John Finch's Hotel

Finch Hotel was an inn located in current-day Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was opened in 1848 by John Finch on Lot # 2, Concession # 1, with a land size of. Before Finch bought the property in 1847, it was owned by John and Alexander Montgomery. Finch retired in 1860 and leased it to a succession of innkeepers before selling it to Charles McBride in 1873. McBride demolished the hotel and used the timber from it to build the Bedford Park Hotel.
Finch Avenue, a main arterial road in Toronto and the surrounding Peel Region and Durham Region, was named after John Finch.

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Finch Hotel was operated by a series of innkeepers:

The inn was sold to Charles McBride, who demolished the building and took timbers to build the Bedford Park Hotel at another site on Yonge Street. The site is now a parkette and condos on 1 and 3 Pemberton Avenue. To the west of the hotel was Stop 35 of the North Yonge Railways, a radial railway that ran from Toronto to Lake Simcoe.