Canadian skylines of the past

[Rico Rommheim]

The last page is full of fantastic shots I've never seen before! This is why I love this thread!


What a fascinating view of a half-modern/half-ancient skyline!

Originally Posted by franktko

http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_a...219&currpage=1

Ah Dorchester street in the 60's, 4 giant towers rising from east to west simultaneously. So full of ambition and promise [...] and 60 years later it still practically hasn't changed.

Originally Posted by franktko

August 1961:

[SignalHillHiker]

An old picture on display at St. John's City Hall.

The bare area to the left of the Basilica is the former Fort Townshend grounds, where The Rooms now stands.

[MonkeyRonin]

Cool. Mid-late 1800s I'm guessing?

[SignalHillHiker]

I honestly don't know. Two large buildings below the Basilica stand out as no longer existing. The downtown buildings look like they could have been white with blue/grey roofs, which would have put them before the great fire of 1892.

But there are a couple of Mansard roofs in there. Those were VERY rare in St. John's prior to the fire.

[SignalHillHiker]

American military marching in St. John's, WWII.



The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary's motorcycle division, 1947:



The Presentation Sisters School:



The Gower Street United Church, then and now:



The winter of 1921:



The winter of 1921 then and now:



The extreme west end of St. John's before the Waterford River was narrowed and banked. What I love most about this shot is that it shows how densely the city was built from scratch. Whole rowhouse blocks were put up in the middle of nowhere, and gradually connected. None of the suburban sprawl of today.



The Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.



CBC trying to win over Newfoundlanders.



All photos from Vintage St. John's.

[Coldrsx]

(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...2308154-15.jpg)

[MonkeyRonin]

Griffintown, 1896



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mo..._Montagne..jpg

[SignalHillHiker]

Wow, those houses with the balconies. What a BEAUTIFUL lifestyle that would be today.

[Martin Mtl]

Those were the worst slums in the city though.

[SignalHillHiker]

Oh, that doesn't surprise me - but gentrified today, that'd be lovely. It'd be a similar dynamic to most of old St. John's.

[lake of the nations]

"Downtown" Sherbrooke in 1839.


By William Henry Bartlett

The bridge that can be seen in the background stands where the one in the first picture used to.


On the riverbed by sherbypictures, on Flickr

[MTLskyline]

I would say these are from around 1966. A real gold mine. http://archivesdemontreal.ica-atom.o...-mars-1966;rad

(click for full-size)

Little Burgundy

http://archivesdemontreal.ica-atom.org/vm94-b1-012;rad

Shaughnessy Village (notice the old Forum and the construction of Place Alexis-Nihon!)

http://archivesdemontreal.ica-atom.org/vm94-b1-009;rad

Sir George Williams

http://archivesdemontreal.ica-atom.org/vm94-b1-025;rad

[MonkeyRonin]

Nice ones! And I love the rather "fanciful" drawing of Sherbrooke.




Postcards & more of Toronto back in the day, from the fine collection at http://chuckmantorontonostalgia.word...rized/page/46/



































The 1960s


http://transit.toronto.on.ca/


http://deantiquate.blog.yorku.ca/201...withhelpofcca/
















http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/10/a...ind_of_filthy/




The 1970s


http://www.cathibond.com/2012/12/adv...patch-sixteen/
http://chuckmantorontonostalgia.word...rized/page/46/


http://chuckmanothercollectionvolume...et-aerial.html
http://accozzaglia.ca/writing/resear...e-street-mall/


http://www.seancasey.org/hip-before-there-were-hipsters
http://www.sramek.ca/projects-art/To..._a9_large.html


http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...ies_at_71.html


http://www.cathibond.com/2012/12/adv...patch-sixteen/


http://accozzaglia.ca/writing/resear...e-street-mall/


http://chuckmanothercollectionvolume...et-aerial.html


http://chuckmantorontonostalgia.word...rized/page/42/


http://chuckmantorontonostalgia.word...rized/page/42/


http://chuckmantorontonostalgia.word...rized/page/42/


http://chuckmantorontonostalgia.word...rized/page/42/

[Design-mind]

^^^ Wow those are a great collection from Toronto!

[franktko]

Fabulous shots! This page is awesome, I love this stuff

[davidivivid]

http://www.quebecurbain.qc.ca/2014/0...ria-annees-60/

[MolsonExport]

This thread is epic. Just epic. By far, the best of the Canada forum. Wonderful photos and a refreshing absence of the bickering and nauseating homerism repleting other threads.

[MolsonExport]

Montreal, 1966. Autoroute Bonaventure and Auto Stade

archivesdemontreal.ica

Canada's craziest spaghetti junction under construction (Turcot interchange, Montreal c.1966)

archivesdemontreal.ica

[Boris2k7]

Calgary between 1960 and 1963
From the CPL collections

Between 1915 and 1945, Calgary's population had only grown from 70,000 to 97,000. By 1955 it was at 180,000. By 1965 it was 311,000 (though some of this was not growth from migrants or births but from annexations of surrounding municipalities).


http://cdm16114.contentdm.oclc.org/c...d/1740/rec/268


http://cdm16114.contentdm.oclc.org/c...d/1932/rec/315


http://cdm16114.contentdm.oclc.org/c...d/1694/rec/316


http://cdm16114.contentdm.oclc.org/c...d/1785/rec/317


http://cdm16114.contentdm.oclc.org/c...d/1707/rec/282

[craner]

^Those are great - thanks Boris.
Virtually unrecognizable from today, thankfully there are still a few landmarks from then around today so I could place the photos.