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This building was built in 1827 for the Bank of Upper Canada, a bank that failed in 1866. It is a National Historic Site and one of the few buildings in Toronto that predates the city itself, known as the Town of York until 1834. The building is used today for commercial office space.
The Bank of Upper Canada Building is a former bank building in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the few remaining buildings in Toronto that predate the 1834 incorporation of the city. It is located at 252 Adelaide Street East, in the Old Town district. Opened in 1827, in what was then the town of York, the building housed the Bank of Upper Canada until the bank's collapse in 1866. It was then used for school purposes and later for various commercial and industrial purposes before being restored in 1982 as commercial office space. The building has been designated a National Historic Site of Canada since 1977.
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De La Salle Institute built a Catholic school here in 1871. The institute took over the First Toronto Post Office building in 1874 and the Bank of Upper Canada Building about 20 years later. The institute left all three buildings in 1916.
Town of York Historical Society
Toronto's First Post Office (or Fourth York Post Office) is an 1834 post office that is today a historical museum with a few postal and local history exhibits. It is the oldest purpose-built and the only surviving example of a post office that functioned as a department of the British Royal Mail. The style of the building is late Georgian architecture. Visitors can prepare an old-fashioned folded-sheet letter using a quill pen and sealing wax for a small additional fee. The museum also contains a modern post office outlet.
This ornate, Renaissance Revival building was built in 1850 to be Toronto's main meeting space and was a major centre for political speeches and concerts. It is now used for a diverse range of uses, from weddings to art shows.
This impressive, Gothic revival cathedral was built in 1844. It has an extremely pleasant garden that allows for relaxing people watching on King St.
Toronto Sculpture Garden has a changing exhibit of sculptures. The small park is nestled between two buildings and has a waterfall fountain along its east wall.
St. Lawrence Market has been bringing fresh foods into the city for Torontonians and visitors alike since 1901. Located at Jarvis and Front, the market stretches over 2 buildings, an older main building on the south side of Front St., and a modern north building (opened in 2025) directly across the street. The main building has over 50 specialty vendors, with a large seafood section, a dozen butchers, several bakeries, and three very extensive cheese shops. In the basement, there is also a specialty area for handcrafters, and an extensive food court, with merchants often cooking food that they bought fresh that morning from upstairs. The north building is home to a farmer's market, open Saturdays year round, featuring fresh vegetables in season, preserves, spices and herbs, and direct from the source foods, such as honey direct from the beekeeper or maple syrup from the people who tapped and boiled it, and Ontario wines. The north building also features an antique market on Sundays.