Archives: Toronto and City

archives: The land was expropriated by the city of Toronto to build new CIty Hall and Nathan Phillips Square, according to Toronto Star. City of Toronto Archives City of Toronto Archives photo showing the now non-existent neighbourhood at Dundas and Bay known as The Ward on April 8, 1937. Lee Hong's laundry at 48 Elizabeth St. in what was Toronto;'s first Chinatown in The Ward in 1912. It was then 98-88 Elizabeth St. City of Toronto Archives, Globe This Toronto archives photo was taken at the Toronto Exhibition on June 18, 1926 is titiled Chinese Picnic. Arthur Goss / CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Crowds gather to watch a parade celebrating the end of the Chinese civil war on Elizabeth St., in Toronto in August 1945. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.