Casa Loma

This guide to Casa Loma in Toronto centers on Sir Henry Pellatt, who made a fortune off Toronto's streetlights and Niagara's hydroelectric power and, by 1911, had seventeen million dollars and an idea: build a castle grander than any private home in Canada. You will hear about architect E. J. Lennox, the three years spent carving the Oak Room, and the tunnel that still runs toward the stables where his horses drank from porcelain troughs. It also follows how the city ended his electricity monopoly and his taxes began to climb.