The Workmen’s Compensation Board Building (later known as 90 Harbour St), was a five-storey building that was originally home to the Workers Compensation Board of Ontario from 1953 to 1973. It was designed by the province's master architect George N. William.
It was also known as the Old Ontario Provincial Police Headquarters, with the province's police force using the building from 1973 to 1995.
The building was later sold to film production company Juxtaproduction and targeted for use in film shoots. It was used in films such as Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Exit Wounds and Ararat.
The building was sold to private developers and was then demolished in the summer of 2011.
Near this building are:
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- Toronto Harbour Commission Building
- World Trade Centre, Toronto
- Air Canada Centre
- Queen's Quay Terminal
Famous quotes containing the words provincial, police and/or headquarters:
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school and requires a cruel share of time, and the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet, sore with suspicions; knows as much vice as the judge of a police court, and his love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What does headquarters think these guys came over here for, a sewing circle? They go up playing for keeps. Cops and robbers with rocks in the snowballs. Brass knuckles and lead pipes and a roughneck conviction they can lick any man in the world.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)