Category: local history Toronto

  I have visited the Yonge Street three times since the two lanes of traffic were closed to create cafes and green space, and have

The two impressive houses at 474 and 476 Richmond Street West are located on the west side of McDougall Lane, which leads to Graffiti Alley.

These two surviving Bay and Gable structures at 357 and 359 Richmond Street are a short distance east of Spadina Avenue. They were at one

At  357 Peter St, a short distance north of King Street West, a nineteenth-century Second Empire mansion is hidden behind a large red-brick warehouse. It

     The Farr House on Queen St. West, across from Trinity Bellwoods Park.   The Farr House is set back from Queen Street, to the

                                    242 Queen Street West In 1864, on the site of the store seen in the above picture, was a small house owned by

                                For over a century, when gazing westward along Adelaide Street toward Bathurst Street, the magnificent Gothic spire of St. Mary’s has dominated the vista.

In 1900, the “Pizza Pizza” outlet at 260 Church Street, on the southwest corner of Jarvis and Church Streets, was the site of the home

The mid-summer holiday in August is always glorious anticipated. Though we are aware the summer is half spent, we revel in the lazy days of

One of Toronto’s timeless residential streets near Huron Street amid the downtown core During the heat wave in August of 2012, I visited Huron Street,