Canadian skylines of the past

Martin Mtl · #1 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 5:13 PM**

Old Montreal and downtown in 1963. Virtually everything in this picture is still intact.

By Archives de la Ville de Montréal on Flickr

Martin Mtl · #2 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 5:38 PM**

Toronto in 1929.

Source: http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/09/a...920s_to_1980s/

Wooster · #3 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 7:53 PM**

Calgary:

Circa 1900:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arcnc/1/g/nc-51-9.jpg

1912:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc3/t/na-1530-2.jpg

1914:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arcnb/d/nb-16-357.jpg

1916:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc2/o/na-844-6.jpg

Circa 1920s:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc7/w/na-4868-19.jpg

Circa 1930:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc4/z/na-2399-29.jpg

Circa 1940-45:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arcp...pa-3538-35.jpg

Circa 1950:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arcp...pa-3637-17.jpg

1964:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc1...864-466a-1.jpg

1967:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc1...4-1164g-5a.jpg

1972:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc1...2864-21093.jpg

1973:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc11/z/na-4476-979.jpg

1975:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc11/z/na-4476-999.jpg

1984:

shreddog · #4 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 9:02 PM**

What an incredible change in only 9 years!!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wooster

Calgary:
1975:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc11/z/na-4476-999.jpg

1984:

O-tacular · #5 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 9:45 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wooster

Calgary:

1967:

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc1...4-1164g-5a.jpg

Where was this one taken? Only place I can think of that it looks like is Glenmore by Chinook Centre, but that expressway is built differently.

EDIT: Wait I think I figured it out. Is it the West end of DT coming down from Bow Trail? If so, holy shit!

ZeDgE · #6 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 11:26 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Where was this one taken? Only place I can think of that it looks like is Glenmore by Chinook Centre, but that expressway is built differently.

EDIT: Wait I think I figured it out. Is it the West end of DT coming down from Bow Trail? If so, holy shit!

Yea looks like Bow trail looking east.

kw5150 · #7 Posted **Jul 14, 2012, 5:21 PM**

Neat. Most of these buildings are still there. That is stephen ave.

http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc7/w/na-4868-19.jpg

roccerfeller · #8 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 8:12 PM**

Awesome thread idea!

And Calgary is the most impressive skyline in terms of change. Definition of a boom town.

Amazing to think before the oil boom...how much Alberta has changed.

haligonia · #9 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 8:18 PM**

This aerial photo of Halifax looks to have been takes sometime between the late fifties and early sixties:

Source

Coldrsx · #10 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 8:44 PM**

Edmonton - 1967

(http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/...DM1967-001.jpg)

matt602 · #11 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 8:58 PM**

Hamilton: I picked these out of the "Old Pics of Hamilton" thread here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=151765 I guess they don't really count as skyline shots per se but Hamilton doesn't really have a traditional skyline like most other cities.

O-tacular · #12 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 9:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt602

Hamilton: I picked these out of the "Old Pics of Hamilton" thread here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=151765 I guess they don't really count as skyline shots per se but Hamilton doesn't really have a traditional skyline like most other cities.

I'm guessing that Cummer ice and coal changed it's name since?

Wharn · #13 Posted **Jul 15, 2012, 1:39 AM**

A drawing of London, Ontario from around 1840. This looks towards the courthouse from the west bank of the Thames River, just upstream from the fork:

Think Toronto looked like a third world city in the 1800s? Welcome to downtown London, ca. 1880. I believe this is an early version of the Covent Garden market, with Dundas street in the background. All these buildings have likely since been demolished:

Fast-forward to the 1990s. Here's a shot of One London Place under construction in 1991:

And a shot of the downtown in 1996. The black building to the right is the old CN building, which doubled as the city's train station:

And that was imploded in early 2001, making London perhaps one of the few cities in this thread to actually create a larger gap in its skyline. Strange to think this was only a few months before 9/11.

The_Architect · #14 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 9:00 PM**

Toronto skyline:
1950's:

1968:

More here.

The_Architect · #15 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 9:06 PM**

One other cool image from that article:

1973:

Let's see who's the first one to see what's wrong with it.

Biff · #16 Posted **Jul 13, 2012, 9:24 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Architect

One other cool image from that article:

1973:

Let's see who's the first one to see what's wrong with it.

It's a reversed image? In the picture Commerce Court is on th left of FCP......right?

The_Architect · #17 Posted **Jul 14, 2012, 8:31 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Biff

It's a reversed image? In the picture Commerce Court is on th left of FCP......right?

Sorry for the late reply, but bingo! It's mirrored for whatever reason.

Rico Rommheim · #18 Posted **Jul 14, 2012, 3:18 PM**

well, that's mighty impressive!

Blader · #19 Posted **Jul 14, 2012, 3:55 PM**

@Chadillaccc in this post:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...1&postcount=22

I believe the aircraft is a Canadair North Star - 1946 entry in service - so the photo can't be from 1930. Nice photo BTW.

Canasian · #20 Posted **Oct 17, 2020, 10:15 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Architect

One other cool image from that article:

1973:

Let's see who's the first one to see what's wrong with it.

It's backwards and can't be 1973 as the First Canadian Place was not completed until 1975, and RBC was not completed until 1977??