Tag: history

The Queen’s Hotel

By Bruce Bell, History Columnist – The most famous hotel in York’s early years was Jordan’s York Hotel, first built in 1805, and it stood near where the…

The Dineen Building

By Bruce Bell – Upon arriving from Connecticut in 1802, Jordan Post purchased a tract on the south side of King Street from present-day Yonge to Bay Streets…

Enrico Caruso at Massey Hall

By Bruce Bell – 1920 was a good year for Toronto. A young Canadian doctor at the University of Toronto named Frederick Banting finally started to see results…