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Brockton Village
Brockton is a former village, and now a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The neighbourhood comprises part of the historic Village of Brockton, which was Amalgamation of Toronto, annexed by the City of Toronto in 1884. The Village of Brockton was incorporated in 1880 and organized in 1881, with its boundaries extending from Bloor Street in the north to the Northern Railway of Canada, railway tracks and a line between Wright Avenue and Fern Avenue to the south. The village stretched from Dufferin Street in the east to Sunnyside Avenue in the west. However not all the area became identified as Brockton neighbourhood. The section to the west of Lansdowne has become better known as Roncesvalles, Toronto, Roncesvalles. History In March 1812, Lot 30 in York Township, a parcel of land, was granted to James Brock, a cousin of Sir Isaac Brock along with other parcels of land. This lot was a strip of land that stretched from Lot Street, today's Queen Street, north to Bloor Stree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dufferin Park Racetrack, Toronto, Canada (1909)
Dufferin, Dyffryn or Duffryn may refer to: Places In Burma * Fort Dufferin, the British name for Mandalay Palace during their colonial rule In Canada British Columbia * Dufferin Island, * Dufferin, neighbourhood of the city of Kamloops, from 1971 to 1973 a separate municipality Manitoba * Dufferin (Manitoba provincial electoral district) * Fort Dufferin, a National Historic Site * Rural Municipality of Dufferin New Brunswick * Dufferin Parish, a civil parish east of St. Stephen, New Brunswick * Dufferin Hotel, a former hotel in Saint John, New Brunswick Nova Scotia * Port Dufferin, a small community near Halifax Ontario * Dufferin Bridge, a community in Magnetawan * Dufferin County * Dufferin (federal electoral district), a federal electoral district in Ontario, abolished in 1924 * Dufferin Islands, a group of man-made islands near Niagara Falls * Dufferin Street in Toronto ** Dufferin (TTC), a subway station on the street Quebec * Terrasse Dufferin, a broad terrace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Conservatory Of Music
The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM; ), branded as The Royal Conservatory, is a non-profit music education institution and performance venue headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1886 by Edward Fisher (musician), Edward Fisher as The Toronto Conservatory of Music. In 1947, King George VI incorporated the organization through Royal Charter, royal charter. Its Toronto home was designated a National Historic Sites of Canada, National Historic Site of Canada in 1995, in recognition of the institution's influence on music education in Canada. Tim Price is the current Chair of the Board, and Peter Simon is the President. History Early history The conservatory was founded in 1886 as The Toronto Conservatory of Music and opened in September 1887, located on two floors above a music store at the corner of Dundas Street (Toronto), Dundas Street (Wilton Street) and Yonge Street (at today's Yonge Dundas Square). Its founder Edward Fisher (musician), Edward Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brockton High School (Toronto)
Brockton High School (also known as Brockton HS, BHS, or simply known as Brockton) was a Toronto District School Board learning complex based in the Brockton Village neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada that once operated as Brockton Learning Centre consisting of the Aboriginal Education Centre and the Caring and Safe Schools Brockton program. It was formerly a public and vocational high school operated from 1967 to 1995 by the Toronto Board of Education. The Brockton property, located near Dufferin Mall,Bain, Jennifer.FoodShare needs cash to `replant'" ''Toronto Star''. Wednesday July 4, 2007. Retrieved on September 30, 2013. "In October, FoodShare joined the Royal Conservatory in the former Brockton High School at 90 Croatia St., near Dufferin Mall." is still owned by the Toronto District School Board, and the lot is under construction to be the future Bloor Collegiate Institute. The demolished school site was known for an art installation known as Bloordale Beach during the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Portugal, Toronto
Little Portugal (also known as Portugal Village; Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Pequeno Portugal'' or, ''Aldeia Portugal'') is a neighbourhood and ethnic enclave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located west of downtown in the Old Toronto, "Old" City of Toronto. It is bound on the west by Lansdowne Avenue (Toronto), Lansdowne Avenue, on the north by College Street (Toronto), College Street, on the east by Ossington Avenue and on the south by the GO Transit and Union Pearson Express railway tracks. The area is mainly residential, with Portuguese businesses along Dundas Street West and College Street (Toronto), College Street. The area west of Dufferin Street was a part of the former Brockton Village, Town of Brockton. The sub area bounded by Dufferin Street on the west, Dundas Street on the north, Ossington Avenue on the east and Queen Street, Toronto, Queen Street on the south is also known as ''"Beaconsfield Village"'' dating back to the days of the sub-division of lots in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares Portugal-Spain border, the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the Macaronesia, Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, which are the two Autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous regions of Portugal. Lisbon is the Capital city, capital and List of largest cities in Portugal, largest city, followed by Porto, which is the only other Metropolitan areas in Portugal, metropolitan area. The western Iberian Peninsula has been continuously inhabited since Prehistoric Iberia, prehistoric times, with the earliest signs of Human settlement, settlement dating to 5500 BC. Celts, Celtic and List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knob Hill Farms
Knob Hill Farms was a supermarket chain in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada that operated from 1953 to 2001 and was owned by businessman Steve Stavro. It began as a single produce store in the east end of Toronto in 1953 before growing into one of Canada's largest grocery chains, all with only 10 locations in and around Toronto. Knob Hill Farms was an early innovator in the field of "big box grocers" in the early 1960s, culminating in Knob Hill Farm's Cambridge location being the largest grocery store in the world at the time of its opening in 1991. Knob Hill Farms origin Knob Hill Farms began as a small east Toronto fruit stand in 1951, operated by Steve Stavro, his brother Chris and their father. Stavro said he took the name from a box of produce from California. At the time, Stavro had dropped out of high school to work in retail with his father. By 1954, Steve was running his own traditional grocery store at 425–427 Danforth Avenue. By the late 1950s, Stavro was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Cash Register
NCR Voyix Corporation, previously known as NCR Corporation and National Cash Register, is a global software, consulting and technology company providing several professional services and electronic products. It manufactured self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, automated teller machines, check processing systems, and barcode scanners. NCR was founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1884. It grew to become a dominant market leader in cash registers, then decryption machinery, then computing machinery, and computers over the subsequent 100 years. By 1991, it was still the fifth-largest manufacturer of computers. That year, it was acquired by AT&T. A restructuring of AT&T in 1996 led to NCR's re-establishment on January 1, 1997, as a separate company and involved the spin-off of Lucent Technologies from AT&T. In June 2009, the company sold most of the Dayton properties and moved its headquarters to the Atlanta metropolitan area, near Duluth. In early January 2018, the new NCR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in European theatre of World War I, Europe and the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle East, as well as in parts of African theatre of World War I, Africa and the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by trench warfare; the widespread use of Artillery of World War I, artillery, machine guns, and Chemical weapons in World War I, chemical weapons (gas); and the introductions of Tanks in World War I, tanks and Aviation in World War I, aircraft. World War I was one of the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated World War I casualties, 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Rogers
Elias Rogers (June 23, 1850 – April 11, 1920) was a Canadian business magnate, banker, and politician. He was a major coal dealer in Canada and founder, with his brother Samuel, of the Elias Rogers Company in Toronto. His great-grandfather was Timothy Rogers (Quaker leader), Timothy Rogers (1756–1834), a Canadian settler, pioneer and Quaker leader who founded settlements in what became Newmarket, Ontario, Newmarket and Pickering, Ontario, Pickering. Biography Rogers was born in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Whitchurch, near Newmarket, to a Quaker family. He began in the lumber business before switching to coal, purchasing the first coal mines in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Rogers was elected to Toronto City Council in 1887 as alderman for St. Lawrence Ward. He ran for mayor of Toronto 1888 Toronto municipal election, the next year on a Temperance movement, temperance platform but was defeated by Edward Frederick Clarke, after one of Clarke's supporters, Member of Parliament Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Hockey Club
The Toronto Hockey Club, known as the Torontos and the Toronto Blueshirts, were a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto. They were a member of the National Hockey Association (NHA). The club was founded in 1911 and began operations in 1912. The club won its sole Stanley Cup championship in 1914. The club became the centre of a controversy among NHA owners leading to the NHA suspending operations and the owners forming the National Hockey League (NHL). The Blueshirts were replaced in the NHL by a new Toronto Hockey Club under the ownership of the Toronto Arena Company, the Blueshirts' former landlord. The Torontos' players were leased to the Arena ownership temporarily and competed in the NHL in 1917–18, winning the Stanley Cup. The Arena Company was then granted a permanent franchise for the 1918–19 season that evolved into today's Toronto Maple Leafs. History Founding to Cup winners The NHA was founded in 1909 without any teams based in Toronto. National Hockey As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand National Rink
The Grand National Rink was an outdoor skating rink located in the Brockton Village neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1896 to 1902. At the time, it was the largest open-air rink in the city. Its location is now the site of the McCormick Playground Arena at McCormick Park in the Little Portugal neighbourhood. History Business merchant Andrew Wheeler Green owned the Grand National Rink at 153 Brock Avenue, south of Dundas Street. Opened in December 1896, the north side of the grounds featured the ice rink and a heated bandstand. Expansion plans began in March 1897 to add new amenities. By May 1900, a new bandstand was constructed and the grounds featured a large fountain surrounded by evergreen trees. A basketball court was added along with a race track for sprinting and distance running and an athletic field for jumping and vaulting. One corner had a summertime outdoor roller skating rink and an open-air hockey rink for the winter. Skating carnivals were held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
