Ideal Bread Company Factory 1919

Photos by Alan L Brown - November, 2008

Here, attached to a building at 183 Dovercourt Road, on the north-east corner at Argyle Street, is a 2008 Heritage Toronto plaque. This is what it says:

Montreal architect Sydney Comber designed this factory building in Edwardian Classical style. Its facades feature stone detailing and are divided into distinct bays by brick pilasters. Window design is unique to each level and reflects the original separation - by factory floors - of the processes of bread production. In the final stage, bread wagons were loaded from the ground-level archways on Argyle Street. In use as a bakery until 1957, this building was converted to residential lofts in 2007. The factory clock remains above the front entrance.

Plaque Location Co-ordinates: 43.646409 -79.423256

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Posted December 4, 2008
Sydney Comber was my grandfather. I am pleased to see that this building is now used for housing as I work in subsidized housing in Vermont, USA.

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