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Old Posted Nov 11, 2019, 9:01 PM
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Some Bay Street shots from the Toronto archives : torontopubliclibrary.ca


Showing Bay Street Level Crossing on the 11th July 1924; and the crowd from the Island Ferry waiting to cross to street cars at Front Street.


Bay St., looking north from Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ont.


Toronto 1923, looking north east, showing Reford Building, Bay St., north east corner Wellington St. W. under construction


Toronto 1923, looking south east from Temple Building, Richmond St. W., north west corner Bay St.; General Assurance Bldg, Bay St., north east corner Temperance St. in right foreground


Toronto Harbour 192-?, looking north from foot of Bay St.
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What a difference a few years makes

1947 to 2019:


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Old Posted Nov 17, 2019, 8:06 PM
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Halifax Harbour during WWII:


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Old Posted Nov 17, 2019, 8:10 PM
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Old Posted Dec 11, 2019, 10:09 AM
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January 1965 via FB. Looking from the bottom of Signal Hill toward the old Hotel Newfoundland.



Almost all of the residential buildings in this view still exist. Most of the commercial ones and basically all of the industrial ones have been replaced with more modern office buildings (but not towers; buildings).
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A few from an old tourism promotion.



















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Toronto in 1894, looking NW from Front & George:



https://tayloronhistory.com/2014/01/...-king-st-east/
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A few more recent finds - here's a view down Church St. in the 1880s:


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ke_Ontario.jpg


Skyline from the Island, 1907:


https://www.qcyc.ca/node/72


Yonge & King, 1910:


http://www.torontotransforms.com/wp-...eSt1910web.jpg
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Old Posted Dec 29, 2019, 8:38 PM
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Wow, it used to have a very different interaction with the lake. I like it!
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Toronto in 1894, looking NW from Front & George:



https://tayloronhistory.com/2014/01/...-king-st-east/
I didn't know that Colborne street crossed Church and extended east to Market St. Even if all of those buildings would have been lost, it would have been amazing to have another small sidestreet in the St. Lawrence Market area between Front and King.

Losing buildings is bad, but losing the presence of streets entirely is unrecoverable. Toronto lost a lot of little sidestreets to large-scale commercial redevelopment in the 1960s and 70s - especially in the Financial District and in the area that was turned into the Eaton Centre, and is worse for it, even if the modern architecture that replaced it was in many ways superior. Having neighbourhoods with a dense warren of little streets that are rectilinear but not on a grid is what makes a lot of Toronto interesting compared to other North American cities.
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^Love all the hay wagons, if that's what they are, lined up on Front St.
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Georgian Toronto... gotta admit, I never knew!
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Fantastic TO shots. TO looks like it was quite beautiful.
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1935. I would guess it was taken from the Sun Life Building.

http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.c...idImage=322305
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Shawinigan Water and Power Building under construction in 1947

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JCEFT87SNx...1600/where.jpg

Nordelec Building


Mount-Royal Hotel, 1922

http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.c...ges/v20719.jpg

Architects Building, 1931. Destroyed in 1968.



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Completed in 1949, the ICAO building.
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The Old BMO logo and Eatons logo looked so much sharper.
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Classic - love it.
Agreed about the logos - BMO should never have changed that.
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