Michie & Company
Michie & Company, grocers and wine merchant, opened its doors on this site, at 5 King Street West, in 1835. York, as Toronto was first known, had been settled only 42 years earlier. Prior to that,...
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Military Burial Ground
This cemetery opened in 1860 and was the third military burial ground in Toronto. It replaced one situated a short distance to the west, which was abandoned after a few burials and the bodies...
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Montgomery's Tavern
On this site stood Montgomery's Tavern, headquarters of William Lyon MacKenzie, leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, and scene of the brief skirmish in which, on 7 December 1837, the...
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Merton Street Gospel Mission
On this site from 1890 to 1970 stood the Merton Street Gospel Mission, a non-denominational church and one of the first centres of worship in the Davisville community. It sponsored missionary...
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Metropolitan United Church
This "Cathedral of Methodism" was designed by Henry Langley in the High Victorian Gothic style. The cornerstone was laid by the Rev. Egerton Ryerson, D.D., in 1870 and the church was dedicated in...
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The Medical Arts Building 1929
This ten-storey building was constructed by a consortium of doctors to provide facilities for the medical profession, and was a landmark redevelopment of a formerly residential section of Bloor...
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Maud Leonora Menten 1879-1960
An outstanding medical scientist, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton. She graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1907 and four years later became one of the first Canadian...
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Marilyn Bell
Marilyn Bell (born 1937) became the first person to swim across Lake Ontario on September 9, 1954, and a beloved Canadian sports hero.At the age of only 16, Bell swam from Youngstown, N.Y.,...
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Marilyn Bell
This plaque is dedicated to the honour of Marilyn Bell, a Toronto, Ontario girl who on Sept. 9th, 1954, at the age of 16 years, performed the magnificent athletic feat of swimming the full width...
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The McCowan Log House
This cabin was built about 1830 in the northeast part of Scarborough and was moved to its present site by the Scarborough Historical Society in 1974. From 1848 until his death, it was occupied by...
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Melville Church
The first Presbyterian church in this area, a small frame building, was erected here in 1851 under the leadership of Thomas Wightman, pastor of Knox Church Agincourt and first minister...
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Monsignor (Père) Athol Murray 1892-1975
The son of an affluent Toronto family, Monsignor Athol Murray attended St. Augustine Seminary in Scarborough. A salty priest of unshakeable faith, he believed in the development of the...
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McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom 1925
This building was constructed as the Toronto dealership of the McLaughlin Motor Company, subsidiary of General Motors of Canada, founded by R.S. McLaughlin of Oshawa. It is a rare Toronto example...
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The Mackenzie- Papineau Battalion (1937-1938)
The "Mac-Paps" were a unit of the International Brigades, a volunteer force recruited world-wide to oppose the fascist forces bent on overthrowing the government of Spain. Formed in Spain in...
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Mississauga Settlements on the Humber River
When archaeologists in the late 19th century documented remains of Aboriginal occupation on Baby Point (just across the river), they also noted remnants of a settlement on this side of the Humber....
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Marshall McLuhan 1911-1980
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, born in Edmonton Alberta, achieved fame as a communications theorist while professor of English at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto from 1946 until his...
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The Main (East) Gate
The East Gate at Fort York faced the Town of York, located two kilometres away. Military personnel, civilian visitors and contractors entered and exited through this gate and were checked in...
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Mary Perram House 1877
Built for Mary Perram, this house was once within an exclusive residential neighbourhood that included Jarvis Street to the west and Sherbourne Street to the east. Later occupied by Frederick Law,...
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Mount Hope Cemetery 1898
Mount Hope Cemetery was the fifth Catholic Cemetery in Toronto and the second to be established independently of any parish, the first being St. Michael's Cemetery. The property was purchased by...
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M.V. Hiawatha
Hiawatha was built in 1895 by the Bertram Engine Company of Toronto to serve as a tender transporting the members and guests of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club between the city and the island...
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