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Local Landmarks & Heritage

  • Yorkville Fire Hall / Station 312 (1876, rebuilt 1889)
  • Yorkville Branch Library (1907)
  • Village of Yorkville Park (1994)

Neighborhood History

Yorkville is a Toronto neighbourhood just north of Bloor Street and west of Yonge Street. In 1836 brewer Joseph Bloor and Sheriff William Botsford Jarvis began laying out village lots north of Bloor, and by 1853 the settlement had reached the 1,000 residents needed to incorporate as the Village of Yorkville. Its town hall, designed by William Hay, was built on the west side of Yonge Street in 1859. On February 1, 1883, Yorkville became the first area added to the City of Toronto's original 1834 boundaries, and it was renamed St. Paul's Ward.

The village firehall on Yorkville Avenue, built in 1876 and rebuilt in 1889, still carries the old town hall's coat of arms as Toronto Fire Services Station 312. The Yorkville Branch Library, opened on June 13, 1907, was the first of four Toronto libraries built with an Andrew Carnegie grant and is now the Toronto Public Library's oldest. The Riverboat coffeehouse, opened in 1964, hosted Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot and Bruce Cockburn, and in 1994 the Village of Yorkville Park replaced a parking lot on Cumberland Street.

The Yorkville tee is for the neighbours of the old village north of Bloor, from the firehall to the park.

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Yorkville - Central Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee

Yorkville - Central Toronto - Unisex Cotton Tee

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Yorkville is the old Village of Yorkville, just north of Bloor Street and west of Yonge in Toronto. Its 1889 firehall and 1907 Carnegie library still serve the neighbourhood.

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