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Spadina Museum (/ s p ə ˈ d iː n ə /), also known as Spadina House, is a historic mansion at 285 Spadina Road in Toronto, Ontario, which is now a historic house museum operated by the City of Toronto's Economic Development & Culture division. [3] The museum preserves the house much as it existed and developed historically.
Spadina Avenue is commonly pronounced with the i as /aɪ/ as in mine; the Spadina House museum on Spadina Road is always pronounced with the i as /iː/ as in ski.The name originated under the latter pronunciation, with the former a colloquialism that evolved as Spadina Avenue was extended from the wealthy neighbourhoods north of Bloor into the more working-class and immigrant areas to the ...
Borden Buildings. The Borden Buildings are two buildings located at 563 Spadina Crescent [1] and 487 Spadina Crescent [2] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.They were once home to dairy operations and now are used by the University of Toronto.
James Austin (March 6, 1813 – February 27, 1897) was a nineteenth century Toronto businessman and the owner of Spadina House, now a museum. Life and career [ edit ]
It is located at 250 College Street, just east of Spadina Avenue. Much of its work focuses on forensic psychology , sex addiction , drug addiction , and research designed to shape public policy . The hospital was originally founded in 1966 as the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry , after Charles Kirk Clarke , a pioneer in mental health in Canada.
Chinatown, Toronto (also known as Downtown Chinatown or West Chinatown) is a Chinese ethnic enclave located in the city's downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is centred at the intersections of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West .
According to the BC Music Review, it was also one of the venues of Toronto's punk scene. [8] The hotel was renamed the Global Village Backpackers in 1997 and the once seedy hotel became a welcoming youth hostel to Toronto, Ontario. [1] With 190 beds (four people per room) it was the largest youth hostel in Toronto. The hostel closed on January ...
Harbord Village is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It lies just to the west of the University of Toronto, with its most commonly accepted borders being Bloor Street on the north, Spadina Avenue on the east, College Street to the south, and Bathurst Street to the west. Areas west of Bathurst, as far as Ossington are also sometimes ...