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Newtonbrook School Section No. 5

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    Newtonbrook

    Centred at Yonge Street and Drewry Avenue, Newtonbrook forms North York's most northern Yonge Street community. By 1870 Newtonbrook was considered a thriving village with more than 200 settlers...

    Centred at Yonge Street and Drewry Avenue, Newtonbrook forms North York's most northern Yonge Street community. By 1870 Newtonbrook was considered a thriving village with more than 200 settlers...

    • toronto
    • ontario
    • alan brown

    The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson, 1897-1972

    Born in the Newtonbrook Methodist parsonage which stood nearby, Pearson was educated at Toronto and Oxford Universities. He served overseas from 1915 to 1918 and, in 1928, joined the Department of...

    Born in the Newtonbrook Methodist parsonage which stood nearby, Pearson was educated at Toronto and Oxford Universities. He served overseas from 1915 to 1918 and, in 1928, joined the Department...

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    • ontario
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    Birthplace of Lester Pearson

    Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, scholar, diplomat and statesman, was born in his parent's home, the Wesleyan Methodist Church manse, which stood on this site in the then village of Newtonbrook, on...

    Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, scholar, diplomat and statesman, was born in his parent's home, the Wesleyan Methodist Church manse, which stood on this site in the then village of Newtonbrook,...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    Finch Station Payphone

    FINCH STATION PAYPHONE This booth contains a coin-operated telephone established on March 29, 1974. Hundreds of Torontonians have used this "payphone" to communicate with other telephones. To...

    FINCH STATION PAYPHONE This booth contains a coin- operated telephone established on March 29, 1974. Hundreds of Torontonians have used this "payphone" to communicate with other telephones. To...

    • coin-operated
    • telephone
    • change rooms
    • time machines
    • 1874

    Finch

    In 1830 John Finch leased the inn "The Bird in the Hand", on the west side of what is now Yonge Street just north of Finch Avenue, from John Montgomery. Later he purchased a lot on the northeast...

    In 1830 John Finch leased the inn "The Bird in the Hand", on the west side of what is now Yonge Street just north of Finch Avenue, from John Montgomery. Later he purchased a lot on the northeast...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    York Cottage

    York Cottage was originally constructed circa 1850 as a one-and-a-half storey brick structure in the Ontario Cottage style. It replaced an earlier log cabin on this site. The Johnson family...

    York Cottage was originally constructed circa 1850 as a one-and-a-half storey brick structure in the Ontario Cottage style. It replaced an earlier log cabin on this site. The Johnson family...

    • toronto
    • ontario
    • alan brown

    Willowdale

    This graveyard is a rare remnant of the time when Willowdale was a small agricultural community centred around this stretch of Yonge Street. Aboriginal peoples hunted, fished, and camped on this...

    This graveyard is a rare remnant of the time when Willowdale was a small agricultural community centred around this stretch of Yonge Street. Aboriginal peoples hunted, fished, and camped on this...

    • toronto
    • ontario
    • alan brown

    Church Avenue

    Here, on land granted to Jacob Cummer, an early settler who came with his family from Pennsylvania in 1797, stood "Cummer's Chapel". In 1816 a Sunday school was established in his log house and...

    Here, on land granted to Jacob Cummer, an early settler who came with his family from Pennsylvania in 1797, stood "Cummer's Chapel". In 1816 a Sunday school was established in his log house and...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    The Cummer Family

    The family of Elizabeth (née Fisher) and Jacob Cummer (Kummer) was important to the founding of Willowdale (North York). Among the area's early settlers of German descent, they arrived from...

    The family of Elizabeth (née Fisher) and Jacob Cummer (Kummer) was important to the founding of Willowdale (North York). Among the area's early settlers of German descent, they arrived...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    Jacob Cummer 1797-1841

    Jacob Cummer (Kummer) and his wife Elizabeth, emigrants from Pennsylvania and among the earliest settlers in Willowdale, established themselves on this site along Yonge Street in 1797. A farmer,...

    Jacob Cummer (Kummer) and his wife Elizabeth, emigrants from Pennsylvania and among the earliest settlers in Willowdale, established themselves on this site along Yonge Street in 1797. A...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    The Ontario Historical Society

    The foremost historical organization in the province, the Ontario Historical Society, originally called the Pioneer Association of Ontario, was established on September 4, 1888 largely through the...

    The foremost historical organization in the province, the Ontario Historical Society, originally called the Pioneer Association of Ontario, was established on September 4, 1888 largely through the...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    David Gibson 1804-1864

    This building, a good example of an early Victorian farm-house was completed in 1851 by David Gibson. Born in Glamis Parish, Forfarshire, Scotland, Gibson emigrated to Upper Canada where, in 1825,...

    This building, a good example of an early Victorian farm-house was completed in 1851 by David Gibson. Born in Glamis Parish, Forfarshire, Scotland, Gibson emigrated to Upper Canada where, in 1825,...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    First Municipal Building

    This elegant frontspiece once served as the front entrance to North York's first municipal hall which officially opened on December 19, 1923 at the southeast corner of Yonge Street and Empress...

    This elegant frontspiece once served as the front entrance to North York's first municipal hall which officially opened on December 19, 1923 at the southeast corner of Yonge Street and...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    Top of the North Hill - 1850's

    This rural view looks up Yonge Street, which climbed the North Hill out of Hogg's Hollow and went across gently sloping farmland toward the little town of Lansing in the distance. Saw mills were...

    This rural view looks up Yonge Street, which climbed the North Hill out of Hogg's Hollow and went across gently sloping farmland toward the little town of Lansing in the distance. Saw mills were...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    Traffic at Yonge and Sheppard - 1860's

    This 'urban' view looks West along Sheppard Avenue. The Dempsey Store, originally built by Joseph Shepard Jr. was the largest building in the area and still stands today. To the right waits a...

    This 'urban' view looks West along Sheppard Avenue. The Dempsey Store, originally built by Joseph Shepard Jr. was the largest building in the area and still stands today. To the right waits...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    First Fire Hall

    This brick fire hose tower represents a partial reconstruction of North York's first fire hall, which once stood proudly on the east side of Yonge Street near Empress Avenue. It was named in...

    This brick fire hose tower represents a partial reconstruction of North York's first fire hall, which once stood proudly on the east side of Yonge Street near Empress Avenue. It was named in...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    Gladys Allison 1901-1979

    This plaque honours the achievements of Gladys Allison who was the major force in establishing North York's first municipally sponsored library service. Gladys Allison served on the North York...

    This plaque honours the achievements of Gladys Allison who was the major force in establishing North York's first municipally sponsored library service. Gladys Allison served on the North...

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    • ontario
    • alan brown

    Dolostone

    This block of dolostone, a magnesium-rich variety of limestone, was found buried in boulder-studded clay about 10 metres below the surface during the excavation of the Yonge Street subway in...

    This block of dolostone, a magnesium-rich variety of limestone, was found buried in boulder-studded clay about 10 metres below the surface during the excavation of the Yonge Street subway in...

    • toronto
    • ontario
    • alan brown