Toronto's Historical Plaques

Learn a little of Toronto's history as told through its plaques.

Site updated June 28, 2009.

Here's a clickable photo of one of the 608 historical plaques on this site.

Here are the 8 latest plaques to be posted on this site.

Click on any of them to go to their webpage.

Welcome. I'm Alan L Brown. I've lived, since 1968, in Toronto. I'm a 63 year old retired school librarian who left the profession in June, 2002. What I am trying to do with this site is catalogue all the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaques, all the Ontario Provincial Plaques, all the City of Toronto plaques, all the plaques from the various Historical Societies and all other public plaques located in the city of Toronto. Each plaque is an interesting bit of Toronto's history which, together, begin to tell the story of our city.

Through email, I was able to obtain from the Federal government a list of all the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaques in Toronto along with their location. As well the Ontario government and the City of Toronto government supplied me with similar lists of their plaques.

There are five ways to see the plaque pages, all accessible from the menu at the top of the page. 'Index' gets you an alphabetical list of all the pages. 'Subjects' will show you a list of all the pages sorted by subject. 'Locations' lists all the pages sorted by the former municipalities before amalgamation. 'Search' will allow you to find all the pages that match any word or words and finally, you can click the last link in the menu on each page to travel through all the pages alphabetically.

Each plaque page presents a photo of the subject of the plaque or a photo of the plaque site, an opening commentary by me, the text of the plaque including links to more information, a map of the plaque's location including latitude and longitude co-ordinates, a photo of the plaque and then a section for comments.

Since 1997 I've also been running a website just for kids from 8 to 14 called Just For Kids Who Love Books and since the spring of 2004, a website called Ontario's Historical Plaques.

If you wish to link to this site, feel free to do so.
Please use this URL: http://www.torontohistory.org

All photographs on this site were taken by me unless otherwise noted. My photos are freely available to whomever wishes to download them. Please contact me first.

Using the Email link in the menu, you can send me any corrections, your comments, questions, suggestions or opinions. I try to reply within 24 hours.

Privacy Policy: If you send me an email, I use your email address only to reply to you. It is not used for any other purpose.

Contributions are welcome.
You will receive credit for any photo or text posted.
You can email me from the link in the menu.