St. Lawrence Market
Georgian former city hall turned bustling food market, with an old jail wall still standing in its basement.
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This guide to St. Lawrence Market in Toronto traces the building back to 1845, when it opened as Toronto's city hall, designed by architect Henry Bowyer Lane with a clock tower and a council chamber above. Below sat Police Station Number One, where prisoners were sometimes chained to the basement wall, close enough to Lake Ontario that rising water flooded the cells again and again. You will also hear about the public floggings that once drew crowds outside.
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