The Chinese in Early 20th Century Toronto:100 Elm Street

In Valerie Mah’s thesis paper The “Bachelor” Society, Samuel Wing is listed as having lived at 100 Elm Street in the early 1900s. This fact is corroborated by both the City of Toronto Directories and the Toronto Archive’s Assessment Rolls. According to the Goad’s Insurance Plans of 1899 and 1903, the building at 100 Elm Street was made of wood and situated directly across from the Poor House. In the City Directories of 1900 and 1901, Wing is listed as running a laundry business from 100 Elm St. Wing is listed as a tenant while the actual owner of the building was Samuel Jardiene of the Home Savings and Loan Company. Jardiene was most likely a mortgage holder of some sort. Wing lived alone, with no listed tenants, no listed family and no listed children.

In 2014, the building has been torn down and fused with many other lots to form Sick Kids Hospital.

 

Works Cited

Assessment Roll 1900: Ward 3 Division 2; City of Toronto Archives

Goad Fire Insurance Map (1899 & 1903); City of Toronto Archives Website.

Mah, Valerie.  The “Bachelor” Society. A Look at Toronto’s Early Chinese Community from 1878 – 1924 (unpublished, 1978).

Toronto City Directory, 1900 & 1901; City of Toronto Archives.