The Great Fire of 1849
On Saturday April 7, 1849, the citizens of Toronto awoke to a blaze that quickly consumed the centre of town. The fire started about one in the morning in a stable that once stood here. In the...
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Finch
In 1830 John Finch leased the inn "The Bird in the Hand", on the west side of what is now Yonge Street just north of Finch Avenue, from John Montgomery. Later he purchased a lot on the northeast...
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Fort Rouillé
The last French post built in present-day Southern Ontario, Fort Rouillé, more commonly known as Fort Toronto, was erected on this site in 1750-51. It was established by order of the Marquis de...
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Frontier College
When established in 1899, Frontier College was the only national, non-denominational organization providing education to workers in remote parts of Canada. It sent idealistic youth to...
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Frederic W. Cumberland 1820-1881
An outstanding Canadian architect, civil engineer and railway manager, Cumberland was born in England and practised there before immigrating to Toronto in 1847. He quickly gained...
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Fort Rouillé
The concrete walkways in this area delineate the walls of Fort Rouillé, a French trading post located on this site from 1750 to 1759. The reconstructed ground plan of Fort Rouillé is based on...
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Frederick Hubbard House 1909
This residence was built for Frederick Langdon Hubbard, a chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission. It stands immediately north of the house belonging to his father, William Peyton Hubbard, the...
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F.H. Torrington and the Toronto College of Music
Frederick Herbert Torrington (1837-1917), already a successful conductor and performer in Montreal and Boston, arrived in Toronto in 1873 to accept the position of organist and choirmaster...
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Flight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell, V.C., 1910-1944
Born in Toronto and educated in Mimico, Hornell enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force on January 8, 1941. He was commissioned Pilot Officer late that year. On June 24, 1944, while...
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First Grey Cup Game
At Rosedale Field on December 4, 1909, the University of Toronto varsity team won First Grey Cup Game by defeating the Parkdale Canoe Club 26-6. Almost 4,000 spectators watched the Ontario Rugby...
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Francis Collins
Francis Collins, Canada's first professional parliamentary debates reporter, was born CA. 1800 in Newry, County Down, Ireland. He had been a publisher before his arrival in York (Toronto) where,...
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Financial District
The Financial District, centred at King and Bay Streets, is the financial heart of Canada, home to the corporate headquarters of the country's major banks and most prominent firms. With...
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First Women's College Hospital
In 1911 the Women's College Hospital & Dispensary opened in a six-room house near here at 18 Seaton Street. At a time when most hospitals excluded women doctors from their staffs, it provided...
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Fort York
Fort York constituted the primary defensive position in early York (Toronto). The present buildings, erected between 1813 and 1815 to replace those destroyed during the American occupations of...
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The Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto
The Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto was first located on this site, in a house shared with a Jewish orphanage. Established in 1917 to more effectively raise and distribute funds...
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First Banding of a Bird
On 24th September, 1905, James Henry Fleming placed band No. 1 on the foot of a robin in his garden at 267 Rusholme Road, Toronto. This was the first wild bird in Canada to be marked with...
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Foster Hewitt (1902-1985)
Foster Hewitt began his career as a reporter for the Toronto Star but soon moved to radio. On March 22, 1923 he broadcast from the Mutual Street Arena one of the first hockey games ever aired...
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The Founding of Weston
Settlers were attracted to this vicinity in the 1790s by the area's rich timber resources and the water power potential of the Humber River here. By 1792 a sawmill was established on the west...
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The First Unitarian Congregation in Canada West 1845
The congregation was formed in Toronto in 1845 and moved to a new church completed on this site in 1854. Members of the congregation have enriched the life of this city and nation. Dr....
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Friends' Meeting House
In 1911 the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), active in Toronto since 1878, built this meeting house. It was designed in the classical style by John A. McKenzie, Architect. The Quakers...
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