
#ExperienceTO: Swansea Historical Tour
Swansea Town Hall 95 Lavinia Avenue, Toronto"Swansea is one of Torontoβs oldest inhabited areas. Around 1790, before York and Toronto were founded, Swanseaβs first settler, a French trader named Jean Baptiste Rousseau, lived at the foot of the Humber River near the location of an old French trading post. In 1793 Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe ordered mills built on the […]