Canadian skylines of the past

[MolsonExport]

^that plus a little bit of Quebec nationalism. Although it probably would have happened regardless.

Montreal also looked quite brown/grey during those years.

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turcotyard

[caltrane74]

Man, Toronto was dirty!!

[shappy]

Wow the soot is intense! "Big Smoke" indeed...

[MolsonExport]

Toronto Postcard 1910

chuckmantorontonostalgia

[MolsonExport]

lessignets

[hipster duck]

^^re: 1910 postcard

Toronto's problem has always been that they concentrated all their great buildings in the same area. More specifically, Toronto's financial district grew on top of its old financial district and stately banking halls were replaced with glitzy banking towers. In that pic, only a handful of buildings still survive.

Contrast that to Montreal and Vancouver, whose centre of gravity moved westward sparing areas like St. James street or Gastown.

[yaletown_fella]

Originally Posted by hipster duck

^^re: 1910 postcard

Toronto's problem has always been that they concentrated all their great buildings in the same area. More specifically, Toronto's financial district grew on top of its old financial district and stately banking halls were replaced with glitzy banking towers. In that pic, only a handful of buildings still survive.

Contrast that to Montreal and Vancouver, whose centre of gravity moved westward sparing areas like St. James street or Gastown.

+1

I wish the 50s-90s financial district was built further west so that more of the banking halls could be preserved.

[SignalHillHiker]

Great TO pic. I wish we were still building like that.

*****

A few older ones from a magazine published in 1901.

















Poem from 1796 invasion by the French.



And 1945.



There was so much shit out at Fort Amherst then. There are only three buildings there now.

[someone123]

Nova Scotian Hotel, South End train station, and ocean terminals, 1931:


http://halifaxbloggers.ca/builthalif...train-station/

Demolition underway for the Cogswell interchange, 1960's. You can see some of the buildings that were later torn down. One of them looks like it's built out of ironstone and granite like the Jerusalem Warehouse or Keith's Brewery; it was probably from the 1800-1830 period, while the 5 storey building looks like other surviving buildings from the 1850's.


Source

Not a photo, but these drawings of the 1895 drill hall are great. This was an early building with steel truss construction that allowed for larger interior spaces than were previously possible (the building is a national historic site today):

Source

[OTSkyline]

Wow, that first shot is amazing! Is that the Titanic?

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by OTSkyline

Wow, that first shot is amazing! Is that the Titanic?

I was wondering about the ship as well. There weren't many four funnel ships around at the time. The Olympic? Aquitania or Mauritania?

[thmx]

Originally Posted by OTSkyline

Wow, that first shot is amazing! Is that the Titanic?

It's the Olympic, one of the Titanic's two sister ships.

[vaportrail]

Edmonton early spring 1978.



From Gallagher Park, southeast of downtown.





From Rossdale, southwest of downtown.





Residential skyline through to downtown from the west.

[drew]

Originally Posted by thomax

It's the Olympic, one of the Titanic's two sister ships.

Retired in 1935. Scrapped over the next couple years.

Great picture.

[LeftCoaster]

Please tell me that was a joke?

[ainvan]

Happy Birthday, Tdot!


Toronto_map_large by Sebastian Ip, on Flickr

[SignalHillHiker]

King's Bridge Road, St. John's.



One of the wealthiest parts of the city back then. The sidewalks there are still a narrow width because they were meant only for servants.

[Trans Canada]

Calgary Skyline from Sunalta School, 1983


Credit Harry Palmer Photographs / A Portrait of Canada (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
http://www.aportraitofcanada.ca/?p=1738

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Calgary Skyline from Sunalta School, 1983

Credit Harry Palmer Photographs / A Portrait of Canada (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
http://www.aportraitofcanada.ca/?p=1738

All those cranes! Just incredible.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by esquire

All those cranes! Just incredible.

It is incredible. And weren't we in a recession back in 81-82 with ridiculously high interest rates? Surprised to see the amount of construction. (Although I guess it was all started before the economy tanked)