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University Avenue Armouries

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2011

Photo Source - Wikimedia Commons

Photo Source - City of Toronto Archives

Constructed in 2010, this block near the fountains, on the east side of University Avenue just south of Armoury Street, has this to say:

Coordinates: 43.65236 -79.38678

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On this site stood the University Avenue Armouries, the home of famous Toronto Regiments of the Canadian Army and the centre of Militia activities in Toronto from 1891 until it was demolished in 1963. A spacious rising school and gun park, erected shortly after the main structure, made it the largest armoury building in Canada. Here many thousands of volunteers were enrolled in times of national crisis, and from the Armouries they marched out to fight their country's battles in South Africa, the First World War, the Second World War, and Korea.

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> Posted August 12, 2015
My family used to take us to all the Toronto Remembrance Day parades as well as many others to watch my grandfather and uncle march with the 48th Highlanders in the 1950's. Afterwards all the families would go to the mess in the armouries for drinks, snacks, bagpiping and dancing. I suppose this is where I acquired my love of the pipes and why I still pipe today. I'm very sorry they demolished such a beautiful building. It should have been left as an historic Toronto landmark.

> Posted February 27, 2014
My dad took my sister and I to this amazing armouries when the Governor General's Horse Guards were preparing for a parade. We were about 9 years old. I wish they could have kept it as a national historical treasure, because it was a gorgeous and unique building, and it would have made a very interesting military museum because it was the largest of its kind in Canada.

> Posted May 3, 2013
My heart aches when I think of how this truly beautiful and majestic building was demolished in the sixties! An important part of Toronto's history is gone forever.

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