The Umbrella Academy was filmed in Toronto, Hamilton, Oshawa, & Mississauga in Canada.
Locations
Victoria Street (between King & Colborne)
Scene where Vanya is fuming about her family while walking with Leonard when he stops her to point out her mood is bending all the lampposts in the street towards her in episode 1x06 “The Day That Wasn't”.
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Temperance Street (between Sheppard & Bay)
Scene where Hazel drives his car into a concrete barrier while Cha-Cha doesn't have her seatbelt on causing her to fly through the windshield in episode 1x10 “The White Violin”.
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Queen Books
Scene where Vanya has a reading of her new autobiography in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”.
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Canary Restaurant
Scene where Vanya has her author portrait taken for her new book in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”.
Scene was shot The Place Street School opened in 1859 designed by architect Joseph Sheard to teach about 180 students. The building was sold after the school's closure in 1887 and became a hotel that went by several names including Irvine House, Cherry Street Hotel, and Eastern Star Hotel. When these various hotels failed the building stood vacant from 1910–22 when it was converted for industrial uses.The Canary Restaurant began operation on the ground floor of the building in 1965 and retained its 60s-era decor until its closure in 2007 due to a drop in traffic caused by development in the area.
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Allan Gardens
Scene where Allison and Luther take a walk in the park and then finally dance together in episode 1x06 “The Day That Wasn't”.
Scene was shot Allan Gardens began its life as gardens and a conservatory established by the Toronto Horticultural Society in 1860 and transferred fully to the city on 1888. The park houses a conservatory known as the Palm House consisting of six green houses built in 1910 after the older Horticultural Pavilion was destroyed in a fire.
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21 Don Roadway
Scene was shot The former home to a Lever Brothers factory dating back to 1892, this facility shut down and changed hands several times in the late 2000s and is now at the center of the large office and retail redevelopment.
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234 Queen Street East
Scene where Vanya is walking home when she sees a news report on her father's death on a TV in the window of the shop beneath her apartment in episode 1x01 “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”. Vanya is walking home with Leonard when Allison arrives and he recognizes her in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”.
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The Royal Conservatory of Music
Scene where Vanya arrives late for a rehearsal and then has an intense talk with another violinist afterwards in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”. Vanya auditions for the first chair position and her performance unexpectedly affects the conductor in episode 1x05 “Number Five”.
Scene was shot The building housing the Royal Conservatory of Music was constructed as McMaster Hall in 1890 for McMaster University. When the university relocated to Hamilton in 1930, the building was sold to the University of Toronto and became the home to the Conservatory in 1962. A major remodel in 2008 added Koerner Hall to the rear of the building with over a 1,000 seats.
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Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories (U of T)
Scene where Klaus and Number Five exit the building after their operation and Klaus tries to talk to Five but Five teleports away in episode 1x02 “Run Boy Run”. Number Five stakes out the prosthetics company the whole day and eventually sees the doctor handing off a suspicious duffle bag in exchange for cash in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”. Diego and Luther find a clue inside Number Five's van and later Five arrives to find the lab building in flames in episode 1x04 “Man on the Moon”.
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David Dunlap Observatory
Scene where The Handler takes Number Five to the headquarters of the Commission and shows him through the operation in episode 1x06 “The Day That Wasn't”.
Scene was shot David Dunlap Observatory was constructed by the University of Toronto in 1935 and operated by them until 2008 when it was sold to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and then resold in 2018 to the City of Richmond Hill for historical preservation. The main observatory consists of a 74-inch telescope, the second largest in North America at the time of its installation. Atop the nearby administration build are three additional domes that have housed various telescopes over the years. Light pollution from the growing development around the site and the relatively small size of the telescope eventually reduced its scientific usefulness.
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Parkwood Estate & Gardens
Scene was shot Built in 1917, the Parkwood Estate was the former home of the founder of GM of Canada, Samuel McLaughlin. The McLaughlin family moved out in ‘72 and the estate became a history site in ‘89 and is now a museum.
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1 Hotel Toronto
Scene where Number Five visit the company that manufactured the prosthetic eye he found in the future but is turned away without the information he needs in episode 1x02 “Run Boy Run”.
Scene was shot 1 Hotel Toronto is a 95-room boutique hotel with a rooftop lounge and attached condominiums originally opened in 2009 as part of the Thompson Hotel chain. It was designed by Architects–Alliance. In 2019 the hotel began a year-long conversion to become part of the sustainable 1 Hotel chain.
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Toronto Harbour - Pier 35
Scene where Klaus waits in the bar and talks to a ghost while Diego throws his father's monocle into the water in episode 1x01 “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”.
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Pearl Street (between Duncan & Simcoe)
Scene where A driver yells at Vanya after almost hitting her with his car and she uses her powers to flip it over in episode 1x10 “The White Violin”.
Scene was shot This popular block of Pearl Street is surrounded by tall buildings making it a useful location for representing downtown New York or other large cities.
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Playtime Bowl & Entertainment
Scene where The family gathers in a bowling alley to plan on how to handle Vanya but are interrupted by a group of soldiers from The Committee in episode 1x10 “The White Violin”.
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Liuna Station
Scene where A group of bank robbers are thwarted by the six young members of the Umbrella Academy on their first mission and then Sir Reginald Hargreeves gives a press conference announcing them to the world in episode 1x01 “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”.
Scene was shot Luina Station was constructed as the CN Railway James Street Station in 1931 and designed by architect John Schofield. It closed in 1993 when remaining train service was moved to the nearby Hamilton GO Centre and reopened as an events centre owned by the Laborers' International Union of North America in 2000.
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Starspark Computers
Scene where Klaus sells the box he stole from his father's office in episode 1x02 “Run Boy Run”. Five years ago, Vanya sees some comic books about her family in the pawn shop window and then buys a typewriter to being working on her book in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”.
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Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre
Scene where Vanya practices her violin on stage in an ornate theatre in episode 1x01 “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”. Vanya performs her solo in front of a sold-out theater and her siblings arrive to try and stop her from destroying the world in episode 1x10 “The White Violin”.
Scene was shot The Elgin and Winter Garden theatres are the last surviving stacked Edwardian theatres in the world. The theatres opened in 1913 as the flagship venue of Marcus Loew's theatre chain and were designed by Thomas W. Lamb. The ground-level Elgin Theatre is decorated in gold and marble with a domed roof while seven storeys above is the Winter Garden Theatre covered in plant murals, garden trellises, and columns designed like tree trunks. The upper theatre was closed in 1928 as the lower theatre was converted to show talkies, and the upper theatre remained closed until the building was acquired by the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1981.
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