Learn a little of Toronto's history as told through its plaques.
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Alexander Muir 1830-1906 (C)
Alexander Muir
Beatrice Lillie Building
Bernard Keble Sandwell (1876-1954)
C.W. Jefferys 1869-1951
Canoe & Calipers
Charles William Jefferys 1869-1951
Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe 1766-1850
Ernest Hemingway
Eulogy to Beauty
Fool's Paradise
Frances Loring and Florence Wyle (C)
George Faludy 1910-2006 (C)
Glenn Gould
Harold Town
History As Theatre: 200 Toronto Years
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887) (C)
J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932)
John Wilson Bengough 1851-1923
Lawren Harris 1885-1970
Loring-Wyle Studio (C)
Lucius O'Brien (1832-1899)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mary Pickford (C)
Morley Callaghan
Owen Staples House and Studio 1904
Robert Gourlay 1778-1863
Robertson Davies - 1913-1995
Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973)
St. George's Hall (Arts and Letters Club)
Sunrise Park
Vincent Massey 1887-1967
Walter Huston (C)
Walter Seymour Allward, R.C.A., 1876-1955 (C)
Wychwood Park (C)
York Wilson (C)
Albany Club of Toronto
Archives of Ontario
Athenaeum Club 1891
Canada First Movement (C)
Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto
National Club
National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC)
National Yacht Club
Ontario Historical Society
Royal Canadian Yacht Club
St. George's Society of Toronto
Toronto Heliconian Club
Toronto Horticultural Society (C)
Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club
University Club of Toronto Building 1929
Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
James Gilbert Gove 1884-1974
Edgar John Jarvis 1835-1907
McCausland Stained Glass
Robert McCausland Limited (C)
Wallace C. Swanek
Nathan A. (Nat) Taylor (1906-2004)
William Thomas 1799-1860
Christie's Methodist Cemetery (C)
Military Burial Ground
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Old Garrison Burying Ground 1794-1863
Pape Avenue Cemetery
Potter's Field of Muddy York
Resting Place of Pioneers (Mount Pleasant)
Resting Place of Pioneers (Necropolis)
Richview Cemetery (C)
Saint Michael's Cemetery, 1855
Taylor Cemetery (C)
Toronto Necropolis
Washington Methodist Church Cemetery
Wesleyan Cemetery
Willow Grove Burying Ground
139-145 Front Street East (C)
11 St. Joseph Street
Art Deco Bronze Doors
Bank of Montreal
Bay Queen Street Store (C)
Bell Telephone Company Building 1926
CN Tower 25 Years 1976-2001
Colonnade
Consumers' Gas Building
Crosse & Blackwell Building
Daniel Brooke Building
Ideal Bread Company Factory 1919 (C)
Poulton Block 1885
Riverboat Coffee House (C)
Robert Simpson Co. Mail-Order Building and Additions 1916-1939 (C)
Robert Simpson Co. Warehouse 1910
Robert Simpson Company (C)
Savarin Tavern
Silver Rail Tavern (C)
Simpsons Mail-Order Warehouse Dalhousie Street Extension 1949
Toronto-Dominion Centre (C)
Wesley Building
Canada's First Air Mail (C)
Canada's First Electric Telegraph
Francis Collins
John Ross Robertson 1841-1918
Johnny Lombardi 1915-2002 (C)
Joseph E. Atkinson (1865-1948) (C)
Lord Thomson of Fleet 1894-1976
Battle of York 1813 (C)
Canada's First Victoria Cross
Canadian Military Institute Building 1908 (C)
Colborne Street Theater
Colonel James Givins (C)
Corporal Frederick George Topham, V.C. 1917-1974 (C)
David Gibson 1804-1864 (C)
Defence of York
Flight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell, V.C., 1910-1944 (C)
Fort Rouillé (C)
Fort York
Gibraltar Point
Little Norway (C)
Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion (1937-1938) (C)
Major-General The Honourable Aeneas Shaw
Montgomery's Tavern (C)
Printers' Strike of 1872
Queen's Rangers
Riot at Christie Pits
Royal Norwegian Airforce 1940-1945
Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews
Second Invasion of York 1813
Sir Gordon Drummond 1771-1854 (C)
Stanley Barracks (C)
Types Riot
Warriors' Day Parade (C)
William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 (C)
Arena Gardens
Coliseum Complex, Exhibition Place
Keating Coffee House
Loew's Yonge Street and Winter Garden Theatres (C)
Massey Hall (C)
Massey Music Hall
Royal Alexandra Theatre (C)
Royal Alexandra Theatre 1907 (C)
Studio Building
Bailey Bridge Construction 2nd Field Engineer Regiment
Great Fire of 1849
Great Toronto Fire
Hoggs Hollow Tragedy (C)
Hurricane Hazel (C)
Irish Immigrants and the Fever Sheds 1847 (C)
Noronic Disaster (C)
Raymore Bridge
Rupert Hotel Fire (C)
Edith Kathleen Russell 1886-1964
Harold Adams Innis 1894-1952
Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Marshall McLuhan 1911-1980
Reverend Henry Scadding 1813-1901 (C)
Sir Daniel Wilson 1816-1892
William Arthur Parks 1868-1936
Women at the University of Toronto
Agincourt School
Annesley Hall
Annesley Hall Victoria University
Burwash Hall Victoria University
Earl Kitchener Public School
Enoch Turner Schoolhouse
Frontier College
Highland Creek School
Hillside Public School S.S. No. 4.
Home District School
Humberside Collegiate (C)
Jarvis Collegiate Institute
Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute
Jesse Ketchum School (C)
King's College
Knox College
McMaster Hall
Moulton College (C)
Oakridge Public School (C)
Ontario College of Pharmacy
Ontario Medical College for Women
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Regal Road Public School 1914 (C)
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (C)
Sackville Street Public School (C)
St. Hilda's College (C)
St. Michael's College
Scarborough High School
Sir Adam Beck School and the Summer of '36
Sunnylea School
Toronto Normal and Model School 1851-1962 (C)
Toronto Normal School
Trinity College
University College
Upper Canada College
Upper Canada College Boarding House
Upper Canada Veterinary School
Winchester Street School
Withrow Avenue Public School Junior
Wycliffe College
York Mills Public School 50th Anniversary Park
Thornton and Lucie Blackburn (C)
Thornton and Lucie Blackburn (C)
Edward S. Rogers, Sr. 1900-1939
George Leslie 1804-1893
George Weston 1864-1924 (C)
Green Meadows (C)
Theodore August Heintzman 1817-1899
Timothy Eaton (1834-1907)
Discovery Point
Étienne Brûlé
Jean-Baptiste Rousseaux 1758-1812
Samuel de Champlain's Journeys Through Ontario (C)
Bank of British North America
Bank of Upper Canada Building
Birkbeck Building
Canadian Bank of Commerce Building 1929-1931
Commercial Bank of the Midland District
Dominion Bank Building 1914
Imperial Bank of Canada 1908
Royal Insurance Company of Canada
Alexandra Site
Indian Trail
Indian Village Site
Jackes Site
Oronhyatekha (C)
Taber Hill (C)
Withrow Archaeological Site (C)
Baldwin Steps
Dolostone
Scarborough Bluffs (C)
Toronto Island
Eglinton Hunt Club - RCAF Institute of Aviation Medicine (C)
First Fire Hall
First Municipal Building
Legislature of the Province of Canada
New Toronto Filtration Plant/Lakeshore Pumping Station
Old City Hall (C)
Old City Hall York County Court House
Ontario's First Parliament Buildings 1798
Queen's Park (C)
Toronto Post Office 1853-1873
York Council Chambers 1907-1950
York Post Office
Dowswell's Inn
Gladstone Hotel
King Edward Hotel
Lambton House
Montgomery's Inn (C)
Royal York Hotel
Royal York Hotel
Dominion Square
Early Mill Site
George Brown College St. James Campus
Gooderham and Worts Distillery Complex
Highland Creek Mills (C)
Humber River Industries
Joseph Simpson Knitting Mills
L.J. McGuinness Distillers (C)
Old Mill
Windmill Millstone (C)
107 Wellington Street West 1889 1889 (C)
Belmont House
Community Centre 55
Don Jail 1859-1864 (C)
Early Exhibition Buildings
House of Industry
House of Providence (C)
Osgoode Hall
Osgoode Hall
Osgoode Hall Fence and Gate
Return of the Magri Stecchi
St. Andrew's Market and Playground
St. Christopher House
St. George's Hall
St. Lawrence Hall (C)
St. Lawrence Hall (C)
St. Lawrence Hall 1850 (C)
St. Lawrence Market
Saint Vincent de Paul Children's Aid Society Of Toronto
Salvation Army Territorial Headquarters
Scarborough's Golden Mile (C)
York's First Jail
Beaches Branch, Toronto Public Library 1916
Dovercourt Branch, Toronto Public Library 1913
Earlscourt Branch, Toronto Public Library 1921
Ontario Library Association
Riverdale Branch, Toronto Public Library 1910 (C)
Runnymede Branch, Toronto Public Library 1930
Scarboro' Centennial Memorial Library
Western Branch, Toronto Public Library 1909
Weston Public Library
York Mechanics' Institute 1830-1882
Yorkville Branch, Toronto Public Library 1907
Gibraltar Point Lighthouse (C)
Lake Light
Queen's Wharf Lighthouse
Central Hospital
College Gates
First Women's College Hospital
Queen Mary Hospital (C)
Queen Street Mental Health Centre (C)
Riverdale Hospital
St. Michael's Hospital
Site of the Christie Street Veterans' Hospital (C)
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto General Hospital 1856-1913 (C)
Trinity College Medical School
Victoria Hospital for Sick Children
Women's College Hospital
York Hospital Site 1829-1856
Discovery of Insulin
Doctor Gwynne's Garden
Dr. Emily Stowe (1831-1903) (C)
Dr. William D. Young Memorial
Dr. William T. Mustard 1914-1987 (C)
First External Cardiac Pacemaker, 1950
Honourable Herbert Alexander Bruce, M.D. 1868-1963
John James Rickard Macleod 1876-1935
Maud Leonora Menten 1879-1960
Rolph School
St. John Ambulance in Ontario (C)
Sir Frederick Banting 1891-1941
Allan A. Lamport Regatta Course
Amsterdam Square
Barbara Ann Scott Ice Rink (C)
Canadian International Air Show
Canadian National Exhibition
Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve
Chorley Park
Cliff Lumsdon Park
CNE Bandshell (C)
Colonel O'Hara's Garden
Colonel Samuel Smith Park (C)
Court House Square
Craigleigh Gardens (C)
Dentonia Park Farm
Edwards Gardens
George Milbrandt Parkette
James Bryce Milner Park
Joseph Sheard Parkette (C)
Kay Gardner Beltline Park (C)
Kempton Howard Park (C)
Marie Curtis Park
Palace Pier (C)
Palais Royale
Parkdale Curling Club / Masaryk Memorial Institute
Queen Alexandra Gateway
Rosetta McClain Gardens
Santa Claus Parade
Scarboro' Beach Amusement Park
Sculpture Garden
Site of Toronto's First Moving Picture Show (C)
Sunnyside Amusement Park (C)
Henry Mulholland
Jacob Cummer 1797-1841
Loyalists In Upper Canada (C)
Rhoda Skinner Scarborough Pioneer (C)
Stong Pioneer Family (C)
184 Roxborough Drive
Alexander Wood 1772-1844
Baldwin Family
Betty Sutherland Trail (C)
Birthplace of Lester Pearson
Birthplace of Robert Baldwin
Colonel W.J. Stewart, CBE, CD 1889-1969
Donald Willard Moore 1891-1994
Frederic W. Cumberland 1820-1881
George Brown (C)
George Brown 1819-1880 (C)
George Taylor Denison 1839-1925
Grace Bagnato 1891-1950 (C)
Honourable George Stewart Henry 1871-1958
Honourable William McDougall 1822-1905
James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942 (C)
James Simpson (1873-1938)
Janet M. Magee 1898-1979
Jean Gertrude "True" Davidson (1901-1978)
John J. Ward
Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806
Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson, 1897-1972
Robert Baldwin 1804-1858
Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1873-1973
Sir John A. Macdonald 1815-1891
Sir Oliver Mowat 1820-1903
Sir William Campbell 1758-1834
Sir William Pearce Howland (1811-1907)
Stone Church Site of Jesse Ketchum Hall
Toronto Purchase
William Berczy
William Hume Blake 1809-1870 (C)
William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950
William Peyton Hubbard 1842-1935
William Peyton Hubbard, 1842-1935
William (Billy) McKay Jr. (1862-1943)
Armadale Free Methodist Church 1880 (C)
Avenue Road Church
Beach Hebrew Institute
Cathedral Church of St. James
Chapel Of St. James_the_Less
Church Avenue
Church of All Nations (C)
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes 1886-1986 Centennial
Church of St. John the Evangelist (The Garrison Church) 1858-1963
Church of St. Simon-the-Apostle
Church of the Holy Trinity 1847
First Evangelical Lutheran Church (C)
First Jewish Congregation in Canada West
First Municipal Building
First Unitarian Congregation in Canada West 1845
Friends' Meeting House
George H. Dix Memorial
Hillside Church
Immanuel Baptist Church
Jarvis Street Baptist Church
Kiever Synagogue 1927 (C)
Knesseth Israel Synagogue
Knox Church
Little Trinity Church (C)
Macdonald-Mowat House 1872
Melville Church
Merton Street Gospel Mission
Metropolitan United Church
Original Site of Toronto Hebrew Congregation Holy Blossom
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake
St. Andrew's Church (Jarvis Street) (C)
St. Andrew's Church (Scarborough) (C)
St. Andrew's Church (Simcoe Street)
St. Anne's Anglican Church
St. Anne's Church
St. George's On-The-Hill
St. James' Cathedral
St. John the Baptist, Norway (C)
Saint Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral
Saint Joseph's Church, Scarborough (C)
St. Jude's Church
Saint Luke's United Church Centennial 1887-1987
St. Margaret's Church
St. Matthew's Anglican Church 1890
St. Michael's Cathedral
St. Michael's Cathedral Rectory (C)
St. Paul's Basilica
St. Paul's Church, L'Amoreaux 1840-1935 (C)
St. Peter's Anglican Church
St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican Church
Saint Thomas's Anglican Church
York Mills Presbyterian Church circa 1836
Zion-Wexford Church
Allan Maclean Howard House - The Second Mile Club
Ashbridge Estate
Bishop's Palace 1818
Bracondale Hill
Casa Loma and the Pellatts
Casa Loma Stables (C)
Castle Frank
Chudleigh
Coach-House of Chester Park
Colborne Lodge 1836 (C)
Cornell Home (C)
Cornell House
Eden Smith House
First Ashbridge Home
Fool's Paradise
Frank P. Wood Estate 1931
G. Gooderham House (C)
G.H. Gooderham House
Hazeldean
Isaac Weldon House 1921-1922
James Weir Farm House
Macdonald_Mowat House (C)
Mary Perram House 1877 (C)
McCowan Log House
Northfield
Oakham House
O'Keefe House
Old Scott House (C)
Paul Kane Park
Playter Farmhouse
Richardson Family
Rosedale Villa
Rupert Simpson House 1899 (C)
Scadding Cabin
Scadding Cabin, 1794
Simpson House
Spadina and the Austins
Springfield Farm House
Thomas Hogarth House circa 1875
Tyrrell House
William Devenish Home
William Stewart Darling House 1873-1876
William Thomson House
York Cottage (C)
Crawford Street Bridge
Humber River
Straightening The Don, 1890
Taddle Creek
Toronto Carrying Place
Birthplace of Standard Time
Charles Trick Currelly 1876-1957
Davidson Black 1884-1934
Early Meteorology in Canada
Elizabeth (Elsie) Gregory Macgill (C)
First Banding of a Bird
J.B. Tyrrell (1858-1957)
J.J. Wright (1848-1922)
Rogers Batteryless Radio
Sir John Henry Lefroy 1817-1890
Stewart Observatory
25 Years of Blue Jays Baseball 1977 2001
Babe Ruth at Hanlan's Point (C)
Babe Ruth in Toronto (C)
Crossing of Lake Ontario by Marilyn Bell
Edward Hanlan 1855-1908 (C)
Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (C)
First Grey Cup Game
Foster Hewitt (1902-1985) (C)
Lionel Conacher 1900-1954
Lionel Conacher Park
Lionel Pretoria Conacher (1900-1954)
Long Branch Race Track (C)
Marilyn Bell
Monsignor (Père) Athol Murray 1892-1975
Ned Hanlan 1855-1908 (C)
Toronto's First Professional Baseball Stadium 1886-1896 (C)
Awde St.
Bailey Bridge Construction 2nd Field Engineer Regiment
Baldwin Steps
Brown's Line (C)
Croft Street (C)
Davenport Road
Don River Bridge, 1803
Draper Street
Elm Street
Horner Avenue
Lion Monument
Old Danforth Road
Old Toll Gate House
Prince Edward Viaduct
Princes' Gates (C)
Princes' Gates
Raymore Bridge
Sewell's Road Bridge 1912-1981
Top of the North Hill - 1850's
Traffic at Yonge and Sheppard - 1860's
Weston Road
Yonge Street 1796
Baby Point (C)
Chinatown
Don Mills
Don Mills
Finch
Founding of Weston
Guildwood Village
Highland Creek Village
Islington Mosaic Heritage Murals (C)
Kensington Market (C)
Lansing
Lansing
Newtonbrook (C)
Norway Post Office
Thomson Settlement (C)
Todmorden Mills
Toronto's First Chinatown
Town of North Toronto - Centenary
Village of Yorkville (C)
West Toronto Junction (C)
Willowdale (C)
Wychwood Park (C)
York Mills
York Mills
York Mills
Administration Building
DeHavilland "Beaver"
Etobicoke Transportation Mural
Kay Gardner Beltline Park
M.V. Hiawatha
King Street West Railway Subway (Underpass) 1888
Kingston Road Radial
Trillium
Union Station