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Toronto's Art Deco 1929-1939: VOLUME 1 and 2 (SPECIAL EXTENDED TOUR)
About the event
**The Toronto History Walks Yearly Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email torontohistorywalks@gmail.com for more information or for signing up!**
** Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at: torontohistorywalks@gmail.com
Art Deco is all around us.
Streamlined Modern or Art Modern are two other fascinating ways to say the same thing. Whichever way you plan on saying it, Art Deco buildings tell a rich story of optimism and positivity during one of the most darkest decades in history, the great depression of the 1930s!
This walking tour explores our built environment of our downtown core. Toronto Stock Exchange built in 1937, along with the Royal York Hotel and the Canada Permanent Trust Company are prime examples. But others line Spadina Avenue during the challenging years of the depression, but also during the tensions which were bubbling in the Garment Industry. Art Deco buildings were centre stage!
These buildings tell a story that goes beyond style into the heart of the Toronto story itself!
Built at the height of the roaring 1920s and 1930s, the bubble was about to burst however, and the depression was just settling in. But a new style would set the tone, and it was called Art Deco!
Toronto built some of its most enduring buildings, and left a built legacy of Art Deco during the 1930s which should be treasured and protected. Losing any of these treasures would surly be a loss to the community. They tell a rich and inviting story about the growth of Canada, and Toronto!
This walking tour is for all walking levels. Please dress for the season, and hope to see you there.
Please meet under the clock tower of the Queens Quay Terminal at 207 Queens Quay West on the south side just west of York Street! We end on Spadina and Richmond Street!
This tour has a ticket price of $15.00 per person.
** Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at: torontohistorywalks@gmail.com
