Finch Hotel was an

inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommo ...

located in current-day

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, 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 Finch Avenue is an arterial thoroughfare that travels east–west in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The road continues west into the Regional Municipality of Peel as Regional Road 2 and east into the Regional Municipality of Durham as Regional ...

, a main

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in Toronto and the surrounding Peel Region and

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, 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 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 H ...

. 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 The North Yonge Railways was a radial railway line operated by the Toronto Transportation Commission from 1930 to 1948 between Glen Echo (Toronto) and Richmond Hill. The line was created by reopening the southern portion of the TTC's Lake Simcoe ...

, a radial railway that ran from Toronto to Lake Simcoe.

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