Toronto Union Station

65 Front Street West
Toronto ON
M5J 1E6

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About Toronto Union Station

Image Credit: Spring Morris

The first iteration of Union Station was a wooden structure built in 1858 and rebuilt twice before it was destroyed by the Great Fire of Toronto of 1904. The landmark BeauxArts building we know today opened in 1927. Every architectural iteration tells a rich and complex story of how the city and surrounding areas were transformed by the expansion of railway lines that propagated trade as well as commercial, industrial, and financial interests.

From his ongoing research titled Tong Yan Gaai (or Chinatown in Cantonese), Morris Lum presents a lightbox series that explores links between Toronto’s Chinese community and Union Station. Nicholas Galanin displays Threat Return (2023), seven bronze sculptures in the form of traditional busts that evoke Native American and African basketry, as well as portraits of ski-masked robbers.

Artworks at Toronto Union Station

Threat Return

Threat Return (2023), originally commissioned for the Liverpool Biennial, consists of seven bronze sculptures in traditional busts that evoke Indigenous American and African basketry and portraits of ski-masked robbers. Installed…

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Tong Yan Gaai (or Chinatown in Cantonese)

Tong Yan Gaai (or Chinatown in Cantonese) (2012-2024) is a newly commissioned installation of four lightboxes that show the connection between Toronto’s Chinese community and Union Station. In the late…

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