set bookmark!

Joy Gas Stations, Canada

Category: Attraction

Address details

Martin Goodman Trail
Toronto
ON M6S
Canada

Toronto, Canada Print route » N43° 38' 8.178" W79° 27' 57.42"   (43.635605, -79.46595) Start navigation »

Phone & WWW

Business hours

Info

Joy Gas Stations operated uniquely designed stations in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the 1930s for the Joy Oil Company Limited. The stations are examples of the Château style of architecture, a style that was promoted as a uniquely Canadian architectural form in the 1930s.
Of the 16 stations built in the Greater Toronto Area, only one station survives today, at Lake Shore Boulevard West and Windermere Avenue built in 1937. In April 2007, the City of Toronto moved part of the station from the site to a location across the street at Sir Casimir Gzowski Park. The station was restored and will be repurposed as an eatery and tourist information centre once the current contract with the nearby vendor expires after 2016.

Discussions