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Early in the last century, athletic and social clubs were established to offer recreational opportunities to Toronto’s Jewish young people. In 1919, a number of those clubs joined to form an umbrella organization that developed by 1936 into the Young…

In the 1960s and 1970s, Yorkville village was the heart of Canada’s bohemian, counterculture community. More than 40 clubs and coffee houses nightly featured folksinger-songwriters, including Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, and Neil…

Designed by William Hay, one of Toronto’s most important early architects, the Yorkville Town Hall was built by William McGinnis, and opened on this site in 1860, fronting onto Yonge Street. High Victorian in style, it was constructed of local…

Yorkville Branch is the Toronto Public Library’s oldest building, the first of four libraries constructed with a 1903 grant from the Carnegie Corporation. It replaced the Library’s first branch, ‘Northern’, which had opened in the former Yorkville…

Originally all post offices in Upper Canada were owned by the postmasters in charge, who were imperial appointments. This building was constructed for postmaster James Scott Howard during 1833-1835 and functioned as the town’s post office until…