Tag Archives: Bruce Bell

These photos of corner of King and Yonge streets (one from 1937 and the other from today) illustrate the passage of time. The black and white photo shows a small portion of the Canadian Pacific building behind the newspaper kiosk. ...

When the TD Centre opened in 1966 it became the symbol of the new Toronto: wealthy, powerful and full of promise. We now had the largest, tallest and biggest corporate office space in all of Canada and it had been ...

In 1900 George Gooderham—the richest man in Toronto, founder of the Bank of Toronto, CEO of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery as well as builder of the famed Flatiron building at Church and Wellington—had a new idea. New: check out ...

St. Michael’s Cathedral on Bond Street has reopened after years of exhaustive renovations, making the cathedral today just as spectacular as when it first opened in 1848. A century and a half of grime, coal dust, candle wax and just ...

Thank-you for your piece in “The Bulletin” regarding the corner of Richmond/Victoria.  I live in the Spire and have always wondered what must have stood there at some point in time.. well since my move from Calgary in 2012 anyway. ...

You forgot the Congregationalists who merged with the Methodists and a majority of the Presbyterians to form the United Church of Canada in 1925. —Phyllis Snyder

Paulette Touby — When Waterfront Toronto was looking for locations for art installations in the West Donlands they settled on the corner of Eastern Avenue at Sumach. Why? Because it is the site of the home of Lucie and Thornton Blackburn. ...

Bruce Bell – Two centuries ago north of Queen Street (then called Lot Street) was mostly forest complete with wild deer, hungry bears and fish-filled streams. It would be in this idyllic woodsy enclave that the affluent citizens of York ...

By the 1850s Toronto’s meagre social and charitable services were becoming almost unmanageable. This was the era of mass immigration, and thanks in part to the railroad, the city was flooded with newly arrived Europeans looking for a better life. ...