Toronto, Ontario, 1840

Donald T. Weir, Toronto Private Collection, Ontario

A typed label on the reverse of the framing notes “The model for this oil painting was an etching of Toronto, ‘At the Foot of Church Street on the Bay.’ Etching done by W.H. Bartlett around 1860...This information supplied by Commissioner W.H. Bosley, 4th November, 1947. Two plates on the artwork note the following: “Presented to the City of Toronto by O’Keefe’s Brewing Company Limited, 1947” (recto) “Presented to Donald T. Weir on his Retirement from The Toronto Harbour Commission, August, 1986” (verso)