264 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY : 



The open land to the north of Elliott's was the place generallj' occupied by the travelling 

 menageries and circuses when such exhibitions began to visit the town. 



The foundry, after supplying the country for a series of years with ploughs, stoves and other 

 useful and necessary articles of heavy hardware, is memorable as having been'the first in Upper 

 Canada to turn out real railway locomotives. When novelties, these highly finished ponderous 

 machines, seen slowly and very laboriously urged through the streets from the foundry to their 

 destination, were startling phenomena. We have in the Canadian Jov,rJial (vol. ii. p. 76), an 

 account of the first engine manufactured by Mr Good from the Toronto Locomotive Works, with 

 a lithographic illustration. " We have much pleasure," the editor of the Canadian Journal says, 

 " in presenting our readers with a drawing of the first locomotive engine constructed in 

 Canada, and indeed, we believe, in any British Colony. The 'Toronto' is certainly no beauty, 

 nor is she distinguished for any peculiarity in the construction, but she affords a very striking 

 illustration of our progress in the mechanical arts, and of the growing wants of the country. 

 The ' Toronto ' was built at the Toronto Locomotive Works, which were established by Mr. 

 Good, in October, 1852. The order for the 'Toronto' was received in February, 1853, for the 

 Ontario, Sinicoe and Huron Railroad. The engine was completed on the 16th of April, and put 

 on the track the 26th of the same month. Her dimensions are as follows : cylinder 16 inches 

 diameter J stroke 22 inches, driving wheel 5 feet 6 inches diameter, length of internal fire box 

 4'feet 6 inches, weight of engine 25 tons, number of tubes 150, diameter of tubes 2 inches," 



With property a little to the north on the east side, the name of Mcintosh was early associ" 

 ated, and — Canadian persistency again — is still associated. Of Captains John, Robert and 

 Charles Mcintosh, we shall have occasion to speak in our paper on the early Marine of York 

 harbour. It was opposite the residence of Capt. John Mcintosh thab the small riot took place, 

 which signalized the return home of William Lyon Mackenzie, in 1849, after the civil tumults 

 of 1S37. Mr. Mackenzie was at the time the guest of Captain Mcintosh, who was related to him 

 through a marriage connexion. 



Albert Street, which enters Yonge Street opposite the Mcintosh property, was in 1833 stil 

 known as Macaulay Lane, and was described by Walton as "fronting the Fields." From thi.s 

 point a long stretch of fine forest-land extended to Yorkville. On the left side it was the pro- 

 perty partly of Dr. Macaulay and partly of Chief Justice Elmsley. The fields which Macaulay 

 Lane fronted were the improvements around Dr. Macaulay's abode. The white entrance gate 

 to his house was near where now a street leads into Trinity Square. Wykham Lodge, the resi- 

 dence of Sir James Macaulay after the removal from Front Street, and Elmsley Villa, the resi- 

 dence of Captain J. S. Macaulay, (Government House in Lord Elgin's day, and sulisequently 

 Knox College,) were late erections on portions of these spacious suburban estates. 



At first Dr. Macaulay and Chief Justice Elmsley selected two adjoining park lots, both of 

 tliem fronting, of course, on Lot Street. They then effected an exchange of properties with 

 each other. Dividing these two lots transversely into equal portions, the Chief Justice chose 

 the iipper or northern halves, and Dr. Macaulay the lower or sijuthern. Dr. Macaulay thus 

 acquired a large frontage on Lot Street, and the Chief Justice alike advantage on Yonge Street. 

 Captain Macaulay acquired his interest in the southern portion of the Elmsley halves by mar- 

 riage with a daughter of the Chief Justice. The northern portion of these halves descended to 

 the heir of the Chief Justice, Capt. John Elmsley, who having become a convert to the Church 

 of Rome, gave facilities for the establishment of St. Basil's college and other Roman Catholic 

 institutions on his estate. Of Ch. Jus. Elmsley and his son we have previously spoken. [See 

 sections v., ix. and xxxv.] 



Dr. Macaulay's clearing on the north side of Macaulay lane was, in relation to the first town 

 plot of York, long considered a locality particularly remote ; a spot to be discovered by strang- 

 ers not without difficulty. In attempting to reach it we have distinct accounts of persons be- 

 wildered and lost for long hours in the intervening marshes and woods. Mr. Justice Boulton, 

 travelling from Prescott in his own vehicle, and bound for Dr. Macaulay's domicile, was dis- 

 suaded, on reaching Mr. Small's house at the eastern extremity of York, from attempting to 

 push on to his destination, although it was by no means late, on account of the inconveniences 

 and perils to be encountered ; and half of the following day was taken up in accomplishing the 

 residue of the journey. Dr. Macaulay's cottage might stlU have been existent and in good 

 order ; but while it was being removed bodily by Mr. Alexander Hamilton, from its original site 



