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1882, St. Germain farm included an Old Orchard Grove

May 20th, 2023Gary Schlee0 Comments

Photo of the Alfred H. St. Germain house is courtesy of the Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. The 185-acre farm of former Toronto publisher Alfred St. Germain may have had a Yonge Street address, but…

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1873, Bedford Park Hotel – The neighbourhood named after a hotel

April 15th, 2023Gary Schlee0 Comments

Sketch of the Bedford Park Hotel is courtesy of the Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. Baldwin Collection. In 1873, Charles McBride built the most imposing commercial establishment yet seen in the neighbourhood: a substantial two-storey…

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1867, Confederation & Bedford Park

March 18th, 2023Gary Schlee0 Comments

Portrait of the Mechanic’s Institute, Church St. Photo is courtesy of the Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. Baldwin Collection. Families in the Bedford Park area grabbing a TTC family pass on Canada Day to head…

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1858, James Metcalfe: peacocks roamed his farm

February 18th, 2023Gary Schlee0 Comments

Portrait of James Metcalfe is courtesy from Library and Archives Canada The story goes that James Metcalfe, on returning to Toronto in 1858 from Australia, gave a large banquet to which he invited all the…

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1851, William McDougall, a true Father of Confederation

January 14th, 2023Gary Schlee0 Comments

Photo of William McDougall is from Archives Canada Standing sentinel behind the Locke library, a federal plaque pays tribute to the Honourable William McDougall, one of Canada’s most interesting Confederation characters. In the 1860s, McDougall’s…

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1850, A View of Yonge Street

May 15th, 2021Gary Schlee0 Comments

Yonge Street, looking south to Lawrence, circa late 1800’s. Photo courtesy Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. It’s a beautiful spring day in 1850, so what could be nicer than walk up Yonge Street, starting at…

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1840, Russell and the Atkinsons: Merchants for Over a Century

April 18th, 2021Gary Schlee0 Comments

The Atkinson family poses outside their store at the northwest corner of Yonge & Lawrence in 1894. Photo on loan to the Toronto Public Library from the Atkinson family. In the five years following 1846,…

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1840, The Durham Ox, the Neighbourhood’s First Real Hotel

March 20th, 2021Gary Schlee0 Comments

This view of the Durham Ox Hotel was sketched in the early 1900s (long after the disappearance of the building) by Bernard Gloster. Courtesy Toronto Public Library. Yonge Lawrence Village – the business improvement area…

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1837, Yonge Street, Never Popular as a Toll Road

February 13th, 2021Gary Schlee0 Comments

Hogg’s Hollow Toll Gate (by today’s Loblaws), looking south on Yonge. Sketch courtesy of Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. As angry farmers trudged out of Hogg’s Hollow on their way to Montgomery’s Tavern for the…

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1837, The Rebellion

January 24th, 2021Gary Schlee0 Comments

Sketch, circa 1921, by CW Jefferys, of the 1937 March of the Rebels upon Toronto. From the Government of Ontario Art Collection. In the first week of December 1837, community residents watched as a growing…

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