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Dempsey Store was a hardware store built in 1860 at the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The historic store was moved and restored as a historic site further north at 250 Beecroft Road in 1996. [ 1 ]
372 Yonge Street Downtown Yonge: Old Toronto 18 Joshua J. Williams Stores 1864 328–330 Queen Street West Grange Park: Old Toronto 18 John McBean Building 1864 376 Yonge Street Downtown Yonge: Old Toronto 18 Bolton Shop 1865 1000 Murray Ross Parkway (The Village at Black Creek) York University Heights: North York [10] Davis House 1865 66 ...
The Green Bush Inn at Yonge and Steeles. There have been several enterprises in the Toronto region called the Green Bush Inn. The first Green Bush Inn was a two-story clapboard structure built around 1830 on the northeast corner of Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue. [1] [2] [3] The Inn was a meeting place for those planning the Upper Canada ...
Yonge Street was formerly a part of Highway 11, which led to claims that Yonge Street was the longest street in the world. [33] Running (mostly) concurrent with Yonge as far north as Barrie, then continuing beyond through central and northern Ontario to the Ontario– Minnesota border at Rainy River , the highway was over 1,896 kilometres ...
774 Yonge Street (facade to be incorporated into condo project) Yonge St Arcade: 1884 1954 137 Yonge St / 74 Victoria St The Beatty Building E. J. Lennox 1886 3 King St W John Burns Carriage Manufacturers 1886 1996 126 John Street, Entertainment District (facade retained as part of Theatre complex, now fronts the Marshalls store) Robert Lauder ...
The first motion picture in Toronto is screened at Robinson's Musee at 81 Yonge Street. December 31: All toll gates are abolished in York County. 1897: September 26: Temple Building opens at Bay Street and Richmond Street as the tallest office building in Canada at the time. 1899: September 18: The Old City Hall opens.
Gibson established an apple orchard on the property in 1832, of which one tree remains at the corner of Yonge Street and Park Home Ave. The orchard (and the remaining tree) produce Tolman Sweet apples. [1] [2] In 2016, the tree was selected as a winner in a local survey of Toronto trees as a "Survivor". Grafts from it have been used to ...
During Simcoe's time in Toronto, two main roads were laid out in the city: Dundas Street, named after Henry Dundas and Yonge Street, named after Sir George Yonge, the British Secretary of State for War. The Queen's Rangers and conscripted German settlers hacked out the wagon path of Yonge Street as far north as the Holland River.