Colborne Street is a street running several hundred metres east of

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in downtown

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, Canada. It crosses Victoria Street and

Leader Lane Leader's Lane is a short street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The street was part of the former city of York, Upper Canada. It runs from List of east-west roads in Toronto#Wellington Street, Wellington Street to King Street, Toronto, King Stree ...

, ending at Church Street. It is located between and parallel to King Street East and Wellington Street East. The street is notable for retaining several historic buildings built during the reign of

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. In 1822, a two-storey building,

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, with a

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was built on what is now Colborne Street. The

Milburn building The Milburn building was built in 1886 at 47-55 Colborne Street, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by architect Edward James Lennox. Lennox was well known for his work in Toronto for his work on more famous buildings like Casa Loma and Toronto's old ...

was built in 1886 at 47-55 Colborne Street, in Toronto, by architect

Edward James Lennox Edward James Lennox (September 12, 1854 – April 15, 1933) was a Toronto-based architect who designed several of the city's most notable landmarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Old City Hall and Casa Loma. He d ...

. The 15 storey Trader’s Bank Building at the corner of Colborne and Yonge streets was the tallest building in the British Empire when it was built in 1906. In 1914, the

King Edward Hotel The Omni King Edward Hotel is a historic luxury hotel in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The hotel is located at 37 King Street (Toronto), King Street East, and it occupies the entire block bounded by King Street on the north, Victoria Street ...

requested a permit to build a pedestrian bridge across Colborne Street to an annex on the south side.

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