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:
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don’t know anymore. They aren’t free.”
—Youssou N’Dour (b. 1959)
“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)