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This is the site of the homestead of Joseph and Sarah Sheard which they cleared from the forest, and where they raised their seven children. Joseph Sheard (1813-83) arrived in York (Toronto)...
This stone arch is from the former St. Andrew's United Church (built in 1923) on Bloor Street East at Park Road. The City of Toronto purchased the arch when the church was demolished in 1981....
1918 ANTI-GREEK RIOTS In August 1918, over 50,000 people participated in riots that injured hundreds and caused significant property damage. Many of the rioters were war veterans, already...
The Club Bluenote at Yonge and Walton now has a plaque, too. The little hole-in-the-wall where big bands used to play after hours. Toronto acts like the Five Rogues, Shawne and Jay Jackson,...
John Joseph Wright introduced electric lighting to Toronto and pioneered the development and use of Canada's first electric street railways. Mr. Wright went on to a distinguished career as...
On this site, 3 February 1887, the Ontario College of Pharmacy opened its first permanent building, which was also the first school of pharmacy erected in Canada, parts of which still stand....
Barbara Ann Scott became, in 1948, the first Canadian to win the Olympic Gold Medal and the World Figure Skating title. She was voted Canada's Outstanding Female Athlete on three...
Here, from 1881 to 1987, stood the home of Lucius O'Brien, one of our foremost painters and a leader in the development of Canada's artistic life. Born in Shanty Bay, Ontario, O'Brien practiced as...
Beatlemania wasn't quite dead, but it was clearly on the wane. In 1964, on the first North American tour, the Fab Four were greeted by 10,000 fans at the airport in Toronto, and were mobbed at...
Really, it couldn't have been better scripted - except for the ending. On May 29, 1993, the Toronto Maple Leafs were just one win away from a trip to the Stanley Cup finals, where they had...
Toronto was in love with a princess. On the day the heir to the British throne arrived in town, a deliriously happy crowd of half a million people lined the route from the airport to...
The Maple Leafs were in first place, the football season was in full swing, and the local sports calendar was mighty crowded. So forgive Toronto for treating a moment of history as a...
All was again right with the world.What had happened three nights earlier, when a team of National Hockey League all-stars lost to the best of the Soviet Union 7-3 at the Montreal Forum in the...
From the day it opened in the fall of 1931, Maple Leaf Gardens has been a social and cultural hub in the City of Toronto. Best known as a "cathedral of hockey", it also hosted political rallies,...
Two of the greatest and most flamboyant political careers in Canada's history reached watershed moments at Maple Leaf Gardens, one drawing to a humiliating close, the other seeming to gain...
On April 2, 1957, Elvis Presley came to Maple Leaf Gardens, and it's fair to say that Torontonians - at least the older generation - didn't know what hit them. The 22-year-old Presley was just a...
He told them the end was near.On October 2, 1955, at the midway point of his first Canadian crusade, the Reverend Billy Graham came to Maple Leaf Gardens, where he was welcomed by a crowd...
Wrestling was featured at Maple Leaf Gardens almost from the moment the building opened, and after hockey, the unique combination of athletic prowess and pantomime billed as "an exhibition...
From the earliest days of rock and roll, being booked to play Maple Leaf Gardens was a sure sign that you'd hit the big time. Going all the way back to 1956, when Bill Haley and the...