John Finch's Hotel
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Finch Hotel was an inn located in current-day Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was opened in 1848 by John Finch on Lot #2, Concession #1, with a land size of 200 acres (81 ha). Before Finch bought the property in 1847,[1] it was owned by John and Alexander Montgomery.[2] Finch retired in 1860 and leased it to a succession of innkeepers before selling it to Charles McBride in 1873. McBride demolished the hotel and used the timber from it to build the Bedford Park Hotel.[1]
Finch Avenue, a main arterial road in Toronto and the surrounding Peel Region and Durham Region, was named after John Finch.
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Finch Hotel was operated by a series of innkeepers:
- Thomas Palmer 1848-1860
- John Likens 1860-1864
- John Fenley 1869-1871
- William Kirk 1871-1873
The inn was sold to Charles McBride, who demolished the building and took timbers to build the Bedford Park Hotel at another site on Yonge Street.[3] The site is now a parkette and condos on 1 and 3 Pemberton Avenue. To the west of the hotel was Stop 35 of the North Yonge Railways, a radial railway that ran from Toronto to Lake Simcoe.[citation needed]
