Secrets Unveiled: Toronto's ABANDONED Linseed Oil Factory
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- OBSCURIST TOURIST 015 - After nearly 20 years of walking by the abandoned Canada Linseed Oil Factory in Toronto's West End, I FINALLY decided to go inside. Finding the way inside was an adventure, but that was just the beginning. Build in 1915, the Canada Linseed Oil Factory closed down sometime between 1965-1969 - you know, probably because Linseed oil has a propensity to catch fire and explode. It has remained abandoned ever since.
After shimmying down into the boiler room of the factory by rope, I was on my own to fumble through the blacked-out rooms full of old machinery and junk. I have to admit that it's quite a creepy place to explore on one's own, regardless of it being located in the middle of A city park.
Come along for the adventure, won't you?
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Would love more abandoned videos in Toronto as it's hard to find actual 'abandoned' spots that are worth the time
r6wind Unfortunately, Toronto abandonments are quickly disappearing. But I have more abandoned videos from just outside Toronto!
man this place was like a second home to me in the summer👍cool video
Wow I used to live like 50 meters down the road near the train tracks. Not much has changed since I left
I explored this abandoned Linseed factory, but couldn't go inside. Your lucky
My dude🙌🏾
Yeah, they are getting ready to finally bring this building back to life - so all the access points are now gone.
Lately they have been testing the bricks inside the building to see if they are safe enough for use. Apparently they a converting it into a community centre.
Yeah, they started fencing stuff up and moving some construction equipment in a few months ago.
Wonder if our linseed soap we use on the drill comes from this company
Nice vid keep it up!👍
Bro I just explored this yesterday and it’s lit
lamboscweenee Did you take the easy way in or the hard way?!
When I went there was a big fence at the back but there was a little gap so me and my friends could sneak through and we got in the building by absailing down a rope at the back of the building
lamboscweenee That’s the way I went in as well. There’s a much easier way inside that I sadly found later. Your mission is to find it! 😏
Awesome
EXTRA HISTORY
The history of the linseed oil factory (aka “the warehouse” as we called it) may have had a more colorful purpose as an abandon structure than it did during its operation as a factory. The abandon warehouse has been a haven/ hangout for all kinds of misfit kids and teenagers and obscure explorers that have breached its walls. I was one of those kids and always will be
Back in 2002 to enter the Lineseed oil factory aka “the warehouse” all one had to do was walk through the large bay doors, one heavy push and you were inside. In those days brave kids and teens would wander the bright lit abandon warehouse with the sun shining through its multiple windows.
As a teen I remember going to the warehouse as a place to hang out with friends, a place to escape life and place of solitude.
Its a funny thing about a creepy, mildly dangerous, somewhat ominous place, that carries with it the legal charge of trespass should law enforcement find you there. Only those wiling to go venture to do so. SO for us as teenagers it was our place only those brave enough, dumb enough or intrigued enough went
it was private and it was ours
I remember one night a group of us did a mission to the warehouse in the evening, we set up on the roof with setting sun, set a small and controlled fire and talked and chilled till the stars came out. It was boys and girls. I remember every boy would have to help every girl get over the fence and deal with navigating those dark creepy walls, even the boys had never been there at night but we all had each other.
I'm sure others had similar experiences. Over the years the city would close it up and someone would always figure out a new way to breech its walls
in 2003 the doors were welded shut to never open again
someone put a small ladder on the side so they could climb up down and into the warehouse
this would be the first of MANY MANY various breeches that would happen over the years
The efforts and lengths taken by both the city to seal the warehouse and the trespassers to constantly gain access is ASTOUDING.
Even looking at the obscurtist tourist video that scaffolding tied down in knots so one can climb down is NO JOKE, that took real work and planing and wasn't just done on the fly.
The city has over the years sealed, locked, boarded, welded up every door window ingress and egress.
And sometimes someone still finds a new way in.
This has been going on for 20 plus years
The kids that breached those walls came back as adults with power tools, skills, fortitude and bit of insanity and a bit of nostalgia. All to go back to their old their haven, their old haunt, the warehouse.
As its became more difficult to gain access the crowed more exclusive.
In summer 2020 a buddy of mine would meet once a week or once every-other week to have a beer on the roof at night, noticing how many more satellites you see in the sky now, passing by as compared to when we were kids and laugh, and reminisce, of our old days in the sun, as teenagers up on this roof and some the girls and characters we'd invite up here with us.
I have met other warehouse veterans who bring their friends or girlfriends to warehouse all of their guest notably uncomfortable for trespassing in a dark, while for us it is no more stranger or harmful than a childhood playground.
I have had some good times up that roof laughing with friends I no longer see and memories with girlfriends who wanted to brave a unique experiences and get to know me a bit more “so what were you like as a kid” “like every other kid I suppose.... but there was this cool place we used to go....”
Things change and sometimes for the better. The city should turn it into a community center already, let it be a place of play once again as that what it seems to have wanted to be for all these years.
Maybe I'll be a patron of the new the cc and some guy or girl around my age will tell me about how they used to break into this place when they were younger when it was just an abandon warehouse a place to run off and be a misfit with their friends and reminiscence and relate to all the changes that have happened inside and outside those warehouse walls.
This is so good lol
Nice find
Is their any other ways to get in
There is a ground-floor entrance! But ... I’ll leave it up to you to find it. 😏
@@ObscuristTourist ill keep an eye out again
Could we get a location
And is there a way in
If you watch the video, the location is easy to find.
Any new ways to get in?
Pretty much done for explorers here now that the bulldozers and workmen have moved in to finally bring this place back to life.
Guys... me and the Lin Seed Oil Factory have an announcement. 🌻🏰
😎
is it closed off now or could i go with my buddy
I believe it is currently under construction as it is being refurbished and brought back to life.
@@ObscuristTouristno it’s still pretty much abandoned
u love th fact i can see my old tags in this vid
Love those tags! 🤗
stop giving me ads 🥺🥺🥺
i told u the 60s stop acting like u knew