Canadian skylines of the past - Page 85

Prometheus · #**1681** Posted **May 8, 2015, 1:24 AM**

Victory In Europe Day, May 7, 1945, Vancouver:

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99915476@N04/sets/72157651807850539

Trans Canada · #**1682** Posted **May 8, 2015, 3:34 AM**

5 years prior...

"Wait for Me Daddy" - British Columbia Regiment, DCO, marching in New Westminster, 1940
Photographer Claude P. Dettloff. Source Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Columbia_Regiment_1940.jpg
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_for_Me,_Daddy

Black Star · #**1683** Posted **May 8, 2015, 4:29 AM**

Those are fantastic...thanks.

Trans Canada · #**1684** Posted **May 8, 2015, 5:29 AM**

Calgary 2003 and Calgary 2010 by Steve_P, on Flickr

SignalHillHiker · #**1685** Posted **May 8, 2015, 10:56 AM**

Wow - lovely to hear all the sirens, car horns, and ship horns going off. Pictures/audio of VE Day in St. John's. Not a commemoration, the actual one.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundla...celebrated-ve-day-70-years-ago-1.3053991

They played the Canadian anthem as well. Right after our "national anthem", and he describes Canada as "another great country, the progressive Dominion of Canada".

Trans Canada · #**1686** Posted **May 9, 2015, 3:41 AM**

Edmonton:

CN Tower 1967 by Steve_P, on Flickr

J.OT13 · #**1687** Posted **May 9, 2015, 4:18 PM**

Good theme for this month! VE Day Ottawa:

http://www.mapleleafup.ca/ve3.html

MolsonExport · #**1688** Posted **May 9, 2015, 6:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

Victory In Europe Day, May 7, 1945, Vancouver:

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99915476@N04/sets/72157651807850539

Super set.

11a2b3 · #**1689** Posted **May 9, 2015, 7:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Edmonton:

CN Tower 1967 by Steve_P, on Flickr

Neat pic.

MolsonExport · #**1690** Posted **May 9, 2015, 8:49 PM**

^my father worked in that CN building for a few years, when we lived in Edmonton (early 70s)

Trans Canada · #**1691** Posted **May 13, 2015, 4:25 AM**

Two more from Steve_P on Flickr

Edmonton Downtown 1971 by Steve_P, on Flickr

Edmonton Municipal Airport 1971 by Steve_P, on Flickr

SteelTown · #**1692** Posted **May 13, 2015, 1:32 PM**

VE Day in Hamilton

Courtesy of Hamilton Public Library
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/554296...-dwindling-at-ve-day-anniversary-events/

MolsonExport · #**1693** Posted **May 15, 2015, 1:15 PM**

back when everyone smoked Sweet Caporal cigarettes.

esquire · #**1694** Posted **May 15, 2015, 1:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

back when everyone smoked Sweet Caporal cigarettes.

Now that you mention it, their advertising signage is pretty ubiquitous in urban photos from the first half of the 20th century. I don't ever recall actually seeing the product, though... I wonder what happened to that brand?

(I Googled it and it turns out that they were sold in Canada until 2011... go figure)

vaportrail · #**1695** Posted **May 15, 2015, 9:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Two more from Steve_P on Flickr

Edmonton Downtown 1971 by Steve_P, on Flickr

Nice.

I think some of the development in '60s and '70s Edmonton (e.g. Edmonton House under construction far right; first stage of a freeway behind) was audacious for the time and place. Edmonton has just started to match that ambition and attitude for the first time since then. What a horrid dry spell. I hope the momentum isn't squandered.

SignalHillHiker · #**1696** Posted **May 15, 2015, 9:39 PM**

A newspaper clipping from Olive Henderson of Toronto, Ontario. She was stationed "overseas" here during the war.

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I’d never been overseas and I had a lot of relatives in England and my girlfriend that I was with down there, she had relatives in Scotland. So we thought, oh, that’s great, we’ll sign up for overseas, so we did. So when our postings came through, she got hers to England I guess it was and I got my posting to Newfoundland and every time I tell this to anybody, they laugh and say, overseas, you went to Newfoundland? I said, yes. Because it wasn’t part of Canada then. One day, we saw a big ship come in, I forget what kind it was, but it had a big hole in the side of it. And another day, we had a German submarine was brought in, that was in the spring, that was in May I think. I was there for a year, up in Newfoundland. Where we lived, it was up on the hill where we used to drive down in a little truck down to the harbour. Then we had to go, our building where we worked was in the base naval stores building, big building on the south side of the harbour, so we had to go across there on this little harbour craft, it was like a little tugboat. And every day, we went across there to work in the stores over there. Everything was very interesting.

http://www.thememoryproject.com/stories/237:olive-henderson/

SignalHillHiker · #**1697** Posted **May 15, 2015, 9:51 PM**

A few others from the Old St. John's Historical Trust.

1885 - just before the Great Fire of 1892.

1892, just after Great Fire

The Randall-Shea House, the only surviving pre-1892 house in the whole East End.

Today (lower left corner of top block, facing toward bottom of Bing screengrab):

August 19, 1919

1933

Sometime between 1944 and 1946

Coldrsx · #**1698** Posted **May 15, 2015, 10:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Two more from Steve_P on Flickr

Edmonton Downtown 1971 by Steve_P, on Flickr

That's awesome, you can see the old ski jump top right that went over the roadway.

(http://www.transformingedmonton.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/EA-20-55061.jpg)

SignalHillHiker · #**1699** Posted **May 21, 2015, 10:50 PM**

I love this.

On May 15, 1879, The Telegram reported the results of a (at the time) shocking development in St. John's. The city's merchants were taken to court for blocking Water Street's sidewalks with their wares, impeding the flow of traffic.

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It was certainly unique to see so many of our leading civilians arraigned at the bar of justice, and we must confess that our feelings were truly indescribable when we entered the court room and glanced around.

There they were, men in the highest social and commercial positions in the country, philanthropists, merchant princes and politicians of the first order; constrained by the omnipotent mandate of the presiding genius of the magisterial bureau. In short they were there on a charge of violation of the following the Municipal Regulations Act.

Any person who shall place or deposit on any sidewalk in any of the said places, except in transit, any boxes, barrels, packages, or any other matter or thing, so as to obstruct free passage on the said side walk, shall for very offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty five dollars.

And via Archival Moments, we actually know what businesses were on Water Street at that time:

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Some of the businesses on the historic street included: 3 Photographic studios, 8 Auctioneering houses, 4 Bakeries, 2 Blacksmiths, 3 Boarding houses, 15 Boot and Shoe Makers, 15 Butcher Shops, 3 China and Glassware Dealers, 4 Confectioners, 2 Coopers, 2 Dentists, 1 Distiller, 28 Drapers, 2 Engineers, 2 Furniture Dealers, 31 Grocers, 3 Hairdressers, 3 Harness Makers, 11 Hardware Dealers, 2 Hotels, 2 Joiners, 3 Leatherware Dealers, 4 Lumber Merchants, 32 General Merchants, 6 Millinery, 1 Painter, 2 Plumbers, 2 Pump and Lock Makers, 6 Stationers, 1 Stonemason, 19 Tailors, 7 Tin, Sheet and Iron and Copper Workers, 8 Watchmakers, and 50 Wine and Spirit Retail Stores.

MUN Archives - Water Street, 1860s

esquire · #**1700** Posted **May 22, 2015, 1:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

That's awesome, you can see the old ski jump top right that went over the roadway.

Love it!

Cold, why was that area around the ski jump (where the smokestack is) never fully developed and integrated in the urban grid? It's such prime land close to downtown, yet it appears to have been some kind of industrial site before becoming the park site it is today.