Above the red door on
the Yorkville Fire Hall is Yorkville's coat of arms , which was originally on the town
hall. When the town hall was destroyed by fire in 1941, the coat of arms was saved and
eventually moved to its present location. A plaque on the fire hall reads: "The
coat of arms above is from the Yorkville Town Hall, built on Yonge Street in 1859. It
contains symbols representing the occupations of the first councillors: John Severn,
brewer; Thomas Atkinson, brickmaker; reeve James Dobson, carpenter; James Wallis,
blacksmith; and Peter Hutty, butcher. Established in the 1830's by William Jarvis and
Joseph Bloor, Yorkville was incorporated as a village in 1853 and annexed to Toronto in
1883. This fire hall was begun in 1876 and restored in 1974."
