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The Southwold Earthworks is located in the township. It is an example of a pre-contact site associated with the indigenous Neutral people. The period of Neutral occupation is dated to approximately 1450–1550. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1923. [2] Southwold was named in 1792 after Southwold in Suffolk, England. The ...
The intersection at McCowan Road and McNicoll Avenue within Toronto. McCowan Road is a major north-south thoroughfare in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. It runs through the city of Toronto and into the Regional Municipality of York where it ends at the Town of Georgina.
Bay Street, formerly known as Bear Street, is supposedly a reference to a "noted chase given to a bear" by settlers in that area. [5] It is the centre of Toronto's Financial District and is often used as a metonym to refer to Canada's financial industry, similar to New York City's Wall Street in the United States.
Lawrence Market, founded in 1803, was the first, St. Patrick's Market at 238 Queen Street West was the second, created in 1836, and still exists in the form of an organic food court within its current building, constructed in 1912, [7] and St. Andrew's Market on the block between Richmond, Adelaide, Brant and Maud streets was built in 1850 and ...
Centerpoint Mall was known as Towne and Countrye Square at its grand opening in the 1960s as an enclosed mall, until the name change to its present name in 1990. [3] In 1966, the mall began operation with anchors Sayvette and Super City Discount Foods, later adding the Miracle Mart department store.
Interior of the mall in 2023 Food court skylight. Fairview Mall opened in 1970 with The Bay and Simpsons as its department store anchors. At the time, it was the fourth fully enclosed, as well as the first multi-level, shopping centre in Metropolitan Toronto. [5] It consisted of 100 stores spread on two levels built at the cost CA$20 million. [6]
The Toronto Entertainment District is an area in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is concentrated around King Street West between University Avenue and Spadina Avenue . It is home to theatres and performing arts centres, the Toronto Blue Jays , and an array of cultural and family attractions.
The Esplanade is an east-west street along the central waterfront of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This neighbourhood consists of generally low-rise and mid-rise housing - condominiums, public housing, cooperatives and some town homes between Jarvis and Parliament Streets south of Front Street. The stretch between Scott Street and Market Street is ...