King Street Gaol
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Background
The second King Street Gaol (also known as the Toronto Jail) was built in 1824 to replace the first King Street Gaol in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto). At that time, the town needed a larger, better constructed jail to replace the original, which was little more than a plain log building with a stockade. The new two-storey brick building was built two blocks east on the north-east corner of King Street and Toronto Street with a wooden stockade enclosing its gallows. After the jail closed, the building was used as an insane asylum, then incorporated into the York Chambers Building. The facade of old jail could still be seen from the side and was eventually demolished in 1957.
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Facility profile
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Death-row facility
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Practical info
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- York County Gaol
- Nova Scotia Youth FacilityWatervilleYouth institution
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q6412091)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). King Street Gaol. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/king-street-gaol
"King Street Gaol." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/king-street-gaol.
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