Toronto of Old: Collections and Recollections, by Henry Scadding, D.D

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Author

Scadding, Henry, 1813-1901

Title

Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario

Credits

Produced by Marcia Brooks, Ross Cooling and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

F1001: North America local history: Canada

Subject

Toronto (Ont.) -- History

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eBook-No.

35225

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35225

Release Date

February 9, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Toronto of Old: — Collections and Recollections — ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE — EARLY SETTLEMENT AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE CAPITAL OF ONTARIO.
2. 2.By HENRY SCADDING, D.D. — TORONTO: ADAM, STEVENSON & CO. 1873. — Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-three, by Adam, Stevenson & Co. , in the office of the Minister of Agriculture. — Hunter, Rose & Co. , Printers, Stereotypers and Bookbinders, Toronto. — TO — THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
3. 3.This Volume, — TREATING OF THE INFANCY AND EARLY YOUTH — OF AN IMPORTANT CANADIAN CIVIC COMMUNITY — NOW FAST RISING TO MAN'S ESTATE, — IS — (BY PERMISSION GRACIOUSLY GIVEN,) — THANKFULLY AND LOYALLY DEDICATED
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.INTRODUCTORY.
7. 7.TORONTO OF OLD — I. — PALACE STREET TO THE MARKET PLACE. — EARLY PRICES AT YORK. — II. — FRONT STREET, FROM THE MARKET PLACE TO BROCK STREET. — III. — FROM BROCK STREET TO THE OLD FRENCH FORT. — IV. — FROM THE GARRISON BACK TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING. — V. — KING STREET, FROM JOHN STREET TO YONGE STREET. — VI. — KING STREET, FROM YONGE STREET TO CHURCH STREET. — VII. — KING STREET: DIGRESSION SOUTHWARDS AT CHURCH STREET: MARKET LANE. — VIII. — KING STREET: ST. JAMES' CHURCH. — IX. — KING STREET: ST. JAMES' CHURCH—( Continued .) — X. — KING STREET: ST. JAMES' CHURCH—( Continued. ) — XI. — KING STREET: DIGRESSION NORTHWARD AT CHURCH STREET: THE OLD DISTRICT GRAMMAR SCHOOL. — XII. — KING STREET FROM CHURCH STREET TO GEORGE STREET. — XIII. — KING STREET—DIGRESSION INTO DUKE STREET. — XIV. — KING STREET—FROM GEORGE STREET TO CAROLINE STREET. — IMPORTS AT YORK IN 1805. — XV. — KING STREET, FROM CAROLINE STREET TO BERKELEY STREET. — XVI. — FROM BERKELEY STREET TO THE BRIDGE AND ACROSS IT. — XVII. — THE VALLEY OF THE DON. — I.—From the Bridge on the Kingston Road to Tyler's. — 2.—From Tyler's to the Big Bend. — 3.—From the Big Bend to Castle Frank Brook. — 4.—Castle Frank. — 5.—On to the Ford and the Mills. — XVIII. — QUEEN STREET, FROM THE DON BRIDGE TO CAROLINE STREET. — XIX. — QUEEN STREET—DIGRESSION AT CAROLINE STREET—HISTORY OF THE EARLY PRESS. — XX. — QUEEN STREET, FROM GEORGE STREET TO YONGE STREET.—MEMORIES OF THE OLD COURT HOUSE. — Memories of the Old Court House. — XXI. — QUEEN STREET—FROM YONGE STREET TO COLLEGE AVENUE.—DIGRESSION SOUTHWARD AT BAY STREET; OSGOODE HALL; DIGRESSION NORTHWARD AT THE AVENUE. — Digression Southward at Bay Street. — Osgoode Hall . — Digression Northward at the College Avenue. — XXII. — QUEEN STREET—FROM THE COLLEGE AVENUE TO BROCK STREET AND SPADINA AVENUE. — XXIII. — QUEEN STREET, FROM BROCK STREET AND SPADINA AVENUE TO THE HUMBER. — XXIV. — YONGE STREET—FROM THE BAY TO YORKVILLE. — XXV. — YONGE STREET, FROM YORKVILLE TO HOGG'S HOLLOW. — XXVI. — YONGE STREET, FROM HOGG'S HOLLOW TO BOND'S LAKE. — XXVII. — YONGE STREET: FROM BOND'S LAKE TO THE HOLLAND LANDING, WITH DIGRESSIONS TO NEWMARKET AND SHARON. — Digression to Newmarket and Sharon. — XXVIII. — YONGE STREET: ONWARD, FROM HOLLAND LANDING TO PENETANGUISHENE. — XXIX. — THE HARBOUR: ITS MARINE, 1793-99. — XXX. — THE HARBOUR—ITS MARINE, 1800-1814. — XXXI. — THE HARBOUR: ITS MARINE, 1815-1827. — XXXII. — THE HARBOUR: ITS MARINE 1828-1863. — HOC OPUS EXEGI; FESSÆ DATE SERTA CARINÆ; CONTIGIMUS PORTUM, QUO MIHI CURSUS ERAT. — APPENDIX. — ERRATA.
8. 8.INDEX.

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