The restored building at 1092 Queen Street West once housed the Avon Theatre. When I moved from the suburbs to downtown in the year 2000,
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Toronto’s old movie theatres–the Garden Theatre on College St.
The Garden Theatre at 290 College Street as it appeared in the early decades of the 20th century, when it possessed a roof garden. The
The magnificent theatre complex on Yonge Street, a few doors north of Queen Street was erected in 1913. Though it was a project of considerable
View sculptures in Toronto today by the creator of Vimy Ridge Memorial.
Walter Allwards’s South African (Boer War) Memorial at University and Queen Streets. Walter Allward, one of Canada’s most prominent sculptors, was born in Toronto
In the 1950s, as a teenager, I remember sitting in the plush seats of the enormous balcony of Shea’s Hippodrome Theatre on Bay Street, a
Toronto’s old University Theatre
The University when it opened in March 1949, Photo from Ontario Archives, AO 2108 Map from Google, 2014 Shortly after World