Archive for March 2021

The Toronto Purchase of 1805 (also known as Treaty 13) was negotiated in an attempt to clarify and confirm the terms of the Johnson-Butler Purchase of 1787-88. Ultimately, it failed to do this and additional negotiations were required. These later discussions resulted in the Williams Treaties of 1923 and a compensatory settlement between the Government of Canada and the…

  Any conversation about how Toronto’s real estate market reacted to the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 needs to begin with how the market was performing before pandemic-instigated lockdowns were presented in mid-Walk. As we gave generally little consideration to the reports of another Covid emerging from China and affecting Italy in mid…