Charles Trick Currelly 1876-1957
Born in Exeter, Huron County, this renowned archaeologist, teacher and administrator was educated locally and in Toronto. Completing his studies at Victoria College, he received his B.A. from the...
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The Canoe & Calipers
This sculpture of Canoe and Calipers, marks the meeting of two technologies: the calipers a symbol of the old world and the canoe a gift of the First Nations. Both were instrumental in shaping...
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Cornell Home
William Cornell, a descendant of a Rhode Island colonist who came to America in 1636, settled here on two lakefront lots in the forest in 1799. With other pioneers he cut out Scarborough's...
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Canadian Pacific's Hudson 2815
It's a crisp late winter day in March, 1935. Since late last night, Canadian Pacific's Hudson 2815 has been drowsing in the steamy warmth of Toronto's John Street roundhouse, while the shop forces...
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The Beatrice Lillie Building
The world renowned star of English musical comedy, Beatrice Lillie, was born May 28, 1894 at 68 Dovercourt Road. She was educated at Alexander Muir-Gladstone Public School and Loretto Academy in...
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The Bay Queen Street Store
Department stores revolutionized shopping in the late nineteenth century by offering selection, low prices and money-back guarantees. In 1895, Robert Simpson commissioned architect Edmund Burke...
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Bracondale Hill
On this site Robert John Turner (1795-1872) built his house "Bracondale Hill" about 1847. A lawyer, he practised in the chancery courts at Osgoode Hall and became referee of titles and...
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Barbara Ann Scott Ice Rink
Barbara Ann Scott became, in 1948, the first Canadian to win the Olympic Gold Medal and the World Figure Skating title. She was voted Canada's Outstanding Female Athlete on three...
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Boris Volkoff 1900-1974
Boris Volkoff came to Toronto in 1929 as an outstanding ballet dancer trained in a technical and expressive style associated with the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Volkoff began choreographing shows...
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The Beach Hebrew Institute
In 1920 the Beach Hebrew Institute was established in this building. It was formerly the Kenilworth Avenue Baptist Church, built in 1895 and occupied until 1909. Later, for nine years, it was a...
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The Baldwin Family
Looking south, one can see Spadina Road, laid out by the Baldwin family as a grand thoroughfare from Queen Street to Davenport Road. William Baldwin (1775-1844), physician, lawyer, politician...
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Brown's Line
In 1793 approximately 650 hectares of land was granted to Colonel Samuel Smith, a vast tract of forest bounded by what is now Kipling Avenue, Bloor Street, Etobicoke Creek and Lake Ontario. After...
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Baby Point
This area includes the site of Taiaiagon Iroquois Village at the foot of the Toronto Carrying Place (Le Portage de Toronto). This way passed Étienne Brûlé, first white man to see Lake Ontario,...
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Bishop's Block
Among the oldest buildings in downtown Toronto, the townhouses of Bishop's Block were constructed circa 1830 to 1840 for John Bishop, a butcher and landlord. The block was originally a row of...
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Birkbeck Building
In its rich Edwardian Baroque details, classical composition, steel frame and fireproofed surfaces, the Birkbeck Building represents a transitional period of urban commercial design which...
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The Birthplace of Standard Time
In a building which stood immediately west of this site, Sandford Fleming (1827-1915) read a paper before the Canadian Institute on February 8, 1879, outlining his concept of a worldwide,...
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Bracondale Village
In 1847, Barrister Robert John Turner built one of the earliest homes north of Davenport. "Bracondale Hill" stood on the northwest corner of Christie and Davenport. Carved from the oak forest,...
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Bell Telephone Company Building 1926
Designed in Edwardian Classical style by Montreal architect W.J. Carmichael, this building was constructed to accommodate the switching equipment, switchboard operators, and technicians needed for...
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Bill Barilko
The last goal he would ever score was one that would be immortalized in hockey history, in myth, and in song. But on April 21, 1951, at Maple Leaf Gardens, when hard-hitting defenceman Bill...
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Bruce Mackey
Bruce Mackey was a long-time resident of Degrassi Street. In the 1970s he offered his encouragement and his home to a pair of young filmmakers, Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood. They were making a...
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