St. Clair Avenue is a major east–west street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was laid out in the late 18th century by the British as a concession road, 2 kilometres north of Bloor Street and 4 kilomet
Looking west on St. Clair Avenue West in Wychwood with the completed streetcar right-of-way in centre
The centre lanes of St. Clair Avenue West carry streetcars underground to and from St. Clair West Station.
Looking east on St. Clair Avenue West, near Lansdowne in 2004, before the right-of-way project.
St Clair Ave East near Warden Avenue
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward Afr
St. Clair Avenue
…subway. The eastern section of St. Clair Avenue East is serviced by the 8 Broadview and 102 Markham Road bus routes. St. Clair Avenue takes its name from Augustine St. Clare, a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Grainger family, who rented a farm near the present-day intersection of Avenue Road and St. Clair…
Title page for Volume I of the first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
An engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1872, based on an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel
First appearance of Uncle Tom's Cabin as serialized in The National Era (June 5, 1851)
A full-page illustration by Hammatt Billings for the first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852. Eliza tells Uncle Tom that he has been sold and she is running away to save her child.