Friday, November 27, 2020


Fort York Guard, Cleaning muskets in East Block House before restoration. 


Lt. Governor Keiller Mackay:  Lt. Governor's Investiture 1961


East Magazine.


Tour ending at the CANTEEN. 


Looking west to Stone Magazine and Soldiers Barracks (Canteen and Orientation Room).  Centre Blockhouse in foreground.


Fort York Guard on Sentry Duty.


Sally Port Cannon in foreground.  Fort York Guard with Bronze 9 pounder and part of Centre Blockhouse in the background.

Fort York Guard with RCMP Officers.


 

Firing of cannon.  Is that Carl Benn on the left?  And Barry Sandler to the right?


Fort York Guards firing the south west 24 pounder.  


I'm not sure when this was taken.


Fort York Guard taking a rest.


A city politician?  


Fort York Guard with Col McGuiness  in background.


Looking east to the Blue Barracks with Monument in the foreground, and skyline in the distance.


South Bedroom, Senior Officers' Quarters.


Exterior Officers' Mess, Fort York.

This looks like the Main Magazine.  However this has a different entrance.  


Centre Blockhouse on left.

East Blockhouse, winter scene from south, looking up towards east blockhouse.  January 1970 for Integrated Studies Course.  Source: Mr. Bocking, Teaching Aids Dept., Toronto Board of Education, 155 College Street, Toronto.


Battle of Queenston Heights, by J.D. Kelly.  


Fort York Guard 


Fort York Guard 


East Blockhouse, Firing Bench & Musket Slites, view showing Andrew Carroll firing a musket through a firing slit on the lower floor.  January 1970.


FESTIVAL OF THE FORT  May 1962


An Officer, (Jim Peters) sitting at a table reading. Clock and fireplace in the background in the Officers' Quarters games room.  January 1970.


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