It was also coal gas that killed thousands every year as it entered people’s lungs and put the city under a thick dirty fog for the next hundred years.
Today after much redesigning and urban renewal the former gas complex is home to 51 Division Police Headquarters, the Canadian Stage Company and the Canadian Opera Company with its lovely garden complete with a Victorian-inspired gazebo.
Ironically in the middle of this belching, pollution making gas works was the sweet smelling Dalton’s Jam factory.
Archival photos courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives. Contemporary photos taken by Bruce Bell!
- The former Dalton’s Jam factory today.
- Transforming the Consumers Gas complex into the Canadian Stage Company.
- The former Consumers Gas building on Front Street has been transformed into office and rehearsal space for the Canadian Opera Company.
- The beautiful gazebo and park built where gas and jam were once made.
- Consumers Gas complex in the Berkeley and Front area c1890.
- Former Dalton’s Jam factory -1970.