Today, when people visit the south building of the St. Lawrence Market on Front Street, they enter through archways were once a part of Toronto’s
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Enjoying Toronto’s architectural gems – the Bay at Queen and Yonge Streets
If ever a building qualified as a place where thousands visit each week, but is rarely noticed, the venerable Hudson’s Bay building at Queen and
All the photographs below are from the collection of the Toronto Archives. I am grateful for the assistance that this wonderful resource provides to residents of
Osgoode Hall in 1856 (photo City of Toronto Archives). In this photo the centre section has no three-storey portico and it contains a dome. The
Toronto’s 1890s Confederation Life Building
The lithograph above depicts the old Confederation Life Insurance Building in 1890. It was located at the corner of Richmond and Yonge Streets. Looking west
In 1873, Samuel Richardson erected a two-storey frame home on this corner. It survives today, though it has been greatly altered. Richardson added a third
As a child, a streetcar ride was an adventure. On our street, only one family owned an automobile, and thus we walked to most places.
As spring of 1943 gave way to summer, waves of heat spread across the city, causing the air-conditioned theatres to attract ever-increasing crowds. The Imperial
Imperial and Downtown Theatres on Yonge St. The Yonge Theatre (today the Elgin) University Theatre on Bloor St. Odeon Carlton on Carlton
The following quote is from the recently published murder/mystery “The Reluctant Virgin.” Jokes and stories that involved the Peter Witt streetcars on Toronto’s Yonge Street