Toronto's Historical Plaques

torontoplaques.com

Discover Toronto's history as told through its plaques

2004 - Now in our 13th Year - 2017

Site updated September 21, 2017

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Early York - Image source: City of Toronto Archives

Welcome. I'm Alan L Brown. I've lived in Toronto since 1968. I'm a 71-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. (more)

Here's our Plaque of the Day,
one of the 948 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 latest plaque pages
with a new comment added by a visitor to this site.

	The Ashbridge Estate
	Oakridge Public School
	Bruce Mackey
	Coach-House of Chester Park
	York Mills Public School 50th Anniversary Park

(continued from the top of this page) 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. 'Plaque Map' will show you a map of the city will all the plaques marked which you can click on. '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, a map of the plaque's location including latitude and longitude co-ordinates, links to more information as well as an opportunity to send comments about the plaque page.

In partnership with Evan Sepa, a GIS Professional, we have an interactive Google Map of Toronto which includes links to all the plaques on this site.

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 words "Source: torontoplaques.com" be located under or near the photos.

This site is indexed by the FreeFind search engine.

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.

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I permit use of my photos on torontoplaques.com to be used under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike" license at Wikipedia.

In March 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 26 fine people who have contributed plaque photographs to this site:
Wayne Adam
Pancheta Barnett
Derek Boles
Pearl Bradbury
Simon Bubnic
Laura Cooper
Richard Fiennes-Clinton
Charlie Hare
Michael Hudson
John Kertesz
Larry Lalonde
Christopher Lancaster
Rudy Limeback
Danica Loncar
Tony Manson
Sean Marshall
Rick Mason
Bruce McClure
Colin Old
John Parkyn
David Reed
Jim Roche
Jennifer Saunders
Margaret Shepherd
Christina Sobolak
Kaitlin Wainwright

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