Home » History Local History Articles ‘A Sordid Story of Drink and Dope’ from North York, 1927 5-year Manhunt for Suspect in 1947 Murder Ends in North York Intersection Bestselling Author Mazo de la Roche Called North York Home for 6 Years Connaught Opened North York Facility to Help First World War Soldiers Cornelia de Grassi and the Upper Canada Rebellion: A Tale of Old North York Dufferin, Lawrence Business District Used to be Busy North York Airport Dunlap Model Farm Early Downsview Personalities Famed E.P. Taylor Horse Racing Empire Got its Start in North York Fire Destroys Landmark House (Milne House, Edwards Gardens) First Miss Canada Winner in 1946 was from North York Former PM Lester Pearson’s Father a North York Minister Frank O’Connor Opened Laura Secord Shops on 100th Anniversary of Event From the Archives: Patricia Hart’s “Pioneering in North York” 1968 Book Signing Gamblers Arrested at Jolly Miller Gibson House Museum Gladys Allison the Driving Force Behind North York Library System Golden Lion Hotel Heritage Street Names in the North York Community Area: Ann O’Reilly Road Historic Stong Family Historic Zion Schoolhouse Hon. William McDougall: Father of Confederation Indigenous Artifacts From as Early as 1300 A.D. Found in North York John McKenzie House is a North York Landmark that was Saved Lawrence Plaza: Toronto’s First Suburban Shopping Centre Opened in 1953 Long-time North York Police Chief Roy Risebrough Retired Rather Than Amalgamate Next to Casa Loma in Toronto, there was Graydon Hall North York Almost Switched Names to ‘Yonge’ in the 1960s North York Constable Helped Out when Hurricane Hazel Slammed into Etobicoke North York Entrepreneur Aggie Hogg was Ahead of Her Time North York General Hospital’s Phillips House had Long Line of Rich Owners North York Historical Society’s Latest Plaque Commemorates O’Sullivan Hotel North York Pioneer William Duncan’s Legacy Lives on in Restaurant North York Woman First Canadian to Swim English Channel North York’s Edwards Gardens Named after Millionaire who Cut City Good Deal North York’s Fairview Mall Celebrates Half a Century in Business North York’s First Fire Truck was a Converted Model T Ford Car North York’s First Movie Theatre Opened on Yonge Street 1948 North York’s First Phone was its Only One From 1888 Until 1910 North York’s First Police Chief Never Carried a Gun North York’s First Schools — in Newtonbrook and Willowdale — Opened in 1801 North York’s Hoggs Hollow Disaster of 1960 Killed 5 Construction Workers North York’s Last Functioning One-Room Schoolhouse Served for 132 Years North York’s Ontario Science Centre a $30M Gamble that Paid Off North York’s Original Gibson House Torched by Government Soldiers North Yorker Herb Carnegie a Hockey Trailblazer NYHS Remembers Mel Lastman (1933-2021) Overtaxed and Underserviced, North York Broke Away from Toronto in 1922 Public Transit Started Rolling in North York in 1828 Remembering North York during the Second World War Robert Hicks, first reeve of North York Some Interesting Early York Mills Residents St. John’s Anglican Church York Mills, 1816-2016 St. John’s Rehab is North York’s Oldest Surviving Hospital Tales of Old North York The Enterprise: North York’s First Newspaper The Golden Lion Roars Again! The Golden Lion: His Own Tale (1960) The Hogg Family The Home of Mazo de la Roche, 3950 Bayview Avenue The Pioneer Life a Hard One and North York No Exception The Subway Comes to North York The Taylor Brothers Toronto’s First Gangland Murder in 1939 had North York Connection What’s With Three Names for One Continuous North York Street Where was Boyd Gang in September 1952? Hiding in North York, as it turns out Willowdale Woman First Canadian to Swim English Channel York Cemetery Final Resting Place for Tim Horton, Russia’s Last Imperial Grand Duchess Yorkdale Shopping Centre Opened as World’s Largest Enclosed Shopping Mall
