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1 Metropolitan United Church (56 Queen met on the second floor: Sergei 8 Sculpture Garden (115 King Street East) Street East) Beginning as Metropolitan Rachmaninov and Pablo Cassals came Opened in 1981, Toronto’s public Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1868 to play, Sir Wilfred Laurier (later Prime sculpture garden features changing and completed in 1872, it was known Minister of Canada) lectured, and the exhibits by artists who are often as Canada’s “cathedral of Methodism”. Group of Seven formed here. Today, experimenting with outdoor exhibits. With the founding of the United it is as an upscale restaurant and The park provides a stunning view of Church of Canada (the country’s largest night club. the St. James Cathedral spire. protestant denomination) in 1925, it 5 Courthouse Square (Court Street) A 9 St. Lawrence Hall (157 King Street East) was rededicated as Metropolitan City park with fountains, rose arbour, Opened in 1850 the hall retains its United. Sparing only the tower and the and sculpture installation 19th century charm with its famous carillon, fire severely damaged the commemorating the area’s original use gas-lit ballroom on the third floor. Key church in 1928. Rebuilt in 1929 on as a courthouse and jail. Leaders of parts of the hall’s history are noted on the original foundations, it became the 1837 Rebellion were put on the a series of plaques in the main lobby: home to Canada’s largest organ, which gallows here. Public hangings were not including the building’s role as part of is featured today in regular services outlawed in Canada until 1868, and the Underground Railroad and a centre and public recitals. the last hanging in Canada was in for the abolitionists campaigning 2 Ontario Heritage Centre (10 Adelaide 1962 at Toronto’s Don Jail. (Gerrard against slavery, such as George Brown Street) Built in 1907. Original home & Broadview). (father of Confederation and co- of the Canadian Birkbeck Investments founder of The Globe & Mail). 6 St. James Cathedral (65 Church Street) and Savings Company. It now houses Completed in 1853, this is the third 10 St. Lawrence Market North (92 Front the Ontario Heritage Foundation. The church on this site; the original frame Street East) The market began on this building has one of only three operator- building dating from 1803 was the site in 1803 and today’s building hosts run, cage elevators remaining in Town of York’s first. Today, it is the a Farmers Market every Saturday and Toronto. Parts of the movie Cinderella cathedral for the Anglican Diocese of an Antique Market every Sunday. Man (2005) were shot here. Toronto. The tower and spire of St. Market Lane Park runs parallel to the 3 Toronto’s Seventh Post Office (10 James rises 93 metres above King building on its east side and features Toronto Street) Designed by Street and is the second tallest in outdoor vendors from May through Cumberland and Ridout in the classic North America. Its Parish House on October. www.stlawrencemarket.com Greek revival style, it was opened in Church Street has a small, public 11 St. Lawrence Market South (93 Front 1853 as Toronto’s Seventh Post Office. museum featuring exhibits relating to Street East) The main building was In 1960, it was saved from demolition the church’s role in Toronto’s history. built in 1901 and includes the centre and completely renovated by Argus www.stjamescathedral.on.ca block of Toronto’s first City Hall built in Corporation later controlled by Conrad 7 St. James Park The grounds were 1845 and designed by Henry Bowyer Black whose Hollinger Corporation is originally the church’s cemetery where Lane. The Market is open Tuesday headquartered here. many of the town’s first settlers were through Saturday and features 4 York County Courthouse (57 Adelaide buried, as were the thousands who fell specialty foods, butchers, and fish Street East) Built in 1852 as Toronto’s to the 1832 cholera epidemic. The vendors. Walking tours are offered 3rd county courthouse, it is also a park now features a formal Victorian Wednesday to Saturday at 10 AM. The Greek revival building designed by Garden, with wrought-iron fencing and Market Gallery, located on the second Cumberland and Ridout. The building a bird fountain. It is a great place to floor, features exhibitions on the housed courts and basement cells for take pictures of St. Lawrence Hall and history and culture of Toronto: prisoners. The Arts and Letters Club the Cathedral. admission is free. (now on Elm Street) was founded and www.stlawrencemarket.com

EST TO W RON N TO Where downtown meets Old Town: a story on every corner. TOW OLD How to get there Points of interest By TTC: There are many TTC routes serving Old Town Toronto.Exit the Queen or King subway stations and walk east one block. From Broadview Subway station 12 Flatiron Building & Berczy Park building is now home to a take the 504 streetcar south to King Street, getting off (Church, Wellington, Front) restaurant on the main floor at Jarvis, Church or Victoria streets. Built in 1892, the Gooderham and a bar on the lower level. Building was the business 14 St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts headquarters of the Gooderham (27 East) Home to and Worts distilling company. the Jane Mallet and Bluma The “Flatiron” nick-name Appel theatres, the STLC is comes from its shape one of Toronto’s premier theatre resembling an iron of the day. It and chamber music venues. is arguably Toronto’s most CanStage performs its photographed spot. On its west mainstage productions in the side it has a noted mural “Bluma.” www.stlc.com created by Canadian artist Derek Besant which can be 15 Hummingbird Centre (1 Front easily viewed from Berczy Park. Street East) Designed by Peter Dickinson in the modernist The Dixon Building (45-49 Front 13 style, the theatre opened in Street East) Toronto’s only 1960 with a production of By Car: Exit the at Richmond Street remaining example of a totally Camelot staring Richard Burton and proceed west to Jarvis. Exit the Gardiner cast-iron façade, a 19th and Julie Andrews. The centre Expressway westbound at and proceed to century “state-of-the-art” is noted for its famous mural . Exit the technique, enabling buildings The Seven Lively Arts by York eastbound at Jarvis proceed north to The Esplanade. to have elaborate façades at low Wilson, located in the main On-street, pay and display parking is available along cost. The look has often been lobby. www.hummingbirdcentre.com with the city’s largest “Green P” Parking Garage compared to carved stone. The accessible from Yonge or Jarvis streets via The Esplanade – entrance at the foot of Church Street.

Why you should go welcoming urban streetscape. Locals and The Esplanade from Church to Scott Street visitors stroll past home furnishing and is known for its wide sidewalks and ample There is a story on every corner: Toronto’s design shops, unique cafes, welcoming pubs patios, favoured by the after work crowd. first public well, oldest Market, original City and fine restaurants.The best of old and new Front Street between Scott and Jarvis jail; and Toronto’s most photographed await you in Old Town Toronto (west). Streets is known for specialty items, home view–the Flatiron building with the furnishings, books, and its year ‘round gleaming bank towers in the background. Christmas store; and of course the South The neighbourhood has the best of What to do St. Lawrence Market for its famous selec- Toronto’s history while capturing all of its Saturday at St. Lawrence Market has been a tion of fresh food and gourmet treats. contemporary energy. Home to theatres and Toronto tradition since 1803 and “meet me Wellington Street west of Church Street has concert venues, famous for its pubs and at the market” is a local idiom. Buy fresh a row of bars, clubs and dining establish- patios, with a wide array of bars and fine food from local producers and growers in the ments to meet a variety of tastes and budg- restaurants, all anchored by St. Lawrence Farmers Market and experience “old world” ets. Just north, Colborne Street’s heritage Market–selected by Food & Wine Magazine personal service and get the “story” behind façade frames cafés, pubs and fine dining as one of the 25 best markets in the world! the products. On Sundays, the Antique tucked away from the main streets. King Two of the City’s major performance venues Market lures bargain hunters and collectors. Street East repeats the theme with after are found in the neighbourhood–the Brunch opportunities abound from family- work hot spots, neighbourhood favourites Hummingbird Centre and the St. Lawrence friendly to upscale gourmet. During the week and the famous King Edward Hotel built in Centre for the Arts–both offer diversity and office workers and visitors pop into the 1903, which features shops and dining and excellence in Canadian and international Market for a quick Peameal Bacon on a bun afternoon tea. Photographers know the area performing arts. and a freshly squeezed juice or meet for for its camera stores clustered around Along Queen, King, Front and The lunch in the pubs and restaurants lining the Queen Street East and Church Street. Esplanade historic and contemporary busy sidewalks. buildings blend together to create a

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Nightlife favours theatre, concerts, and cathedral was rebuilt in 1853 and stands building in 1892 was seen as attempt to major touring productions at the St. today. stem this tide but it proved unsuccessful. Lawrence Centre or the Hummingbird In the 1850s with the advent of the rail- In the early twentieth century the area, just Centre. After the show, relax with jazz or sip ways, the shoreline was filled in well south like the eastern part of Old Town, became a cocktail in a hip bar housed in a restored, of The Esplanade and the neighbourhood increasingly devoted to manufacturing and Victorian building. Whether it is fine dining, lost its direct connection to the waterfront industrial uses. After the World War Two pub hopping, food shopping, heritage sight but gained industry and warehousing that there was a slow and relentless decline in seeing, taking in a show, or just a casual would define the area’s future. the manufacturing base as jobs began to stroll, Old Town Toronto (west) has it all. King Street East was the City’s main shop- move to more suburban areas. In the 1970s, the empty industrial land south and Local Festivals ping street in the mid 19th century. At King & Fredrick Streets, William Gambles opened east of St. Lawrence Market was designated Buskerfest Every August the St. Lawrence the first wholesaler in the 1830s next to for the major urban renewal project that Market neighbourhood is alive with buskers William Proudfoot’s Wine Shop, which also became the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood. from around the world, market food vendors, sold dry goods ranging from ostrich feathers Spurred on by this, new condominiums and laughter and music. Front St. East from to tea kettles. Victoria Row, on King Street smaller office buildings went up bringing Scott Street to , Berczy Park, between Church Street and , new life to the neighbourhood, and City and Market Lane Park. For more information opened in 1842 as the city’s most high-end parks, such as Berczy, were created from please go to www.torontobuskerfest.com shopping destination. After this heyday the reclaimed parking lots. Today, Old Town centre of commercial activity began to shift Toronto (west) is a vibrant ‘downtown’ A short history west to Yonge and Bay streets. The neighbourhood home to thousands of resi- Gooderham family’s building of the Flatiron dents, thousands of jobs and some of the Just west of the original ten blocks of the City’s finest heritage architecture. Town of York (see Old Town Toronto east), this half of Old Town Toronto developed when Lieutenant-Governor Peter Hunter A little trivia established the Market Block on the land of a late 1970s condominium that north of Front, west of Jarvis, south of King incorporated a parking garage as part of • One of the most popular parts of the city and east of Church street in 1803. its structure, the only conversion of its for film and TV production with films like The original shoreline of the harbour ran Rules of Engagement, Fever Pitch, How type in the city. just south of today’s Front Street and To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, Serendipity, • Toronto’s first public well was dug in formed the front door of the Town and the Against the Ropes and television shows 1823 near Market Lane Park (west of centre of its early economic life. William like Queer as Folk shot here. St. Lawrence Hall – Point of Interest Cooper was an early entrepreneur who built #9). A public art installation – Return the Town of York’s first commercial wharf in • The 504 King Streetcar is the busiest of the Magri Stecchi – at the north end 1817. Coopers Wharf was the business and surface route in the City serving 55,000 of the park commemorates this and the transportation hub of its time. passengers per day. The current service stocks that stood in Market Square traces its origins back to 1874 when After the City of Toronto was incorporated in until 1834. 1834, city council members met in the Toronto’s third streetcar route launched, ‘second’ St. Lawrence Market building, at running from the Don River via King • On February 8th, 1879 Sir Sandford the southwest corner of King and Jarvis Street to Bathurst Street. Fleming (1827-1915) presented his Streets. The growing city demanded more “invention” of Standard Time to the • York Mechanics Institute opened its space for its administration and Toronto’s Canadian Institute in a building which headquarters at the northeast corner of first city hall was built in 1845 at the then stood near Richmond and Berti Church and Adelaide in 1860. Founded southwest corner of Front and Jarvis streets. Streets, marked today with an Ontario in 1830, the Mechanics Institute, It also housed Police Station Number One. Heritage Trust plaque. Sanford had following the movement that began in The central block of the building was later noted that railroad passengers travelling Britain, promoted the new methods of preserved and incorporated into the façade across country encountered arbitrary manufacturing and craftsmanship of the South St. Lawrence Market. It “local time,” and hit upon the idea of brought on by the Industrial Revolution. escaped the great fire of 1849 which burnt globally standardizing time. Fleming's The Institute operated a lending library down the ‘second’ market and St. James idea was formally adopted in 1884 at which became the foundation for Cathedral. The market building was rebuilt the Washington D.C., International Toronto’s first public library which to the south and St. Lawrence Hall opened Prime Meridian Conference. in 1850 on the previous market site. The opened here in 1884. Today it is the site

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