Canadian International Air Show
Human fascination with flight has made air shows popular since the early days of aviation. Toronto was the site of numerous air shows as it developed into a centre of air transportation and...
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Crosse & Blackwell Building
Established in London, England, in the early 18th century, Crosse and Blackwell Ltd., manufacturers of food products, built this factory and office in 1927, to a design by Chapman and Oxley,...
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Casa Loma and the Pellatts
Of all the grand houses ever built on this escarpment, Casa Loma is the grandest. Meaning "House (on the) Hill", it was the romantic vision of the industrialist Sir Henry Pellatt (1859-1939)....
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The Crossing of Lake Ontario by Marilyn Bell
On the evening of September 9, 1954, 16-year-old marathon swimmer Marilyn Bell became the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. Racing unofficially against the heavily favoured...
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Coliseum Complex, Exhibition Place
The Coliseum, erected to showcase the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and the agricultural programs of the Canadian National Exhibition, opened in 1922. With additions made in 1926, the complex...
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Canadian Northern Railway Eastern Lines Locomotive Shop
The Canadian Northern Railway Eastern Lines Locomotive Shop is the largest surviving structure of the former Leaside Terminal. Completed in 1919, the Locomotive Shop's symmetrical features,...
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The Colonnade
His worship the late Donald Summerville, Mayor of Toronto officially opened the Colonnade on October 16th, 1963 with these words.: "A creative and imaginative answer to the pressing problems...
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Christie's Methodist Cemetery
Issac Christie and his wife, Isabella Graeme, came to Scarborough from Armagh, Ireland, and in 1836 purchased 40 hectares of Clergy Reserve land in Lot 33, Con. IV. This land had been rented...
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City of Toronto Archives
Appointed City Archivist in 1960, Robert Woadden (1922-2010) transformed the attic of Old City Hall into the first municipal archives in English- speaking Canada. Before then, thousands...
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Canadian Bank of Commerce
Once dominating the Toronto skyline, the Canadian Bank of Commerce building was the tallest building in the British Commonwealth for three decades. Rising to 34 storeys, it was designed by...
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Centennial Methodist Church 1906
This Neo-Gothic inspired church replaced an earlier Centennial Methodist Church built on this site in 1891. Notable design elements include decorative stone trim, three central Tudor-arch windows,...
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Cranfield House 1902
This house was built for William and Caroline Harris and was named for Caroline's ancestral village. Designed by Toronto architect Henry Simpson, it has elements of two architectural styles. The...
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The Church of the Holy Trinity 1847
This church was made possible by a gift from Mary Lambert Swale of Yorkshire, England, who stipulated that 'the seats be free and unappropriated forever'. At that time most other Anglican churches...
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C.W. Jefferys 1869-1951
This house was the residence and studio of one of Canada's leading historical artists. Born in Rochester, England, he came to Toronto about 1880, and first worked as a lithographer's...
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Church of St. Simon- the-Apostle
The Anglican parish of St. Simon-the-Apostle was founded in 1883 to serve the expanding Rosedale community. The congregation first worshipped in the chapel of St. James-the-Less,...
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Churchill
He arrived in Toronto a celebrity, but at home Winston Churchill's star had fallen. When he spoke at Maple Leaf Gardens on March 3, 1932, the great statesman had entered the Wilderness Years, a...
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The Colborne Street Theatre
On this site once stood the Colborne Street Theatre a ramshackle former stable where, during the autumn of 1829 a murder took place that today is looked upon as one of the instigating moments that...
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Croft Street
Once known as Ulster Avenue, this narrow lane was re-named in 1908 after John Croft, sole fatality of the Great Toronto Fire of April 19, 1904.On May 4, Croft, a 38-year-old explosives expert,...
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Consumers' Gas Company Purifying House 1888
Designed in the Renaissance Revival style by architects Strickland & Symons, this building was part of a major expansion of the Consumers' Gas Company manufacturing plant. The final stages of coal...
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Castle Frank
The country home of Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada 1791-1796, stood on these heights just south of this site 1794-1829. Named after Francis...
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