Posted in Toronto History, tagged Bathurst and Davenport, Bathurst Street Hill, Bathurst Street Toronto history, buckwheat coal, coal in toronto, evolution of Great Lakes, ice age Ontario, kendle coal, Lake Iroquois on December 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s hard to imagine downtown Toronto, the centre of a big city, when it was still countryside where people cut grass with a curved knife. Does this look like a city of three million people, the most multicultural city in the world, as it is now?
Even harder to imagine is Toronto under water. About 13,000 [...]
Posted in Toronto History, tagged Black history in Canada, Seaton Village, toronto history on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Around 1850 Mammy Brown escaped slavery in the U.S. and settled in Seaton Village at 691 Markham St. It was the oldest house in Seaton Village (the area between Bathurst Street and Christie, Bloor to Dupont, in the Annex in Toronto). She lived in this house until she was 111 years old and her daughter, [...]
Posted in First Nations, Toronto History, tagged anishnaabe, First Nations, ontario history, Simcoe, toronto history, toronto purchase, Yonge Street on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I never learned this in school. There is a fascinating history of Toronto & Southern Ontario that predates Simcoe cruising Lake Ontario, looking for a good site for a settlement that wasn’t too vulnerable to American attack. Before he ever ordered his soldiers to cut down a swath of forest to build Yonge Street all [...]
