Nirvana
From the earliest days of rock and roll, being booked to play Maple Leaf Gardens was a sure sign that you'd hit the big time. Going all the way back to 1956, when Bill Haley and the...
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National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC)
The National Council of Women of Canada lobbied for wide-ranging reforms that helped build this country's social safety net. This large network of local, provincial and federal councils had...
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Norman B. Gash House (Spadina Station Entrance) 1899
Designed by architect Robert Ogilvie for barrister Norman B. Gash, this house was built when Spadina Road was a quiet and narrower residential street. The house remained a single-family...
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Nordheimer Ravine
From a family of Jewish Bavarian merchants, Samuel Nordheimer immigrated to Toronto from Bavaria in 1844. With his brother, Abraham, they imported pianos and by 1890 opened a factory in...
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New Toronto Filtration Plant/Lakeshore Pumping Station
On this site stood a key contributor to the 20th- century prosperity of the Lakeshore community. In 1913, the New Toronto Village Council decided to build a filtration plant to improve...
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The National Club
Established in 1874 to foster national sentiment and to give the "Canada First Movement" a home, the Club began in a building on the site of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Expanding...
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The National Yacht Club
A group of enthusiasts from the West End Boating Club (c. 1890) obtained an act of incorporation for the National Yacht And Skiff Club in 1894. From its inception the club was known...
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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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