March 6, 2023 is Toronto's 189th Birthday! Celebrate in the heart of Old Town Toronto, where the city was born. Toronto's First Post Office and the Town of York Historical Society invites you to take part in our annual commemoration of the day Toronto became a city: March 6, 1834. After two-years of meeting virtually,...

Join special guest speaker, Frank Nicholson, on Thursday April 13 at Toronto's First Post Office, as he unfolds the history of Toronto through the careers of some of the sixty-five chief magistrates the city has had since being incorporated in 1834; a timely subject given Toronto's upcoming mayoral election! Key figures will include our first...

Partake in a traditional Mother's Day celebration by writing a letter of appreciation to your Mom or Mother-Figure! Join Toronto's First Post Office for one of two writing sessions on May 11th to learn the history behind Mother's Day, and of course, write your letter to Mom as they would have in the 1830s, complete...

Partake in a traditional Mother's Day celebration by writing a letter of appreciation to your Mom or Mother-Figure! Join Toronto's First Post Office for one of two writing sessions on May 11th to learn the history behind Mother's Day, and of course, write your letter to Mom as they would have in the 1830s, complete...

Imagine a Toronto where the tallest building is only three stories high, where Lake Ontario reaches Front Street, where the wagon wheels grind through the muddy roads, the air smells of smoke and animal, and the surrounding lands is farms, fields, and forests. This was what the neighbourhood looked like in the early 1800s. In...