The Lake Light
This lighthouse, one of the earliest on the Great Lakes, was completed in 1808 as an hexagonal tower 16 m high, topped by a wooden cage with a fixed whale-oil lantern. In 1832 it was raised to 25...
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Leaside: A Railway Town
The development of the Town of Leaside, named for 19th-century farmer and settler William Lea, is historically linked to the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways. By 1894, a...
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Lansing
A prominent landmark building, the Joseph Shepard House/Dempsey Brothers Store once occupied this corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue. Built in 1860, by Joseph Shepard II, the building...
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Loring-Wyle Studio
This board-and-batten building, originally the schoolhouse for Christ Church, Deer Park, was acquired in 1920 by Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Sculpting in the classical tradition,...
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Lansing
The community of Lansing developed around the crossroads of Yonge Street and present-day Sheppard Avenue. Joseph Shepard was one of the earliest settlers to Lansing, building a log cabin in 1798...
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Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806
Born in Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, Simcoe entered the army in 1770, and during the American Revolution commanded the 1st American Regiment (Queen's Rangers). In 1791 he was appointed the first...
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L.J. McGuinness Distillers
L.J. McGuinness Distillers operated on this site from 1938 to 1988. Lawrence J. McGuinness started in the wholesale liquor business in Toronto in 1905. In the 1920s, McGuinness formed...
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Lynn Williams Street
Lynn Williams Street is named after one of Canada's pre-eminent labour leaders. This street is located near the site of the former John Inglis plant, one of the major manufacturing facilities that...
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Long Branch Race Track
The tall brick and stone gatepost directly opposite this plaque was one of two marking the main entrance to the Long Branch Race Track. The avenue of maple trees, which still survive, highlighted...
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The Loyalists in Upper Canada
When United Empire Loyalists who had "adhered to the Crown" during the American Revolution and, in most cases, served in volunteer regiments, came to settle in this province in the 1780's, the...
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Lambton House
Lambton House operated as a hotel from its inception, c.1848, until its closing in 1988. Built on Howland land by William Tyrrell to the design of Rowland Burr, it functioned as a stage coach stop...
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The Lion Monument
This monument marked the eastern entrance to the Queen Elizabeth Way, opened in 1939 by Her Majesty Elizabeth, the Queen Consort, in the company of His Majesty, King George VI. It was designed...
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Loretto Abbey, Toronto, 1928
Mary Ward (1585-1645) founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1609 to be an uncloistered community of religious women dedicated to the apostolate of teaching in the Christian...
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Landing of American Troops at York
The Battle of York, an engagement in the War of 1812, commenced in the early morning of April 27, 1813, when about 2,550 American soldiers and seamen began their assault on the town of York (now...
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Legislature of the Province of Canada
After rioters burned the legislative building at Montreal in 1849 during the Tory protest over the Rebellion Losses Bill, the seat of the provincial government alternated between Toronto and...
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Lionel Conacher Park
Lionel Pretoria Conacher, know affectionately as "The Big Train", was born in Toronto on May 24, 1900 and received his early education in this area. He was a truly remarkable athlete, excelling in...
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Lawren Harris 1885-1970
Distinguished Canadian artist, Lawren Stuart Harris, was born in Brantford, Ontario in 1885. He was educated in Toronto and Germany, returning to work here in 1909. Harris was a patron...
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Labor Lyceum
Established in 1913 by Henry Dworkin and Sam Easser, the Labor Lyceum Association sought to advance the interests of the city's Jewish trade union movement. Through the sale of $5.00...
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The Kiever Synagogue 1927
This synagogue was designed by Jewish architect Benjamin Swartz for a small congregation of Orthodox Jewish immigrants who had fled oppression in Kiever Gubernia, a Russian province in...
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Kensington Market
For generations, people of diverse origins have lived and worked along the narrow streets of this colourful and distinctive neighbourhood. In the mid-19th century these streets were laid out...
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