Laura Secord Inc. and Toronto Innovation Centre

: More Related to this StoryRetrofit Vintage Hazelton Lanes getting more than a faceliftInside the NAC Goodbye concrete shroud – hello dazzle fit for a capitalWaterfront Toronto ‘innovation centre’ plans unveiled It took roughly three years and $5.6-million to restore the buildings, according to Globe and Mail. The front portico remains the mansion defining feature. But if farming was the principal purpose of the acquisition, a close second was to build a grandiose estate befitting the founder of chocolate company Laura Secord Inc. and a director of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It a little out of scale with the building but I think that was just the nature of Senator O’Connor, architect Dan McNeil says. While they have been recast in more modern materials, the column shafts are original. The wooden columns were topped with capitals made of sawdust, clay, rosin and lime bonded by rabbit-skin glue. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.