How Toronto's Old Money Built a Street of Mansions and Then Tore Them Down: Jarvis Street
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0:00 Jarvis Street and the market
1:52 Park Lot 6 and the debtor’s land
5:24 The fortunes behind Millionaire’s Row
9:34 Mansions, architects, and social prestige
15:20 The arithmetic of decline
23:44 Widening Jarvis for the automobile
27:17 Heritage protection and threatened houses
32:19 What survived by leaving the market
I trace how Toronto’s Jarvis Street changed from an avenue of mansions and wealthy families into a traffic corridor shaped by redevelopment, rising land values, and changing suburbs.
I follow the street from Park Lot 6, William Jarvis, and Samuel Jarvis through the fortunes of William Cawthra and Hart Massey, the building of Millionaire’s Row, and the families who made the street famous.
I also examine the demolition of houses for wider roads, apartments, offices, and public buildings, and explain why the properties that survived were so often taken off the market by hospitals, churches, schools, and charities.
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How Toronto's Old Money Built a Street of Mansions and Then Tore Them Down: Jarvis Street
Canada Roast
3,762 views
0:00 Jarvis Street and the market
1:52 Park Lot 6 and the debtor’s land
5:24 The fortunes behind Millionaire’s Row
9:34 Mansions, architects, and social prestige
15:20 The arithmetic of decline
23:44 Widening Jarvis for the automobile
27:17 Heritage protection and threatened houses
32:19 What survived by leaving the market
I trace how Toronto’s Jarvis Street changed from an avenue of mansions and wealthy families into a traffic corridor shaped by redevelopment, rising land values, and changing suburbs.
I follow the street from Park Lot 6, William Jarvis, and Samuel Jarvis through the fortunes of William Cawthra and Hart Massey, the building of Millionaire’s Row, and the families who made the street famous.
I also examine the demolition of houses for wider roads, apartments, offices, and public buildings, and explain why the properties that survived were so often taken off the market by hospitals, churches, schools, and charities.