Toronto's Historical Plaques

torontoplaques.com

Learn a little Toronto history as told through its plaques

Site updated May 23, 2013

North side of King Street from Toronto Street to Church Street 1835 Source - Wikimedia Commons

Here's a photo of one of the 902 historical plaques on this site.
A different plaque photo appears each day.
You can click on the photo to visit its page.

Here are the 10 latest plaque pages
with a new comment added by a visitor to this site.

Earl Kitchener Public School
Green Meadows
Colonel Samuel Smith Park
Regal Road Public School 1914
University Avenue Armouries
Hurricane Hazel
Dominion Coal and Wood
Rupert Hotel Fire
The Robert Simpson Company
The Printers' Strike of 1872

Here are thumbnails of the 9 latest plaques to be posted on this site.

You can click on any of them to go to its webpage.


B.F. Harvey Co. Bedding...	Stelco Swansea Works	Riverdale Railway Station

Riverdale Heritage...	Riverdale Park East	Boris Volkoff 1900-1974

Silverthorn Family...	Ontario Veterinary College	Philosopher's Walk...

Welcome. I'm Alan L Brown. I've lived in Toronto since 1968. I'm a 67-year-old retired school librarian who left the profession in June, 2002. What I am trying to do with this site is catalogue all the federal Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaques, all the provincial Ontario Heritage Trust plaques, all the city Heritage Toronto plaques, all the plaques from the various historical societies and all other public plaques located in the City of Toronto.

Through email, I was able to obtain from the Federal government a list of all the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaques in Toronto along with their location. As well the Ontario government and the City of Toronto government supplied me with similar lists of their plaques.

There are five ways to see the plaque pages, all accessible from the menu at the top of the page. 'Index' gets you an alphabetical list of all the pages. 'Subjects' will show you a list of all the pages sorted by subject. 'Locations' lists all the pages sorted by the former municipalities before amalgamation. 'Search' will allow you to find all the pages that match any word or words and finally, you can click the 'More' link in the menu on each page to travel through all the pages alphabetically.

Each plaque page presents a photo of the plaque, a photo of the subject of the plaque or a photo of the plaque site, an opening commentary by me, the text of the plaque including links to more information, a map of the plaque's location including latitude and longitude co-ordinates and then a section for your comments.

If you wish to link to this site, feel free to do so.
Please use this URL: http://www.torontoplaques.com

My photos are freely available to whoever wishes to download them. I do ask that the photos be credited to torontoplaques.com.

Using the Email link in the menu, you can send me any corrections, your questions, suggestions or opinions. I try to reply within 24 hours.

Privacy Policy: If you send me an email, I use your email address only to reply to you. It is not used for any other purpose.

In July of 2004 I began a website called Ontario's Historical Plaques. I began this website in July of 2006.

I'd like to thank these fine people who have contributed photographs to this site:
Wayne Adam
Pancheta Barnett
Derek Boles
Simon Bubnic
Laura Cooper
Richard Fiennes-Clinton
Charlie Hare
Larry Lalonde
Christopher Lancaster
Tony Manson
Sean Marshall
Rick Mason
Bruce McClure
Colin Old
John Parkyn
David Reed
Jennifer Saunders
Christina Sobolak

If you'd like to see the photos they contributed, just copy their name and paste it into the box on my Search Page.

All contributions are welcome.
You will receive credit for any photo or text posted.
You can email me from the link in the menu.