South Humber Monument
Over thousands of years, the Humber and its valley provided Indigenous peoples-the Wendat (Huron), the Onondowagah (Seneca) and the Michi-Saagl (Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation)...
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Dr. William T. Mustard 1914-1987
Procedures pioneered by William Thornton Mustard (born 8 August 1914 in Clinton, Ontario) had a historic impact on the field of surgery. He attended the University of Toronto Schools and...
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Draper Street
Draper Street's Empire-style cottages were built in 1881 and 1882, while its larger homes were constructed between 1886 and 1889. The street - a designated Heritage Conservation District -...
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Donald Willard Moore 1891-1994
From his arrival in Canada from Barbados in 1913, Donald Willard Moore worked to make Toronto the vibrant multicultural community it is today. To protest unjust immigration law, Moore led...
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Dieppe Park
On August 19, 1942, six thousand allied troops embarked on 250 vessels from southern England on a daylight raid on the German occupied French resort town of Dieppe. Almost 5000 of these soldiers...
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Dowswell's Inn
One of the most notable of rural Scarborough's many taverns and hotels stood here at the junction of the Markham Road and the old Danforth Road, now called Painted Post Road. Here in 1850...
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Dr. Emily Stowe (1831-1903)
Emily Stowe's crusade for female suffrage and higher education for women placed her in the vanguard of the women's rights movement in Canada. Denied access to university in this country because of...
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The Dominion Bank Building 1914
Founded in Toronto in 1869, The Dominion Bank moved its head office to this site ten years later. In 1914, the bank's rise to national prominence led to the construction of this early 12-storey...
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Doctors & Nurses
In the late 19th century, outbreaks of infectious diseases such as diphtheria and scarlet fever created a great demand in Toronto for medical staff. Dr. Norman Allen, Toronto's Medical Officer of...
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'Deeds Speak' Sculptural Reliefs
The adjacent York County Coat of Arms and the female figure inside the entrance once adorned the York County Registry Office, formerly located on this site. Commissioned by the County in 1941,...
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The Don River Bridge, 1803
Johann Albrecht Ulrich Moll, who adopted the name William Berczy, was born in Wallerstein, Germany, in 1744. Leading a group of settlers to York in 1794, Berczy, an artist, architect, writer...
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Dominion Coal and Wood
Originally located on Danforth Avenue, the Dominion Coal and Wood Company was founded in 1912 by William H. Smith. In 1929, the company opened a landmark facility on this site. Its nine...
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Don Bridge Battery
During the War of 1812, an artillery battery stood near this site. In 1813, following American attacks on the Town of York in April and July of that year, the battery was built as part of...
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Davidson Black 1884-1934
Davidson Black was born and educated in Toronto. He had begun a career in medicine when Sir Grafton Elliot Smith interested him in the problem of fossil man. After World War I, Black accepted...
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The Daniel Brooke Building
This building was first constructed in 1833 for owner Daniel Brooke, a prominent merchant in the Town of York. It was substantially rebuilt between 1848-1849 prior to the Great Fire of April...
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Camp of the Crooked Creek
HistoryScouts camped in this valley, with permission of the owners, in the 1920s and early 1930s. In 1936, approximately 40 ha were purchased by the Toronto District of The Boy Scouts Association...
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Central Hospital
Central Hospital was founded in 1957 in a house at 331 Sherbourne Street which had been built in 1875 for Robert T. Gooderham. The property was purchased in 1921 by the Canadian National Institute...
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Colborne Lodge 1836
Built by John Howard (1803-90), it was named after Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. Howard, an architect and engineer, emigrated from England 1832 becoming Toronto's first...
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Church Avenue
Here, on land granted to Jacob Cummer, an early settler who came with his family from Pennsylvania in 1797, stood "Cummer's Chapel". In 1816 a Sunday school was established in his log house and...
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Corporal Frederick George Topham V.C. 1917-1974
Fred Topham was an early resident of East York, now part of the City of Toronto. On March 24, 1945, while serving as a medical orderly with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, he defied...
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