Aug 8, 2016 | Places
With its greenhouse and waterfall, Cloud Garden Park makes for an urban oasis in the downtown core, but the massive quilt-like wall by artist Margaret Priest honours the construction trades that built this city, with each section made of a different construction...
Aug 8, 2016 | Places
On March 17, 1960, five Italian immigrant labourers died while digging a water main tunnel that passed underneath the Don River in Hogg’s Hollow when a fire broke out and the tunnel later filled with water and silt. A royal commission afterwards resulted in new labour...
Aug 8, 2016 | Places
Though the hall itself is now gone, the current location of Thymeless Bar is where the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and other black groups and organizations met after the hall was purchased by the Toronto division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association...
Aug 8, 2016 | Places
In 1907, hundreds of female telephone operators walked out in response to Bell Telephone’s plan to cut their wages and increase work hours, a precursor to today’s precarious employment struggles. At the time Bell’s central exchange was at 37 Temperance St. near Bay...
Aug 8, 2016 | Places
Originally an athletic club built in 1891, this building was known as the “Labour Temple” from 1904-1968 after the club was purchased by the Toronto Trades and Labour Council by selling shares to members of associated unions. “A library was set up, many unions had...
