11-839: Victoria Square may refer to: Squares and plazas [ edit ] Victoria Memorial Square , Toronto, Canada Victoria Square, Adelaide , South Australia Viktoria Square , Athens, Greece Victoria Square, Belfast , Northern Ireland Victoria Square Shopping Centre Victoria Square, Birmingham , England Victoria Square, Christchurch , New Zealand Queen Victoria Square , Kingston upon Hull, England Victoria Square, London , England Victoria Square, Montreal , Quebec, Canada Victoria Square, Perth , Western Australia Victoria Square, Woking , England Populated places [ edit ] Victoria Square, Manchester , England Victoria Square, Ontario , Canada Fiction [ edit ] Victoria Square, Walford , in
22-624: A city parkette. The cemetery reached capacity in 1863 and was closed and largely abandoned. Over the decades, neglect and vandalism resulted in there today being only 17 surviving grave stones. In the late 19th century it was turned into a public park and has served as such since. It was restored between 2009 and 2011. Led by the Wellington Place Neighbourhood Association and Toronto Councillor Adam Vaughan , restoration included regrading, and elements such as lighting, pathways, street furniture, trees and other plantings, and
33-668: A number of victims of the War of 1812. When the Town of York was incorporated as the City of Toronto in 1834, its 'New Town' grid was extended from Peter Street to as far west as Garrison Creek creating the 'New Town Extension' with its curved Niagara Street, later extended a block closer to the Garrison Creek with Walnut Street. Victoria Square was one of four squares in the 'New Town Extension'; Clarence Square , McDonell Square and West Market Square were
44-515: A playground. Garrison Creek (Ontario) Garrison Creek was a short stream about 7.7 kilometres (4.8 miles) long that flowed southeast into the west side of Toronto Harbour in Ontario , Canada. It has been largely covered over and filled in , but geographical traces of the creek can still be found, including the natural amphitheatre known as Christie Pits and the off-leash dog "bowl" of Trinity Bellwoods Park . The name "Garrison Creek"
55-502: A railway underpass at King Street and Atlantic Avenue . Both Christie Pits and Trinity Bellwoods Park are over the original Garrison Creek Ravine, while the King and Atlantic intersection is over the course of Asylum Stream , a tributary that ran from just northwest of Fort York to Lisgar Street and Queen Street West near the former Provincial Asylum. The stream had two sources, one north of St. Clair Avenue , near Humewood Public School, and
66-463: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Victoria Memorial Square Victoria Memorial Square is a park and former cemetery in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. Established in 1793 as the burial place for those affiliated with the nearby Toronto Garrison ( Fort York ). It was the first cemetery to be used by European settlers in what would become
77-695: The British TV series EastEnders See also [ edit ] List of places named after Queen Victoria Victory Square (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Victoria Square . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria_Square&oldid=1089366317 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
88-517: The city of Toronto. Originally known as St. John's Square, the park today is part of Fort York National Historic Site , and the site of a monument to the War of 1812 sculpted by Walter Seymour Allward and completed in 1902. The cemetery was established by Governor John Graves Simcoe and the first burial in the cemetery was his infant daughter Katherine (1793–1794). It served as the military cemetery for Toronto until 1863 and saw some 400 burials, including
99-459: The others. McDonell Square became the site of St. Mary's Church and was renamed along with northern section of roadway as Portugal Square in 1960. In the West Market Square, St. Andrew's Market was established to rival St. Lawrence Market in the 'Old Town' to the east. While the north half is now a city public works facility the southern portion is home to St. Andrew's Market and Playground
110-541: The sewer system. There are many artifacts of the Creek's existence, including buried bridges along Harbord Street and Crawford Street south of Dundas Street. The unusual courses of Niagara Street (north of Fort York) and Vaughan Road (St. Clair and Bathurst area) indicate that they were once trails following the banks of the creek. In 2013 particularly strong rainstorms caused the storm sewers that replaced Garrison Creek to flood, at Christie Pits , Trinity Bellwoods Park , and
121-424: Was used because Fort York was built near the creek mouth. Volunteers lead popular tours of the course of the old watershed. Garrison Creek was one of a number of small natural watercourses on the site of the current city of Toronto. Starting in the 1870s, the stream was diverted into underground sewers under city streets and the original course was filled in with soil. By 1920, the stream was entirely diverted into
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