Fort Rouillé
Fort Rouillé was a French trading post located in what is now Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Fort Rouillé was constructed by the French in 1751, building upon the success of a trading post they established in the area a year earlier, known as Fort Toronto.- Type: Monument
- Description: French fort in Canada
- Also known as: “Fort Rouille” and “Fort Rouillé Monument”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include BMO Field and Scadding Cabin.
BMO Field
Stadium
BMO Field is an outdoor stadium located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Constructed on the former Exhibition Stadium site and first opened in 2007, it is the home field of Toronto FC of Major League Soccer and Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. BMO Field is situated 490 metres northeast of Fort Rouillé.
Scadding Cabin
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Scadding Cabin is a 1794 log cabin on the grounds of Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was constructed for John Scadding and is now the oldest surviving building in Toronto.
Government Building
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Government Building, also known as the Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building, is a heritage exhibition building at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Government Building is situated 280 metres northwest of Fort Rouillé.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Exhibition Place and Liberty Village.
Exhibition Place
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Exhibition Place is a publicly owned mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. The 197-acre site includes exhibit, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, provincial, and national historic sites.
Liberty Village
Neighborhood
Photo: PascalHD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Liberty Village is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bordered to the north by King Street West, to the west by Dufferin Street, to the south by the Gardiner Expressway, to the east by Strachan Avenue, and to the northeast by railway tracks.
Little Tibet
Neighborhood
Little Tibet is an Asian ethnic enclave within the neighbourhood of Parkdale in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The area bound by Queen St. W. to the north, the Gardiner Expressway to the west and south, and Atlantic Avenue to the east is known for its many Tibetan émigrés and Tibetan-related businesses and restaurants.
Fort Rouillé
- Categories: fort and historic site
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.63066° or 43° 37′ 50″ northLongitude
-79.42353° or 79° 25′ 25″ westOpen location code
87M2JHJG+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1816990585OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q3078009
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Fort Rouillé” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Fort Rouillé”
- Chinese: “要塞”
- Dutch: “Fort Rouillé”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن صدئ”
- French: “Fort Rouille”
- French: “fort Rouillé”
- French: “Fort Rouillé”
- French: “Fort Toronto”
- Galician: “Fort Rouillé”
- Italian: “Fort Rouillé”
- Japanese: “フォート・ルイユ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Rouillé”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fort Rouillé”
- Russian: “Форт Торонто”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Rouille”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Rouillé”
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