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Old Posted Aug 15, 2012, 2:50 PM
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Quebec City, 1870

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Montreal, 1870

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Montreal, 1870's

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Montreal, 1905

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Montreal from top of the Royal Bank HQ, 1927

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Construction of CN viaduct

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Just posted on the main page of UrbanToronto was this photo of the Toronto skyline circa 1930:


Sauce.

It's amazing to look at the area which is the current CBD filled with bank towers and plazas, and seeing it completely dense with pre-war buildings. Big losses from this picture includes the Toronto Star Building (just to the right of center of the picture), the Globe and Mail Building (the shorter building to the left of the Star at the intersection), and the Board of Trade Building (very bottom right at Yonge & Front).
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^^At least it got replaced with some of the most awesome skyscrapers in the country, as opposed to something like Hamilton, which got two dead malls and a whole lot of cheap parking.
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and most of Toronto's are still standing along side the awesome modern towers.
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A few submitted to the Facebook group "You know you grew up in St. John's when..."

The "Octagon Castle", which has since burned down, and from which the Octagon Pond area gets its name:


Monarchist Pride in the 1930s:


And the famous Bowring store. It still exists: "Few companies in Canada can claim as rich and long history as Bowring. Established in Newfoundland in 1811, Bowring is one of the oldest and most respected names in Canadian retailing."
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Charlottetown, 1910

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Kingston, 1910


St. John, 1915(?)

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Lethbridge, 1904

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Montreal, 1884

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Winnipeg, 1887

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Quebec, 1908

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Halifax, 1901

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Vancouver, 1904

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St. John, 1898

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Calgary, 1889

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Winnipeg, 1887


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St. John's Nfld, 1900


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St. John's Nfld, 1900

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St. John NB, 1870(!)

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Montreal, 1896

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Montreal, 1918

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Montreal, 1911

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Downtown Montreal, 1895

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Montreal, 1890

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Great collection of pics Rico!!!
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[QUOTE=Rico Rommheim;5799642]Charlottetown, 1910

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Thanks for including the Charlottetown shot. This is taken from present day Stratford before the first bridge from what is now called Ferry Point.
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^ Beautiful. I love the shot of Vancouver. For some reason, I still can't picture Vancouver as anything other than a city of towers. I half expect old pictures to show them growing up out of the earth or something...
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calgary in the 1890's... what calgary?
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Some of the oldest I could find of St. John's.

St. John's, sometime before 1880:

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St. John's, sometime before 1892:

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Toronto, 1914ish.



From an old postcard collection of mine.
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Vancouver 1930 or later, showing the Marine Building -

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Montreal '62. Place Ville-Marie, today 50 years old, was Canada's tallest building. The CIBC, on the right, was its close second.

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1962

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1966

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These must be 63-64' as tour de la bourse was already completed by 66'.
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The 50s, 60s, and 70s completely ravaged North American city centres it seems, sad.
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