|
Bloor Street Western Terminus Mississauga
Bloor is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Joseph Bloor (1789–1862), a developer of Toronto and founder of the village of Yorkville ** Bloor Street, a major thoroughfare in Toronto named after him *** Bloor or Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway *** Bloor, Yonge, or Bloor-Yonge station on the Toronto subway *** Bloor streetcar line, a former line on the Toronto streetcar system *** Bloor GO Station, a commuter rail station in Toronto *** Bloor or Prince Edward Viaduct, Toronto *** Bloor Cinema, Toronto *** Bloor Collegiate Institute, Toronto * Alan Bloor (born 1943), British footballer * Amanda Bloor (born 1962), British Anglican priest * David Bloor (born 1942), scholar in the sociology of scientific knowledge * Edward Bloor (born 1950), American novelist * Ella Reeve Bloor (1862–1951), political activist * John Bloor (born 1943), British motorcycle manufacturer, owner of the Triumph company * James Bloor (actor), British actor * Lewis Bloor (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bloor
Joseph Bloor (or Bloore) (1789–1862) was an innkeeper, brewer, and land speculator in the 19th century who founded the Village of Yorkville and is the namesake for Toronto's Bloor Street. Originally from Staffordshire, England, he emigrated to Canada in 1819 and eventually moved to the village of York, Upper Canada (later Toronto) with his wife Sarah (née Lees) and three children, where he became a prominent early figure. Bloor kept a hotel, Farmer's Arms Inn, at 157 King Street East (now home to St. Lawrence Hall) from 1824 to 1831 and built a brewery in 1830 in the Rosedale Valley, near Sherbourne Street. He sold the brewery in 1843 (John Rose operated it as Castle Frank Brewery until 1864 and the building was demolished by 1875), and purchased a stretch of land in nearby Yorkville, where he and William Botsford Jarvis laid out streets for residential development. The boundary of Yorkville and Toronto was named Bloor Street in his honour in 1855. Bloor died at his home a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |