[QUOTE=MonkeyRonin;5773068]Which it pretty well was.
And on that note, its cool how stark the contrast between pre-war Montreal and Toronto was. Montreal was undoubtedly the grand, cosmopolitan, mercantile metropolis; Toronto was the rough, gothic, industrial machine. Today, either city could be either thing, and then there are all those other newly big, important cities that further erase that traditional dynamic between the two national powers. Ultimately for the better of course, though.
Anyway, more pictures
A lovely shot from the CN Tower....I kid, I kid. But interesting foreshadowing of a vantage point to come.