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In 1869, the survivors of the early occupants of York, Upper Canada, formed themselves into a Society entitled The Pioneers, for the joint purpose of mutual conference, and of gathering together and preserving whatever memorials of the local Past ...
From Berkeley Street To The Bridge And Across It
We now propose to pass rapidly down "the road to Quebec" as far as the Bridge. First we cross, in the hollow, Goodwin's creek, the stream which enters the Bay by the cut-stone Jail. Lieutenant Givins (afterwards Colonel Givins), on the occasion of...
From Brock Street To The Old French Fort
Returning again to the front. The portion of the Common that lies immediately west of the foot of Brock Street was enclosed for the first time and ornamentally planted by Mr. Jameson. Before his removal to Canada, Mr. Jameson had filled a judicial...
From The Garrison Back To The Place Of Beginning
We now enter again the modern Fort; passing back through the western gate. On our right we have the site of the magazine which so fatally exploded in 1813; we learn from Gen. Sheaffe's despatch to Sir George Prevost, that it was "in the western ba...
Front Street From The Market Place To Brock Street
The corner we approach after passing the Market Square, was occupied by an inn with a sign-board sustained on a high post inserted at the outer edge of the foot-path, in country roadside fashion. This was Hamilton's, or the White Swan. It was here...
Introductory
In French colonial documents of a very respectable antiquity, we meet with the name Toronto again and again. It is given as an appellation that is well-known, and its form in the greater number of instances is exactly that which it has now permane...
King Street Digression Into Duke Street
On passing George Street, as we intimated a moment ago, we enter the parallelogram which constituted the original town-plot. Its boundaries were George Street, Duchess Street, Ontario Street (with the lane south of it), and Palace Street. From thi...
King Street From Caroline Street To Berkeley Street
Returning again to King Street: At the corner of Caroline Street, diagonally across from the Cawthra homestead, was the abode, when ashore, of Captain Oates, commander of the Duke of Richmond sloop, the fashionable packet plying between Niagara an...
King Street From Church Street To George Street
We were arrested in our progress on King Street by St. James' Church. Its associations, and those of the District Grammar School and its play-ground to the north, have detained us long. We now return to the point reached when our recollections com...
King Street From George Street To Caroline Street
We now retrace our steps to King Street, at its intersection with George Street; and here our eye immediately lights on an object connected with the early history of Education in York. Attached to the east side of the house at the south-east ang...
King Street From John Street To Yonge Street
After our long stroll westward, we had purposed returning to the place of beginning by the route which constitutes the principal thoroughfare of the modern Toronto; but the associations connected with the primitive pathway on the cliff overlooking...
King Street From Yonge Street To Church Street
Where Yonge Street crosses King Street, forming at the present day an unusually noble carrefour, as the French would say, or rectangular intersection of thoroughfares as we are obliged to word it, there was, for a considerable time, but one solita...
King Street: Digression Northward At Church Street: The Old District Grammar School
Immediately north of the church plot, and separated from it by an allowance for a street, was a large field, almost square, containing six acres. In a plan of the date 1819, and signed "T. Ridout, Surveyor-General," this piece of ground is entitle...
King Street: Digression Southwards At Church Street: Market Lane
Across Church Street from Clinkunbroomer's were the wooden buildings already referred to, as having remained long in a partially finished state, being the result of a premature speculation. From this point we are induced to turn aside from our dir...
King Street: St James' Church
The first Church of St. James, at York, was a plain structure of wood, placed some yards back from the road. Its gables faced east and west, and its solitary door was at its western end, and was approached from Church Street. Its dimensions were 5...
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Yonge Street From Yorkville To Hogg's Hollow
Yonge Street: From Bond's Lake To The Holland Landing With Digressions To Newmarket And Sharon
King Street: Digression Southwards At Church Street: Market Lane
The Valley Of The Don
Yonge Street From Hogg's Hollow To Bond's Lake
King Street From George Street To Caroline Street
Queen Street From The College Avenue To Brock Street And Spadina Avenue
Least Viewed
Queen Street From The Don Bridge To Caroline Street
From Brock Street To The Old French Fort
King Street: St James' Church
King Street Digression Into Duke Street
King Street From Caroline Street To Berkeley Street
King Street From Yonge Street To Church Street
King Street From John Street To Yonge Street
The Harbour: Its Marine 1828-1863