Canadian skylines of the past

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ture=emb_title

bears a strong similarity to 1970s Houston:


taticflickr.co


edit: whoops, someone beat me to it!

[MolsonExport]

Great old-time Montreal Set, Rico

[J.OT13]

So depressing... "Lets raise all the nice retail fronts for PARKING, ALLLLLL of the PARKING".

Like man, quite the walk to your office block too.

[Martin Mtl]

Peel/Sainte-Catherine, 1930's


https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...23277107684195

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

So depressing... "Lets raise all the nice retail fronts for PARKING, ALLLLLL of the PARKING".

Like man, quite the walk to your office block too.

I have always thought that too when I see that pic, many of those parking lots are half the width of the downtown core away from any office tower or building of interest.

[Rico Rommheim]

Sometime between 1865-1875

Montreal harbour near the Custom House, Quebec by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1868

Alexander Ramsay's paint store, Recollet Street, Montreal, QC, 1868 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1887

Clearing snow, Notre Dame Street, Montreal, QC, about 1887 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1880

Ice shove, Montreal harbour, QC, about 1880 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1930

Construction of bridge over CN railway, Dorchester St., Montreal, QC, 1930 ? by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1931

Fire at D. C. Brosseau & Cie Ltée, Notre Dame Street, Montreal, QC, 1931 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1887
Ice Maze, Place d'Armes, Montreal, QC, about 1887 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1892

Bow River Valley at Canmore, AB, 1892 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1900

Alexander Ramsay's paint store, Recollet Street, Montreal, QC, 1868 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

[Rico Rommheim]

Winnipeg skyline, 1887

Winnipeg, MB, 1887 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr


Main Street, Winnipeg, MB, 1887 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr


City Hall and Volunteer Monument, Winnipeg, MB, 1887 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr


Flour mill and elevator, Portage La Prairie, MB, 1884 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

Saint John 1898

Harbour, St. John, NB, about 1898 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

Saint John, 1915

Ship at foot of King Street, St. John, NB, 1915 (?) by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr


St. John, looking towards Carlton, NB, 1870 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

Halifax 1915

Barrington Street, Halifax, NS, about 1915 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

Kingston 1910

Kingston, ON, about 1910 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

Levis, QC

Lévis, Quebec by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

Kamloops 1887

Junction North and South Thompson Rivers, Kamloops, BC, 1887 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr


Hermit Range from Glacier Hotel, BC, 1887 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

1890

C.P.R. dining car, Montreal, QC, 1890 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

QC 1916

Champlain Market Station, Quebec City, QC, 1916 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

QC 1916

Union Station and New Palace Station, C.P.R., Quebec City, QC, about 1916-17 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

QC 1916

Little Champlain Street, Quebec City, QC, 1916 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

QC 1916

Little Champlain Street, Quebec City, QC, about 1890 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

Claresholm skyline, 1918
Grain elevators and train, Claresholm, AB, 1918 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

QC 1908

Quebec City from Parliament Buildings, QC, 1908 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr


Toronto sometime after 1906?

Harbour, St. John, NB, about 1898 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr


St-John's

View from Signal Hill, St. John's, NL, about 1900 by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

[Coldrsx]

Edmonton

https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/forum/...am-png.381058/

[craner]

Calgary skyline from the south in the early 1970’s as posted by ZeDgE in the Skylines thread:

Originally Posted by ZeDgE

Early 70s, Chinook centre and downtown.



From: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...l_early_1970s/

[ZeDgE]

Originally Posted by craner

Calgary skyline from the south in the early 1970’s as posted by ZeDgE in the Skylines thread:

Thanks. Forgot this thread existed. Should I remove it from the other one?

[craner]

Fine by me to leave it in both threads - but I’m not a moderator.

[ZeDgE]

And another one from 1968.



From: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...from_facebook/

[J.OT13]

Ottawa, 1967. We can see the newly completed Place de Ville I (black office towers and white hotel), the "temporary" WWII buildings centre, right, the vast empty (recently cleared) LeBreton Flats, and Tunney's Pasture beyond with the Brooke Claxton centre piece, completed in 1964.

Place de Ville by Robert Campeau started the influx of 20-something office and hotel towers in Ottawa's CBD. It broke the 150 foot limit with its three nearly 300-foot towers, followed by PdV II with the taller 372 foot PdV II, Tower C.


https://twitter.com/CapHistOttawa/st...C9qYjv18IqAAAA

Similar view about five years ago, but turned 160 degrees. Place de Ville I is next to the tall brown tower (Place de Ville II, current tallest in the CBD).


https://ottawatourism.ca/en/travel-t...ources/toolbox

Feckless and Urbanarchit were able to get some far better near identical angles from Google Earth.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Urbanarchit

I tried to line up the edge of PdV with the windows on Delta, but it's hard as they were likely in a plane much higher using a zoom lens or something.

[MolsonExport]

Musee McCord is a treasure chest of amazing photos from yesteryear.

[SignalHillHiker]

A few from FB.

Presumably 1980s (second pic; first has older cars) just before the final tracks were hauled up in exchange for the TCH being extended here.





Pre-Confederation as we were still driving on the left. The horse (and, though not pictured, Newfoundland DOG-pulled carts) continued here until well into the 1950s.

[Architype]

The first pic has a 61 Chevy visible, the second must be 1987 or later considering the buildings, the third I'm guessing late 1930s from the cars. St. John's had a different atmosphere when you could hear the train whistles/horns, they were loud like a fog horn (for those too young to remember).

[Coldrsx]

2008 - Edmonton

[Coldrsx]

Edmonton 06' - Tabletop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpKqTYcJUA4

[Rollerstud98]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Sometime between 1865-1875

Montreal harbour near the Custom House, Quebec by Musée McCord Museum, on Flickr

Is that clock tower where the museum of archaeology is now?

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Rollerstud98

Is that clock tower where the museum of archaeology is now?

Yes. It was demolished because the building’s foundation were unstable because of numerous water infiltration (the street along the port was often under water in the spring).