The Ideal Bread Company Factory operated in this building for several decades after its construction in 1919. The factory was designed top to bottom to accommodate its interior uses. After mixing on the fourth floor, dough was shaped on the third level where the extended ceiling height accommodated two “traveling ovens” that produced up to 7000 loaves per hour. These ovens were shipped to Toronto on the first commercial flight from Italy.

City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1034, Item 840