Ontario
Grand Opera House
Thursday, May 25, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper listings
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 26, 1882
The New York Mirror, c. June 1882
Newspaper report
The Toronto Globe, May 26, 1882
"The audience listened very attentively throughout..."
Quoted in Oscar Wilde in Canada, Kevin O'Brien, 1882
ERRATA
Complete Letters * (p172) says Wilde lectured this day in the Art Schools at Toronto. However, based on several newspapers reports of Wilde movements, Kevin O'Brien in Oscar Wilde in Canada (1882) appears to be correct that Wilde only chatted informally with students at the Institution Exhibition.
* Holland, Merlin and and Hart-Davis, Rupert, Eds. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, London: Fourth Estate; New York: Henry Holt, 2000.
Grand Opera House
11 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, ON (south side between Yonge and Bay Streets, now 40 King Street West)
Opened: 1874
Seating capacity: 1750
Partially destroyed (fire): 1879 and rebuilt
Demolished: 1927
Queen's Hotel
NE corner of Front and York Streets, Toronto, ON (now 100 Front Street West)
Original residential buildings: 1844
Buildings combined: 1856 (as Sword’s Hotel)
Expanded until: 1862 (as Queen's Hotel)
Closed: September 10, 1927
Demolished: 1927
Replaced by: The Royal York Hotel (opened June 11, 1929, extant)
Location of the Grand Opera House at 11 Adelaide Street West, (south side between Yonge and Bay Streets, now 40 King Street West)
—Miles' Atlas, 1878—
Oscar Wilde In America | © John Cooper, 2023
