Canadian skylines of the past - Page 191

MolsonExport · #**3801** Posted **Jun 11, 2025, 9:10 PM**

Place Jacques-Cartier, Montreal, c. 1900:

someone123 · #**3802** Posted **Jun 11, 2025, 10:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Is this Georgian? McGill (Montreal)

That central part is from 1843. It is from the early Victorian period, but architecturally it is similar to Georgian era buildings. It is sort of like an early architectural bridge between those periods, with one toe in the Victorian era.

This type of style seems to have been common around the St. Lawrence area from circa 1830-1870. It is also in Kingston.

Rico Rommheim · #**3803** Posted **Jun 14, 2025, 12:45 AM**

Fantastic film showcasing some of the biggest cities in 1962.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVsHbv5s8eg&ab_channel=NFB

ScreamingViking · #**3804** Posted **Jun 14, 2025, 3:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Fantastic film showcasing some of the biggest cities in 1962.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVsHbv5s8eg&ab_channel=NFB

This was wonderful. Thank you!

J.OT13 · #**3805** Posted **Jun 17, 2025, 8:23 PM**

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%ACwek%C3%AC_Point).

Ottawa skyline from Kiweki Point (formerly Nepean Point) about 10 years ago vs last weekend.

vs my picture last Saturday.

someone123 · #**3806** Posted **Jun 22, 2025, 7:36 PM**

View of the central part of downtown Halifax in the 1930's. The town clock on Citadel Hill is aligned with George St, the middle of the original planned town. You can see the Grand Parade aligned on that axis with City Hall and St. Paul's. You still see a lot of 3 storey semi-residential buildings, some with dormers, some without, that in many cases probably dated from around 1780-1840; most of those are gone now but some still survive.

I'm not sure what the original source is for this one:

MolsonExport · #**3807** Posted **Jun 22, 2025, 8:52 PM**

love the masonry and density.

Rico Rommheim · #**3808** Posted **Jul 15, 2025, 8:33 PM**

Toronto 1949

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWR0zaeDukg&ab_channel=OldTorontoSeries

Architype · #**3809** Posted **Jul 15, 2025, 8:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Toronto 1949

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWR0zaeDukg&ab_channel=OldTorontoSeries

Rico, you have to put ONLY the following part of the url between the youtube tags, then it will display properly:

MWR0zaeDukg

EnvisionSaintJohn · #**3810** Posted **Jul 15, 2025, 9:17 PM**

A portion of St. John's skyline in 1904 (before the spelling change to Saint John)

From the NB Museum archives.

Would sure be nice if the museum could re-scan this photo and others in much higher quality...

Rico Rommheim · #**3811** Posted **Sep 3, 2025, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn

A portion of St. John's skyline in 1904 (before the spelling change to Saint John)

From the NB Museum archives.

Would sure be nice if the museum could re-scan this photo and others in much higher quality...

Really cool picture. Nice little skyline too.

Rico Rommheim · #**3812** Posted **Sep 3, 2025, 5:47 PM**

1971

Canadian National Tower in Toronto just east of Bathurst St. with Spadina bridge is in the distance in October 1971 by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

1979

CN Tower from a Railroad Perspective -- 3 Photos by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

Rico Rommheim · #**3813** Posted **Sep 4, 2025, 1:42 PM**

1988

CN Station, Hamilton, ON on June 26, 1988 by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

CN Station, Hamilton, ON on June 26, 1988 by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

1985

CN Tower, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in May 1985 by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

CN Tower, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in May 1985 (2) by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

1981

Canadian National RR Headquqrters Building in Montreal, QC in December 1981 -- 4 Photos by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

CN Depot in Vancouver, BC in December 1981 by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

SignalHillHiker · #**3814** Posted **Sep 8, 2025, 8:21 PM**

A few from Facebook. The first is an 1879 drawing of the city, and the rest are photos taken the next year in 1880. I wish we'd maintained the same sudden drop-off from rowhouses to farms. Managed to make it to the 1940s that way, at least.

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KnoxfordGuy · #**3815** Posted **Sep 8, 2025, 9:22 PM**

Hard to get pre 1892 fire. Nice.

someone123 · #**3816** Posted **Sep 9, 2025, 1:51 AM**

South End Halifax, 1961. Before any modern highrises were built. You can also see the sugar and oil refineries in Dartmouth, and there's still a coal plant on the Halifax side. Dalhousie is all quaint classical buildings (one male residence and one female residence, at opposite corners of the campus); no concrete bunkers have arrived yet. This whole scene changed tremendously by the 1970's.

Source

MonkeyRonin · #**3817** Posted **Sep 9, 2025, 2:31 AM**

Great finds of St. John's. I too love how the small but busy core very quickly gives way to the countryside - it's the best of both worlds. Looks very British as well; I could imagine it as the setting of a Beatrix Potter book or something.

Cool Halifax shot as well.

EnvisionSaintJohn · #**3818** Posted **Sep 9, 2025, 4:51 PM**

Sighted in the sky of the West Side, in what was then, "Lancaster, NB". May 5th, 1937, supposedly one day before the Hindenburg disaster.

Here's some other shots of the Hindenburg from a previous, much more photographed journey that went directly above Uptown Saint John, NB (Then St. John, NB) in 1936:

Credit for the 5 pictures above to former forumer Ronald Jack and his excellent blog The Lost Valley - An Internet History of Saint John, N.B.

May he find his way back to the forum!

Along with two more shots of the Hindenburg above Saint John in 1936:

One from the Telegraph-Journal newspaper:

and, finally, what is probably the most widely shared photo of this rare air transit, above the old General Hospital:

a rather blurry photo of the Hindenburg above the old Saint John General Hospital — photographer unknown.

TorontoDrew · #**3819** Posted **Sep 9, 2025, 5:14 PM**

Cool and kind of creepy shots!

That would be like a MAGA blimp flying over next year with Olympic rings on it.

EnvisionSaintJohn · #**3820** Posted **Sep 9, 2025, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Cool and kind of creepy shots!

That would be like a MAGA blimp flying over next year with Olympic rings on it.

The one that's supposedly from the day before the Hindenburg disaster is especially eerie. 😱

And well, the USA and (sort of we) are getting the World Cup next year... and LA the 2028 Olympics.

I love me a good, Goodyear Blimp sighting... so maybe we will see it go on some sort of tri-national journey including Toronto, New York, Mexico City, and others?

If Trump sent a MAGA blimp to Canada with a Trump Airlines livery it would definitely cause a stir, lol.