Thomas Fisher (1792-1874) is a road builder, land developer, Squire, and
Etobicoke Township
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pioneer. He immigrated from
Yorkshire
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settled along the
Humber River in 1822 and became a successful merchant-miller. His mill located at
King's Mill was acquired in 1821.
Fisher is the namesake of
Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is a library in the University of Toronto, constituting the largest repository of publicly accessible rare books and manuscripts in Canada. The library is also home to the university archives which, in addition ...
. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and the University Archives didn't have a permanent home until 1973 when the Thomas Fisher Rare Book library was opened. Great-grandsons, Sidney and Charles Fisher, donated to the library their own collections of
Shakespeare
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, various twentieth-century authors, and etchings of
Wenceslaus Hollar
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.
Fisher was an inductee into the
Etobicoke Hall of Fame, 1974.
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Canadian merchants
People from Etobicoke
1792 births
1874 deaths