Finch Hotel was an inn located in current-day Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was opened in 1848 by John Finch on Lot # 2, Concession # 1, with a land size of . Before Finch's takeover, the inn was owned by Thomas Johnson from the late 1790s. Finch Avenue, a main arterial road in Toronto and the surrounding Peel Region and Durham Region, was named after John Finch.

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Finch Hotel was operated by a series of innkeepers: * Thomas Palmer 1848-1860 * John Likens 1860-1864 * John Fenley 1869-1871 * William Kirk 1871-1873 The inn was sold to Charles McBride, who demolished the building and took timbers to build the Bedford Park Hotel at another site on Yonge Street. The site is now a parkette and condos on 1 and 3 Pemberton Avenue. To the west of the hotel was Stop 35 of the North Yonge Railways, a radial railway that ran from Toronto to Lake Simcoe.

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