Learn a little of Toronto's history as told through its plaques
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Alexander Muir 1830-1906 (C)
The Beatrice Lillie Building
Bernard Keble Sandwell (1876-1954)
Bruce Mackey / Degrassi Street (C)
C.W. Jefferys 1869-1951
The Canoe & Calipers
Charles William Jefferys 1869-1951
Deeds Speak Sculptural Reliefs (C)
Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe 1766-1850
Ernest Hemingway (C)
Eulogy to Beauty
Fool's Paradise
Frances Loring and Florence Wyle (C)
George Faludy 1910-2006 (C)
Glenn Gould
Goldwin Smith 1823-1910
Harold Town (C)
History As Theatre: 200 Toronto Years
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887) (C)
J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932)
James Mavor Moore CC D.Litt LL.D FRSC 1919-2006
John Wilson Bengough 1851-1923
Lawren Harris 1885-1970 (C)
Loring-Wyle Studio (C)
Lucius O'Brien (1832-1899)
Lucy Maud Montgomery (C)
Mary Pickford (C)
Morley Callaghan (C)
Owen Staples House and Studio 1904 (C)
Robert Gourlay 1778-1863 (C)
Robertson Davies-1913-1995
Sir Byron Edmund Walker (1848-1924)
Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973)
St. George's Hall
Sunrise Park
Vincent Massey 1887-1967
Walter Huston (C)
Walter Seymour Allward, R.C.A., 1876-1955 (C)
Wychwood Park (C)
York Wilson (C)
The Albany Club of Toronto
Archives of Ontario (C)
The Association of Ontario Land Surveyors
The Athenaeum Club 1891
Bloor West Village BIA
The Canada First Movement (C)
The Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto
Heliconian Hall
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)
The National Club
National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC)
The National Yacht Club
The Ontario Historical Society
Primrose Club
Primrose Club Building (Faculty Club) 1920
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club
The St. George's Society of Toronto
Sexual Diversity Activism at the University of Toronto
Toronto Heliconian Club
Toronto Horticultural Society (C)
Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club
University Club of Toronto Building 1929
Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
James Gilbert Gove 1884-1974
Edgar John Jarvis 1835-1907
Robert McCausland Limited (C)
Wallace C. Swanek
Nathan A. (Nat) Taylor (1906-2004)
William Thomas 1799-1860
Christie's Methodist Cemetery (C)
Military Burial Ground
Mount Hope Cemetery 1898 (C)
Mount Pleasant Cemetery (C)
The Old Garrison Burying Ground 1794-1863 (C)
Pape Avenue Cemetery
Potter's Field of Muddy York
Prospect Cemetery (C)
The Resting Place of Pioneers
Richview Cemetery (C)
Saint Michael's Cemetery, 1855
The Taylor Cemetery (C)
The Toronto Necropolis (C)
The Toronto Necropolis Chapel (C)
Victoria Memorial Square
Washington Methodist Church Cemetery
Wesleyan Cemetery
Wexford Cemetery
Willow Grove Burying Ground
139-145 Front Street East (C)
11 St. Joseph Street (C)
Art Deco Bronze Doors
Balfour Building 1930
The Bay Queen Street Store (C)
Bell Telephone Company Building 1926
CN Tower 25 Years 1976-2001
The Colonnade (C)
Consumers' Gas Building
Crosse & Blackwell Building
The Daniel Brooke Building
Dominion Coal and Wood
Ideal Bread Company Factory 1919 (C)
Michie & Company
Michie's Grocers (C)
Poulton Block 1885
Riverboat Coffee House (C)
The Robert Simpson Company (C)
Robert Simpson Co. Mail-order Building and Additions 1916-1939 (C)
Robert Simpson Co. Warehouse 1910 (C)
The Savarin Tavern
Silver Rail Tavern (C)
Simpsons Mail-order Warehouse Dalhousie Street Extension 1949 (C)
Toronto-Dominion Centre (C)
Wesley Building
Canada's First Air Mail (C)
Canada's First Electric Telegraph
Francis Collins
John Ross Robertson 1841-1918
Johnny Lombardi 1915-2002 (C)
Joseph E. Atkinson (1865-1948) (C)
Lord Thomson of Fleet 1894-1976 (C)
The Battle of York 1813 (C)
Canada's First Victoria Cross (C)
Canadian Military Institute Building 1908 (C)
The Colborne Street Theatre (C)
Colonel James Givins (C)
Corporal Frederick George Topham, V.C. 1917-1974
David Gibson 1804-1864 (C)
The Defence of York
Dieppe Park
Flight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell, V.C., 1910-1944 (C)
Fort Rouillé (C)
Fort York
Gibraltar Point
Little Norway (C)
The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion (1937-1938) (C)
Major-General The Honourable Aeneas Shaw (C)
Montgomery's Tavern (C)
Patriots of 1837
The Printers' Strike of 1872
The Queen's Rangers
Rebellion_of_1837
Riot at Christie Pits (C)
The Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
The Royal Norwegian Airforce 1940-1945
Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews (C)
Scarborough Rifle Company Marching to the Niagara Frontier
The Second Invasion of York 1813
Sir Gordon Drummond 1771-1854 (C)
Stanley Barracks (C)
The Types Riot (C)
University Avenue Armouries
The War of 1812 & the Siege of York
The Warriors' Day Parade (C)
William George Barker VC 1894-1930
William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 (C)
Allen's Danforth Theatre 1919
The Arena Gardens (C)
Cinemas of St. Clair West
Coliseum Complex, Exhibition Place
Keating's Coffee House
Loew's Yonge Street and Winter Garden Theatres (C)
Massey Hall (C)
On This Spot
Royal Alexandra Theatre (C)
St. George's Hall
St. George's Hall (Arts and Letters Club)
The Studio Building (C)
West Market Street
Wychwood Barns
Bailey Bridge Construction 2nd Field Engineer Regiment (C)
The Great Fire of 1849
The Great Toronto Fire
The Hoggs Hollow Tragedy (C)
Hurricane Hazel (C)
Irish Immigrants and the Fever Sheds 1847 (C)
The Noronic Disaster (C)
Raymore Bridge (C)
Rupert Hotel Fire (C)
Toronto Irish Famine Memorial (C)
Edith Kathleen Russell 1886-1964
Harold Adams Innis 1894-1952
Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Marshall McLuhan 1911-1980
The Reverend Henry Scadding 1813-1901 (C)
Sir Daniel Wilson 1816-1892
William Arthur Parks 1868-1936
Women at the University of Toronto
Agincourt School
Annesley Hall Victoria University
Burwash Hall Victoria University
De La Salle Institute Building 1871
Earl Kitchener Public School
Enoch Turner Schoolhouse
Frontier College
Highland Creek School
Hillside Public School S.S. No. 4.
Home District School (C)
Humberside Collegiate (C)
Jarvis Collegiate Institute (C)
Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute
Jesse Ketchum School (C)
King's College
Knox College (C)
Loretto Abbey, Toronto, 1928
McMaster Hall (C)
Moulton College (C)
Oakridge Public School (C)
Oakwood Collegiate Institute
Ontario College of Pharmacy
The Ontario Medical College for Women
The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Regal Road Public School 1914 (C)
Riverdale Collegiate Institute
Roden Public School Junior (C)
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (C)
Sackville Street Public School (C)
Scarborough High School
Sir Adam Beck School and the Summer of '36
St. Hilda's College (C)
St. Joseph's College School
St. Michael's College
Sunnylea School
The Toronto Normal School (C)
The Toronto Normal and Model School 1851-1962 (C)
Trinity College
University College
Upper Canada College
Upper Canada Veterinary School
Winchester Street School (C)
Withrow Avenue Public School Junior
Wycliffe College
York Mills Public School 50th Anniversary Park
Ed and Anne Mirvish Parkette
Edward S. Rogers, Sr. 1900-1939
George Leslie 1804-1893
George Weston 1864-1924 (C)
Green Meadows (C)
Nordheimer Ravine
Sir Henry Mill Pellatt 1859-1939 (C)
Theodore August Heintzman 1817-1899
Timothy Eaton (1834-1907) (C)
Discovery Point
Étienne Brûlé
Jean-Baptiste Rousseaux 1758-1812
Samuel de Champlain's Journeys Through Ontario (C)
The Bank of British North America
Bank of Montreal
The Bank of Upper Canada Building
Birkbeck Building
The Canadian Bank of Commerce Building 1929-1931 (C)
Commercial Bank of the Midland District
Confederation Life Building 1892
The Dominion Bank Building 1914
Imperial Bank of Canada 1908
Royal Insurance Company of Canada (C)
The Alexandra Site
Huron-Wendat Villages on the Humber River
Indian Trail
Indian Village Site
Iroquois Prayer (C)
The Jackes Site (C)
Mississauga Settlements on the Humber River
Oronhyatekha (C)
Taber Hill (C)
Teiaiagon and the Aboriginal Occupation of Baby Point
Withrow Archaeological Site (C)
The Baldwin Steps
Dolostone
The Escarpment
Igneous Boulder
Precambrian Erratic
Scarborough Bluffs (C)
Toronto Island
Berkeley Street Firehall No.4 1905 (C)
City of Toronto Archives
Eglinton Hunt Club - RCAF Institute of Aviation Medicine (C)
First Fire Hall
First Municipal Building
Island Filtration Plant
Legislature of the Province of Canada
New Toronto Filtration Plant/Lakeshore Pumping Station
Norman B. Gash House (Spadina Station Entrance) 1899
Old City Hall (C)
Old City Hall York County Courthouse (C)
Ontario's First Parliament Buildings 1798
Toronto Post Office 1853-1873
Toronto's New City Hall
York Council Chambers 1907-1950
York Post Office
Dowswell's Inn
The Gladstone Hotel
The King Edward Hotel
Lambton House
Montgomery's Inn (C)
The Royal York Hotel
Canada Cycle and Motor
Dominion Square
Early Mill Site
George Brown College St. James Campus (C)
Gooderham and Worts Distillery Complex
Highland Creek Mills (C)
Humber River Industries
The Joseph Simpson Knitting Mills
L.J. McGuinness Distillers (C)
Old Mill
Ontario Stock Yards (C)
Our Industrial Heritage
Queen's Quay Terminal
Scarborough's Golden Mile (C)
Standard Woollen Mills Building
The Story Behind 672 Dupont
Windmill Millstone (C)
107 Wellington Street West 1889 1889 (C)
Belmont House
Community Centre 55
The Don Jail 1859-1864 (C)
Early Exhibition Buildings
House of Industry (C)
House of Providence (C)
Memorial Wall Plaques Dedicated to Patient Labourers
Osgoode Hall
Return of the Magri Stecchi
Saint Vincent de Paul Children's Aid Society Of Toronto
The Salvation Army Territorial Headquarters
St. Andrew's Market and Playground
St. Christopher House
St. Lawrence Hall (C)
St. Lawrence Market (C)
York's First Jail
Beaches Branch, Toronto Public Library 1916 (C)
Dovercourt Branch, Toronto Public Library 1913 (C)
Earlscourt Branch, Toronto Public Library 1921
George H. Locke Memorial Branch Toronto Public Library 1949
Ontario Library Association
Riverdale Branch, Toronto Public Library 1910 (C)
Runnymede Branch, Toronto Public Library 1930
Scarboro' Centennial Memorial Library
Western Branch, Toronto Public Library 1909
Weston Public Library
York Mechanics' Institute 1830-1882
Yorkville Branch, Toronto Public Library 1907
Gibraltar Point Lighthouse (C)
History of the Pier 6 Building
Lake Light (C)
Pier 6 Toronto Harbour Commission
Queen's Wharf Lighthouse
Central Hospital
The College Gates
First Women's College Hospital
The Medical Arts Building 1929
Mount Sinai Hospital (C)
Queen Mary Hospital (C)
Queen Street Mental Health Centre (C)
The Riverdale Hospital (C)
Site of the Christie Street Veterans' Hospital (C)
St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto General Hospital (C)
Trinity College Medical School
Victoria Hospital for Sick Children
Women's College Hospital
York Hospital Site 1829-1856
The Discovery of Insulin (C)
Doctor Gwynne's Garden
Dr. Emily Stowe (1831-1903) (C)
Dr. William D. Young Memorial
Dr. William T. Mustard 1914-1987 (C)
First External Cardiac Pacemaker, 1950
Honourable Herbert Alexander Bruce, M.D. 1868-1963
John James Rickard Macleod 1876-1935
Maud Leonora Menten 1879-1960
The Rolph School
Sir Frederick Banting 1891-1941
St. John Ambulance in Ontario (C)
Allan A. Lamport Regatta Course
Barbara Ann Scott Ice Rink (C)
Camp of the Crooked Creek (C)
Canadian International Air Show
Canadian National Exhibition
Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve
Chorley Park (C)
Cliff Lumsdon Park
Cloud Garden Park
CNE Bandshell (C)
Colonel O'Hara's Garden
Colonel Samuel Smith Park (C)
Court House Square
Craigleigh Gardens (C)
Dentonia Park Farm (C)
Dieppe Park
Donalda Farm
Edwards Gardens (C)
George Milbrandt Parkette
Gray Mill and Donalda Cattle Barn
H. Stephen Went 1952-1989
James Bryce Milner Park
The John Street Roundhouse
Joseph Sheard Parkette (C)
Kay Gardner Beltline Park (C)
Kempton Howard Park (C)
Marie Curtis Park
The Palace Pier (C)
Palais Royale
Parkdale Curling Club / Masaryk Memorial Institute
Queen Alexandra Gateway
Queen's Park (C)
Rosa and Spencer Clark
Rosetta McClain Gardens (C)
The Royce Family and Earlscourt Park
The Santa Claus Parade (C)
Scarboro' Beach Amusement Park
Sculpture Garden
Site of Toronto's First Moving Picture Show (C)
Sunnyside Amusement Park (C)
Toronto's Historic Waterfront - Harbourfront Centre
Victoria Memorial Square
Eden Court
Henry Mulholland
Jacob Cummer 1797-1841 (C)
Joseph Shepard
The Loyalists in Upper Canada (C)
Rhoda Skinner Scarborough Pioneer (C)
Rousseaux Family and Early Toronto
The Silverthorns
The Stong Pioneer Family (C)
The Toronto Purchase
184 Roxborough Drive
Alexander Wood 1772-1844 (C)
The Baldwin Family
Betty Sutherland Trail (C)
Birthplace of Lester Pearson
Birthplace of Robert Baldwin
Carfrae Chapel
Colonel W.J. Stewart, CBE, CD 1889-1969
David Pecaut Square
Donald Willard Moore 1891-1994 (C)
Ewart Chapel
Frederic W. Cumberland 1820-1881 (C)
George Brown (C)
George Taylor Denison 1839-1925 (C)
Gladys Allison 1901-1979 (C)
Grace Bagnato 1891-1950 (C)
Honourable George Stewart Henry 1871-1958
Honourable William McDougall 1822-1905
Humewood
In Memory Of J.A. (Al) Birney June 30,1930-June 18, 2006
James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942 (C)
James Simpson (1873-1938)
Janet M. Magee 1898-1979 (C)
Jean Gertrude "True" Davidson (1901-1978)
John J. Ward
June Rowlands - Dedicated Leader and Woman of "Firsts"
Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806
Mary Ann Shadd Cary 1823-1893
Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson, 1897-1972
Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950)
Robert Baldwin 1804-1858
Robert Franklin Hicks 1866-1942
Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1873-1973
The Royal Tour of 1939 (C)
Sir John A. Macdonald 1815-1891
Sir John Beverley Robinson, Bart. (1791-1863)
Sir Oliver Mowat 1820-1903
Sir William Campbell 1758-1834
Sir William Pearce Howland (1811-1907)
Stone Church Site of Jesse Ketchum Hall (C)
Thornton and Lucie Blackburn (C)
William Berczy
William Hume Blake 1809-1870 (C)
William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950
William Osgoode, M.A. (Oxon)
William Peyton Hubbard 1842-1935
William (Billy) McKay Jr. (1862-1943)
Armadale Free Methodist Church 1880 (C)
Avenue Road Church
The Beach Hebrew Institute
The Cathedral Church of St. James (C)
Centennial Methodist Church 1906
Chapel Of St. James_the_Less
Church Avenue
The Church Built in a Day
Church of All Nations (C)
Church of Christ 1891
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes 1886-1986 Centennial
Church of St. John the Evangelist (The Garrison Church) 1858-1963
Church of St. Simon-the-Apostle (C)
The Church of the Holy Trinity 1847
Community Spirit in Early Highland Creek, Winter 1867
First Evangelical Lutheran Church - The Centennial Anniversary 1898-1998 (C)
First Jewish Congregation in Canada West
The First Methodist Church
The First Unitarian Congregation in Canada West 1845
Friends' Meeting House
George H. Dix Memorial
Hillside Church
Immanuel Baptist Church
Jarvis Street Baptist Church (C)
The Kiever Synagogue 1927 (C)
Knesseth Israel Synagogue
Knox Church
Little Trinity Church (C)
The Macdonald-Mowat House 1872
Melville Church
Merton Street Gospel Mission
Metropolitan United Church (C)
Original Site of Toronto Hebrew Congregation Holy Blossom
Sacré-Cœur Parish (C)
Saint Thomas's Anglican Church
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake
St. Andrew's Church (C)
St. Anne's Anglican Church
St. Anne's Church
St. George's On-The-Hill
St. James' Cathedral (C)
St. John the Baptist, Norway (C)
Saint Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral (C)
Saint Joseph's Church, Scarborough (C)
St. Jude's Church
Saint Luke's United Church Centennial 1887-1987
St. Margaret's Church
St. Matthew's Anglican Church 1890
St. Michael's Cathedral
St. Michael's Cathedral Rectory (C)
St. Paul's Basilica
St. Paul's Church, L'Amoreaux 1840-1935 (C)
St. Peter's Anglican Church
St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican Church
York Mills Presbyterian Church circa 1836
Zion-Wexford Church
132 Front Street East
363-365 Adelaide St. East 1842
Allan Maclean Howard House - The Second Mile Club
The Ashbridge Estate (C)
The Bishop's Palace 1818 (C)
Bracondale Hill
Casa Loma and the Pellatts (C)
Castle Frank
Chudleigh (C)
Coach-House of Chester Park (C)
Colborne Lodge 1836 (C)
Cornell Home (C)
Cornell House
Eden Smith House
First Ashbridge Home (C)
Fool's Paradise
Frank P. Wood Estate 1931
G. Gooderham House (C)
G.H. Gooderham House
The Grange
Hazeldean
James Cooper House 1881
James Weir Farm House
Macdonald_Mowat House (C)
Mary Perram House 1877 (C)
The McCowan Log House
Northfield
Oakham House
The O'Connor-Lafferty House
O'Keefe House
The Old Scott House (C)
The Osterhout Log Cabin
Paul Kane Park
Pendarves - Cumberland House
Playter Farmhouse (C)
The Richardson Family (C)
Riverdale Courts 1913 (C)
Rosedale Villa (C)
Rupert Simpson House 1899 (C)
Scadding Cabin (C)
Simpson House (C)
Spadina and the Austins
Springfield Farm House (C)
Thomas Hogarth House circa 1875
The Tyrrell House
William Devenish Home
William Stewart Darling House 1873-1876
William Thomson House (C)
York Cottage (C)
Castle Frank Brook
Historic Toronto Bay
The Humber River
The Humber River Shared Path Discovery Walk (C)
Nordheimer Ravine
Plan of Toronto Bay
Straightening The Don, 1890 (C)
Taddle Creek (C)
The Toronto Carrying Place (C)
The Toronto Carrying Place
The Birthplace of Standard Time (C)
Charles Trick Currelly 1876-1957
Davidson Black 1884-1934
Early Meteorology in Canada
Elizabeth (Elsie) Gregory Macgill (C)
First Banding of a Bird
J.B. Tyrrell (1858-1957)
J.J. Wright (1848-1922)
The Rogers Batteryless Radio
Sir John Henry Lefroy 1817-1890
The Stewart Observatory (C)
25 Years of Blue Jays Baseball
Alexander Robert Duff
Babe Ruth at Hanlan's Point (C)
Babe Ruth in Toronto (C)
Cliffside Golf Course 1931-1950
The Crossing of Lake Ontario by Marilyn Bell
Edward Hanlan 1855-1908 (C)
Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (C)
The First Grey Cup Game (C)
Foster Hewitt (1902-1985) (C)
Lionel Conacher 1900-1954 (C)
Long Branch Race Track (C)
Marilyn Bell
Monsignor (Père) Athol Murray 1892-1975
Ned Hanlan 1855-1908 (C)
Professional Baseball at Hanlan's Point (C)
Toronto's First Professional Baseball Stadium 1886-1896 (C)
Baby Point (C)
Bracondale Village
Don Mills (C)
Evolution of Carleton Village
Finch
The Founding of Weston
Guildwood Village
Highland Creek Village
Immigrants to Earlscourt
The Islington Mosaic Heritage Murals (C)
Kensington Market (C)
Lansing (C)
Leaside
Newtonbrook (C)
Norway Post Office (C)
Prohibition
The Thomson Settlement (C)
Todmorden Mills (C)
Toronto's First Chinatown
Town of North Toronto - Centenary
The Village of Yorkville (C)
West Toronto Junction (C)
Willowdale (C)
Wychwood Park (C)
York Mills
Yorkville Town Hall (C)
Administration Building
Awde St.
Bailey Bridge Construction 2nd Field Engineer Regiment
The Baldwin Steps
Boating on the Humber River
Brown's Line (C)
Canadian Pacific's Hudson 2815
Crawford Street Bridge
Croft Street (C)
Davenport Road
DeHavilland "Beaver"
The Don River Bridge, 1803
Draper Street
Elm Street (C)
Etobicoke Transportation Mural
H.M. Schooner Onondaga
Horner Avenue
How St. Clair Got Its Name
The John Street Roundhouse
King Street West Railway Subway (Underpass) 1888
The Kingston Road Radial
The Lion Monument (C)
Local Rail and Infrastructure Heritage
M.V. Hiawatha
North York Heritage Murals
Old Danforth Road (C)
The Old Toll Gate House
The Prince Edward Viaduct
The Princes' Gates (C)
Railways over the Humber
Raymore Bridge (C)
Roads over the Humber River
Sewell's Road Bridge 1912-1981 (C)
Spadina Expressway (C)
Streetcar Suburb
Toronto Railway Heritage Centre
Trillium Ferry
Union Station
Weston Road
Yonge Street 1796 (C)