OLD WORLD TORONTO, Fort York, Iroquois / Huron, 1812 destruction / rebuild, Oldest Photographs

[@dennisglenn9475]

I've been viewing photographs of old Toronto since I was a kid (I'm 64 y.o. now) in books and now online and have never seen a large number of these photos before. Thank you!

[@rj8372]

I'm a master Mason & foundation contractor in Alberta, but i was raised and trained in Toronto. There is not enough room to write about what I've seen through demolitions during the 80s/90s.

[@tamara_diamonds422]

We don’t care what you are. Why say you are Mason? You could’ve just said you’ve many things that can’t be written down. You just wanted to people to know that you are Mason. Which we don’t care. Many non Manson people have seen shit too.

[@brett2344]

Hi Jared we are cycling all over T.O. Witnessing fascinating mudflood/evidence andTartarian architecture… thunderbird mound ( super ancient river site) Grange Manor early 1800’s… Osgoode Hall…… remnants of foundations on the cne grounds…Major active river systems running and tunnelled all throughout the city… Garrison creek… Logan River…cobblestone roads… brick arched river tunnels… not to mention the castles and old structures of U of T! Trerraformed coastline Tommy Thompson park…Awesome video…looking forward to part 2🤙

[@kerrbear1980]

They blew up the western battery at old fort york. Its a interesting place to visit. Thank u for focusing on our architecture. Im obsessed with the history of my city. Thank u for this video

[@pgillre]

Jared, Thank you for the effort. My family arrived in 1819 and settled north of Toronto and in Muddy York. I’m from Hamilton and living in. Manchester England for a year. Look forward to my next trip to Toronto. You brought fond memories back. Paul

[@Andy-mv9qj]

Look into Hamilton, ON. A city right across the lake from Toronto. We got all kinds of crazy old structures here!

[@noeyp905]

Our city has one of the most interesting history's in canada for sure

[@microtechmachineshop]

@@noeyp905 has the most interesting characters too

[@tummytalk605]

I just wish they'd stop dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into Cootes Paradise

[@noeyp905]

@@tummytalk605 and fix the homeless and addiction issues here. It's known that homeless and addicted from Toronto are given a ticket to come here and abuse the system. I got this from a few homeless people when they were tenting out on ferguson st last year.

[@tummytalk605]

@@noeyp905 Bro Hamilton has been Toronto's dumping ground for human beings since the 1850's when they would divert immigrant ships from Italy etc. to Hamilton==My grandparents are Italian by the way

[@ryanclark3957]

You do great work buddy! You and Jon Levi are certainly my favorite KZbinrs

[@rfiskillingussoftly6568]

Fun fact! Yonge st....is the longest street in the world! I don't know if everything you said about the war of 1812 is true.....when I was 9or10 yrs old ..I camped at fort York for 2or3 days with Cub Scouts and we reenacted the war of 1812...all dressed in hand made uniforms and muskets we built out of wood! Lol! Great video man!

[@redman958]

Wow great video!

[@keithalanrichards4163]

Wow the ivy growth on that building at 16:34...... Crazy!

[@stephenmccullock388]

Well done....for a man of your youth ...you dug out old images I bet few could

[@glennelliott708]

Iroquois didn’t arrive peacefully, they drove out the Hurons and Neutrals, killing many.

[@worer850]

Perhaps some reconciliation money is needed for them .

[@joellandry2406]

I agree but apparently none of that matters because the hippies refer to them all as one group “Natives” 🌈 Bigotry is the new normal.

[@matthewcarmichael9660]

Great video, I would like to hear more of this

[@kevinj4656]

My Mother worked at Fort York for about 25 years and while growing up in the 80’s I spent a lot of time with free reign of the grounds. I got to work in the archeology workshop which was cool. I learned that everything from the fort to the lake is all landfill from the old city of York. Along the lakefront you can find evidence of this. As a teenager some friends led me through a bird conservatory to a rock garden built out of old cobblestone in a variety of colours. People build sculptures there out of old stuff that washes up on the beach. I built a little man chilling on the beach there. It’s like the whole city was bulldozed into the lake.

[@miket7763]

A lot of those beautiful old buildings still stand. Unfortunately Toronto is being turned into one big strip mall like in the States.

[@hojoinhisarcher]

these are great archives and a real boost to my determination to do a channel of my own.Thank-You!!!!

[@scottnyc6572]

Great pics!! I wonder how York used to look like.Pike wasn’t a good guy.The buildings look beautiful after 1812.It seems there’s always a “great fire” that destroys city’s.Thanks.

[@carolcassis4728]

Thanks for covering this! Very enlightening and can't wait for the next video!

[@johnkaminski-bh1im]

What a heartbreaker to see such beautiful architecture no longer with us Thank you for sharing incredible photos of our lost history.

[@michaelj3414]

I used to sit on Taber Hill and smoke weed, in the 80's, but I didn't know what it was at the time. This town was my stomping grounds from a little boy in the early 70's. Yonge Street, Casa Loma, Center Island were a few of my playgrounds. Some of the stories I could tell about some of the old seedy parts, oh boy. lol

[@luckyguy600]

Good stuff. I always enjoy old pictures and new information on Toronto and Ontario. Thankyou.

[@ryans2118]

I think native means "not yet owned by a corporation?"

[@crazycat1345]

Those old beautiful buildings were here WAY before 1812. They are from a previous culture. You find this kind of architecture all over the world.

[@jodivandyk3649]

An interesting bit of trivia you might like to know. Sick Kids Hospital was built on the land where the home where Mary PIckford was born used to be.

[@soulcontractor1641]

Jarid, very Informative considering I was Born in North York and didn't know the Full History as you Presented it!! Kudos Good Work!! Dean( Soul) Toronto

[@gondolacrescent5]

Oh my god…this video is b.s.

[@poijupoij]

I love these videos! Keep it up.

[@Jigger2361]

oxo

[@bowold3976]

love it good stuff keep it up

[@The0007laika]

nice pics

[@PadraigOConaire]

This is quite incredible. The sheer volume of large, sophisticated, intricate and elaborate structures out of stone for a population of less than 50 000 seems virtually impossible, especially considering that they were built before electricity. The question that comes to mind is how and why were these buildings constructed?

[@carmichael3594]

Parliament Street was mapped out before Young and Dundas👍 parliament street was a trail which Simcoe himself with others cut out down to the first early parliament buildings hence the name parliament street.

[@TagusMan]

It's heartbreaking to see all the amazing architecture lost in this city. Whatever the big fires didn't destroy, policians and developers made sure to finish the job. Beauty was replaced by the dark, dreary and dull. Toronto became a mecca for shapeless, depressing, cookie cutter architecture that would be right at home anywhere behind the Iron Curtain. Today, we have ugly, sterile, steel and glass condos popping up everywhere that are often way too tall, eating the sky and blocking views of Lake Ontario. Rarely is anything new built to be beautiful. Bloody shame. The one bright spot is that Toronto has a lush urban forest, crisscrossed by rivers and ravines. The trees help to camouflage the ugly architecture, and the ravines and parks are a great way to escape the city without having to leave the city. Great job on the video. Cheers from Muddy York.

[@bornundersiege]

Kurimeo has some really good info on Canada and who was here 1500s 1600s . Hidden history but documented in our Canadian universities. In school they taught us BS . I enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing. We need more of these. Do blue mountains area Collingwood please.

[@lee02jepson]

Love all the old photos. I've looked at a lot of old photos so know most of the buildings. Oh also there were 2 fires in Toronto down town area. One as you described + another, I believe, in the very early 1900s.

[@lee02jepson]

Toronto was also called 'Hog Town' b/c most residence had a number of hogs they would raise + used for meat. At one point there were more hogs in Toronto than people. Also around the 1890s or so a law was enacted that you must keep your hogs penned, no longer free running all over the place as packs of them were running around on the streets knocking ladies into the mud puddles + it had become a bit of an annoyance. Could you imagine, wearing the close that they did + being knocked into the muddy streets of TO at that time, then washing that out. Oh God. LOL.

[@michaelbrownlee9497]

1907 Toronto fire, a bank run happened in the states and a asteroid crashed into Russia coinciding with Tesla experiments. During excavations on the area near skydome about 20 to 30 feet under the surface I found many clay fired beer jars and colored medicine glass jars, stones shaped bricks, and a few crates of muskets packed in crates covered in grease. Construction Workers recovered them all. That area,( just south of union station), use to be a port, and they must of been dumping trash, eventually building on it as the lake receded.

[@TJEFBOOT68]

Thanks Jarid, No thanks to those Brits who paid the First Nations Indians to collect bounties for capturing and imprisoning my great uncle 9 times removed from Saugerties, Ulster, New York in 1778 ; Marched in bare feet in November along with his 12 yo son to Montreal and imprisoned for over a year before their escape to Connecticut .

[@Jigger2361]

I'd read that book

[@matthewmcdonald1301]

That mud comment is interesting as hell. I've notice a large amount of southern ontario is always muddy. I'm from the rockey east, and it's bizarre how rarely I see rock and ow often the ground is wet.

[@diplomatnj9733]

Great video 👍👍🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@chrisjacks2599]

14:00 "30 miles away". Nope, that could never happen, with black powder, thats a cover story, its "code" for: tearing out the historic infrastructure, aka: antiquitech!

[@jamiebruvold6105]

I agree. Something isn't right there. 30 miles would be so incredibly massive.

[@dougdiver8637]

Well done,,,,, from a fith generation Torontonion.

[@rickdacosta9727]

Sadly, most of the buildings picture now compose the body of the Leslie spit. York was not devastated by the explosion at Fort York. In fact, there are quite a few buildings that still exist from the 1700's. Rampaging US soldiers did do a fair bit of damage however.

[@gregoryiskindaokay9231]

i’m from Sharon, Pennsylvania! nothing here is what we’re told either..

[@historybuff333]

Great video!

[@scottmerrow1488]

Awesome buildings but muddy streets.

[@quercus5398]

Toronto has a big island, on Lake Ontario.

[@bryanlilke5058]

looks like the original builders were a bit taller

[@thegnostic33]

You should do one on Montreal and Quebec city

[@JohnChalmers617]

I was born in Toronto ( Etobicoke) and at 15 lived in the Borough of York .

[@just1john]

25:21 what a great shot

[@zack87to87]

Excellent

[@dbh2765]

great video thank you. Love this stuff. Melllennium not century BC. Again though, excellent as I live in the area and have questions....

[@LazyElkman]

anyone have any info on the lion column ? i spent years in t.o. and dont recall it anywhere?

[@colourwheel5703]

Nice video.

[@javierdenardo2607]

It seems the mound builders were not the same people as the modern day Native Americans. Legends of the Hopi and other tribes indicate they were red-haired giants. P.S. Native peoples are known as First Nations in Canada

[@shellybadger7727]

Neptune's Lagoons channel shows shows the suppressed evidence that backs up what you said.

[@raptorleafMedication]

The mound builders were so called black people. The people you know as Native Americans are not Indigenous to these lands. They've just been here for a long time. Washington D.C. home of the Red Skins for example, is famously labeled CHOCOLATE city. Places like Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi have massive amounts of American Indian history, a massive so called black population and ZERO Native Americans. The same can be said for everywhere except for places like North & South Dakota & other uninhibited places like Alaska. ⁷

[@timothydillow3160]

Fantastic pics. They are obviously lying about the dates, and whitewashing photos and how old photography is, they say 1839 was when it began, take that with a big pinch of salt.

[@scottnyc6572]

Photography really wasn’t perfected until the 1860’s during and following the US Civil War.

[@timothydillow3160]

Just in time for Matthew Brady to take staged pictures,

[@maggiemae7539]

@@scottnyc6572 wrong. Camera been around way before. My granddad had photos on tin from early 1800s. This is ancient technology

[@MrMikepresley]

I live in Toronto, my own research on the developmental history of the city (working backwards) is...our major streets of today were made from what the British (1790s) were able to construct, the British built the roads using their own soldiers and drunkards (Stump Law was created from a problem of drunks (so many taverns in the city), once a drunkard was arrested the next morning they either paid a fine or had to work the whole day digging out a tree stump which was in the path of a newly built road. Now the British were building the easiest roads they could get, so, they were using old Indian Trails which were used for centuries by the local Indians; the Indians got their hunting trails from the century old paths made by the local wildlife; the local wildlife from centuries earlier would create the shortest paths from point A to point B (just observe any city squirrel or deer) it is a straight path to A and a straight path back. The Indians followed these paths because it provided them with wildlife (for food). The British used these straight (treeless paths) for making easy roads, the cities used the British paths for todays streets. Dundas and Yonge Streets was a tough intersection to build a road on, but the Stump Law help provide the labor needed to acheive the goal.

[@gondolacrescent5]

I see, so the grid system of roads in Toronto was designed by squirrels and largely enacted by the efforts of hung-over drunkards. You are nutz.

[@gulfy09]

Where is part 2

[@ireen1962]

Today I watched 250 photos of the Chicago fire 1871. Oh man everything looked like ruines from a DEW weapon. Wooden poles, structures, doors, and even wooden window shutters were not touched by the "fire" . I dare to say, it wasn't a fire 😏

[@Dellicatspurr]

Great video, where's the 2nd part 🤗

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Beautiful city

[@gulfy09]

Not any big trees they all seem like 15 years old. Any sewers or water hydrants ..very strange.

[@ryans2118]

So new york happened after york?

[@simonh6371]

No lol

[@dixonpinfold2582]

1) York, England: founded as Eboracum, AD 71; renamed York, late Middle Ages 2) New York, USA: founded as New Amsterdam, 1625; renamed New York 1665 3) York, Upper Canada: first settled by Europeans at a French fur-trading post on the Humber River, 1720; renamed and founded as York, 1793

[@captinzoom]

Crazy that they would blow everything up after 1813. Always strange to see these pictures of big cities with only a handful of people. All dressed the same with no different classes.

[@larryandersonsspectacularc5390]

I lived in Toronto in 1973.. If you dig in your yard you will hit SHALE full of fusels. Also, on your property deed, it says County of York, not Toronto. Olde Fort York has been re-built and is operational today.

[@worer850]

Good news. They aren't renaming Lake Simcoe .

[@Jigger2361]

😲

[@ryans2118]

Im sure u already know jarid, but for those who dont. We may be different countries as designed to be. And our flags are all different but symbols mean tons. Who ever has same colors, stripes, stars ect... in flag are bound by a ruler. Just a flag means a ruler?

[@frityofjenssen9853]

The city has many buildings that look ancient and unusually solid.. especially to have been built so quickly. I would guess the Huron and Iroquois built them a long time ago

[@Louisthefur]

Ya I thought of that last night... What if the hidden history is that the native American people built all these cities long ago. The Europeans that came afterwards killed off the natives and claimed the cities for themselves. Moving on to claim that Europeans founded and built these cities. The natives have been ripped off big time!

[@judithparker4608]

Holly wood....used to make Magic Wands !

[@robertlambert7736]

Amazing we were able to build all of those buildings with little to no tax base. Not like were hit now. And we are continually told there isnt even money to maintain those beautiful pieces of architecture. Hell our govt spends 20 thousand on an 8x10 shed

[@FeedScrn]

In the past, rich families would contribute to a cities' attributes, and then name said structures after themselves.

[@lilspikes81]

I live in bc, I see some weird structures in the bush, nothing we built. Nothing like a livable structure, more like a rock storage built into ground along well and old established roads , not new all at. But our woods do swallow ground around here

[@Tim8mit]

you keep saying century in the opening but I think you mean millennium given that the maps show the ice gone from Toronto a 7000 years, there is evidence of native populations as far back as 11,000 years ago, this makes me lose confidence on the information in other videos. I'm impressed in the collection of old Photos and the stories

[@malcolmcanning9553]

I've seen many orange lodges but that one is hilarious..

[@judithparker4608]

Thankyou

[@ChrisA-hu5pz]

So many beautiful churches that have been turned into condos.

[@skrillgorefuski]

It makes sense calling it YORK. They basically moved upstairs so they could keep a closer eye on the Scottish Right Yankees

[@judithparker4608]

The original name of New York was New Ansterdam

[@Jigger2361]

also New Amsterdam

[@Poordirtfarmer]

😎😎

[@ryans2118]

Remember the movie "Gangs of New York." Natives vs Rabbits? But it always struck me weird the natives were white. Never. And the non natives were European/ white? But the more jarid vids and other peoples vids put together blows my mind the reality of our true history. Just another piece to puzzle?

[@gottaproxy8826]

I look white and mongolian, ive been told my ancestors came from scotland but these are all jesuits, and hte people who had legal guardianship of my ancestors were masons... so... idk man. Pretty sure my genetics come from North America and so do all my ancestors. I think we are lied to, USA has a population of 330 million yet we are supposed to be all immigrants? how did the USA becomes HALF of europes population? theres 775 million euros, 330 millionsih usa... how does that add up? did damn near a quarter of europe leave for USA all at once?

[@ryans2118]

@@gottaproxy8826 good question? Keep questioning, maybe oneday we'll all contribute to our real reality?

[@raptorleafMedication]

The word Native American was ORIGINALLY created for the children of Europeans who came to America and settled down there. Their children were born in America and resented other Europeans they viewed as attemting to benefit off of all the hard work they put in stealing the land from the Indians. Go look up the term American in the Oxford dictionary and you'll see what I mean. At around 23:17 in this video you can see the TRUE Indigenous population. If you think I'm being ridiculous go to the Oxford dictionary and see what it says about the derogatory term nigg*r.

[@barryfroelich3526]

Certainly meets the narrative of the mid 1800s .

[@animalethuge2628]

3000 views. 300 likes lol. I'll hit like on all your videos from now on. Christ

[@Chillaxin202]

22:47 when it starts to hit my soul

[@bluetocop]

toronto city has done such a poor job of keeping its old buildings unlike Montreal and Quebec city.....................good job

[@bigfootjuice8832]

Huh.. So 9th century BC is 2900-3000 years ago.. Vikings in Newfoundland in 1000AD..when did the Ice Sheets over Quebec and Labrador recede? How far East did Natives travel and when?

[@stew6302]

1904 , Toronto was hit by a DEW attack

[@judithparker4608]

North and South Queen Carolina....New Amsterdam named twice...became...New York......Cities Along the Mississippi to the Delta ?? Eg Memphis ?

[@maggiemae7539]

Memphis is named after an ancient Egypt (kemet) city

[@ryans2118]

An all old photos never have people and mud streets surrounded by beautiful old world stone architecture?

[@gaylecheung3087]

YORK - Must read: Origins…, UFT Book Store Howard Public School will be celebrating it’s 200 year anniversary on 2023. So disappointing that the old school “1823” is no longer standing but the new school was built in 1970 and will be opening up the time capsule there will be a reunion more information to come please go to the Facebook page for more information. One of them that’s great schools in Toronto ever!. I wish the year commentary near ration corresponded with your photographs could use and re-editing - John Simcoe First lieutenant governor of York

[@rueporter2253]

Huh, you from up near me. I live in Franklin , was born in Erie .

[@nolan412]

How many bricks can 50k men lay working five days a week? They could be counted in Toronto.

[@jthepickle7]

I've seen old maps of the North East - 1835 , showing railroad lines in both Toronto and Ottawa. Predating your recounting of railroads arriving in Toronto in 1850.

[@JohnAdams-ki1fv]

Thirty miles of destruction from an ammunition hold? Tunguska....mt st Helens....

[@istvanmargittoth4268]

Could that be possible that the Iroquois were named after their handwriting or tatoos on their arms? Iroquois [Iro-kez] = handwriting in hungarian. + Tor-on-to = Tor-on-lake ? 🤔

[@djspx]

You don't pronounce the second T in Toronto. Saying it so many times in this video just sounds weird.

[@RabbitSix]

Toronto taken made into York, York destroyed, turns back into a new Toronto

[@natethegr8883]

Mobile Alabama and Detroit Michigan will shock u

[@seank4250]

Oh wow! So many experts on the Natives!!

[@derekbirch1410]

hey, thanks for the well researched history of my home town. I would like to correct you on a couple of items though. 1. we do not say “Native American”. to do so is to be Amerocentric. The unites states is not the only county on the continent. and secondly, they are the people of the continent who’s history predates the existence of European expansion into North America. therefore to say “Native American” is offensive on multiple levels. Instead we in Canada prefer the term “First Nations” This term is preferred as it acknowledges both the fact that there were indeed many individual nations within the first nations, and it also acknowledged their birthright as being here first. Please in future videos it would be appreciated if you used this term. 2. you used the word Iroquois. it is important too poi t out that this is a word of French origins hence the spelling of it. the word is used to describe the Haudenoshone people, otherwise known as the 6 Nations, who created the democ Patrice’s that the United Stated would base their government on. since the word Iroquois is of French origins, the French pronunciation is preferred. in French, “uois” makes the sound “wa” therefore the word iroquois is correctly pronounced as “ear-o-kwa” 3. The second “t” in the word Toronto is silent. the description of the pronunciation is complicated but to simplify please just say “Toron’o”

[@FeedScrn]

Don't be so biased. The N. American continent was actually discovered by a dude named Americus.. or Amerigo Vespucci.... way before the U.S. came to be. So Native American is an Ok term to use for Canadian Indians... and U.S. Indians, and probably for Mexican Indians as well.

[@mary4011]

Ditto that. And it's only common sense that there were manysny people who traveled here. And I'm sure there were other ethnicities here and the native Americans scalped and murdered them all. As to being here first maybe not so much!

[@derekbirch1410]

That is incorrect. Americus did not "discover" North America, he was a map maker, who used the information provided by early explorers, and then named it after himself even though he had never been there. Furthermore, This video is about Canadian History. Therefore he needs to use the Canadian term. "First Nations" We do not say Native American Canada. We say "First Nations".

[@dixonpinfold2582]

​@@derekbirch1410 I can see someone has rarely _if ever_ come into contact with the people he's talking about, because actually almost all of the people of that community use the term _native. First Nations, indigenous_ and _aboriginal_ are very seldom heard. The handful of them who do use those terms learned them from white people who devised them at universities. The haughty and patronizing idea was to grant them dignity (!), as though they lacked it and would have none otherwise, and then take credit for their noble generosity. Classic sanctimony on their part (and yours). The modern synonym _virtue signalling_ is likewise perfectly apt. It also amounts to language policing. Speaking of policing speech, there is nothing wrong with enunciating both t's in _Toronto._ Most Toronto-born adults grew up when it was still considered more correct than the pronunciation _ter-ON-oh,_ a view which prevailed into the current century. I would say "Teronno" became fully accepted in all contexts no earlier than 2010. That is very recent, far too recent for anyone to go around trying to badger others into adopting it. And last time I noticed, careful speakers (TV news anchors for example) continue to pronounce both t's, as does every mayor I've ever heard, up to at least John Tory. (I don't know about the person now in the mayor's office, but her English language skills are markedly poor at any rate.) So I would suggest leaving people alone until after 2060 at least, if you can muster the patience. _Forever_ would be even better.

[@111CREWGO69ZEHZ]

Brecksville Ohio Founded in 1811 🎉

[@georgejetson1025]

Well let’s see….. In order , I wish we had computers followed by internet followed by KZbin 50 years ago so I coulda used this on my history of Toronto project lol

[@drummerboyharm3078]

Tartarian building structures

[@mikedrown2721]

👍👌👏😊❤️🇺🇲

[@wendypeacock-frail]

My old stomping ground