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$Queen\'s Wharf Lighthouse in April 2005. (Photo by Bob Krawczyk.)$

Queen\'s Wharf Lighthouse in April 2005. (Photo by Bob Krawczyk.)

An 1889 ink sketch of Queen´s Wharf by Owen Staples. (Image courtesy of Toronto Public Library.)

Queen´s Wharf Lighthouse in 1908. (Image courtesy of Toronto Archives.)

Queen´s Wharf Lighthouse in September 1925. (Image courtesy of the Toronto Star via Toronto Public Library.)

Queen´s Wharf Lighthouse in 1926. (Image courtesy of Toronto Public Library.)

Queen´s Wharf Lighthouse in 1952. (Image courtesy of Toronto Public Library.)

Queen´s Wharf Lighthouse on September 29, 1981. (Image courtesy of Toronto Archives.)

An on-site historical description of the lighthouse in 1981. (Image courtesy of Toronto Archives.)

BUILDING INFORMATION

Name & Location:

Queen's Wharf Lighthouse
651 Fleet Street
Toronto
Fort York-Liberty Village

Owner:

The City of Toronto

First Owner:

The Province of Upper Canada

Year Completed:

1861

OTHER IDENTIFICATION

Notes:

One of two surviving 19th-century lighthouses in Toronto, the 11-metre-high Queen's Wharf Lighthouse was designed in 1861 by Irish architect Kivas Tully. Originally called New Pier, Queen's Wharf was built in 1833 at the foot of Bathurst Street and renamed after Queen Victoria ascended in 1837. It was York's fourth shipping wharf after King's Wharf, Cooper's Wharf, and Merchant's Wharf at Peter Street, Church Street, and Caroline Street (now Sherbourne Street), respectively.

Tully's structure replaced an 1838 lighthouse on the same site and was itself made obsolete by nearby range lights around 1912 and subsequently deactivated. In 1929, the Toronto Harbour Commission moved the wood-framed tower atop rollers roughly 450 metres north to its present location on Fleet Street southeast of the future site of Fort York Armoury. The City of Toronto restored the building in 1988.

Status:

Completed

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Companies:

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Architect - Kivas Tully <-- More buildings by this architect.

BUILDING DATA

Building Type:

Lighthouse

Current Use:

Cultural

Heritage Status:

Listed

Sources:

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Inventory of Heritage Properties
Author - City of Toronto
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Queen´s Wharf Lighthouse
Author - Heritage Toronto
Date - March 7, 2014
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Queen´s Wharf Lighthouse
Author - Toronto´s Historical Plaques
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Archaeological Monitoring and Documentation of the Remains of Queen´s Wharf
Author - ASI (Archaeological Services Inc.)
Date - April 2006
Document - Archaeological Monitoring and Documentation of the Remains of Queen´s Wharf_ASI_April 2006
Doors Open Toronto 2007: Queen´s Wharf Lighthouse
Author - City of Toronto
Date - 2007
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Queen´s Wharf, Ontario.
Author - Lighthouse Friends
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