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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

The balcony ringing the room is an original indoor running track - and the man it is named for trained on it before winning the 1907 Boston Marathon. Longboat Hall, the ground-floor venue of The Great Hall at 1087 Queen Street West in Toronto, occupies the 1889 gymnasium of the West End YMCA and honours Tom Longboat, the Onondaga distance legend who ran his laps here. The building is High Victorian showpiece: the West End YMCA raised the red-brick, sandstone-trimmed hall at Queen and Dovercourt...