The Hockey Hall of Fame

The Hockey Hall of Fame was founded in 1943 to honour the sport's greatest players and builders, initially operating without a permanent physical home before opening its first dedicated building at Exhibition Place in 1961. The Hall moved to its current, far more prominent location in 1993, taking over a striking 1885 Bank of Montreal building at the corner of Yonge and Front Streets, connected to the BCE Place office and retail complex above it.

A vault built for money, now guarding trophies

The building's ornate former banking hall and, notably, its old bank vault now serve as display space for the Hall's collection, most famously housing the actual Stanley Cup itself when it isn't being presented to that season's championship team or touring with players. The Hall inducts a small number of new members each year across player, builder and on-ice official categories, and its downtown Toronto location, rather than a more traditional sports-city choice, reflects the city's central role in the sport's Canadian history.

Sources

• Hockey Hall of Fame — About
• Wikipedia — Hockey Hall of Fame

Continue reading

Exhibition Place

Our CNE guide covers the annual fair itself. The 197-acre grounds it happens on host BMO Field, the…

Mel Lastman

A furniture-store owner who governed North York for a quarter century became the first mayor of the newly…

New Toronto

Founded around 1890 as a planned industrial town on Lake Ontario, New Toronto stayed an independent…

The Weeknd's Scarborough

Abel Tesfaye grew up in Scarborough to Ethiopian immigrant parents and uploaded his first mixtapes to YouTube…