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The history of Toronto dates back to Indigenous settlements in the region approximately 12,000 years ago. However, the oldest standing structures in Toronto were built by European settlers. Remains of a Seneca settlement exist at the federally protected Bead Hill archaeological site, in eastern Toronto.
Pimlico is the setting of the 1940 version of Gaslight. Post World War II, Pimlico was the setting of the 1949 Ealing comedy Passport To Pimlico. In G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Pimlico is used as an example of "a desperate thing." Arguing that things are not loved because they are great but become great because they are loved, he asserts that ...
10 Toronto Street Toronto ON 43°38′59″N 79°22′34″W / 43.6498°N 79.3762°W / 43.6498; -79.3762 ( Toronto Street Post Office / Bank of Canada
The History of the Battle of Toronto by William Lyon MacKenzie, 1839 from the Ontario Time Machine; Historicist articles on Toronto History by Torontoist.ca; Toronto Boom Town, a 1951 National Film Board of Canada documentary covering the first half of the 20th century; Toronto Past, a blog devoted to links to Toronto history stories and resources
An outstanding example of picturesque design inspired by the 19th-century tradition of rural cemeteries in a naturalistic setting; many of the grave markers are representative of significant epochs in the history of Toronto and the rest of the country Old Toronto City Hall and York County Court House [50] [51] 1899 (completed) 1984 Toronto
This timeline of the history of Toronto documents all events that occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including historical events in the former cities of East York, Etobicoke, North York, Toronto, Scarborough, and York. Events date back to the early-17th century and continue until the present in chronological order.
Casa Loma is located on Austin Terrace at Spadina Road, on an escarpment (Davenport Hill) above Davenport Road. Davenport runs along the bottom of the escarpment, which was the shoreline of Lake Iroquois , the predecessor of Lake Ontario (coordinates 43°40′41″N 79°24′33″W / 43.678°N 79.4093°W / 43.678; -79.
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