Mike Boon and I had a fun chat about this and other popular Toronto filming locations in the 1541st episode of the Toronto Mike'd podcast. ~ @torontomike.bsky.socialwww.torontomike.com/2024/08/10-t...
In this 1541st episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike is joined by Toronto historian Jeremy Hopkin to discuss 10 things filmed in Toronto, from films to television series to music videos. This episode is exa...
I remember for many years that The Grange was a museum depicting life in the 1830s. Delicious bread was baked there for visitors to sample. I miss that. Today it functions as a part of the Art Gallery of Ontario and its programming. It houses the Norma Ridley Members’ Lounge and exhibition spaces.
The Grange was built in 1817 as the home of D’Arcy Boulton Jr., his wife, Sarah Anne, and their eight children. The same year the 1913 photos were snapped, The Grange became The Art Museum of Toronto. By 1966, the museum was renamed Art Gallery of Ontario.
Remarkably, one of these streetcar shelters from 1922 has survived and is now preserved in the Haileybury Heritage Museum.
Though not originally designed as housing, the streetcars were equipped with stoves for heating - thankfully they arrived just as the colder weather set in. Many residents who received these makeshift homes customized them to further endure the harsh winter conditions.
Toronto's Canadian Pacific building remains standing today, still offering office space for rent. Recently, H&R has proposed plans to convert and expand the building into a condominium, seen in concept form here.
This 15-storey "skyscraper" headquarters of the Canadian Pacific Railway was the tallest building in the British Empire from 1913 to 1915. In 1988, H&R Real Estate Investment purchased the building from Canadian Pacific.
