- Ford Hotel
The Ford Hotel was a historic hotel in central Toronto. The 750 room hotel consisted of three 12 storey towers on Dundas Street West, east of Bay Street. It was built in 1928 and for several decades was one of the city's most prominent hotels. The hotel was next to the bus station and provided cheap rooms for lower income travellers. It was also well known as a site for crime and vice. The "Toronto Star" called it the "rendezvous of choice for couples pursuing an illicit affair." [Shorter, Edward. The crime that shook city's core; Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Aug 31, 2002. pg. B.03] In 1973 one of the rooms was the site of the sexual assault and murder of 9 year old Kirk Deasley by John McBeth Finlayson. [Grant, Donald. "Cross-Canada Alert Ordered in Strangling of Toronto Boy." "The Globe and Mail." Monday. July 30th, 1973. Page A1.]
The building was demolished in
1973 and the site it today home to theAtrium on Bay .References
External links
* [http://www.urbandb.com/canada/ontario/toronto/ford_hotel/ Ford Hotel]
* [http://www.oldstratforduponavon.com/images/torontoford.jpgPostcard bearing an image of the hotel]
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