Enoch Turner Schoolhouse
In 1849, this building opened as Ward Street School, Toronto's first free school. Enoch Turner, a wealthy local brewer, financed the construction and operation of this school on land donated...
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Elm Grove Garden
The Parkdale Village Business Improvement Area (PVBIA) encompasses the area along Toronto's celebrated Queen Street West from Dufferin Street to Roncesvalles Avenue. Because of its close proximity...
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Eulogy to Beauty
NonePlaque via Alan L. Brown's site Toronto Plaques. Full page here.
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Elm Street
Elm Street, named after a solitary elm tree which once stood like a landmark at the corner of Yonge and Elm streets, is now in the heart of the city. (By the way, the trees you see on the street...
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Earl Kitchener Public School
The Earl Kitchener Public School was originally located on this site. Opened in September of 1915 by the Toronto Board of Education, this school was jointly used by students from the City of...
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Edward S. Rogers, Sr. 1900-1939
49 Nanton Avenue was the childhood home of Edward Samuel Rogers Senior, inventor, businessman and pioneer in radio engineering and broadcasting in Canada. Fascinated by radio at an early age,...
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Edith Kathleen Russell 1886-1964
A distinguished Canadian educator, Kathleen Russell was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia. She graduated in 1918 from the Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing and, in 1920, became first director...
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Edward Hanlan 1855-1908
Ned Hanlan was born in Toronto. In an era when rowing was a highly popular spectator sport in the English-speaking world, he was the sport's greatest exponent. He became Canadian champion in 1877...
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Edgar John Jarvis 1835-1907
One of Rosedale's early developers, Edgar John Jarvis was introduced to this area by his uncle, William Botsford Jarvis of "Rosedale Villa". Edgar and his wife, Charlotte, moved here into their...
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Eden Court
Before you is part of the red-brick façade of Eden Court, a farmhouse built for Edward Stock in 1886. Originally, the home featured round-arched windows decreasing in size on each storey,...
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Early Meteorology in Canada
The British Army began regular meteorological and magnetic observations on this campus in 1840, stimulating colonial society's fascination with science. After the Province of Canada took over the...
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The Exercise Yards at the Don Jail
The area behind the Don Jail was once divided into three exercise yards for inmates. In this 1956 photograph, the exercise yards are behind the brick wall on the right.Before penal reform in...
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Ed and Anne Mirvish Parkette
Humanitarians, Retail Innovators, Arts AdvocatesEd and Anne Mirvish, two of Toronto's most beloved and celebrated citizens were married in 1941 and through a strong commitment to family, enjoyed...
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Ewart Chapel
John Ewart was the first president of the York Mechanics' Institute which became the Toronto Public Library. Born in Scotland in 1788, he became a contractor in the Town of York, building such...
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The Escarpment
At the beginning of the last great Ice Age, 120,000 years ago, Toronto lay beneath an ice- sheet more than 2 kilometres high. As the glacier retreated the meltwater created an inland sea, twice as...
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Étienne Brûlé
Born in France in 1595, arrived in Quebec in 1608. With a genius for exploration, Brûlé, from Lake Huron, thence to Lake Simcoe and southward made the Humber his route to Lake Ontario in 1615....
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Dominion Square
In 1873, Robert Davies, the third son of one of the most prominent families in the history of Toronto brewing, established the Dominion Brewery and built on this site in 1878. At its peak in...
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Discover the Humber River's Ancient Past
You now stand at the intersection of two ancient "shared paths", each thousands of years older than the nearby modern highways. One route travelled along the shifting shoreline of Lake Ontario....
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DeHavilland "Beaver"
The "Beaver" was developed in 1946 at Downsview under P.C. Garratt of DeHavilland Canada for flying in the Canadian north. The single engine, high wing monoplane, built for bush work,...
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De La Salle Institute Building 1871
Designed by Toronto architect Henry Langley, this building was constructed as a boys school operated by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Catholic teaching order. The Brothers had purchased...
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