Loudon County Courthouse
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Trinity College
The University of Trinity College was located on this site 1852-1925, occupying a large Gothic- Revival building designed by Kivas Tully with later additions by Frank Darling. Trinity was founded...
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Todmorden Mills
In 1794-5 Isaiah and Aaron Skinner built a sawmill and grist-mill near this site. A third share in the mill property was held, 1799-1805, by their brother-in-law, Parshall Terry, a member of...
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Toronto's Historic Waterfront - Harbourfront Centre
This view shows the current 4 ha Harbourfront Centre site as it appeared in April, 1929. At the top of the photo is what was then the largest single unit warehouse in North America, the Toronto...
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The Toronto Normal and Model School 1851-1962
This central facade has been left standing to commemorate the long and close association of St. James Square with education in the Province of Ontario. Here Egerton Ryerson superintended the work...
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The Thomson Settlement
The Thomson Settlement, the first in Scarborough, consisted of early mills & homesteads centred around this point. The library, fostered by the Thomsons and used by the Mechanics Institute...
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The Types Riot
The printing offices of William Lyon Mackenzie's controversial weekly newspaper, The Colonial Advocate (1824-34), were located on this site in 1826. That year on June 8 a group of young men broke...
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Toronto's New City Hall
Viljo Revell, the architect of City Hall, did not live to see the opening of this impressive and uniquely designed building. His legacy, however, remains a major architectural...
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Toronto's First Professional Baseball Stadium
"Sunlight Park" was constructed in 1886 as the Toronto Baseball Grounds. The smell of baked potatoes and cigars greeted fans filing in to the park through an avenue of workers' cottages...
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Toronto's Huron- Wendat Heritage
The north shore of Lake Ontario, including present-day Toronto, was once the home of the ancestral Huron-Wendat people. Accomplished farmers and traders, they occupied numerous villages between AD...
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Toronto Postal Delivery Building
In June 1990, the Toronto Postal Delivery Building (constructed 1939-1941) was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act (City of Toronto by-law #360-90) as a property of architectural...
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Taber Hill
Taber HillSite of an ancient Indian ossuary of the Iroquois Nation. Burials were made about 1250 A.D. This ossuary was uncovered when farm lands were developed into residential properties in...
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Toronto Post Office 1853-1873
Built in 1851-1853 for the Province of Canada, the Seventh Post Office was designed by Toronto architects Frederic Cumberland and Thomas Ridout. The building, in the then popular...
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Toronto-Dominion Centre
Designed by Modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in association with John B. Parkin Associates and Bregman and Hamann Architects, the Toronto-Dominion Centre is located in the heart...
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Toronto Carrying Place
For perhaps thousands of years before modern highways, overland trails connected the lower and upper Great Lakes. One of those trails began near here, at the mouth of the Humber River. The trail's...
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Toronto Railway Heritage Centre
This 45 tonne Diesel-Electric Whitcomb centre-cab switching locomotive was manufactured by the Canadian Locomotive Company in Kingston, Ontario, in 1950. It was used to switch freight cars...
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Traffic at Yonge and Sheppard - 1860's
This 'urban' view looks West along Sheppard Avenue. The Dempsey Store, originally built by Joseph Shepard Jr. was the largest building in the area and still stands today. To the right waits...
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Toronto Horticultural Society
Founded in 1834 under the patronage of Sir John Colborne, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (1828-36), this was the first horticultural society organized in this province. Established...
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Toronto General Hospital 1856-1913
In the area bounded by Sumach, Gerrard, Sackville and Spruce streets, the Toronto General Hospital opened in 1856. It replaced the original hospital at King and John Streets. Designed by...
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Toronto Huskies
The Maple Leafs were in first place, the football season was in full swing, and the local sports calendar was mighty crowded. So forgive Toronto for treating a moment of history as a...
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