Aberdeen Avenue 375 Gordon Sinclair. 1900 - 1984 Street a nighttime training exercise near Kandahar, A Giant in Canadian Broadcast Journalism. Afghanistan. He is described by his colleagues Ernest Thompson Seton. 1860 - 1946 Plaque located on the fence of Spruce Court 262 Frederick Hagan. 1918 – 2003 as a thoughtful leader who had a strength of Self-trained Biologist, Scientific Illustrator and Public School (formerly 375 Carlton). One of Canada’s Greatest Artists and heart that was unparalleled. Naturalist. Plaque located at #6 (formerly #4 Gordon Sinclair began Teachers. which no longer exists.) working as a reporter for Born in , Frederick Sackville Street Ernest Thompson Seton was the Toronto Daily Star in Hagan took up studies at one of the founders of the 1922 and travelled around what is now known as the 395A Jack Nichols. 1921 – 2009 Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of the world four times as Ontario College of Art and Canada’s Pre-eminent World War II Artist. America in addition to being a wandering reporter. Design. In 1946 Mr. Hagan Born in Montreal, and like one of the most important Following WWII he became was hired to teach drawing, many artists, Jack Nichols 19th century Canadian a prominent radio and television personality. painting and printmaking at was largely self-taught. The novelists. In 1979 he was appointed an Officer of the O.C.A. where he stayed for 37 years. His works Royal Canadian Reserve Order of Canada. At his request, his place are held by the National Gallery of Canada and appointed him “official war Amelia Street of burial has no marker or other form of the among others. artist”. His depictions of identification. Canadian bravery in battle 43 Walter Seymour Allward. 1876 – 1955. 550 Hugh Garner. 1913 – 1979 did not go unnoticed. His work appears in Renowned Canadian Sculptor. Lieutenant Francis Gwillim Simcoe. Author and Witness to Depression Era prestigious museums across Canada and in many Following early training at 1791 - 1812 Cabbagetown. Plaque located at the Hugh private collections. Central Technical School in First Private Owner of These Lands. Plaque Garner Housing Co-operative. Toronto, Mr. Allward studied located at SW corner of Riverdale Park at Born in Yorkshire, England, 435 Al Purdy. 1918 - 2000 in London and Paris. He is best Carlton and Sumach Streets. Hugh Garner grew up in “The Most Canadian Poet”. known for his monument at Francis Simcoe was the Cabbagetown and worked at Al Purdy has been called Vimy Ridge in France which eldest son of John Graves the Toronto Star newspaper as the best English-language took 14 years to complete. Simcoe, the first Lieutenant a copy boy. He fought in the Canadian poet of the twentieth Lieutenant Francis Gwillem Simcoe Governor of Upper Canada. Spanish Civil War and WWII. Al Purdy century. Although he lacked 137 Betty Oliphant. 1918 – 2004 He was the first owner of As a Canadian writer, Garner’s formal education, he wrote 33 Renowned Innovator of Ballet Education. the lands now known as focus was on working class Ontario and the best books of verse, and twice won Betty Oliphant came to Canada Cabbagetown. Francis known of his realistic novels is Cabbagetown (1950). Canada’s Governor General’s in 1947 as a war bride and returned to England where he attended In 1963 Hugh Garner won Canada’s Governor Literary Award as well as being awarded the Order opened her own ballet school, Eton and at 16 was an Ensign in the 27th General’s Literary Award for Hugh Garner’s Best of Canada. then served as ballet mistress for Inniskilling Regiment. He was killed at the Stories, a collection of his short stories. the National Ballet of Canada. age of 21 in Spain while leading a storming 436 Arthur Schawlow PhD. 1921 - 1999 In 1959 she co-founded the party under the command of the Duke of 675 Luigi von Kunitz. 1870 – 1931 Nobel Prize Winner Who Co-developed the National Ballet School, serving Wellington. Founder of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Laser. A plaque is also located at Winchester as Artistic Director and later, Principal. Plaque located at SW corner of Rose Avenue Public School, Heritage Building. Cabbagetown’s First People. Public School. Arthur ‘Bud’ Schawlow 139 J.L. (Allen) Yen PhD. 1925 – 1993 Plaque located inside the SW entrance to Born and trained as a attended Winchester Public Prominent Figure in Canadian Radio Astronomy. Riverdale Park. musician in Vienna, he came School. Earning a scholarship, Born in Canton, China, Allen Centuries before there to Toronto in 1912 to teach. he enrolled in the University Yen was first appointed to the was a Cabbagetown He was very popular, and of Toronto and began his Faculty of Applied Sciences and community and long inspired many musicians. In studies in physics. In 1981 Engineering at the University Cabbagetown's before French fur traders the 1920s he founded the Dr. Schawlow won the Nobel of Toronto in 1952. A Fellow of First People or the British settlement Toronto Symphony Orchestra Prize for physics for his contribution to the the Royal Society of Canada, called York, many different and became its first conductor. development of laser spectroscopy. he will be remembered not Aboriginal cultures such only for his contribution to science but also for his as the Anishnabai (Ojibwa), Haudenosaune Parliament Street Salisbury Avenue endless wisdom and love of sailing. (Iroquois), Huron, Eries, Petuns and Neutrals came together to trade, hold councils and 424 Ben Wicks. 1926 – 2000 34 Eden Smith, Architect. 1858 - 1949 160 Mary O’Riordan D.V.M. 1925 – 1993 seasonal ceremonies in this region of Ontario. Political Cartoonist, Global Literacy Advocate, Prolific Early Toronto Designer and Architect. Pioneering Veterinarian. The confluence of these many cultures gave Humanitarian. Plaque located at “The Ben Eden Smith and his wife Annie moved Born in Ennis, County birth to a great circle of Aboriginal civilization Wicks Pub”. from England to Toronto Clare, Ireland, “Dr. Mary” with a rich ceremonial, ritual, artistic and Ben Wicks’ cartoons provide in 1888 where he began moved to Toronto in 1963 political legacy. important insights on 20th his architectural practice. where she opened her century events and Canadian As well as designing many own animal hospital and was purported to be the Charles Sauriol. 1904 – 1995 culture. He wrote and illustrated prominent churches, first veterinarian to make Pioneer Ecologist. Plaque located in Riverdale books and established the “I he designed houses in house calls. She was one Park West at the end of Carlton Street. Can Foundation” which provides Wychwood Park, Rosedale, of the founders of Cabbagetown’s annual In his dedication to the education and literacy programs The Annex and Forest Hill. Another Forsythia Festival. preservation of Toronto’s for children. In 1986, he became a Member of the outstanding achievement was the design green spaces, Charles Sauriol Order of Canada. of the Co-op housing complex at the Carlton Street led fundraising campaigns Corner of Spruce and Sumach Streets that generated more than Rose Avenue in Cabbagetown. It was begun in 1913 Oronhyatekha M.D. 1841 - 1907 200 million dollars. In 1949, and flourishes to this day as a model of Mohawk Physician, Victorian Businessman and he co-founded the Don 5 Flos Jewell Williams. successful cooperative housing. Philanthropist. Plaque located at #211 Carlton Valley Conservation Association, and in 1989 he Writer with a Passion for Western Canada. Street (he had lived at #209) received the Order of Canada. Flos Williams was born in Sherbourne Street In 1860, under the patronage Toronto and attended Jarvis of the Prince of Wales, Dr. Lancaster Avenue Collegiate and Toronto 495 The Adaskin Family. Oronhyatekha (“Burning Normal School. She became One of Canada’s greatest Musical Families of Sky”) became the first North 2 Albert (Frenchy) Bellanger. one of the best known the 20th Century. American aboriginal to attend 1906 – 1969. women writers of Western Harry. 1901 – 1994. Oxford University. In 1866 he Flyweight Boxing World Champion. Canada, wrote short stories Murray. 1906 – 2002. graduated from the University Plaque located at The Cabbagetown and published three novels. John. 1908 – 1964. of Toronto’s medical school and was likely the Youth Centre. Plaque located in what is now the Wellesley first native medical doctor in Canada. He was Canada’s first World Boxing 27 Reverend Samuel Rose D.D. 1806 - 1890 Community Centre - Lobby. also known by his baptized Christian name of Champion in 1927, “Frenchy” A Pioneer of Methodism in Ontario. Pictured, Murray Adaskin Peter Martin. became a sports icon and Samuel Rose was born near The Adaskin brothers retired after 61 bouts, later Picton, Ontario. In 1831 he began represent one of the greatest 226 Rowena Grace Douglas Hume M.D. opening a boxing club to help his ministry as a missionary to stories in Canadian music 1877 – 1966 the youth of Toronto. the Indians in the town of what history. They were all brilliant A Founder of Women’s College Hospital. is now Orillia. Known as a man musicians performing, Born in Galt, Ontario, Dr. of noble and generous impulses, teaching and conducting Hume was a graduate of the Metcalfe Street he was later pastor of churches in across the country. In University of Trinity College many southern Ontario communities. addition, John played cello with the Toronto and became Women’s College 20 Arthur Goss. 1881 – 1940 Symphony Orchestra from 1926 to 1938 and Hospital’s Chief of Obstetrics Left a Photographic Legacy of over 35,000 Sackville Green worked on many projects for the Canadian and Gynecology. Images of Toronto. Broadcasting Corporation. Arthur Goss began his 203 Morley Callaghan. 1903 – 1990 working life at age 11 as Canada’s First Urban Novelist, Writer and Spruce Street 274 Sarah Anne Curzon. 1833 - 1898 an office boy in the City of Broadcaster. Plaque located at Regent Park Pioneer for Women’s Rights Who made Laura Toronto Engineer's Office. Community Centre. 26 James Grand. 1857 – 1921 Secord a Household Word. Later, as City Photographer, Born into an Irish Catholic 28 Samuel Toy. 1859 – 1906 Sarah Anne Curzon was a he devoted himself for 37 family he was educated at the Founders of Toronto’s Oldest Office Supply playwright, a poet and a years to creating countless . Working Company. journalist. She wrote about important photos of early Cabbagetown, as a junior reporter at the James Grand is believed to Women’s suffrage, property the Riverdale Zoo and the City of Toronto Toronto Star, he met Ernest be the first office supply rights, and access to higher at large. Hemingway who encouraged salesman to go door-to-door education. She was most him to be a writer. His first selling stationery products impressed with Laura 25 Fredelle Bruser Maynard PhD. novel, Strange Fugitive, was published in 1928. In from a wheelbarrow. By Secord, and one of her major works was Laura 1922 – 1989 1951, Mr. Callaghan received Canada’s Governor 1883 his company had Secord, The Heroine of 1812: A Drama and Author and TV Host. General’s Literary Award for his book The Loved grown, so his brother-in-law Other Poems (1887). Raised in Foam Lake, and the Lost. He was also a Companion of the Samuel Toy joined him as a partner, resulting in Saskatchewan, Fredelle Order of Canada. the Grand and Toy name. Their first store was 314 Benjamin Brick. 1845 – 1913 Maynard studied at the behind the King Edward Hotel. Builder Who Specialized in Elaborate Plaster University of Manitoba and Corporal Ainsworth Dyer. 1977 - 2002 Decoration. the University of Toronto Killed in Action in Afghanistan. Plaque located 35 Charles B. MacKay. Born in Worcester, England, before taking her PhD at at Regent Park Community Centre. Toronto’s First Customs Officer. Benjamin Brick started out as Radcliffe. She went on Corporal Dyer was a Charles B. MacKay was an a bricklayer in England and to become a brilliant academic, a popular member of the Edmonton- official sent by Queen Victoria in became a prominent house teacher and an acclaimed writer of books based battalion of the 1858 to set up and administer builder in Toronto. He gained including her autobiographies, one of which, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Charles B. MacKay the customs offices in the popularity because of the Raisins and Almonds, was developed into a Light Infantry. Corporal burgeoning Port of Toronto. elaborate plaster moldings CBC TV special, a full-length musical and a Dyer was killed in action and ceilings he created. full length play. on April 18, 2002 during

For most of its history, the Cabbagetown-Regent Park location, situated just east of Downtown Toronto, has been a reception area for Europe’s working poor. Since the early colonial period of the 1830s up to the onset of gentrification in the 1970s the predominant story was one of economic deprivation. A few monied families, located here and there along Carlton Street and elsewhere, were the exception, otherwise day- to-day life was often grim and, given the sectarian nature of immigration, violent at times.

Nevertheless, as we see from the stories documented here, the people of Cabbagetown possessed a remarkable ability to endure, to relish and contribute to community life, and even to make their mark in the wider world. The question arises: how did this happen? In particular, which prevailing local conditions and circumstances enabled this community to become established, and to thrive? Accordingly, the social history of Cabbagetown can provide us with many valuable lessons about the evolution, function and success of the Canadian inner city.

The purpose of the Cabbagetown People program is to pursue these questions and disseminate them by leading educational tours of the community for schools and other groups, as well as researching the day-to-day existence of these outstanding people. Our Program has honoured several remarkable lives from Cabbagetown’s past by installing commemorative plaques at residential and other strategic places throughout the neighbourhood. They are listed here by street name, and may be located by referring to the map on the last page.

For full details: cabbagetownpeople.ca

Rosedale Valley Rd 41 Edward Mulberry Hodder M.D. 443 Tony Brady. 1935 – 1991 1810 - 1878 A Founder of the Forsythia Festival. Bayview Alpha Father of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Actor, magician, hairdresser, W. Cottages W. Laurier Parkview St. James Wellesley Wellesley Ave Ontario. animal breeder, traveller and Wellesley Born in Kent, England, Dr. writer of popular children’s Edward Hodder came to stories, Tony was a founder

Amelia Hillcrest

Canada in 1838 and taught of Cabbagetown’s Forsythia Rose Prospect at the Medical School of Festival, which has become a Salisbury

Trinity College. He was one of popular annual event. Rawlings

the first to use carbolic acid Metcalfe Lancaster Winchester as an antiseptic in surgery Winchester Street and childbirth. He was co-founder of the Royal Millington Flagler Sackville Pl Canadian Yacht Club. 1884 – 1950 Aberdeen

Walter Huston. Broadcast Ln Bleecker W’stock

Academy Award-winning Actor. Plaque located Carlton Bowman Sumach Street at Winchester Public School, Heritage Building, Carlton Ontario and Winchester Streets. Gildersleeve Geneva 368 Darrell Kent. 1942 – 1989 Toronto-born Walter Dermot t Spruce Real Estate Agent and Philanthropist who attended Winchester Public Hospital Lane Seaton Ontario Started the Gentrification of Cabbagetown. School in Cabbagetown. He Parliament Sherbourne Rolston Sword Naismith Sackville Gifford Born and raised on a farm in Walter Huston later studied engineering, but Gerrard Sumach Saskatchewan, Darrell Kent gave it up and chose acting. Gerrard came to live in Toronto in the He made his stage debut in late 1960s and is considered Toronto in 1902. He later the driving force behind the moved to California where he won an Academy Oak Cornwall restoration of many of the area’s award in 1948 for Best Supporting Actor in “The Berkeley Oak beautiful and unique Victorian Cole Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. He appeared in River houses. He financially supported activities for local over 50 movies, and occasionally returned to Dundas youth, inspiring and encouraging others to join in Broadway to act in plays. Wyatt his philanthropy. St. Bartholemew Mark 21 The Venerable Archdeacon Samuel Arnold Nicholas 424 Bill Stapleton. 1916 – 2008 Johnson Boddy M.A, D.C.L. St. David Labatt Defries Milan Artist, Activist, Teacher. 1826 – 1905 Poulette Sutton Some compared his A Remarkable 42 years of Service to This Regent Sackville Green artwork to that of Degas Community. Shuter and Toulouse-Lautrec. He Reverend Boddy came to painted in startlingly vibrant Canada from England in 152 Sir Ernest MacMillan. 1893 - 1973 The Early Settlers. colours and bold strokes, as 1858. Later, the Anglican Brilliant Composer, Organist and Educator. NE Corner of Winchester and Sumach forthright in his technique parish of St. Peter’s was duly Canadian-born Ernest Streets. as he was in his social constituted in Cabbagetown MacMillan was a child prodigy The remains of 984 early convictions. Collections of Mr. Stapleton’s and he was appointed performing at Massey Hall at settlers of the Town of York work are in The National Archives of Canada rector. His residence at 21 eleven years of age. Conductor were removed from Potter’s and The Canadian War Museum. Winchester Street served as the Rectory for of the Toronto Symphony for The Early Settlers Field, a 6-acre plot in what is St. Peter’s during his tenure when he was also many years after WWII, he was now the Yorkville district of Wellesley Street responsible for getting the first streets in the knighted in 1935 in recognition Toronto and re-interred in area paved. of his musical accomplishments. the Necropolis in a section 390 Charles William Jefferys. 1869 – 1951 designated “The Resting Place of Pioneers” History Painter and Illustrator. 94 Doug Henning. 1947 – 2000 156 Daniel Lamb. 1842 - 1920 1851 to 1881. (Owl House) World Famous Magician. Industrialist, Politician, and a Founder of Born in Britain, Charles As a teenager in Toronto, Toronto’s First Zoo. Cabbagetown People Founding Committee: William Jefferys arrived in Doug Henning studied magic. Active in civic politics from Christopher Dew, Margaret Rutledge, Toronto around 1880. He is He created and starred in 1885 to 1901, Daniel Lamb Alan Waterhouse, Marijan Bayer, remembered primarily for his several magic musicals on served as an Alderman for Brian Hawkins, Christine Howard, bold illustrations of Canadian Broadway. On television the Cabbagetown. A founder of Installation specialist: Toby Schertzer history and military subjects. Emmy-award winning “Doug the Toronto’s first zoo, he built Program Founder: Sheila Schirmer C. W. Jefferys’ sketches and Henning’s World of Magic,” the first public water works on paintings of bygone events will continue to bring made him one of the best-known and popular the Toronto Islands which are [email protected] Canadian history to life for many generations. magicians in the world. still in operation today. www.cabbagetownpeople.ca

Visit the Cabbagetown People Orientation Directory Hume: Miss Margaret Robins Archives, Schawlow: Photo by Robert Lansdale, in Riverdale Park. Take a walking tour of plaque Women’s College Hospital University of Toronto Archives locations throughout the neighbourhood on a Brick: Chubb Family Collection – Smith: The Arts and Letters Club discovery of fascinating lives lived and remarkable Source Unknown Adaskin Family: University of Saskatchewan legacies. To learn more about these and other Sinclair: City of Toronto Archives, Archives, photograph A-7093 Cabbagetown People, for information on our Fonds 1652, File 422, Item 2 Grand & Toy: Grand & Toy Company Cabbagetown Preservation Program for Schools, or to book a guided tour for a Sauriol: Andre Flys Limited Association group, visit: www.cabbagetownpeople.ca Goss: City of Toronto Archives, Series Stapleton: The Cabbagetown Regent P.O. Box 82808, 372, Sub-series 41, Item 597 Park Museum© 467 Parliament Street Credits: Garner: CBC Still Photo Collection MacMillan: Toronto Symphony Orchestra Toronto, ON M5A 3Y2 Seton: Ernest Thompson Seton Institute Inc. von Kunits: Toronto Symphony Orchestra Archives Allward: Veterans Affairs Canada Archives Oliphant: V. Tony Hauser Wicks: The Wicks Family Oronhyatekha: ceremonial: Royal Ontario Museum Callaghan: CBC Still Photo Collection Oronhyatekha: portrait: Woodland Cultural Centre Nichols: The Ingram Gallery brochure design: www.steveyeates.ca