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A stub of Front Street to the east of the bay is shown on an 1834 plan of York. This would align today with Mill Street in the Distillery District. On an 1894 map of Toronto, Palace Street has become part of Front Street, and the street has been extended to the east to the Don River. The Esplanade is shown connected to Mill Street. And in the ...
65-71 Front Street West Toronto ON 43°38′44″N 79°22′51″W / 43.6455°N 79.3808°W / 43.6455; -79.3808 ( Union Station (Canadian Pacific Railway and Grand Trunk
Old Toronto [40] 98 Front Street East 1840 98 Front Street East: Old Town: Old Toronto [citation needed] 100 Front Street East 1840 100 Front Street East: Old Town: Old Toronto [40] Limehouse Back House 1840 1000 Murray Ross Parkway (The Village at Black Creek) York University Heights: North York [10] William Hume Blake House (Woodlawn) 1840 ...
Before incorporation as a city in 1834, Toronto was known as York.For about two decades from its inception in 1793, most residents settled in an area bounded by present-day Jarvis and Parliament streets, south of Queen Street East (then known as Lot Street), and north of Front Street, which at the time was at the waterfront.
Also known as the "First Toronto Post Office" (it was the fourth post office in York, but the first one to serve the settlement when it became Toronto in 1834), it is one of the earliest surviving examples in Canada of a building purpose-built as a post office; typical of small, early 19th-century public buildings, combining public offices and ...
Frederick and George Streets and Palace (Front) Street. Commemorated by Taylor's Wharf Lane York's 5th (Toronto's second) Custom House – 1 storey building 1835 Front Street, east of Yonge Elmsley Villa 1837 1875 Bay St at Grosvenor Freeland's Soap Factory c. 1837 1865 Yonge St at Front St, then on the harbour Home District Gaol
The Dixon Building (number 49) and Griffiths Building (number 47) are parts of a heritage building located on Front Street, Toronto, Ontario. The 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-storey building is an example of Second Empire architecture and was constructed in 1872-3 according to the designs of Walter Strickland. Detail of the roof window at 47 Front St.
The three railways now converged at the Toronto waterfront, a narrow strip of land south of Front Street. They were forced to share the limited real estate available. [2] As a consequence, the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) built the first union station in Toronto in 1858 at a location just west of the present Union Station train shed. [4]