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16 maj 2016 · Nineteenth-century industrialists set up shop in all corners of what is now Toronto. Their workers churned out all sorts of items, from beer and bricks to bikes.
Discover the fascinating history of New Toronto (Islington & Lakeshore Blvd W), an iconic neighbourhood born from the industrial era, where factories created thriving communities for their workers.
The former Toronto Stock Exchange building incorporated into the Toronto-Dominion Centre. The city began to designate heritage buildings in the 1970s, forcing some developers to incorporate them in their designs.
21 cze 2021 · 1971: IMAX is invented, created by five experimental filmmakers in Toronto, allowing for bigger, wider and clearer movies than ever before. 1974: Created from cross-breeding rapeseed plants, canola is created by Baldur Stefansson and Keith Downey at the University of Manitoba.
17 mar 2013 · While the building systems have mostly been imported, Toronto designers have made their marks on them. The lines of high-peaked Victorian brick homes in the older city, for example, have a distinctly Toronto character.
Tower construction begins, 1973. The CN tower story. The 1960s ushered in an unprecedented construction boom in Toronto, a city quickly growing up from a regional hub to a thriving, cosmopolitan destination.
Toronto in 1860, a few years after the first railways had been built. Built-up areas are black, everything else was farms. The rail lines can be seen cutting diagonally across the grid and, in the city, along the lakeshore where Union Station was located.
