Historicist: The Red Lion Inn

In the 1890s, journalist and historian John Ross Robertson visited the long-neglected premises of the former Red Lion Inn. Although “[t]he most famous hostelry in the Annals of York,” he wrote in Landmarks of Toronto, Volume 1 (1894), it had lately been largely abandoned, with one section reduced to being a feed-and-provisions store. As he … Continue reading Historicist: The Red Lion Inn