Category: local history Toronto

238 Queen Street West, the site of the old St Patrick’s Market—now the Queen Street Market In 1836, Mr. D’Arcy Boulton (1785-1846), who resided at

When I first began researching Toronto’s 19th-century buildings, I began in the old town of York. Very few of the structures from this period of

            Photo from the City of Toronto Archives (Series 1278, File 83). The above picture was likely taken around 1945, as the film on

     The YWCA (foreground) of 1890, on Elm Street, which now houses the Elmwood Club. This magnificent 19th-century building is at 18 Elm Street, a

The above photo was taken in March of 1921, gazing east along St. Clair Avenue, from a short distance to the west of Dufferin Street.

                     The stone lighthouse on Gibraltar Point, on the Toronto Islands, is one of the city’s best preserved historical architectural structures. Gibraltar Point received its