Episode 6 – July 15, 2008
On a beautiful Tuesday night, Katherine and Blair find themselves strolling through the cobble stone streets of Toronto’s historic Distillery District. Full of galleries, restaurants, and boutique shops, micro-breweries – the Distillery has a plethora to offer the culture vulture. It’s also a great hub of music.
A brief history of The Distillery (from their website):
Founded in 1832 by Brothers-in-law William Gooderham and James Worts, the Gooderham and Worts Distillery eventually became the largest distillery in the British empire. Set on 13 acres in downtown Toronto, the forty plus buildings constitute the largest and best preserved collection of Victorian Industrial Architecture in North America. The Distillery District is a national historic site.
The Distillery is a hub of creativity housing some of Toronto’s outstanding performing arts companies. One of the crown jewels of the entire site is the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, a multi-venue theatre, home of Soulpepper Theatre Company and George Brown College’s Theatre Program. Katherine and Blair took in a performance of The Way of the World at Soulpepper before heading over to the Mill Street Brew Pub for a bite to eat and a sip of beer.
Follow our journeys through the following ways:
What we talked about in this episode:
- The Distillery Historic District
- Soulpepper Theatre Company
- Mill Street Brew Pub
- Balzac’s Coffee Shop
- T.O.TIX, Toronto’s One-Stop Ticket Shop
Photo taken of the Gooderham & Worts Building in the Distillery by Katherine Grainger.
That Night In Toronto 
You need a sign off … every greater reporter has a sign off. LOL! It’s great! Love your take on Toronto, it really gives people a different view of a city they know. It is also cute to watch Amy wave and say hi to Blair … thinking he can hear her :)!
Aw! Amy…tell her I said hi. 🙂 Thanks for the note – glad you’re enjoying the show! Good point on the sign off though – especially if we’re going to get picked up … 😉