Heintzman, Theodore August National Historic Person
Toronto, Ontario
Plaque
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Address :
116 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1974-05-18
Life Date:
1817 to 1899
Other Name(s):
-
Heintzman, Theodore August
(Designation Name)
Research Report Number:
1974-SUB
Importance:
Founder of prominent piano manufacturing firm
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: 116 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario
A German immigrant and veteran craftsman, Heintzman founded one of Canada's longest lived and most prominent firms of piano manufacturers. He first immigrated in 1850 to the United States where he worked for a time in a piano factory, before he established his own business. This failing, he came to Toronto, virtually penniless, in 1860. From the sale of a piano built in his daughter's home he financed the beginning of a piano factory. The company he established rapidly expanded and soon Heintzman pianos were being sold across Canada and abroad.