1906 Toronto Armories Postcard Canadian Macfarlane Publisher Vintage StampVintage Canadian Postcard of Toronto Armories. During the final decades of the 19th century, the Federal Government in Ottawa ordered a number of armouries built across Canada to train and maintain local volunteers and professional militia regiments. At the time, troops in Toronto were being trained in various venues throughout the city, rather than at a centralized facility. When the government ordered an armoury for Toronto, it was to be the largest