Ford Hotel

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Atrium on Bay, Toronto, ON, Canada

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N43° 39' 22.68" W79° 22' 57.72"   (43.6563, -79.3827) Start navigation »

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The Ford Hotel was a historic hotel in central Toronto. It was one of five hotels in the R.T. Ford & Company hotel chain and was identical to the Ford Hotel, Buffalo and Ford Motel, Montreal. The 750-room hotel consisted of three 12-storey wings connected at the rear by a perpendicular spine atop a one-storey base contained the lobby, restaurants and other amenities. The structure was located on Dundas Street West, east of Bay Street. It was built in 1928 and for several decades was one of the city's most prominent hotels. The hotel was next to the Toronto Bus Terminal and provided cheap rooms for lower income travellers. It was also well known as a site for crime and vice. The Toronto Star called it the "rendezvous of choice for couples pursuing an illicit affair." In 1973, one of the rooms was the site of the sexual assault and murder of 9 year old Kirk Deasley by John McBeth Finlayson.
The building was demolished in 1973 and the site is today home to the Atrium on Bay.

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