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Mackenzie House is one of ten historic museums owned and operated by the City of Toronto. It focuses on the life and times of the Mackenzie family and Mackenzie's role as a newspaper editor and politician. The museum also depicts life in Toronto of the 1860s to the 1890s, including programs focused on Black Canadians and Mary Ann Shadd.
The Centreville Amusement Park is a children's amusement park located on Middle Island, part of the Toronto Islands, offshore of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The park has been operated by the Beasley family since 1967, currently through Etobicoke-based William Beasley Enterprises Limited, on land leased from the City of Toronto government and is open daily during the summer.
Eckardt closed the park in 1906, the same year that nearby Munro Park closed. The traditions of both continued at Scarboro Beach Amusement Park which opened in 1907 and operated until 1925. [5] Victoria Park Avenue is named after the amusement park. [7] From 1912 to 1932 part of the property was used for Victoria Park Forest School during the ...
The Textile Museum of Canada was founded as the Canadian Museum of Carpets and Textiles in 1975 by Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers. Located above an ice cream shop in Mirvish Village the museum's collection was initially based on textiles collected during business trips. The museum relocated to its current location as in 1989.
The park has a number of canoe routes, backcountry camping and trails. The park is the second largest in southern Ontario. The park has limited facilities, including limited parking. [22] John Earle Chase Memorial Park is a 160-hectare (400-acre) park located in the vicinity of Gannons Narrows on the shore of Pigeon Lake and offers day use only ...
The Golden Mile is a commercial district in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Situated along Eglinton Avenue East, east of Victoria Park Avenue, it was one of Canada's first model industrial parks. The original Golden Mile of Industry ran along Eglinton from Pharmacy Avenue east to Birchmount Road.
The area was called Fisherman's Island and included a commercial fishery and church. People would travel to and from the mainland of Toronto by boat or across a breakwater that was built in 1882. [3] The beach park was originally named Clarke Beach Park after Harry Clarke, an alderman who was responsible for creating the park in the early 1930s ...
Upon his arrival in Upper Canada in 1792, he used one of the buildings at Navy Hall in Niagara-on-the-Lake as a residence, [2] sharing the space with Upper Canada’s legislature. [3] When Simcoe moved the colonial capital to York (present-day Toronto) in 1793, he built a summer residence, Castle Frank, north of the settlement in 1794. [4]