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Green Bush Inn
There have been several enterprises in the Toronto region called the Green Bush Inn. The first Green Bush Inn was a two-story clapboard structure built around 1830 on the northeast corner of Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue. The Inn was a meeting place for those planning the Upper Canada Rebellion The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the British colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in December 1837. While public grievances had existed for years, it was the rebellion in Lower Canada (p .... A second Green Bush Inn was opened at 215-217 Shuter Street. According to F.R. Berchem, in ''Opportunity Road: Yonge Street 1860-1939'', Joseph Abraham opened both establishments. Wes Porter, writing in '' Hort Pro'' magazine, asserts Thomas Steele, the namesake for Steeles Avenue, was the first proprietor. By 1876 the second Green Bush Inn was under new management, and by 1880 it had been renamed the Russell House. In 1938, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Bush Inn, Yonge Street, Steele's Corners, North York Twp
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Yonge Street
Yonge Street (; pronounced "young") is a major arterial route in the Canadian province of Ontario connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes. Once the southernmost leg of provincial Highway 11, linking the provincial capital with northern Ontario, Yonge Street has been referred to as "Main Street Ontario". Until 1999, the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' repeated the popular misconception that Yonge Street was long, making it the longest street in the world; this was due to a conflation of Yonge Street with the rest of Ontario's Highway 11. Yonge Street (including the Bradford-to-Barrie extension) is only long. Due to provincial downloading in the 1990s, no section of Yonge Street is marked as a provincial highway. The construction of Yonge Street is designated as an Event of National Historic Significance in Canada. Yonge Street was integral to the original planning and settlement of western Upper Canada in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is an east–west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of Regional Municipality of York, York Region in Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western and central Greater Toronto Area from Appleby Line in Milton, Ontario, Milton in the west to the List of north–south roads in Toronto#Scarborough-Pickering Townline, Toronto-Pickering city limits in the east, where it continues east into Regional Municipality of Durham, Durham Region as List of numbered roads in Durham Region, Taunton Road, which itself extends across the length of Durham Region to its boundary with Northumberland County, Ontario, Northumberland County. York Region refers to Steeles Avenue as Regional Road 95 but the designation is strictly internal and there are no signs posted; as the street was always owned and maintained by the City of Toronto (succeeding Metropolitan Toronto). Through Regional Municipality of Peel, Peel and Halton Region, Halton R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architectural Index Of Ontario
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings or other structures. The term comes ; ; . Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements. The practice, which began in the prehistoric era, has been used as a way of expressing culture for civilizations on all seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered to be a form of art. Texts on architecture have been written since ancient times. The earliest surviving text on architectural theories is the 1st century AD treatise ''De architectura'' by the Roman architect Vitruvius, according to whom a good building embodies , and (durability, utility, and beauty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundurn Press
Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing companies of adult and children's fiction and non-fiction. The company publishes Canadian literature, history, biography, politics and arts. Dundurn has about 2500 books in print, and averages around one hundred new titles each year. Dundurn Press was established in 1972 by Kirk Howard, In 2009, Dundurn forged a co-publishing partnership with the Ontario Genealogical Society, and in 2011, Dundurn purchased Napoleon & Company and Blue Butterfly Books. In 2013, Dundurn acquired Thomas Allen Publishers, the publishing branch of Thomas Allen & Son Limited. Thomas Allen & Son Limited is a Canadian book distributor, and remains Canada's oldest family-owned and operated distributor, having been in continuous operation for over 90 years. Its books include ''Burning Down the House'' by Russell Wangersky Russell Wangersky is a Canadian journalist and award-winning writer of creative non-fiction. Born in New Haven, Connecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Canada Rebellion
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the British colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in December 1837. While public grievances had existed for years, it was the rebellion in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec), which started the previous month, that emboldened rebels in Upper Canada to revolt. The Upper Canada Rebellion was largely defeated shortly after it began, although resistance lingered until 1838. While it shrank, it became more violent, mainly through the support of the Hunters' Lodges, a secret United States-based militia that emerged around the Great Lakes, and launched the Patriot War in 1838. Some historians suggest that although they were not directly successful or large, the rebellions in 1837 should be viewed in the wider context of the late-18th- and early-19th-century Atlantic Revolutions including the American Revolutionary War in 1776, the French Revolution of 1789–99, the Haitian Revolution of 1791–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuter Street, Toronto
Shuter may refer to *Shuter (surname) *Shuter House Shuter House is situated at 381 Langalibalele Street (Longmarket Street) in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. ... in South Africa * Shuter & Shooter Publishers based in South Africa {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hort Pro
Hort may refer to: People * Erik Hort (born 1987), American soccer player * F. J. A. Hort (1828–1892), Irish theologian * Greta Hort (1903–1967), Danish-born literature professor * Josiah Hort (c. 1674–1751), English clergyman of the Church of Ireland * Vlastimil Hort (born 1944), Czech chess grandmaster * Hort baronets Other uses * Hort, Hungary, a settlement in Heves county * Hort. Hort., in the taxonomy of plants, is an abbreviation used to indicate a name that saw significant use in the horticultural literature (usually of the 19th century and earlier), but was never properly published. Origins and usage "Hort.," short fo ..., an abbreviation which indicates that a name for a plant saw significant use in the horticultural literature but was never properly published See also * Hart (other) * Hurt (other) {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Steele (innkeeper)
Thomas or Tom Steele may refer to: * Thomas Steele (Australian politician) (1887–1963), member of the New South Wales Legislative Council * Thomas Steele (British politician) (1753–1823), English Member of Parliament * Thomas Steele (VC) (1891–1978), English recipient of the Victoria Cross * Thomas Steele (innkeeper) (1806–1877), English-born innkeeper and namesake of Steeles Avenue in Toronto and York Region * Thomas J. Steele (1853–1920), American politician, U.S. Representative from Iowa * Thomas Montagu Steele General A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. an ... (1820–1890), British army officer * Tom Steele (politician) (1905–1979), Scottish Labour politician * Tom Steele (stuntman) (1909–1990), American stuntman and actor * Tommy Steele (born 1936), English ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell House (Toronto)
Russell House may refer to: ;in Canada * Russell House (Ottawa), a historic former hotel in Ottawa, Ontario ;in the United States ''(by state then city)'' * Russell Family Historic District, Alexander City, Alabama, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Tallapoosa County * John Russell House, Fordyce, Arkansas, listed on the NRHP in Dallas County *Russell House (Pine Bluff, Arkansas), formerly listed on the NRHP in Jefferson County * Russell-Williamson House, Yuma, Arizona, listed on the NRHP in Yuma County * Russell-Graves House, Arvada, Colorado, listed on the NRHP in Jefferson County * Edward Augustus Russell House, Middletown, Connecticut, listed on the NRHP at Wesleyan University in Middlesex County * Samuel Wadsworth Russell House, Middletown, Connecticut, a National Historic Landmark and listed on the NRHP in Middlesex County * William Russell House (Lewes, Delaware), listed on the NRHP in Sussex County * Judge Willis Russell House, Brooksville, Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Public Library
Toronto Public Library (TPL) (french: Bibliothèque publique de Toronto) is a public library system in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest public library system in Canada, and in 2008 had averaged a higher circulation per capita than any other public library system internationally, making it the largest neighbourhood-based library system in the world. Within North America, it also had the highest circulation and visitors when compared to other large urban systems. Established as the library of the Mechanics' Institute in 1830, the Toronto Public Library now consists of 100 branch libraries and has over 12 million items in its collection. History The first subscription library service to open in the city was on 9 December 1810, at Elmsley House. During the Burning of York in April 1813, several American officers under Commodore Issac Chauncey's command looted books from the library. Discovering his officers were in possession of the stolen books after they returned to Sackets Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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