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Royal Ontario Museum
Canada's largest museum of world cultures and natural history, topped by Daniel Libeskind's dramatic crystalline extension.
1 km · about 5 min drive
Ontario, Canada · North America
Bay Street Corridor works well as a base: 1km from Royal Ontario Museum.
Bay Street Corridor is a town located in Ontario, Canada. With a population of 25,797, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, Bay Street Corridor sits in Canada, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Toronto time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Bay Street Corridor to your route.
In 1834, the United Kingdom passed a new Poor Law which created the system of Victorian workhouses (or "Houses of Industry") that Charles Dickens described in Oliver Twist. Sir Francis Bond Head, the new lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada in 1836, had been a Poor Law administrator before his appointment. Fearing thatRead more
Head wanted to introduce these workhouses in Toronto, a small group of reformers and dissenting ministers led by publisher James Lesslie and Dr. William W. Baldwin founded the Toronto House of Industry on alternate, humane principles. The Toronto House of Industry was started by the reformers in the ‘unused’ courthouse on Richmond Street in January 1837 where they had previously met as the "Canadian Alliance Society" of which Lesslie had been president. The Toronto House of Refuge and Industry appears to have been founded on the model of the Owenite Socialist "Home Colonies". A constant struggle between the ruling elite, the "Family Compact", and the Reformers to gain control of the institution prevented this plan from ever fully being implemented.
In 1848, a building for the House of Industry was erected at the corner of Elm Street and Elizabeth Street, in the middle of the Toronto district known as The Ward, which housed a highly dense slum populated by successive waves of immigrants. Architect William Thomas won a competition to design the building. Thomas declined his commission and donated the plans. In 1899, a third storey was added, designed by E. J. Lennox in Thomas' style.
The House of Industry provided permanent and temporary lodging as well as food and fuel to the needy in the community, who often were required to do chores in return for help. It also assisted abandoned or orphaned children, often placing them as indentured servants in homes and farms in and around Toronto.
By 1947, the clients of Ontario's houses of industry were predominantly the elderly poor and the Toronto House of Industry building was converted into a home for the elderly and renamed Laughlen Lodge after Arthur and Frances Laughlen. When new senior citizens' housing was constructed 1975–83, in association with the Rotary Club of Toronto, the north section of the old House of Industry was preserved as part of the Rotary-Laughlen Centre.
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Bay Street Corridor is located in Ontario, Canada, North America. The coordinates are 43.6575 latitude, -79.3857 longitude.
Bay Street Corridor has a population of approximately 25,797 people, making it a town in Canada.
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Canada's largest museum of world cultures and natural history, topped by Daniel Libeskind's dramatic crystalline extension.
1 km · about 5 min drive
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Soaring 553-metre communications and observation tower that defines the Toronto skyline.
2 km · about 5 min drive
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Toronto's spectacular aquarium at the base of the CN Tower with a stunning underwater tunnel and 20,000 aquatic animals.
2 km · about 5 min drive
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Canada's premier amusement park near Toronto with over 200 attractions including 17 roller coasters.
24 km · about 30 min drive
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Canada's largest zoo spanning 287 hectares with over 5,000 animals organized by geographic region.
24 km · about 30 min drive
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Museum celebrating Canadian motoring heritage with a collection of rare Canadian-built cars in Oshawa.
50 km · about 60 min drive
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A charming heritage town at the mouth of the Niagara River with award-winning wineries, the Shaw Festival theatre, and beautiful 19th-century streetscapes.
51 km · about 60 min drive
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