Finch Hotel was an inn located in current-day Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was opened in 1848 by John Finch on Lot # 2, Concession # 1, with a land size of 200 acres (81 ha). Before Finch bought the property in 1847,[1] it was owned by John and Alexander Montgomery.[2] Finch retired in 1860 and leased it to a succession of innkeepers before selling it to Charles McBride in 1873. McBride demolished the hotel and used the timber from it to build the Bedford Park Hotel.[1]
Finch Avenue, a main arterial road in Toronto and the surrounding Peel Region and Durham Region, was named after John Finch.
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[edit]Finch Hotel was operated by a series of innkeepers:
- Thomas Palmer 1848-1860
- John Likens 1860-1864
- John Fenley 1869-1871
- William Kirk 1871-1873
The inn was sold to Charles McBride, who demolished the building and took timbers to build the Bedford Park Hotel at another site on Yonge Street.[3] The site is now a parkette and condos on 1 and 3 Pemberton Avenue. To the west of the hotel was Stop 35 of the North Yonge Railways, a radial railway that ran from Toronto to Lake Simcoe.[citation needed]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Osbaldeston, Mark; Berchem, F. R. (Hamish); Armstrong, Frederick H.; Kennedy, Scott; Pitfield, Jane (2014-03-14). Toronto Neighbourhoods 7-Book Bundle: A City in the Making / Unbuilt Toronto / Unbuilt Toronto 2 / Leaside / Opportunity Road / Willowdale / The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860. Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-4597-2899-8.
- ^ NYHS (2023-03-01). "Finch and Sheppard". North York Historical Society. Retrieved 2026-01-02.
- ^ "Hotels and Inns".
Notes
[edit]- A Glimpse of Toronto's History City Planning Division, Urban Development Services, City of Toronto 2001, MPLS 087
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