page_title: New Fort York
section_title: Officers' Quarters
hierarchical_section_title: New Fort York / Officers' Quarters
caption_attribution_description: English: Stanley Barracks at the Canadian National Exhibition taken from the southwest corner.
context_page_description: New Fort York, later the Stanley Barracks, is a former British and Canadian military base in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It was built in 1840–1841 to replace Toronto's original Fort York at the mouth of Garrison Creek as the primary military base for the settlement. Unlike the older fort, many of the new fort buildings were made with limestone, instead of wood. A protective wall was planned for the new fort but was never built. The fort was used by the British army until 1870, and the Canadian military subsequently used the fort to train troops for the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. It also trained one of the first regiments of the North-West Mounted Police. The Canadian military stopped using it after World War II and the fort was demolished in the 1950s. Only the Officers' Quarters building remains on the site.
context_section_description: The two-storey Officers' Quarters is designed in the Georgian style with influences of English Palladianism. It rises two storeys, with full basement and attic, on a foundation of Kingston limestone, its thick walls built with Queenston limestone with a surrounding dry moat. Its original roof was covered with slate tiles but was recovered with metal. Its north face was designed to be the front, facing the parade ground. The south face is identical to the north face. The building was organized to give two-thirds to the officers and one-third to the Barracks' Master.
  Since 1955, the Officers' Quarters building has served as the home for various museums, including Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Marine Museum. From 1955 to 1957, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and in 1957, the Hockey Hall of Fame shared space at the Quarters.  The Officers' Quarters housed the Marine Museum from 1959 to 1998 until it moved to Harbourfront. The museum has since closed. Vacant since 1998, the Officers' Quarters was opened for one weekend in May 2006 during Doors Open Toronto.
  While the building was home to the Marine Museum, the grounds housed two items from Toronto history. The tugboat Ned Hanlan was on display until 2012 on the west side of the building. Canadian National locomotive No. 6213 was located on the east side from 1960 until 2009.
  In 1999, Toronto City Council designated the Quarters as a Landmark Heritage Property under the Ontario Heritage Act. In 2009, City Council approved the development of a hotel on the property, just to the east of the fort's site. To the north of the Officers' Quarters, the former parking lot is now a plaza. To the south of the Officers' Quarters is a garden used for outdoor events. The former shoreline of Lake Ontario is outlined on the paving of a pathway along the Quarters. The exterior of the building is being restored, while the use for the building remains undetermined.
  According to author Richard Palmisano, the Officers' Quarters has two ghosts: a little girl hunting for her cat, and the girl's father. The building has been on a walking tour for ghosts on the Exhibition grounds.
caption: The Officers' Quarters is the only surviving building of New Fort York.
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