Awesome pictures so far, everyone. More of Winnipeg, Hamilton and Halifax please.
London, Ontario
Northern Half of Downtown Core - 1941
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Wow! What an amazing find!
Unfortunately I can't help but get very angry when looking at this picture, just thinking about all that was torn down to make way for the sea of parking that now floods our downtown.
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Saint John, 1890 (before everything went belly-up in New Brunswick...and Nova Scotia...and Prince Edward Island after confederation and all focus was
on Quebec and Ontario lol
Description: This sketch, done from the Citadel in May 1759, was executed while Richard Short was in Halifax during the Seven Years' War, with the British fleet bound for the siege at Quebec. Short was an amateur artist and the purser on board HMS Prince of Wales. The sketch shows at the northern (left) extreme, the Great Pontack Inn at the corner of Duke and Water Streets, and extends as far south (right) as the Governor's Summer Farm, now the site of Government House on Barrington Street.
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Most of what is in the lower half of the frame is gone now, lost to highways, big skyscrapers and elephantine surface parking lots. Canadian national's shoe-box factory / central train station is under the Sun Life. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HK1I54WLqN..._SATURDAY).jpg
haha Jeff did you just make the photo black and white? Looks like it should be coloured by the detail haha.
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haha Jeff did you just make the photo black and white? Looks like it should be coloured by the detail haha.
lol it's missing a couple notable additions: 201 portage and the mb hydro tower, plus the u of w's recent upgrades, etc but you're not too far off in not noticing a substantial change..
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but you're not too far off in not noticing a substantial change..
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