The Earth scientist J. Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993), a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics, was director general of the Ontario Science Centre from 1974 to 1985. Le spécialiste des...
In 1831, on this site at the Forks of the Don, then known as the Boatbildery, Capt. Philippe De Grassi, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, drew a grant of 80 ha on which he settled with his family....
At 10:12 a.m. on June 24, 1918, Captain Brian Peck of the Royal Air Force and mechanic Corporal C.W. Mathers took off from the Bois Franc Polo Grounds in Montreal in a JN-4 Curtiss two-seater...
The development of the Town of Leaside, named for 19th-century farmer and settler William Lea, is historically linked to the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways. By 1894, a...
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Don Mills was planned as a model town that would humanize urban life in an age of industry and the automobile. Initiated and financed by businessman E.P. Taylor and designed by Macklin Hancock,...
On this site stood "Leaside", an octagonal brick farmhouse built in 1851-54 by William Lea (1814-93), a York County councillor and magistrate, amateur poet and nature lover. In 1873, it housed the...
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European settlement began in this area shortly after the War of 1812. Alexander Milne, a Scottish weaver, arrived here with his family in 1817. Milne's farm and mill operation prospered for over a...
This Precambrian erratic was slowly transported to the Leaside area by a glacier more than 10,000 years ago. It was uncovered about one block north of the library when new gas lines were...
Fred Topham was an early resident of East York, now part of the City of Toronto. On March 24, 1945, while serving as a medical orderly with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, he defied...
On August 19, 1942, six thousand allied troops embarked on 250 vessels from southern England on a daylight raid on the German occupied French resort town of Dieppe. Almost 5000 of these soldiers...
Jean Gertrude Davidson, known throughout her life as True, moved to East York in 1947, where she became actively involved in her new community. Her energetic and enthusiastic support for...
Born in York Township, Billy McKay, a local farmer of Irish descent, donated 4.7 ha of land in the vicinity of Coxwell Avenue and Mortimer Avenue, towards three significant East York...
Agnes Macphail purchased this property in 1948.She was the first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons in 1921 and won five successive election victories.Agnes Macphail fought for...
Early on June 11, 1906, volunteers from St. Barnabas Church (Chester), led by the Rev. Frank Vipond, began construction here of a wooden church. That evening, a service was held in the new...
These beautiful grounds, donated to the City of Toronto as a memorial park in honour of the late Joseph Kilgour, were, with the gracious consent and approval of the heirs to the Kilgour...
Born in London, England, William Devenish came to Canada in 1794, married Jane Webster at Niagara in 1800, and settled here on an 80 hectare farm lot in the forest in 1803. A carpenter, he built...
The Earl Kitchener Public School was originally located on this site. Opened in September of 1915 by the Toronto Board of Education, this school was jointly used by students from the City of...