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For more than 65 years, a landmark boathouse stood at the south end of the Centre Island cast iron bridge. Built in the early 1890s by John Hanlan, brother of world campion rower Ned, Hanlan’s Boathouse rented canoes and other small vessels to…

Though now away from the lake and nestled among trees, this is the oldest surviving lighthouse on the Great Lakes and the second oldest surviving lighthouse in Canada. It was constructed in 1808-09 when this site was only eight metres from the…

Three successive water filtration plants were built on this site. The original plant, designed by engineer Allen Hazen and completed in 1912, was the first water purification facility in the City of Toronto. From 1914 to 1917, a larger plant was…

This lighthouse, one of the earliest on the Great Lakes, was completed in 1808 as an hexagonal tower 52 feet high, topped by a wooden cage with a fixed whale-oil lantern. In 1832 it was raised to 82 feet and later equipped with a revolving light. The…

In the first half of the 20th century, Manitou Road was the main commercial street of Centre Island. Originally known as Middle Road, it became an increasingly important thoroughfare with the construction in 1905 of a freight wharf near the bridge…