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Via FB, via the Archives of St. Pierre et Miquelon. Water Street sometime; someone who knows cars can probably say. There's a centennial plate.



Are we using traffic cones as Christmas bells? Also, Nona in the red building near the centre is still there, still same location.
The year is 1967 from the plate. The cars are; 64 Dodge, 65 Dodge, 65 Ford far right. The dirty sixties.
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That photo's Montreal twin (back when this was one of the tallest skylines on the continent):

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from a suburban motorist's perspective, great times of very low automobile traffic and highways whisking you to where you want to go. (of course, at the shortsighted and extremely costly expense of 'urban renewal' schemes).
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Via FB, via the Archives of St. Pierre et Miquelon. Water Street sometime; someone who knows cars can probably say. There's a centennial plate.



Are we using traffic cones as Christmas bells? Also, Nona in the red building near the centre is still there, still same location.
Judging by the cars, no later than 1968.
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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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Rideau at William, 1938. Gateway to the ByWard Market.


https://twitter.com/CapHistOttawa/st...94746838454272

vs June 2019. Can't find anything more recent.


https://www.railfans.ca/otrain/snaps...au-june-9-2019

Here's a perspective from George looking down the same street. It's a rendering showing what it will look like after the current rebuild effort. Red brick building with a pitched roof can be seen in all three images. The red brick two storey on the left of the first image is now the beige building on the right in the third image.


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Queen's Road at Prescott Street.



The view from the top of those stairs today:



Cool! I used to live at 62A Prescott Street, closer to Bond Street!!!
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La Tour de la Bourse was completed in 1964. I'm guessing the red car to be a 64 Ford Fairlane 2 door hardtop and the blue convertible a Mercury probably 65. The orange car is too difficult to try to identify.
I think the orange car is a 1961 Pontiac Parisienne.
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It seems Toronto had more litter then as opposed to now.
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It seems Toronto had more litter then as opposed to now.
If you're referring to the Chinatown markets, they look the same (pre-covid).
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Ottawa around 1973, with the National Defence Building under contraction. Originally intended for Transport Canada, TC ultimately moved to Place de Ville C in 1972.


https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/...7589571340242/

Similar view around 2013.


https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/me...a-city-skyline

Similar view around 2015.


https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/me...ottawa-ontario
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Saint John, NB with super density. Date of photo unknown. But wow!

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In so many respects density > skyscrapers.


There, I have said it. I am sick of the glassification of downtown Canada.
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In so many respects density > skyscrapers.


There, I have said it. I am sick of the glassification of downtown Canada.
I just wonder what will happen to Toronto if downtown doesn't come back post-Covid. The glass residential towers seem to have more in common with a pyramid scheme than with a response to any genuine demand for 437 square foot residences. Perhaps in 5-10 years we'll be seeing some of them used for university residences or social housing (reminds me of how the SARS tourism slump led to the Colony Hotel becoming U of T housing, but on a grander scale).

Hmm... I see this is actually supposed to be about "skylines of the past". Did I ever post my 1928 Winnipeg aerial shot to which I added "labels"? I did this in 2007 which must have been the peak of my industriousness. The buildings named in italics have (or had by then) been demolished. At the time there were three buildings with the same occupant as in 1928: as of just recently that is down to two with the Bank of Montreal leaving its Portage & Main building. Scott-Bathgate is still at 149 Pioneer Av. (then called Notre Dame Av. East) and the Vendome Hotel at 308 Fort St. is still the Vendome Hotel.

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