Joseph Bloor Commemorative Plaque, 2016
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Resource ID
5223
Access
Open
Address
117 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON M4W 0A8
Credit Line
Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
2016
Historical Themes
Program Category
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Heritage Toronto
Caption
Joseph Bloor Commemorative Plaque, 2016
Description
Joseph Bloor (also “Bloore”) was a prominent landowner, brewer, and philanthropist. Born circa 1789 in Staffordshire, England, he immigrated to the Towns and Villages, now Toronto, in 1819 with his wife, Sarah (née Lees), and their three children.
He established a successful brewery in the Rosedale Valley near today’s Sherbourne Street. In about 1836, he and William Botsford Jarvis, another influential landowner, laid out the village of Yorkville on their combined lands.
Bloor’s contributions to the development of Yorkville were recognized in 1854 when the Concession Road separating the village from Toronto was renamed Bloor Street.
Marker lat / long: 43.670632, -79.38425 (WGS84)