United Drug Company 1914
This five-storey building was constructed for the United Drug Company. From 1920 until 1943, L.K. Liggett Druggists ran a pharmacy and soda fountain on the ground floor. A condominium...
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University College
The building of University College in 1856-59 largely assured the future of the University of Toronto and drew it, in time, into a federal pattern which was widely followed in Canada and the...
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Union Station
This station was built between 1915 and 1920 to the designs of Ross and Macdonald, H.G. Jones and J.M. Lyle. Subsequent to the relocation of the tracks, it was opened in 1927. It is the...
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University Avenue Armouries
On this site stood the University Avenue Armouries, the home of famous Toronto Regiments of the Canadian Army and the centre of Militia activities in Toronto from 1891 until it was demolished in...
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Ukrainian Internments at Stanley Barracks
Thousands of Ukrainians and other Europeans were needlessly imprisoned as "enemy aliens" during Canada's national internment operations of 1914-1920. The Stanley Barracks Receiving Station was...
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University Club of Toronto Building 1929
Founded in 1906 as a private dining club for those with a university degree, the University Club of Toronto moved to this location on Toronto's ceremonial avenue in 1929. A design competition for...
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Upper Canada College Boarding House
This is the last remaining building of Upper Canada College, located here 1831-1891. Built in the Georgian style in 1833, the student residence was altered and enlarged first in 1856 by Cumberland...
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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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