The Redpath Sugar Factory on Toronto’s harbourfront

Episode 258 of the Toronto Real Estate Musing daily video blog.

George O’Neill films the cargo ship Maccoa unloading its cargo of sugarcane into the Redpath Sugar Factory.

Over the past couple decades, Toronto’s waterfront has become a place for people to work and play. At the formerly industrialized corner of Queen’s Quay and Jarvis, there’s a Loblaws, the newly opened Sugar Beach, and the planned East Bayfront condominium developments in this former industrial area.

However, real work still gets done by the harbour. One such industrial institution is the Redpath Sugar Factory that has been in operation at the foot of Jarvis Street since 1958. The factory also houses a museum and a mural of whales by artist Robert Wyland.

Ships like the Maccoa import sugarcane from the Caribbean through the St. Lawrence Seaway to the factory where it is refined into the white and brown sugar we see on store shelves.

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