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Points of interest 1 The Daniel Brooke Building (King outskirts of town and the only Roman 9 First Parliament Buildings Site, Street East & Jarvis Street) Built in Catholic parish between Kingston and Parliament Square The block bounded 1833 for merchant Daniel Brooke, Windsor. Today’s Italian Renaissance- by Parliament Street on the east and significantly rebuilt in 1848-49 and Style church is the realization of an Berkeley Street on the west and one of the few buildings that survived 1889 expansion. On August 26, 1999 running south from Front Street to the great fire of 1849. It is an Pope John Paul II named the church Parliament Square Park, contains the important and rare example of Toronto’s first and only Minor Basilica. site of Upper Canada’s (today’s Georgian Architecture in Toronto and Ontario) original parliament buildings, 5 Dominion Square (468 Queen Street built in 1793. Parliament Square one of the last remaining buildings East) The Davies family began a features a treed walkway leading to from the original Town of York. brewery here in 1879 and established The Distillery District and an Ontario The Bank of Upper Canada (256 the Dominion Hotel on the east end of 2 Heritage Trust plaque. In 2005 the Adelaide Street East) Built in the property at Sumach. Renovated in Province of Ontario acquired the 1825–27, it is one of the oldest 1987, the site boasts stores, condos northeast corner of the site which will remaining bank buildings in Toronto. and office space. The adjacent eventually be redeveloped to The bank was the Province’s leading renovated hotel is a popular local commemorate the birth place of financial institution from the time of watering hole. Ontario’s democracy. its incorporation in 1822 until its 6 Little Trinity Church & Parish House closing in 1866. The striking portico (between Parliament & Trinity on King) 10 Crombie Park Running along The Esplanade from Berkeley Street west was added by Toronto architect John The Parish of Trinity East, Toronto’s to Jarvis Street through the tree-lined G. Howard in 1844. Designated a second Anglican parish, was founded heart of St. Lawrence Neighbourhood. National Historic site in 1977, it was in 1842 to serve the newly arrived, The City of Toronto park is named for restored in 1980 by its current poor, Irish immigrants. The parish former Toronto Mayor David Crombie owners, the Godfrey family, for use as house was designed in 1853 by noted who was instrumental in initiating the commercial office space. 19th century Toronto architects redevelopment of the neighbourhood Toronto’s First Post Office Museum Cumberland and Storm. 3 in the 1970s from industrial (260 Adelaide Street East) In 1833 7 Enoch Turner School House (Trinity wasteland to today’s successful mixed Postmaster James Scott Howard built Street, just south of King) Opened in income community. Countless this 3-storey Georgian-style “live- 1848 as Toronto’s first free or non- television productions and work” building to house both the post denominational school under the commercials have been filmed office and his family. It is the oldest patronage of local business and in the park. building built as a post office in community leader Enoch Turner. It The Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Canada. It is also owned by the features an authentic recreation of 11 Berkeley Street) Known to intimates Godfrey family who began its the original school house and as the “The Gas Works” after its restoration in 1980, and now leases it presents lectures, walking tours, and history of once being a Consumers for a dollar a year to the Town of York concerts throughout the year. Historical Society. It is a working post www.enochturnerschoolhouse.ca Gas pumping station. It was converted office and museum with philatelic into a theatre in 1971, first as the services, a gift shop and postal 8 The Distillery Historic District (50 Mill home of the Toronto Free Theatre and memorabilia available seven days a Street) Originally the grounds of the subsequently as the home of the week. www.townofyork.com Gooderham and Worts Distillery in successor company CanStage. The 1832, today it features theatres, art, St. Paul’s Basilica (83 Power Street) theatre has two performance spaces 4 photography, cafés and restaurants in presenting Canadian and international Dating from 1822, St. Paul’s was the a restored 19th century industrial site theatre. www.canstage.com Town of York’s first Roman Catholic (see What to Do). parish. The site was then on the www.thedistillerydistrict.com AST Come and explore Toronto’s historic heart. ONTO E WN TOR OLD TO Points of interest How to get there By TTC: There are many TTC routes serving Old Town Toronto. 12 Canadian Opera Company, 1891, the stables went with the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera times and the building became From Downtown: King or Queen Subway station take Centre (227 Front Street East) a generating plant until 1906. the eastbound streetcar past Jarvis. The COC is housed in two 19th It was then used as a warehouse century industrial buildings. by the TTC. In 1977, it was The eastern building was the redesigned to be the home of Consumers Gas Company’s the Young People’s Theatre, Purifying House No. 2 built in now the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre 1887-1888 and designed by for Young People (LKTYP). They the architects Strictland and are Toronto’s premier company Symens after the fashion of an producing professional theatre early Christian basilica. The for children. www.lktyp.ca westerly building was originally 14 The Toronto Sun Mural (between Standard Woollen Mills built in Princess & Berkeley Streets) 1882 and designed by famous History as Theatre, by Toronto Toronto architect E.J. Lennox artist John Hood, depicts who also designed Casa Loma Toronto’s story on a “canvas” By Car: From the Don Valley Parkway exit at Richmond and Old City Hall. www.coc.ca the height of a 3-storey building Street. From the Gardiner Expressway exit north at 13 The Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for and the length of a city block. It Jarvis. From the Lakeshore Boulevard East exit on Young People (165 Front Street was commissioned by the Cherry, Parliament, Sherbourne or Jarvis. There is a East) Originally a late 19th Toronto Sun newspaper in 1993 “Green P” parking lot at Sherbourne and Richmond century stable for the horses to celebrate the 200th and one at The Esplanade and Jarvis; two large private that pulled the Toronto Street anniversary of the City’s lots at the Distillery District (entrances off Parliament Railway Company Streetcars. founding. just north of Lakeshore Boulevard); throughout the When electrification arrived in neighbourhoud Pay and Display street parking is available. Why you should go relaxed afternoon pint or fine dining in Jarvis to Parliament has one of the city’s some of the city’s best restaurants. In Old premier collections of home furnishing and Old Town Toronto (east) is the historic heart Town the choice is yours. design shops—a delight for anyone search- of Toronto, and like the city that grew up ing for decorating ideas and new, innovative from the Town of York’s original 10 blocks, pieces. Drop by Toronto’s First Post Office the area is defined by diverse What to do museum on Adelaide Street and walk back neighbourhoods containing everything the Old Town Toronto (east) is a perfect setting in time before there was air mail, e-mail urban visitor could want: Historic Queen for the urban explorer: whether it is strolling and instant communication. Street East, a revitalized strip of unique the historic main streets of the city and tak- www.kingstreeteaststyle.com shops, leads into the heart of the 19th ing note of intriguing historic sites; or Historic Queen East (Jarvis to Parliament). century urban village atmosphere of something more contemporary like seeking In 1800, Lot Street (now Queen) was the Corktown; the Distillery District with out that perfect home décor item; or sip- northern limit of the town. Today this revi- theatres, galleries and restaurants in a ping a cold craft brewed pint on a secluded talizing strip features Victorian commercial restored, industrial, heritage site dating patio; each part of the neighbourhood offers buildings and unique shops.
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