Address: 140 Colborne Street, Brantford ON

"Stratford Opera House: Beginning as a music hall in 1866, the building that once sat at 140 Colborne St. (now the site of Harmony Square) was purchased by local merchant Joseph Stratford and turned into an opera house in 1881. One of its most famous guests was the brilliant Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, who stopped there on his North American lecture tour in 1882. The opera house was destroyed by fire on Jan. 10, 1908."

Ibbotson, Heather. "City has lost many historic buildings." Brantford Expositor. 5 April 2012. Accessed 20 June 2017. www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2012/04/05/fires-have-claimed-many-historic-c…