The restaurant closed after the area around the building was demolished for the new West Don Lands community.

[4] According to Nancy Kiefer, writing in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, this controversy is often attributed to Riches being Toronto's first female principal to be paid the same as a man.

Kiefer, however, wrote that some of the opposition came from other female teachers, who had more experience, or who had the first class teaching certificate Reid lacked.

An addition was built on the east side of the building and used for industrial and warehouse purposes, including the operation of General Steel Ware.

In 1965, the Canary Restaurant relocated here from its original location at Dundas Street and University Avenue.

[8] To the east, the former industrial site of the Maple Leaf Mills pork processing plant lay vacant after its closure.

The Government of Ontario started the Ataratiri redevelopment plan in the 1980s to convert the brownfield site and proceeded to demolish many of the buildings nearby.

The hotel building was bought by the Government of Ontario and plans were made to convert it into a community centre.

[2] After the games, the buildings became private residences, the "Canary District" development, named after the restaurant.