the Canada Life Building, University Avenue

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the Canada Life Building, viewed from Nathan Phillips Square at Queen Street W. and Bay

The Canada Life Builting of 1931; it was originally designed to be much taller but was scaled back due to the Depression.

In 1950, the insurance company's chief executive officer visited New York City and quickly became enamoured with the beacons reporting the status of the weather; he returned to Toronto and had one installed atop his own. For decades, the Globe and Mail used the beacon as an icon for its weather page, and published a guide to what the various lights indicated. For example Green for clear weather and Red for cloudy weather. When the lights on the tower run up it signifies warmer weather and coller when the lights run downwards.

South African War Memorial, University Avenue.
Tall building to left of memorial is the Zurich Centre, 1971, 25 floors

The War Memorial was erected in 1910, in memory of those Canadians who lost their lives in the Boer War. The bronze and granite Memorial was designed by Walter Seymour Allward and the inscription on the Memorial reads:

University Avenue from the Parliament buildings gardens

the Ontario Legislative Building
Architect: Richard A. Waite, building 1886-92

the Ontario flag

statue of Queen Victoria

the Mowat Building in Queen's Park Cresent E.

statue of King Edward VII

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