Indian Village Site
A village inhabited by early Iroquoian Indians stood on the north side of this Highland Creek valley about 1250 AD. This site was excavated in 1956 by University of Toronto students who recovered...
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Ideal Bread Company Factory 1919
Montreal architect Sydney Comber designed this factory building in Edwardian Classical style. Its façades feature stone detailing and are divided into distinct bays by brick pilasters....
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Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)
Considered among our finest poets, Isabella Crawford was born in Ireland and came to Canada with her parents about 1858. After settling first in Paisley, Ontario, the family lived later...
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In Memory of J.A. (Al) Birney
This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Al Birney, a man who advocated for the rights of those suffering with mental illness. His tireless efforts resulted in the construction of the Luminous...
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Irish Immigrants and the Fever Sheds 1847
Fleeing disease, poverty, the failure of the potato crop and government indifference, over 100,000 Irish immigrants arrived in Canada in 1847. Of these, nearly 40,000 passed through Toronto, a...
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Island Filtration Plant
There have been four water facilities of different types constructed on Toronto Island on the same site. The first of these consisted of an infiltration basin constructed in 1874. It was about 823...
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Honourable George Brown 1818-1880
Born near Edinburgh, Scotland, Brown emigrated with his father to New York in 1837. In 1843 he moved to Toronto and the following year founded the "the Globe" newspaper which achieved...
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A History of the Bridgepoint Hospital Site
Since its earliest days, the facilities on this site have addressed the most pressing public issues of the time. In the 1860s, planning and construction begin for a new, more progressive jail. A...
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Home District School
On this site, on June 1, 1807, The Rev. George Okill Stuart opened the first public school at York in a small one-storey stone building attached to his modest frame house. In 1813 the school...
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Harold Town 13 June 1924 - 27 December 1990
Harold Barling Town was an artist of great gifts, legendary wit and large achievement. He loved this city and spent his whole life here, much of it at work in the Studio Building northeast of...
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Honourable George Stewart Henry 1871-1958
Ontario's tenth prime minister was born in King Township but throughout his life farmed on this property. From 1903 to 1910, as York Township councillor and reeve and warden of York County,...
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How The Earth Was Formed
According to Wendat tradition, Yaa'taenhtsihk, mother of the human race, fell from the sky and was saved by geese from drowning in the sea. She could not survive in the water, so the Great Turtle...
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Hillside Public School S.S. No. 4.
A one room frame schoolhouse was erected in 1853 near the southwest corner of Kirkham's Rd. and Finch Ave. It became one of two free schools in 1855. A second schoolhouse was built 30 m east...
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Henry Mulholland
Dedicated to the memory of Henry Mulholland and his wife Jane Armstrong, pioneers of this district who emigrated from Ulster in 1806 and took out the original grant of 162 ha from the crown. He...
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House of Providence
Once one of the city's largest centres of charity, the House of Providence stood nearby for over 100 years. It was initiated by Toronto's Roman Catholic Bishop, Armand-François-Marie...
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House of Industry
A building for Toronto's historic House of Industry was erected on this site in 1848. Designed by William Thomas, it was later enlarged by architects Joseph Sheard (1858) and E.J. Lennox (1898)....
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Highland Creek Village
About 1796, pioneer settlers from the United States and the British Isles built homes in southeastern Scarborough, the beginning of a prosperous community. Notable settlers included the families:...
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History As Theatre: 200 Toronto Years
Artist: John Hood. Assisted By: Alexandra Hood. This 400 square metre mural was commissioned by The Toronto Sun on November 1st, 1991 on the occasion of our 20th Birthday. It commemorates...
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Humber River Marshes and Oak Savannah
Urban development, including the creation of grassy public parks, has left us few places to experience the Humber Valley in its natural state. You are now standing between two such places: a marsh...
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Huron-Wendat Villages on the Humber River
In the late 1800s, Aboriginal artifacts, perhaps Huron-Wendat in origin, were found up on the edge of the valley, not far from here. The Huron-Wendat lived for centuries along the waterways...
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