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Ossington Ave at Dundas St West in 2022 Old house at Ossington Avenue. Ossington Avenue is a main or arterial street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, west of downtown.While the northern 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) of Ossington Avenue is residential, its southern terminus is popularly known as the Ossington Strip, an area popular for its dining, nightlife and shopping establishments.
The homes are named for Richard West (born 1834), who immigrated to North America from County Fermanagh, on the island of Ireland, in 1855. [4] West spent time in New York City, Jersey City, and Long Island, before moving to Toronto around 1856. [4] A contractor, West ultimately acquired significant property holdings in Toronto. By the 1890s ...
On June 20, 1973, Toronto City Council added the Palmerston Gates and Lights to the City's Heritage Properties Inventory. Nevertheless, in November 2003, city officials proposed replacing the original lamps with aluminum replicas. Residents of the area opposed the move and in January 2004 City Council voted to keeping the original lights. [1]
Old Town is a neighbourhood and retail district in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It was the first of Toronto's named neighbourhoods, having acquired the moniker no later than 1815, at which time the original town of York was expanding.
A 2013 study by Walk Score ranked Toronto the 2nd most walkable city in Canada. [3] In addition to surface-level paths and sidewalks, a network of underground pedestrian tunnels are used to connect the various buildings in Downtown Toronto.
The name of the street is derived from Kingston, Ontario as the road was the primary route used to travel from Toronto to the settlements east of it situated along the shores of Lake Ontario; in the west end of Kingston, the road was referred to as the York Road (referring to Toronto) until at least 1908, and is today named Princess Street.
Bay Street is a major thoroughfare in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the centre of Toronto's Financial District and is often used by metonymy to refer to Canada's financial services industry since succeeding Montreal's St. James Street in that role in the 1970s. Bay Street begins at Queens Quay (Toronto Harbour) in the south and ends ...
One Bloor, previously One Bloor East and Number One Bloor, is a mixed-use skyscraper at the intersection of Bloor Street and Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The project was initially launched by developer Bazis International Inc. in 2007, before being cancelled and re-developed by Great Gulf.