Victory Soya Mills
The Victory Soya Mills was a grain elevator complex located at 351 Lake Shore Boulevard East, on Toronto's waterfront, at the Keating Channel, the artificial mouth of the Don River.[1]
Two silos were built, together with support buildings, in 1944.[2] Operations ceased there by the 1980s, or before. In 2010 the Toronto Star's architecture critic, Christopher Hume, wrote that the site was "padlocked", in 1991.[1] However, when Jack Layton and Olivia Chow visited the Rooster Squat homeless community there, in 1992, he said no one had paid taxed on the property in decades.
In the decades since Victory Soya Mills ceased operations unscrupulous firms had used the site to dispose of toxic waste.[2]
Most of the buildings were demolished by the mid 1990s, leaving 36 grain elevator towers, and a gatehouse, used by security guards, when the facility was active.
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Christopher Hume (2010-11-03). "Hume: Waterfront takes another step forward". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Farid Abu-Bakare (2012). "Modern Vernacular: Translating First Nations Traditions Towards a Model of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture" (PDF). Ryerson University. Retrieved 2026-07-17.