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« on: August 14, 2011, 03:22:05 pm »
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They dug some deep holes on the Toronto lake shore in the summer of 2011  I've got a good story to tell you all with some fine looking antique glass bottles that were unearthed by professional excavators digging these deep hole into what was once the 1840's era shoreline. The window opened again on a patch of muddy lake bottom opposite a commercial pier known as Rees' Wharf down which 38,000 Irish immigrants walked to a new life in Upper Canada in 1847 alone.

I wrote and published this story on August 14th 2011, but the treasure was deposited here 150 years earlier - some of the soda bottles could have been pitched off the end of the pier in 1837 * the date it was constructed by Dr William Rees.

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Antique Glass Bottles Found Under Southcore Financial Centre & Delta Hotel Toronto, The Story of Rees' Wharf


My focus is not on Dr Rees but rather on the antique glass bottles that were liberated from the ground by the team,
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Tan coloured stoneware ginger beer bottle Wm Robertson Toronto  was recently sold to a famous

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Toronto bed and breakfast
for an unspecified amount; but this bottle is actually not that rare, and there are many and better examples of this early Toronto ginger beer.

THIS BOTTLE is rare! The one big discovery is this very special indeed, it's an early Ontario beer bottle,
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This piece is key to the history of Hornby Ontario, which was settled by Irish immigrants in 1847 ! and there's a good story here about two brothers who came to Upper Canada and would have walked down Rees' Pier - its a puzzle how a Hornby beer bottle ended up down here at the base of Toronto, or perhaps testament to the quality and distribution of Brayn Bros brewery in the early 1870s.

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