Exporting Toronto

[Urban Shocker]

Know of any Toronto structures that have been moved somewhere else?

 

[Urban Shocker]

The original pedestrian bridge across the tracks to the CN Tower, which was moved to Highway 11, which it now spans, north of Barrie.

 

[Urban Shocker]

The theatre seats from the Victory Burlesque at Dundas and Spadina, which closed in 1975, were installed in the Herongate Barn Theatre in Pickering.

 

[CDL.TO]

The HMCS Haida, after 37 years in Toronto found a new home in Hamilton Harbour.

 

[ShonTron]

I assume you are talking about structures built in Toronto and moved outside the city? Or would you count structures moved within Toronto, like some of the buildings in Black Creek Pioneer Village (the Halfway House comes to mind), or Campbell House, or the Bathurst Street bridge? Or the QEW monument? Or Joy Gas?

Do seats in a theatre count?

 

[Mustapha]

Know of any Toronto structures that have been moved somewhere else?

The CNE Grandstand seats were auctioned off... some probably exist in peoples backyards as patio furniture.

 

[adma]

I think there's been a few historic houses that have, in whole or in part, been transported out of town.

And a few old rides in places like Sunnyside found new life elsewhere...

 

[egotrippin]

Though not entire buildings, remnants of past downtown financial buildings now live out in Scarborough.

 

[jaborandi]

The old PCC streetcars ended up in Alexandria, Egypt

 

[ShonTron]

But the PCC cars weren't built here. They were built in St. Louis and finished in Montreal to avoid import duties.

 

[egotrippin]

The old PCC streetcars ended up in Alexandria, Egypt

Interesting, why were they sent there?

 

[jaborandi]

Interesting, why were they sent there?

They were able and willing to purchase them.

 

[unimaginative2]

Only some of them. Others wound up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as well as one or two in San Francisco.