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Incident. Fire insurance map depicting the area damaged by the fire. The fire was first spotted at 8:04 p.m., on April 19, 1904, by a Toronto Police constable on his regular street patrol. [1] The flames were rising from the elevator shaft of the E & S Currie Limited's neck wear factory at 58 Wellington Street West, just west of Bay Street (now ...
Toronto was founded as the Town of York and capital of Upper Canada in 1793 after the Mississaugas sold the land to the British in the Toronto Purchase. [ 1] For over 12,000 years, Indigenous People have lived in the Toronto area. The ancestors of the Huron-Wendat were the first known groups to establish agricultural villages in the area about ...
Area code (s) 416, 647, 437. Old Toronto is the part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that corresponds to the boundaries of the City of Toronto prior to 1998. It was incorporated as a city in 1834, after being known as the town of York, and being part of York County. Toronto periodically grew in size by annexing adjacent land and municipalities.
The Ward as seen in 1910. Once the centre of Toronto's Jewish community, it has been completely redeveloped. A map of Toronto in 1858, when the city was divided into seven wards. The earliest Toronto neighbourhoods were the five municipal wards that the city was split into in 1834. The wards were named for the patron saints of the four nations ...
Old Toronto 18 36 Toronto Street 1875 36 Toronto Street St. Lawrence: Old Toronto [39] 44–46 Elm Avenue 1875 44–46 Elm Avenue Rosedale: Old Toronto 18 49–51 Hazelton Avenue 1875 49–51 Hazelton Avenue Yorkville: Old Toronto 18 49–51 Boswell Avenue 1875 49–51 Boswell Avenue The Annex: Old Toronto 18 57–59 Hazelton Avenue 1875
This timeline of the history of Toronto documents all events that occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including historical events in the former cities of East York, Etobicoke, North York, Toronto, Scarborough, and York. Events date back to the early-17th century and continue until the present in chronological order.
From the early 1900s onwards, there were several proposals to build a subway for streetcars on Yonge Street, given the high demand for north–south travel within downtown Toronto. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Following World War 2, the Toronto Transit Commission proposed a north–south subway line along the Yonge Street corridor between Union Station and ...
New Southern Ontario cities - the essence of Canada. St. Catharines (1821), London (1826), Hamilton (1846), Oshawa (1850), Kitchener (1854) and Windsor (1854) founded in the mid-nineteenth century would eventually form the core of the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada.