William Berczy
On the west side of Berczy Park at the corner of Front Street East and Scott Street you will see this sculpture. At its base is a plaque which says:
This sculpture was donated by The Historical Society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada Inc., with the financial assistance of The Consumers' Gas Company Limited and The Council of Metropolitan Toronto, in memory of Johann Albrecht Ulrich Moll, better known as William Berczy, born December 10, 1744 in Wallerstein, Germany. He was co-founder of York (Toronto) in 1794 when John Graves Simcoe was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. His younger son, Charles Albert Berczy, was the first president of The Consumers' Gas Company, from 1847 to 1856, and Postmaster of Toronto. His older son, William Bent Berczy, was a Member of The Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and, like his father and mother, a gifted painter.
Location Co-ordinates: 43.647797 -79.375671
Photo by Alan L Brown - July 2007
Related page:
Don River Bridge
Related page from my 'Ontario's Historical Plaques' website:
The Berczy Settlement 1794
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