Church of All Nations
This site was originally part of lands owned in the late 1830s by John Henry Dunn, Receiver-General of Upper Canada. It was purchased in the 1840s by the Methodists to build a small chapel and replaced in 1856 by a larger Gothic-style brick church. By 1900 it had been enlarged to house the biggest Methodist congregation in Toronto. As the area changed to industrial in the 1920s, the church became vacant. In 1927-28, the United Church of Canada enlarged the building and established the Church of All Nations, where services were held in many languages. An international fair was held here annually between 1929 and 1957, an early expression of Toronto's multi-cultural heritage. The Hungarian United Church was the last occupant until 1984 when the building was sold and demolished for commercial development.
Plaque via Alan L. Brown's site Toronto Plaques. Full page here.