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the stability of the lofty spire of a place of worship close to their residence. In 1862, that 

 spire actually fell, eastward as it happened, and not westward, doingjconsiderable damage. 

 Mr. Doel died in 1871. 



By the name of the short street passing from Adelaide Street to Richmond Street, a few 

 chains to the west of Mr. Doel's corner, we are reminded of Harvey Sbepard, a famous worker 

 in iron of the former time, whose imprint on axe, broad axe or adze, was a guarantee to the 

 practical backwoodsman of its temper and serviceable quality. Harvey Shepard's axe factory 

 was on the west side of this short street. Before his establishment here, he worked in a stithy 

 of the customary village type, on King Street, on the property of Jordan Post. Like Jordan 

 Post himself, Harvey Shepard was of the old fashioned New England mould, elongated and 

 wiry. After a brief suspension of business, a placard hung up in the country inns charac- 

 teristically announced to his friends and the public that he had resumed his former occupation 

 and that he would, "by the aid of Divine Providence," undertake to turn out as good axes as 

 any that he had ever made ; which acknowledgment of the source of his skill is commendable 

 surely, if unusual. So also, there is no one who will refuse to applaud an epigrammatic 

 observation of his, when responding to an appeal of charity. " Though dealing usually in iron 

 only, I keep," he said, "a little stock of silver and gold for such a call as this." The factory 

 on Shepard Street was afterwards worked by Mr. J. Armstrong, and subsequently by Mr. 

 Thos. Champion, formerly of Sheflfleld, who, in 1838, advertised that he had "a large stock of 

 Champion's warranted cast steel axes, made at the factory originally built by the late Harvey 

 Shepard, and afterwards occupied by John Armstrong. As Shepard's and Armstrong's axes 

 have been decidedly preferred before any others in the Province, the advertisement continues, 

 it is only necessary to state that Champion's are made by the same workmen, and from the 

 very best material, to ensure for them the same continued preference." 



XXXV.— QUEEN STREET— TERAULAY STREET TO OSGOODE HALL. 



Chief Justice Elmsley was the first possessor of the hundred acres westward of the Macaulay 

 lot. He effected, however, a certain exchange with Dr. Macaulay. Preferring land that lay 

 higher, he gave the southern half of his lot for the northern half of his neighbour's, the latter 

 at the same time discerning, as is probable, the prospective greater value of a long frontage on 

 one of the highways into the town. Of Mr. Elmslej', we have had occasion to speak in our 

 perambulation of King Street in connexion with the Government House, which in its primitive 

 state was his family residence ; and in our progress through Yonge Street hereafter we shall 

 again have to refer to him . In 1802 he was promoted from a Puisne Judgeship in Upper Canada 

 to the Chief Justiceship of Lower Canada. 



The park-lot which follows was originally secured by one who has singularly vanished out of 

 the early traditions of York— the Rev. T. Raddish. His name is inscribed on this property in 

 the first plan, and also on part of what was afterwards Russel Square. He emigrated to these 

 parts under the express auspices of the first Lieutenant Governor, and was expected by him to 

 take a position of influence in the young colony of Upper Canada. But, habituated to the 

 amenities and conveniences of an old community, he speedily discovered either that an entirely 

 new society was not suited to him or that he himself did not dovetail weU into it. He appears 

 to have remained in the country only just long enough to acquire for himself and heirs the fee 

 simple of a good many acres of its virgin soil. In 1826 the southern portion of Mr. Raddish's 

 lot became the property of Sir John Robinson, at the time Attorney General. The site of 

 Osgoode Hall, six acres, was the generous gift of Sir John Robinson to the Law Society, and 

 the name which the building bears was his suggestion. The east wing of the existing edifice 

 was the original Osgoode HaU, erected under the eye of Dr. W. W. Baldwin, at the time 

 Treasurer of the Society. It was a plain square matter-of-fact brick building two storeys and 

 a half in height. In 1844-46 a corresponding structure was erected to the west, and the two 

 were united by a building between, surmounted by a low dome. In 1857-60 the whole edifice 

 underwent a renovation ; the dome was removed ; a very handsome fagade of cut stone was 

 put up ; the inner area, all constructed of Caen stone, reminding one of the interior of a Genoese 

 or Roman Palace, was added, with the Court Rooms, Library and other appurtenances, on a 

 scale of dignity and in a style of arcliitectural beauty surpassed only by the new Law Courts 



