The monuments, architectural pieces and sculpture you see here were collected from buildings which were being demolished in Toronto and Southwestern Ontario between 1950 and 1981. These fragments are the last representatives of a part of architectural history which was lost before heritage preservation laws existed to protect it. Each of the monuments and architectural fragments in the garden have a small brass plaque either on them or near them which provides information on the building that the piece came from, its location, the architects who designed it, the date it was built and the date the building was demolished.