THE ARCHITECT FRANK DARLING (1850-1923), WHOSE DESIGNS INCLUDE THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO’S CONVOCATION HALL AND THE ORIGINAL ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM, LIVED HERE FROM 1893 TO 1904.
Lake Ontario and its shoreline and rivers have been home to people for over 11,000 years. The vegetation and wildlife of water sources played a vital role in the lives of the ancestral Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas.
The Rosehill Reservoir was finished in 1874 after a year of construction. The open-air basin contained about 159 million litres (42 million gallons) of Lake Ontario water piped from the John Street Pumping Station 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) to the…
THE COMPUTER SCIENTIST BEATRICE WORSLEY (1921-1972), WHO CO-WROTE SOFTWARE FOR THE WORLD’S FIRST COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE COMPUTER, LIVED IN A HOUSE ON THIS SITE FROM 1955 TO 1958.