New City Hall
The result of an international design competition, New City Hall was completed in 1965 to replace Toronto's third City Hall, located east of here. When the new home of Toronto's...
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Northfield
Sir Oliver Mowat (1820-1903) built this Georgian- style house in 1856 on land originally owned by Samuel Peters Jarvis. Mowat, one of the Fathers of Confederation, was Premier of Ontario...
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Nathan A. (Nat) Taylor (1906-2004)
In 1918, at 12 years of age, Nat broke into the movie business by selling ads on the back of Hollywood postcards - 1,000 for $3 - to Queen Street movie theatres. When he entered university in...
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McCausland Stained Glass
This magnificent dome represents an extensive legacy of stained glass produced by the McCausland family and their employees for buildings throughout Canada. In business under various company names...
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Mount Sinai Hospital
This brick façade was once part of the first Mount Sinai Hospital, an institution founded in 1922 to provide medical services particularly for the city's many Jewish immigrants. Since...
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Mackenzie House
Mackenzie House was the last home of William Lyon Mackenzie, Toronto's first mayor, outspoken newspaper editor, and primary leader of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada. The defeat of the rebels...
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery
In 1874 the Trustees of the Toronto General Burying Grounds hired H.A. Engelhardt, who was in the forefront of landscape gardening in Canada, to plan the transformation of ravine and...
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The Maltese Community of Toronto
A small number of immigrants from Malta first arrived in Toronto in the late 19th century. By 1916, having fled overpopulation and unemployment, some 200 Maltese had established themselves...
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Mary Pickford
Born in 1893 in a house which stood near this site, Gladys Marie Smith appeared on stage in Toronto at the age of five. Her theatrical career took her to Broadway in 1907 where she adopted...
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Maple Leaf Gardens 1931-2011
From the day it opened in the fall of 1931, Maple Leaf Gardens has been a social and cultural hub in the City of Toronto. Best known as a "cathedral of hockey", it also hosted political rallies,...
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Major-General The Honourable Aeneas Shaw
Aeneas Shaw, a son of Aeneas, 9th Chief of Clan Ay, was born at Tordarroch, near Inverness, Scotland. A Loyalist, he served in the Queen's Rangers during the American Revolution, and later settled...
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McMaster Hall
This building was designed by the Toronto firm of Langley, Langley and Burke, specialists in church architecture, to house Toronto Baptist College. The structure typifies the High Victorian...
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McGill Street Arch
This stone arch is from the former St. Andrew's United Church (built in 1923) on Bloor Street East at Park Road. The City of Toronto purchased the arch when the church was demolished in 1981....
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The Macdonald-Mowat House 1872
Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, purchased this house in 1876 and lived here 1876-78. It was built in 1872 in the French Second Empire style by Nathaniel Dickey, a...
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Michael Shepard Residence
The property now comprising York Cemetery was granted by the crown by letters patent dated May 9th, 1805 to Joseph Shepard, and was acquired by the trustees of the Toronto General Buying...
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Morley Callaghan
Morley Callaghan wrote 18 novels and over 100 short stories, all about Canadians. Critically acclaimed around the world, he has been compared with Chekhov and Turgenev. He sold his first...
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Massey Hall
Since its opening in 1894, Massey Hall has served as one of Canada's most important cultural institutions. A gift to Toronto from wealthy industrialist Hart Massey, it provided the city with...
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Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen
Canadian poets Milton Acorn (1923-1986) and Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987) were married in February 1962 and, attracted by the Toronto Island's natural beauty, moved into a cottage north of here,...
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Almost the entire 80 ha of land now comprising Mount Pleasant Cemetery extending from Yonge Street to Bayview Avenue was purchased in 1873 in what was then the Village of Deer Park....
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Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
A pioneer of media studies, this University of Toronto professor became famous in the 1960s for his provocative theories about the impact of print and electronic media on human perception...
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