Raymore Bridge
As dawn broke on Thursday October 14, 1954, Hurricane Hazel reached Southern Ontario after lashing the eastern United States. By midnight Friday, October 15, an estimated 209 mm of rain had...
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The Royce Family and Earlscourt Park
When Earlscourt was annexed to Toronto in 1910, locals petitioned for a public park. Originally, Earlscourt Park was called Royce Park. Allan Royce, born 1835 in Rutlandshire, England, emigrated...
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Riverboat Coffee House
Opened in 1964 in the basement of a Victorian row house that once stood on this site, the Riverboat coffee house quickly became one of North America's premier intimate venues for...
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Rupert Simpson House 1899
This house, clustered with three others both behind and beside it, was once a part of an exclusive residential neighbourhood. Built for Rupert Simpson, co-owner of the Toronto Knitting and Yarn...
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Robert McCausland Limited
This window was created in 1899 by the Robert McCausland Company, which has the longest continuous history of any stained-glass firm in North America. Five successive generations of the McCausland...
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Robert Simpson Co. Mail-order Building and Additions 1916-1939
This landmark industrial building was designed by Chicago architect Max Dunning and the Toronto firm of Burke, Horwood, and White. In later years, matching additions were built to the...
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The Richardson Family
James Richardson and his family came to Scarborough in 1824 from Londonderry, Ireland. His descendants became physicians, ministers and men active in public life. The eldest son John (1786-1875)...
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Riverdale Park East
In 1856, the City of Toronto purchased 48 ha east of the Don River, including this park, for the building of the Don Jail. The land had previously been cultivated by John and Melicent...
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The Royal York Hotel
This hotel stands on town lots granted in 1798 to William Dummer Powell, who built a log house on the site in 1812. Brick houses built here in 1844 by Captain Thomas Dick later became Sword's...
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Riot at Christie Pits
On August 16, 1933, at the end of a playoff game for the Toronto junior softball championship, one of the city's most violent ethnic clashes broke out in this park (then known as Willowvale...
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Roden Public School, @1922
What is now known as Roden School of Toronto had its beginning in November, 1906, in that section of the County of York known as the Midway, a part wedged in between Greenwood Ave. and the...
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Lee Comes to to Leesburg
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Riverdale Heritage Conservation District
The Riverdale Heritage Conservation District was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 2008 to protect portions of First Avenue, Tiverton Avenue, and West Avenue. The designation applies to...
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The Rogers Batteryless Radio
In the early 1920s, radio receivers were powered by direct current from batteries that were awkward to use and needed frequent recharging. Edward S. "Ted" Rogers Sr., a Toronto radio...
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The Royal Norwegian Air Force 1940-1945
Here, during World War II, the Royal Norwegian Air Force trained its air and ground crews. Land for a training camp was provided free by the Toronto Harbour Commissioners at the foot of...
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The Rebellion of 1837
Sir Francis Bond Head, a handsome, accomplished, adventuresome, former cavalry officer who had fought beside Wellington at Waterloo, was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1836....
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The Resting Place of Pioneers
In this area of the cemetery lie buried many of the inhabitants of the early town of "Muddy York". They were originally buried in "The Potter's Field", a plot of 2.4 ha in Yorkville at what is now...
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Royal York Hotel
Designed in the Château style by Ross and Macdonald Architects and Sproatt and Ralph Architects, the Royal York Hotel was constructed for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1928-29, as part of a...
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The Rolph School
Dr. John Rolph (1793-1870), lawyer, physician and politician founded the first medical school in Upper Canada. As a reformer he was involved in the Rebellion of 1837 and fled to the United...
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Runnymede Branch, Toronto Public Library 1930
Nationally recognized for its distinctively Canadian style, Runnymede Branch was designed by John M. Lyle, one of this country's most distinguished 20th-century architects. In the 1920s, a surging...
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