(The following story by Richard Blackwell appeared on the Globe and Mail website on April 19, 2011.)
TORONTO — Relics of Toronto’s 19th-century railway boom, when train links began to turn the city into an industrial powerhouse, have been unearthed near Fort York.
However, given that they are at the base of the new Library District condominium project, their fate has yet to be decided.
Brick and masonry foundation walls uncovered by archaeologists are the remains of a huge cruciform-shaped engine-house complex built by the Grand Trunk Railway in the 1850s. These buildings, near the shore of Lake Ontario, marked the starting point of the railway’s westbound ribbon of track.
The full story is on the Globe and Mail website.