With Google Streetview now providing nearly 15 years of old street images, some changes around Canada are starting to become quite startling. I though it would be fun to start a thread highlighting some of the starkest urban changes of the past 15 years in Canada. Feel free to add some of your own!
Lets start off with Vaughan Centre - from industrial warehouse and retail area to subway station and 50 storey towers:
2009:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7936372,...0VX_nYsJeajzteer8fCiQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
2021:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.793756,-...J5_FMqBANLgHfGUoi-DLg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Markham along Highway 7 - from rural to highly urban:
2009:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8578982,...t6vnJsbqYdlN5yBC2udmA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
2021:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8578796,...soTM2opOWWJgRJuMg0r1w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Next let's do Downtown Toronto - from a sea of parking lots to a massive skyscraper canyon:
2007:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6435004,...PhRbGx27pBm-062qNYg63Q!2e0!7i3328!8i1664
2021:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6434934,...XdLugr-IiDLlkQfMRXOyQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Next is the East Don Lands, from Industrial to quickly developing urban:
2007:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6440433,...AOxw!2e0!5s20070901T000000!7i3328!8i1664
2021:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6440349,...Jfw!2e0!5s20210901T000000!7i16384!8i8192
Finally, lets look at something more to do with streetscape transformation. Queens Quay:
2009:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6397532,...lUw!2e0!5s20090401T000000!7i13312!8i6656
2017:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6396852,...DBQ!2e0!5s20170501T000000!7i13312!8i6656