Category: General

Incorporated as a non-profit corporation in 1913, the Labor Lyceum was a cultural locus in Toronto, providing space and support for the mobilization of worker’s unions and community groups. Home to lectures, dances, fundraisers, concerts and performances, the Lyceum saw many influential individuals walk through its doors. To learn more about the Labor Lyceum, click here.

On May 25 2008 the Honourable Jason Kenney, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity installed a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque in Kensington Market. Later in 2006, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada designated Kensington Market as a site of national historic significance transforming the neighbourhood into a national landmark. Read more here.

During the 1960s, Portuguese men used to congregate outside the bookstore to listen to soccer games.

In the 1960s, Portuguese families gathered and ate with other families at this restaurant.

During the 1960s, Portuguese men socialized at this billiards hall. 

 

The home at 22 Kensington Place still bears hand prints in the cement made by Nico and Fevh, the children of the barber, John Varney, who lived there in the 1890s.

 

 

Bellevue Square Park, donated to the City of Toronto in 1887 by Robert Denison was originally the front lawn to the Bellevue, the Denison home.

St. Stephen of the Fields Anglican Church was originally built in 1858 with funds and property donated by Robert Brittain Denison. The modern building was rebuilt in 1865 after the original burnt down.

Toronto Western Hospital was built in 1911 on the site of the MacDonell family farm.