Canadian skylines of the past - Page 153

🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁 · #**3041** Posted **Nov 5, 2020, 8:30 PM**

Historical postcards from WPG

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca

Martin Mtl · #**3042** Posted **Nov 5, 2020, 8:55 PM**

/\ Nice, thanks for sharing. What was that building on the fourth picture ? City Hall ?

🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁 · #**3043** Posted **Nov 5, 2020, 9:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

/\ Nice, thanks for sharing. What was that building on the fourth picture ? City Hall ?

Yes, you're right: that is the city's second city hall, built in 1886 and demolished in 1962. There was a plan to build another one in 1913 but history intervened...

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Andy6 · #**3044** Posted **Nov 5, 2020, 11:12 PM**

I noticed a couple of years ago that that design is very similar to the town hall of Auckland, New Zealand, which opened in 1911.

In any case, the economy slumped in 1913-14 and then the war came, and the last great project the city could afford was the Aqueduct, which took precedence over the proposed city hall.

MolsonExport · #**3045** Posted **Nov 5, 2020, 11:18 PM**

great Winnipeg set.

Chadillaccc · #**3046** Posted **Nov 6, 2020, 6:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

/\ Nice, thanks for sharing. What was that building on the fourth picture ? City Hall ?

Yeah that's the famous "gingerbread house" city hall, demolished decades ago.

http://heritagewinnipeg.blogspot.com/2018/06/city-hall-heart-of-winnipegs-decision.html

KnoxfordGuy · #**3047** Posted **Nov 6, 2020, 3:20 PM**

Canada's Penn Station. RIP.

Harrison · #**3048** Posted **Nov 6, 2020, 6:04 PM**

Terrible that the decision was made to demolish that beauty.

🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁 · #**3049** Posted **Nov 6, 2020, 9:23 PM**

Another hand-coloured photo of it dating from 1930.

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca

🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁 · #**3050** Posted **Nov 8, 2020, 1:50 PM**

Various photos, maps, paintings, etc. of historical skylines/Canadiana from LAC collection. All images from https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca

Fredericton

Provincial Exhibition Palace, Fredericton, 1854:

Charlottetown

St. John's

Halifax

Annapolis, NS

Quebec City

"Canadian Coast Guard helicopter on ice reconnaissance over St. Lawrence near Quebec City."

Montreal

Ottawa

Kingston

Toronto

Stratford, ON replacement photo

Man placing the pinacle on the spire of Knox Church, Stratford, Ont.

Hamilton

"Hamilton, Canada West. From the mountain." (1854)

Niagara Falls

Lake Superior

Winnipeg

More: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9099368&postcount=2975

Saskatoon

Regina

Calgary

"Free form swimming pool at Rideau Towers luxury apartments overlooking City of Calgary, Alberta." (July, 1961)

Drumheller, AB

Edmonton

Banff

Kamloops

Vancouver

Victoria

Tofino

Dawson City

Iqaluit

Yellowknife

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca

Martin Mtl · #**3051** Posted **Nov 8, 2020, 2:28 PM**

Famtastic coast to coast post. Thanks!

🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁 · #**3052** Posted **Nov 8, 2020, 2:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Famtastic coast to coast post. Thanks!

Thanks very much Martin

glad you liked it and I'm going to acknowledge your trademark ™ for 'coast to coast post' – great description...

esquire · #**3053** Posted **Nov 8, 2020, 3:55 PM**

Thanks for all of that... lots of interesting scenes up there!

11a2b3 · #**3054** Posted **Nov 14, 2020, 4:26 AM**

Ottawa
Westboro:

https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/photos/a.380380215394542/3528421237257075/?type=3&theater

Tunneys Pasture:

https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/photos/a.380380215394542/3526974810735051/?type=3&theater

Near Carleton University (not yet built)

https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/photos/a.380380215394542/3518712404894625/?type=3&theater

BillM · #**3055** Posted **Nov 14, 2020, 1:46 PM**

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Various photos, maps, paintings, etc. of historical skylines/Canadiana from LAC collection. All images from https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca

At first, I found this photo disorientating.

kwoldtimer · #**3056** Posted **Nov 14, 2020, 3:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by 🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁

[SIZE="2"]Various photos, maps, paintings, etc. of historical skylines/Canadiana from LAC collection....
Stratford, ON

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Someone can correct me, but I think that one was in the Stratford that isn't in Ontario ....

isotack · #**3057** Posted **Nov 14, 2020, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Someone can correct me, but I think that one was in the Stratford that isn't in Ontario ....

It isn't Stratford, Ontario...lol it's the original theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon UK.

🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁 · #**3058** Posted **Nov 14, 2020, 8:42 PM**

Ok, yes a mistake in the photos that were posted. I am familiar with the existing Canadian one and the renovation project. This was in the LAC collection so didn't check closely enough, especially seeing Avon – an oversight. Thanks for the correction, will find another to replace it.

SignalHillHiker · #**3059** Posted **Nov 17, 2020, 1:05 PM**

Love these (Water Street, St. John’s, 1946 - still driving on the left, no longer independent but not quite yet Canadian. National purgatory lol), via FB.

KnoxfordGuy · #**3060** Posted **Nov 20, 2020, 1:50 AM**

Saint John, NB Pre 1877 fire when the downtown (or uptown by locals) was still wooden

by James McGrath, on Flickr