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Toronto: Events & Entertainment
Founding of York Sketch by Elizabeth Simcoe, wife of the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, of ships firing an official salute at the founding of York, 1793.
ID #20387
Incorporation of Toronto Celebrating the incorporation of the City of Toronto, Upper Canada, 1834. With a population of 10,000, it became the province's first incorporated city. Lithograph by Frederic Waistell Jopling (1859-1945), 1909.
ID #20317
Orangemen Parade Orangemen's Parade in the late 1860s on King Street East, Toronto, Ontario.
ID #20436
Turkey Shoot Don River turkey shoot, with birds released from crates to fly and be brought down, Toronto, Ontario, c. 1870s, with the Don Jail in the background.
ID #20437
Sir John A. Macdonald Sir John A. Macdonald at an open-air Toronto election meeting, 1878, campaigning for the "National Policy" of protective tariffs.
ID #20741
Toronto Industrial Exhibition The Toronto Industrial Exhibition, 1885, a most popular Ontario show of progress, presented electric floodlighting in the early 1880s, followed by an operating line of electric street-cars.
ID #21709
Victoria Day Parade Parade along King Street East, Toronto, Ontario, May 24, (Victoria Day) late 19th century.
ID #20474
Industrial Exhibition
ID #21986
Ice Boat Race Ice boat and motorcycle on Toronto Bay, March 1911. Billed as the "Mile a Minute Race" and reaching speeds up to 100 kilometres per hour, the crew of the ice boat Comet included the brothers who built it, Carol C. Wells and Samuel R. Wells. Also in the boat are Malcolm Cuthbertson, Frank Kerr, and William Self. On the motorcycle is Canadian motorcycling champion Herb Kipp.
ID #23300n
Movie Theatre Boys in front of the movie theatre on Dundas Street, Toronto, 1923.
ID #21882
CNE Exhibition grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto, Ontario, in the 1900s, with large crowds drawn to large exhibit buildings and flourishing entertainments.
ID #20509
Homecoming Troops Homecoming troops, World War I.
ID #20862
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