This ensures that the building cannot be torn down or modified without the involvement of the City and ensuring that the heritage aspects are protected. The City of Toronto applied a formal Heritage Designation to the property in 2015 under the Ontario Heritage Act. Unlike many old industrial buildings, it hasn’t been torn down or converted into residential uses. Toronto Public Library Collection.Ĥ0 Hanna has been converted in recent years to office and retail uses. Extract of 1945 Underwriters Insurance Plan of Toronto showing the Brunswick-Balke-Collender plant, Volume 2 Sheet 94. Many buildings in Toronto built with Don Bricks can be identified by this brick colour (I have a buff Don Valley Brickworks brick complete with “DON” stamped into the surface which I “may” have acquired on an urban exploration before Evergreen’s restoration of the plant started). The yellow brick is very possibly a product of Toronto’s Don Valley Brickworks, as the glacial clay used for much of the brick made there before the 1970’s resulted in the yellow/buff brick colour. The yellow brick is both unique in liberty village, but also a very historic Toronto thing.
During operations, there was a railway siding along the east side of the building on Hanna Avenue which had loading docks for boxcars. The plant remained in operation until 1960 when Brunswick sold the land. The restored Brunswick-Balke-Collender factory and boiler house buildings at 40 Hanna Ave.īrunswick started to acquire the land which formed the Toronto site in 1905, and commenced construction of the factory following this. The Brunswick Company still exists to this day and is still making pool tables (just not at the Liberty Village site in Toronto). The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company produced Billiard Tables, Bowling Alleys, and other game and other bar/entertainment supplies.
The first industry and building I am going to profile is one which will be a focal point of the layout in terms of appearance, but is an industry which won’t be rail served (by an active track at least). This is the first of a series of posts on the buildings I will be modelling in part should the Liberty Village layout come to pass. As I work on designing the track plan, and how I am going to build the layout and fasten it to the top of the furniture that will support it, I am also busy looking at the buildings I will be modelling to provide industries for switching.
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