Berlin, Ontario,
changed its name to Kitchener in 1916.
The Baby Point area
of Toronto marks a historic site on the banks of the Humber River where an
Iroquois village, Taiaiagon, once stood.
In 1897 a new
stadium was built at Hanlan's Point Amusement Park. It burned down in 1909, but was rebuilt, and
in 1914 Babe Ruth, then a rookie pitcher for the Providence Grays, hit his
first professional home run there. The
ball landed in the Toronto Bay.
In 1797 Bay St. was
named when the town of York extended its boundaries for the first time. It ran from the bay to Lot St. (Queen). Dr Henry Scadding wrote: "Old inhabitants
say that Bay St was at first Bear Street, and that it was popularly so called
from a noted chase given to a bear out of the adjoining wood on the north,
which to escape from its pursuers, made for the water along this route".
Deer Park was a
village at Yonge and St Clair that drew its name from the herds of tame deer
that roamed the area.
