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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.
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.
17 mar 2013 · In the 1850s, railway building connected Toronto to New York and Montreal, the upper lakes at Georgian Bay, and across western Upper Canada to Detroit and Chicago. Toronto was made capital of the new province of Ontario at Confederation in 1867, and by the 1870s it was becoming markedly industrialized. The city’s population grew by five times ...
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. Canola oil is now one of the most popular edible oils.
The large building on the southeast corner is the Chewett Building, designed by John Howard in 1833. When built, it was the community’s first office block and the largest single structure in town. It included offices, shops, residences, and the British Coffee House (a hotel).
23 wrz 2019 · How can we talk about the most famous buildings and structures in Toronto without mentioning the University of Toronto, especially its Convocation Hall! It was constructed by the architecture firm Pearson and Darling in 1907.
