Frederick Banting was a struggling young doctor renting a small brick house on Adelaide Street in 1920 when he had the middle-of-the-night insight that became the discovery of insulin. The house is now a museum run by the Canadian Diabetes Association — modest, two storeys, with the bedroom set up as it was the night of the famous idea, and a downstairs exhibit on the road from notebook scribble to working therapy.
A Flame of Hope burns in the side garden, lit by the Queen Mother in 1989 and meant to stay alight until a cure for diabetes is found. Modest admission.