About
This is an Omeka.net Demonstration Site and a Work in Progress.
This personal website has been constructed primarily as a demonstration of the free version of Omeka.net. Omeka is a web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
This site is a learning experiment and a work in progress, to which new features (exhibits, maps, videos) and content may be added.
Plaque text has been transcribed by hand and any errors are my own.
Plaque Resources
The most comprehensive private websites about Ontario and Toronto historical plaques have been (brilliantly) created by Alan L. Brown.
Mr. Brown's Ontario's Historical Plaques site is still online (ontarioplaques.com).
The Toronto's Historical Plaques site (torontoplaques.com) is not online. However, the pages are accessible via Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20200128000055/http://www.torontoplaques.com/).
Good news is that his content has been picked up by Read The Plaque (readtheplaque.com).
The Ontario Heritage Trust is responsible for the Provincial Plaque Program.
- Website: http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/index.php/pages/programs/provincial-plaque-program
- Ontario Heritage Trust Plaque Database: http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/index.php/online-plaque-guide
- An Open Data inventory of provincial plaques across Ontario: https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/pages/tools/data-inventories
Heritage Toronto installs plaques and markers in the City of Toronto.
- Website: https://www.heritagetoronto.org/what-we-do/plaques/
- Heritage Toronto Resource Space: https://heritagetoronto.resourcespace.com/pages/home.php
- Toronto Legacy Plaques Map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Shortlist/index.html?appid=98d09062412a47e38a33879339b652a8
- Heritage Toronto Exploration Map (selected plaques): https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1qawOt5bgYZHZsnod-3lMva38kvE&ll
Parks Canada installs commemorative bronze plaques at places of national significance.
- Website: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/ncp-pcn/plaques
- Directory of Federal Heritage Designations: http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/default_eng.aspx