[3] William Lyon Mackenzie, a Reformer, was Toronto's first mayor, a position he only held for one year, losing to Tory Robert Baldwin Sullivan in 1835.

Mackenzie would eventually lead an assault on Montgomery's Tavern, beginning the Upper Canada Rebellion.

The attacks were ineffectual, as British regulars and the Canadian militia in Toronto went out to the camp at Montgomery's Tavern and dispersed the rebels.

Mackenzie and some other Reformers escaped to the United States, while other rebel leaders, such as Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews, were hanged.

It is a matter of deep regret that political differences should have run high in this place, and led to most discreditable and disgraceful results.

It is not long since guns were discharged from a window in this town at the successful candidates in an election, and the coachman of one of them was actually shot in the body, though not dangerously wounded.

As historian Gregory Kealey concluded, "Following the delegitimation of Reform after the Rebellions were suppressed, the Corporation (of Toronto) developed into an impenetrable bastion of Orange-Tory strength.

Orange influence dominated the emerging police force, giving it a "monopoly of legal violence, and the power to choose when to enforce the law.

This continued until the 1954 election when the Jewish Nathan Phillips defeated radical Orange leader Leslie Howard Saunders.

Completed in 1858, it was located south of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, northwest of King and Shaw Streets.

By that time it was a nursing home, and its residents moved to a new facility at St. Clair and Warden Avenues, known today as Providence Healthcare.

Its collection originated from The Mechanics Institute, which was founded in 1830 by reform Alderman James Lesslie to provide technical and adult education.

In 1853 the Institute erected a new permanent home at the corner of Church and Adelaide Streets, but it struggled to attract new paying members.

The idea was promoted by alderman John Hallam, but it met considerable resistance in city council.

Hallam brought the initiative to a public referendum, and the citizens of Toronto voted in its favour on January 1, 1883.

Before 1998, the Toronto Board of Education and Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto had operated public secular schools while the Metropolitan Separate School Board (French: Les Conseil des écoles catholiques du Grand Toronto) had operated public separate schools.

They were replaced by a new structure built between 1829 and 1832 near Front, John, Simcoe, and Wellington Streets, which saw alterations take place in 1849.

The Front Street building remained vacant until it was demolished in 1903; the Canadian Broadcasting Centre now sits on the site.

Chorley Park, located in the Rosedale neighbourhood, served as the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario from 1915 to 1937.

In 1833, several prominent reformers had petitioned the House of Assembly to have the town incorporated, which would also have made the position of magistrate elective.

The Tory-controlled House struggled to find a means of creating a legitimate electoral system that might nonetheless minimize the chances of reformers being elected.

The mayor was elected by the aldermen from among their number, and a clear barrier was erected between those of property who served as full magistrates and the rest.

In 1904, the current St. Lawrence Market South building was built, incorporating part of the city hall structure.