Cloud Garden Park (14 Temperance St.)

Cloud Garden Park (14 Temperance St.)

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...
Cloud Garden Park (14 Temperance St.)

Hogg’s Hollow disaster (York Mills Station)

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...
The Athenaeum Club (167 Church St.) 

The Athenaeum Club (167 Church St.) 

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...
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