 1949-1974. Series 648. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7f10&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_439945
Eric Trussler Fonds. Photographer. "Hawker Siddeley Train." 1965. Series 648. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7d6f&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_445299
Strathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Men Working Underground." 1940-1950. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
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Strathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Preparing the Tunnels for Concrete." 1940-1950. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7f23&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)%5B0%
5D=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_425819
Strathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Map of Subway Stations."1940-1950. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7d7f&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_427568
Strathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Subway Car and Advertising Posters." February 26th, 1953. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
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Stathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Subway Model. Davisville to Eglinton." April 1st, 1954. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
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"Toronto's Subway: Culmination of a Dream" CBC Radio New Special. Toronto, Ontario. September 8, 1949
SECONDARY SOURCES
Bajic, Vladimir. "The Effects of a new Subway Line on Housing Pricing in Metropolitan Toronto." Urban Studies 20 (1983): 147-158.
Boorse, J W. Rapid Transit in Canada. Philadelphia: Almo Press. 1968.
Bromley, John F and May, Jack. Fifty Years of Progressive Transit: A History of the Toronto Transit Commission. New York: Electric Railroaders Association. 1973.
Cervero, Robert. The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry. Washington, DC: Island Press. 1998.
Davis, Donald F and Lorenzkowski, Barabara. "A Platform for Gender Tensions: Women Working and Riding on Canadian Urban Public Transit in the 1940s." In Home, Work and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, 1840-1980. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pages 201-216.
Dewees, Donald. Some Effects of Conversion from Streetcar to Subway Transit Lines in Toronto. Toronto: Center for Urban and Community Studies and Department of Political Economy University of Toronto Press, 1976.
Filey, Mike. The TTC Story the First Seventy-Five Years. Toronto: Dundurn Press. 1996.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and James L. W. West. 2005. My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Havers, H. C. P. Underground Railways of the World: Their History and Development. London: Temple Press. 1966
Robinson, Danille. "Modernism at a Crossroad: The Spadina Expressway Controversy in Toronto, Ontario ca. 1960-1971." The Canadian Historical Review 92.no 2. (2011): 295-322.
Srigley, Katrina. Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City,1929-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010
Young, Jason. "Searching for a Better Way: Subway Life and Metropolitan Growth in Toronto, 1942-1978." PhD Diss. York University, 2012.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Alexandra Studio Commissioned Photographs. Photographer. "Mayor Allan A. Lamport (centre) and Metro Chairman Frederick G. Gardiner (second from right) at official opening of Yonge Street subway." March 30th, 1954. Series 1057. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/thumbnailImage?src=/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/fo1257/ser1057/f1257_s1057_it8962.jpg&id=arc_first&width=300&height=300
Alexandra Studio Commissioned Photographs. Photographer. "Ontario Premier Leslie M. Frost and TTC staff at official opening of Yonge Street subway." March 30th, 1954. Series 1057. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/thumbnailImage?src=/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/fo1257/ser1057/f1257_s1057_it8990.jpg&id=arc_first&width=300&height=300
Alexandra Studio Commissioned Photographs. Photographer. "Mayor Allan Lamport (right) and TTC staff at official opening of Yonge Street subway." March 30th, 1954. Series 1057. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/thumbnailImage?src=/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/fo1257/ser1057/f1257_s1057_it8993.jpg&id=arc_first&width=300&height=300
Canada Pictures Limited. Photographer. Canada's First Subway Line. Toronto. From City of Toronto Archives. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. http://www.toronto.ca/archives/canada_first_subway/images/7090-1.jpg
Eric Trussler Fonds. Photographer. "People Using Subway." 1949-1974. Series 648. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7f10&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_439945
Eric Trussler Fonds. Photographer. "Hawker Siddeley Train." 1965. Series 648. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7d6f&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_445299
Strathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Men Working Underground." 1940-1950. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7f23&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)%5B0% 5D=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_425864
Strathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Preparing the Tunnels for Concrete." 1940-1950. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7f23&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)%5B0%
5D=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_425819
Strathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Map of Subway Stations."1940-1950. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7d7f&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_427568
Strathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Subway Car and Advertising Posters." February 26th, 1953. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7d6f&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_426945
Stathy Smith Fonds. Photographer. "Subway Model. Davisville to Eglinton." April 1st, 1954. Series 381. Web. Accessed on February 18th, 2013.
https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-3a8e62b0:13d3e4978df:-7d6f&TemplateProcessID=6000_1051_1051&TemplateProcessID=6000_1722_1722&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_1980(0)&KeyValues=KEY_426851
"Toronto's Subway: Culmination of a Dream" CBC Radio New Special. Toronto, Ontario. September 8, 1949
SECONDARY SOURCES
Bajic, Vladimir. "The Effects of a new Subway Line on Housing Pricing in Metropolitan Toronto." Urban Studies 20 (1983): 147-158.
Boorse, J W. Rapid Transit in Canada. Philadelphia: Almo Press. 1968.
Bromley, John F and May, Jack. Fifty Years of Progressive Transit: A History of the Toronto Transit Commission. New York: Electric Railroaders Association. 1973.
Cervero, Robert. The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry. Washington, DC: Island Press. 1998.
Davis, Donald F and Lorenzkowski, Barabara. "A Platform for Gender Tensions: Women Working and Riding on Canadian Urban Public Transit in the 1940s." In Home, Work and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, 1840-1980. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pages 201-216.
Dewees, Donald. Some Effects of Conversion from Streetcar to Subway Transit Lines in Toronto. Toronto: Center for Urban and Community Studies and Department of Political Economy University of Toronto Press, 1976.
Filey, Mike. The TTC Story the First Seventy-Five Years. Toronto: Dundurn Press. 1996.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and James L. W. West. 2005. My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Havers, H. C. P. Underground Railways of the World: Their History and Development. London: Temple Press. 1966
Robinson, Danille. "Modernism at a Crossroad: The Spadina Expressway Controversy in Toronto, Ontario ca. 1960-1971." The Canadian Historical Review 92.no 2. (2011): 295-322.
Srigley, Katrina. Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City,1929-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010
Young, Jason. "Searching for a Better Way: Subway Life and Metropolitan Growth in Toronto, 1942-1978." PhD Diss. York University, 2012.