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Town of York Historical Society
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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.
Toronto's First Post Office is a historic post office in Toronto, Ontario. It is the oldest purpose-built post office in Canada that functioned as a department of the British Royal Mail, and the only surviving example. After its initial use as a post office, it became part of a Roman Catholic boys' school and later a cold storage building. Located at 260 Adelaide Street East in downtown Toronto, the building now houses a museum and a full-service post office, run by the Town of York Historical Society.
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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.
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.
Mimi Variety Store
For fans of the CBC TV comedy Kim's Convenience. With a switch of name on the exterior signs, Mimi Variety Store became Kim's Convenience to appear in the like-named sitcom. Mimi's/Kim's is still a functioning variety/convenience store.