Instructions

Meet at 10 am at the St Lawrence Market at the SW corner of Jarvis and Front Street inside the main entrance.

Three hours at a distance of approximatley three miles. Cost $10. Confirmation must be made before hand by calling Bill Genova at 416-367-0380.

• Meeting at St Lawrence Market inside the main entrance of the South market. A short history of why Toronto was located here and an overview of its history.
• Moving out to George St, one block away, the eastern boundary of the Old Town of York and proceeding north up two blocks to Adelaide
• On Adelaide visit the Upper Canada Bank, Da LaSalle Institute, the Post Office, Campbell House, Christie Biscuits
• Travel Frederick St south to Front St, hearing of Quinton St. George and Alexander Wood. 
• Travel east on Front St viewing the industrial buildings now converted to other uses
• Visit Berkeley Castle and the Esplande
• Visit the site of the first Parliament building
• Drop in of the Distillery District at Gooderham & Worts
• See the oldest school operating in Toronto which is also the site of a black man and woman who founded Toronto's first cab company 
• Travel north to the Enoch Turner school house and Little Trinity Church
• Travel up Power Street past where Providence House was and visit historic St. Paul's Bascilica
• Travel east on Queen viewing the Dominion Hotel and Brewery
• Stop at the Berkeley Church now an event centre 
• Walk south on Berkeley taking in the Christie Stables, Firehouse theatre, workmen houses
• At corner of Berkeley and King hear of Berkeley House, the duel fought there and the history of the other corners
• Travel west along King being told the history of each of the corners and how York grew westward along King
• Here the story of the St Lawrence Hall
• Locating on King St the horse trough, memorial fountain, outdoor sculpture garden
• St James Cathedral, Toronto's first church 
• Courthouse Square where Toronto's jail and courthouse was located 
• Historic Toronto Street
• Toronto's first jail located where the King Edward is
• South down Leader Lane
• View the Colborne Block 
• Hearing the story of Wellington St in Victorian times now gone
• Visit Toronto's Grand Truck Railway station where the Hummingbird Centre is
• The wonderful buildings on the south side of Front St still standing
• Arrival back at St Lawrence Market