Joy Gas Stations

Joy Gas Stations operated uniquely designed stations in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the 1930s for the Joy Oil Company Limited. The stations are examples of the Château style of architecture, a style that was promoted as a uniquely Canadian architectural form in the 1930s.

Photo: Peter Broster, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Building
Description: gas stations in Toronto, Canada
Also known as: “Joy Oil station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include High Park and Humber Bay Arch Bridge.

High Park

Park

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High Park is a municipal park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. High Park is a mixed recreational and natural park, with sporting facilities, cultural facilities, educational facilities, gardens, playgrounds and a zoo. High Park is situated 1¼ km north of Joy Gas Stations.

Humber Bay Arch Bridge

Bridge

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The Humber Bay Arch Bridge is a pedestrian and bicycle through arch bridge south of Lake Shore Boulevard West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in the mid-1990s, the bridge is part of the Martin Goodman Trail and is 139 metres in length, with a clear span of 100 metres over the mouth of the Humber River to protect the environmental integrity of the waterway. Humber Bay Arch Bridge is situated 590 metres southwest of Joy Gas Stations.

Sunnyside Amusement Park

Park

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Sunnyside Amusement Park was a popular amusement park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that ran from 1922 to 1955, demolished in 1955 to make way for the Metro Toronto Gardiner Expressway. Sunnyside Amusement Park is situated 1 km east of Joy Gas Stations.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Swansea and Sunnyside.

Swansea

Neighborhood

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Swansea is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, bounded on the west by the Humber River, on the north by Bloor Street, on the east by High Park and on the south by Lake Ontario.

Sunnyside

Neighborhood

Photo: Peter Broster, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sunnyside is a lakefront district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It includes a beach and park area along Lake Ontario's Humber Bay, from west of Exhibition Place to the mouth of the Humber River.

Roncesvalles

Neighborhood

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Roncesvalles, also known as Roncesvalles Village or Roncy Village, is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, centred on Roncesvalles Avenue, a north–south street leading from the intersection of King and Queen Streets to the south, north to Dundas Street West, a distance of roughly 1.7 kilometres.

Joy Gas Stations

Category: fixed construction
Location: Old Toronto, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude

43.63558° or 43° 38′ 8″ north

Longitude

-79.46598° or 79° 27′ 58″ west

Open location code

87M2JGPM+6J

OpenStreetMap ID

way 178738327

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

Wikidata ID

Q6297137

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