Year
|
Date
|
Events
|
1900 |
January 24 |
The Evening Star is renamed as
The Toronto Daily Star.
[15]
|
|
The Art Museum of Toronto opens.
[16]
|
1903 |
May 11 |
King Edward Hotel opens.
[17]
|
1904 |
April 19 |
The
second Great Fire of Toronto occurs.
|
December 12 |
First escalator in Toronto is installed at an
Eaton's store on
Queen Street West.
|
1905 |
December 2 |
The first
Toronto Santa Claus Parade is held.
|
1906 |
November 19 |
Electricity generated at
Niagara Falls begins to be supplied to Toronto.
[18]
|
|
The
Toronto Professional Hockey Club is established as the first professional ice hockey team in Toronto.
[19]
|
1909 |
September 1 |
A fire damages the west wing of the
Ontario Legislative Building, destroying the Legislative Library.
[20]
|
October 28 |
The Central Reference Library opens at the intersection of
College Street and St. George Street.
|
December 4 |
The
first Grey Cup game is held at
Rosedale Field.
|
1911 |
|
The
Toronto Blueshirts are established.
|
1912 |
October 7 |
The
Arena Gardens (later known as Mutual Street Arena) opens as the largest auditorium in Canada with the first artificial ice rink in Ontario.
|
|
|
Toronto Civic Railways is established.
|
1913 |
June 13 |
The
Toronto General Hospital relocates to its present site at
College Street.
|
1914 |
March 11 |
The
Toronto Blueshirts win the first
Stanley Cup by a Toronto team.
|
March 19 |
The
Royal Ontario Museum opens.
|
|
"Ranelagh Park" estate home, later to be the
Guild Inn opens.
|
1915 |
November 15 |
Chorley Park, Ontario's fourth and last
Government House, opens.
|
1916 |
September 16 |
The '
Ontario Temperance Act takes effect.
|
1917 |
|
The
Toronto Blueshirts are renamed as the Torontos.
|
1918 |
March 30 |
The Torontos are renamed as the
Toronto Arenas.
|
October 18 |
The
Prince Edward Viaduct officially opens.
[21]
|
1919 |
December 8 |
A statue of
Timothy Eaton is unveiled on
Queen Street West.
[22]
|
|
The Art Museum of Toronto is renamed as Art Gallery of Toronto.
[23]
|
|
The
Toronto Arenas are renamed as the
Toronto St. Patricks.
|
1920 |
August 28 |
The Pantages Theatre opens as Canada's largest theatre.
|
1921 |
September 1 |
The
Toronto Transportation Commission is established.
|
December 16 |
The
Coliseum opens on the Exhibition grounds.
|
1922
|
June 13 |
North York is incorporated as a township.
|
June 28 |
Sunnyside Amusement Park opens.
|
November 22 |
The first
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair opens.
|
1923 |
February 8 |
First radio broadcast of an
ice hockey game is made from Arena Gardens.
|
1924 |
January 1 |
East York is incorporated as a township.
|
July 19 |
Telephone system begins switch from manual to automatic dialing.
|
1925 |
June 10 |
Arena Gardens hosts a worship service inaugurating
The United Church of Canada.
|
1925 |
July 29 |
Sunnyside Pool opens at
Sunnyside Amusement Park as the largest outdoor pool in the world.
|
August 8 |
First automatic traffic signal begins operation at the intersection of
Yonge Street and
Bloor Street.
|
1926 |
April 29 |
Maple Leaf Stadium opens as the Fleet Street Baseball Stadium.
|
1927 |
February 14 |
The
Toronto St. Patricks renamed as the
Toronto Maple Leafs.
|
June 1 |
First liquor stores in Toronto open following repeal of the
Ontario Temperance Act.
|
August 6 |
The new (present-day)
Union Station is open.
|
August 30 |
Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince George inaugurate the new
Princes' Gates at the Exhibition Grounds
|
1928 |
November 3 |
First
sound film in Toronto is shown at the
Uptown Theatre.
|
1929 |
June 11 |
The
Fairmont Royal York is opened as the Royal York Hotel.
|
October 29 |
The
Toronto Stock Exchange suffers
its worst loss in history.
|
1930 |
January 21 |
Cross Waterfront Railway Viaduct opens to elevate tracks from York Street to
Queen Street West.
|
1931 |
January 31 |
Commerce Court North opens as the tallest building in the
British Commonwealth.
|
June 4 |
The intersection of
College Street-
Carlton Street and
Yonge Street opened.
|
1931 |
November 12 |
Maple Leaf Gardens opens with hockey game between the
Toronto Maple Leafs and
Chicago Black Hawks.
|
1933 |
July 11 |
Anti-fascism march, from Bathurst and Wellington Streets, to
Queen's Park.
[24]
|
August 16 |
Christie Pits riot occurs.
[25]
|
1934 |
|
Fort York Guard created.
|
March 6 |
Centennial of the City of Toronto
|
1936 |
|
The Globe and
The Mail and Empire merge to create
The Globe and Mail.
|
1938 |
August 29 |
Malton Airport opens.
|
1939 |
February 4 |
Toronto Island airport opens.
|
May 22 |
King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother visit, marking the first visit of a reigning monarch to Toronto. The island airport is renamed Port George VI Island Airport in honour of the visit
|
June 7 |
Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) between Toronto and
Niagara Falls, Ontario is opened.
|
1944 |
December 12 |
The
Great Snowstorm, the worst winter storm in Toronto's history, ends with nine deaths and 57 cm of snow.
[26]
|
1947 |
April 3 |
The Silver Rail opens as the first bar licensed by the
LCBO .
[27]
|
1949 |
January 18 |
Conversion of hydro in Ontario to 60 cycles from 25 cycles begins.
|
September 17 |
SS Noronic burns at the
Toronto Harbour resulting in 118 fatalities.
|
1951 |
August 9 |
Canada Life Building's
weather beacon begins operation.
|
October 11 |
The future Queen,
Princess Elizabeth and husband
Prince Philip visit Toronto as part of a cross-Canada tour.
[28]
|
December 1 |
The Toronto-Barrie Highway opens.
|
1952 |
July 1 |
The Toronto-Barrie Highway is renamed as
Highway 400
|
September 8 |
Ontario's first television station,
CBLT, begins broadcasting in Toronto.
|
November 1 |
First English broadcast of
Hockey Night in Canada is televised from
Maple Leaf Gardens.
|
1953 |
January 20 |
The
Metropolitan Toronto School Board, a school board with a federation of 11 school boards, is formed.
|
1954 |
January 1 |
Metropolitan Toronto is created.
|
March 30 |
The
Yonge
subway line opens as the first
rapid transit line in Canada.
|
September 9 |
Marilyn Bell becomes the first person to swim across
Lake Ontario.
|
October 15 |
Hurricane Hazel affects Toronto and kills a total of 81 people in Ontario.
|
1956 |
August 24 |
Highway 401's last section in Toronto from
Bayview Avenue to
Highway 2 opens.
|
1958 |
August 8 |
The
Gardiner Expressway from
Humber River to
Jameson Avenue opens.
|
1960 |
October 1 |
The
O'Keefe Centre opens.
|
1961 |
August 3 |
The
Don Valley Parkway's first phase, from
Bloor Street to
Eglinton Avenue opens.
|
1964 |
February 26 |
The
Yorkdale Shopping Centre opens.
|
1965 |
September 13 |
The
Toronto City Hall and
Nathan Phillips Square open.
|
November 10 |
Northeast Blackout of 1965 occurs.
|
1966 |
February 25 |
The
Bloor-Danforth subway line (Line 2) opens.
[29]
|
October 21 |
The
Spadina Expressway opens.
|
1967 |
May 23 |
GO Transit is established.
|
|
Etobicoke,
East York,
North York,
Scarborough, and
York are incorporated as boroughs.
|
May 2 |
The
Toronto Maple Leafs win the
Stanley Cup, their most recent win.
|
July 1 |
Official opening of 56-storey
Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower.
|
1968 |
October 28 |
The
McLaughlin Planetarium opens.
|
1969 |
September 26 |
The
Ontario Science Centre opens.
|
1970 |
July 5 |
The
Air Canada Flight 621 accident occurs as the deadliest aviation incident in Toronto.
|
1971 |
May 22 |
Ontario Place opens.
|
June 3 |
The Spadina Expressway project into downtown is cancelled to go no further than Eglinton Avenue.
|
November 6 |
The Toronto Daily Star is renamed as The
Toronto Star.
|
1972
|
|
Toronto's first Gay Pride Week is held. It includes a dance, film night, and march to Queen's Park.
[30]
|
1973 |
May 2 |
The
Scarborough Town Centre opens.
|
1974 |
August 15 |
Toronto Zoo opens (originally called Metro Toronto Zoo).
|
October 26 |
Art Gallery of Ontario relocates to its present site on
Dundas Street.
|
1975 |
May 18 |
The
First Canadian Place opens as the tallest building in the
Commonwealth of Nations.
|
|
The 519 Church Street Community Centre is established.
[31] The 519 provides services to LGBTQ2S people.
|
1976 |
June 26 |
The
CN Tower opens as the
tallest freestanding structure in the world.
|
August 3 |
The opening ceremony of the
1976 Summer Paralympics is held at the
Woodbine Racetrack.
|
February 11 |
The
Toronto Eaton Centre opens.
|
November 2 |
Toronto Reference Library relocates to its present site at the intersection of
Bloor Street and
Yonge Street.
|
|
The first
Toronto International Film Festival is held (originally called the Festival of Festivals)
|
1979 |
|
North York is incorporated as a city.
|
1981
|
February 5
|
Police raid four gay bathhouses in
Operation Soap and arrest 286 people. The next day over 3,000 people demonstrate against the raids. Smaller raids and protests continue through 1981.
|
May 23 |
Canada's Wonderland opens.
|
1982 |
September 13 |
The
Roy Thomson Hall opens.
|
1983 |
|
Etobicoke,
Scarborough, and
York are incorporated as cities.
|
1984 |
October 2 |
The
Metro Toronto Convention Centre opens.
|
1985 |
March 22 |
The
Scarborough RT line opens.
|
1988
|
March
|
Canada's first stand-alone treatment facility for people with HIV/AIDS,
Casey House opens its doors.
|
1989 |
June 5 |
Rogers Centre opens (originally known as SkyDome).
|
1991 |
|
The
1991 Toronto bomb plot is revealed.
|
1992 |
May 4 |
A riot occurs after a protest march after the police shooting of Raymond Lawrence, a young black man.
|
1993 |
May 23 |
The
Princess of Wales Theatre opens.
|
1995 |
August 11 |
The
Russell Hill subway accident occurs.
|
1998 |
January 1 |
East York,
Etobicoke,
North York,
Scarborough,
Old Toronto,
York and
Metro Toronto are
amalgamated into the new
City of Toronto.
|
1999 |
February 19 |
The
Air Canada Centre opens.
|