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The Palais Royale. Palais Royale is a dance hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on Lake Shore Boulevard at the foot of Roncesvalles Avenue on Lake Ontario.Originally built as a boat works, it became notable as a night club in the now-defunct Sunnyside Amusement Park, hosting many prominent 'big band' jazz bands.
The Palace Pier is the site of Palace Place and Palace Pier, two cruciform condominium towers tied for the 45th-tallest building in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.They are located at 2045 Lake Shore Boulevard West and 1 Palace Pier Court in the Humber Bay neighbourhood in the former city of Etobicoke.
The Commission extended the shoreline about 100 yards (91 m) to the south, from Wilson Park Road to the Humber River (the western boundary of Toronto at the time), using landfill brought from Pickering, Ontario and sand dredged from the lake bottom. The hydro-electric lines and the Canoe Club building, previously located on the water, were now ...
51 Royal York Road Mimico: Etobicoke [5] Mary Curts House 1858 58 Royal York Road Mimico: Etobicoke [5] Rev. Samuel Boddy House 1858 21 Winchester Street Cabbagetown: Old Toronto 18 Thomas Clarkson Building/John Hallam Building 1858 [note 20] Renaissance Revival: 85 Front Street East St. Lawrence: Old Toronto [40] Cornell House 1858 Upright and ...
In Mississauga, the road is simply named "Queensway", with east and west designations on either side of Hurontario Street: Queensway East and Queensway West From 1953 to 1954, the Queensway was signed briefly as Highway 108 when it was under the-then Department of Highways from Highway 27 (prior to being renamed Highway 427) and the eastern end ...
Magasin royal (French for 'royal store') was the generic name given to a trading post under the purview of the King of France. The name also applied specifically to two trading posts that were built during the 18th century for French fur trading near the Humber River in the Pays d'en Haut region of New France , in present-day Toronto , Ontario ...
The rail yards were transferred to new locations north and east of Toronto. The main rail lines south of the centre were retained. The convention centre and hotel was completed in 1984, built by CN Real Estate designed by Architects Crang and Boake. In 1995, ownership was transferred to Canada Lands Corporation, an agency of the Government of ...
The 1939 royal tour was a cross-Canada royal tour by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Although there had been many invitations since 1858 for the reigning monarch to tour Canada, [108] George was the first to do so. (In 1926, Queen Marie of Romania also visited the country. [109]) The tour helped unify the nation by providing a shared ...