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Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant (incorporated as 1518756 Ontario Inc.) was a restaurant and banquet hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For most of its existence it was located in the MS Jadran , a former Adriatic passenger ship that was permanently docked at the foot of Yonge Street at 1 Queens Quay West on Toronto's waterfront .
1970 – Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant, a restaurant on board the MS Normac in Toronto harbour opens; 1971 – Ontario Place opens, on man-made islands to the west of the Toronto Islands; 1972 – Harbourfront Centre is established by the Federal Government; 1988 – Royal Commission set-up to formulate a plan for Toronto's harbour
The hotel was built by the Campeau Corporation, after Canadian real estate tycoon Robert Campeau was given permission by the city of Toronto in 1972 to turn industrial land on the city's waterfront into a 30-acre residential and commercial development. [1] The 38-story [2] twin-towered 963-room hotel opened in April 1975 [3] as the Harbour ...
In 1988, at the height of a property boom, the prime waterfront real estate was purchased by Rylar Development Ltd for $15.5 million. Larry Boland and Richard Weldon, principals of Rylar, opted to build a set of luxury condominiums designed by Matsui Baer Vanstone. They opted for a distinctly Neo-Eclectic and Postmodern style.
It is now well inland, illustrating infill of the harbour over the years. The Toronto Harbour Commission Building is a six-storey building erected in 1917 in Toronto by Alfred Chapman and McGiffin (Clare V. McGiffin and Robert B. McGiffin) for the joint municipal-federal agency Toronto Harbour Commission.
The original M/V Miss Toronto began operating in the Inner Toronto Harbour in 1955. Since then three successive ships have carried the name. Since then three successive ships have carried the name. The current ship was built in British Columbia and is the first Miss Toronto to be constructed entirely out of aluminum.
The park is built on quays once used by ships berthing in Toronto's Inner Harbour. The park consists of two sections: H T O Park West is built on the eastern half of Maple Leaf Quay; H T O Park East is built on the old Peter Street Slip; The two quays are concrete man-made infill during the 1920s with the project completed by 1929.
Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant was also a ship moored at the Yonge Street slip and removed in 2015. Toronto Maritime Museum was relocated from Exhibition Place in 1997, but closed in 2003. Harbourfront Centre , housing galleries and performance spaces is located at the foot of Lower Simcoe Street.