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five years later established a
5 \ post office in a far-flung
Did You Know? Fairmont Royal York outpost of the newly created
D4 ⌂ 100 Front St W town of Toronto. Remarkably,
Toronto’s First Post Office has
The Toronto Maple
EXPERIENCE Toronto fan base in the NHL, Dating from 1929, the Fairmont attempts by the city to have it
Union ∑ fairmont.com/
survived, weathering many
Leafs have the largest
royal-york-toronto
demolished. It’s fully function-
despite not having
ing, and the world’s only
Royal York has long been one
won it since 1967.
of Toronto’s most luxurious
remaining example of a post
hotels. It was built opposite
office dating from the British
for the conven ience of visiting
still in operation. Visitors make
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dignitaries, but for thousands
the trip to write a letter with a
Toronto City Hall the city’s main train station North American postal era
quill pen and seal it themselves
of immigrants, the hotel was
the first they saw of their new with hot wax. Today’s mail,
D3 ⌂ 100 Queen St W & city. It was designed by the however, is processed by the
Bay St Queen, Osgoode
v Queen 501 # 8:30am– Montreal architects Ross and national service, Canada Post.
4:30pm Mon–Fri Macdonald in contem porary The First Post Office museum
Beaux-Arts style. houses a permanent exhibit
Completed in 1964, Toronto’s Having undergone multi- on the early postal system
City Hall was designed by the million-dollar renovations and a model of the early city
award-winning Finnish archi- in 2015, the Fairmont remains of Toronto.
tect Viljo Revell. At the official a firm favorite with high-
opening, Prime Minister Lester powered visitors, which have
Pearson announced “It is included royalty. 7
an edifice as modern as
tomorrow,” but for many Chinatown
cityfolk tomorrow had come C4 v Queen 501,
too soon, and there were 6 ' Dundas 505, College 506,
howls of protests from several First Post Office Spadina 510
quarters. Even now, after more E4 ⌂ 260 Adelaide St E
than 50 years, the building King, Queen v 501, 504 The Chinese community in
appears uncompromi singly # 9am–5:30pm Mon–Fri, Toronto numbers around
modern. It is the epitome of 10am–4pm Sat, noon–4pm 531,600, over 12 percent of
1960s’ urban planning, with Sun ∑ townofyork.com the city’s total population.
two curved concrete-and- There have been several
glass towers framing a central In 1829, the British House of waves of Chinese migration to
circular building where the Commons founded their Canada, the first to
Toronto councils meet. Nearby, colonial postal service, and British Columbia in the
the Old City Hall is a 19th-
century Neo-Romanesque
edifice, whose towers and
columns are carved with
intricate curling patterns.
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