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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 ...
Old Toronto 18 67 Front Street East 1877 67 Front Street East St. Lawrence: Old Toronto [40] 65 Hazelton Avenue 1877 65 Hazelton Avenue Yorkville: Old Toronto 18 29–31 Howard Street 1877 29–31 Howard Street St. James Town: Old Toronto 18 33–35 Howard Street 1877 33–35 Howard Street St. James Town: Old Toronto 18 86–90 Lewis Street 1877
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.
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]
The History of the Battle of Toronto by William Lyon MacKenzie, 1839 from the Ontario Time Machine; Historicist articles on Toronto History by Torontoist.ca; Toronto Boom Town, a 1951 National Film Board of Canada documentary covering the first half of the 20th century; Toronto Past, a blog devoted to links to Toronto history stories and resources
The Gooderham Building, also known as the Flatiron Building, is an historic office building at 49 Wellington Street East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is located on the eastern edge of the city's Financial District (east of Yonge Street) in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood, wedged between Front Street and Wellington Street in Downtown Toronto, where they join up to form a triangular intersection.
This timeline of the history of Toronto documents all events that occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including historical events in the former cities of East York, Etobicoke, North York, Toronto, Scarborough, and York. Events date back to the early-17th century and continue until the present in chronological order.
The first Union Station in Toronto was built by the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) in 1858 at a location just west of the present Union Station train shed. [1] The station consisted of three wooden structures and was initially shared between the Grand Trunk, the Northern Railway of Canada and the Great Western Railway, although the railways also built their own stations along the Toronto waterfront.