Canadian skylines of the past - Page 171

Rico Rommheim · #**3401** Posted **Jun 12, 2021, 12:46 AM**

Really great Toronto set wow.

Rico Rommheim · #**3402** Posted **Jun 13, 2021, 9:19 AM**

Montréal 1966

Vie quotidienne dans le quartier chinois de Montréal, 1966 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Vie quotidienne dans le quartier chinois de Montréal, 1966 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

1965

La cité du Havre et le port de Montréal, 1965, VM94AD69-024 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

L'autoroute métropolitaine, 1965, VM94AD69-001 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Le centre-ville de Montréal, 1965, VM94AD69-002 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Le réservoir McTavish et le centre-ville, 1965, VM94AD69-003 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Longue-Pointe, 1964, VM94AD69-004 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

L'autoroute métropolitaine, 1965, VM94AD69-006 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Le port de Montréal et le centre-ville, 1965, VM94AD69-011 by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

MolsonExport · #**3403** Posted **Jun 13, 2021, 3:04 PM**

Cherry St wasn't exactly a bowl of cherries back then

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DLLB · #**3404** Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 12:56 AM**

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Cherry St wasn't exactly a bowl of cherries back then

WOW, how things have changed!

J.OT13 · #**3405** Posted **Jun 15, 2021, 2:31 PM**

Rideau Street looking down Dalhousie 1938 vs 2014.

https://twitter.com/CapHistOttawa/st...69757706158088

http://www.pastottawa.com/comparison...au-street/438/

Old Union Station, now the Senate of Canada Building, u/c 1912 (though I'd say 1911 since it opened in 1912).

https://twitter.com/CapHistOttawa/st...68744809402370

someone123 · #**3406** Posted **Jun 22, 2021, 5:13 PM**

Not sure exactly where to put this (and it's probably been posted before) but the talk of the evolution of Canadian cities reminded me of this video of downtown Halifax in 1989:

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MonkeyRonin · #**3407** Posted **Jun 22, 2021, 6:15 PM**

Queen & Spadina, 1945:

https://refairesavie.museeholocauste...onto-1945-1955

Queen & Bay during a royal visit, 1959:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/secretlifeo...hate-1.4933223

1950s skyline:

https://www.alamy.com/view-of-toront...184467590.html

J.OT13 · #**3408** Posted **Jun 29, 2021, 1:34 PM**

The new Rideau Centre complex, 1983.

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Paul Howard
@PaulHoward_IMIT
Aerial view of the Rideau Centre, Westin Hotel and old #Ottawa Congress Centre 1983.
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Also was the death knell to Sparks Street shopping 🛍.

https://twitter.com/PaulHoward_IMIT/...87027939713033

View of the complex from a different angle in 2019. The Congress Centre was replaced with the larger, tulip shaped convention centre. The Westin added a glass event space on the 22nd floor. The Rideau Centre has underwent a major renovation inside and out, along with a major expansion (taking the space of the former Ogilvy Department Store seen in the middle of the 83' pic but not the 2019 pic). The Rideau O-Train Station is connected to the entire complex.

https://twitter.com/TheWestinOttawa/...50132973477890

SignalHillHiker · #**3409** Posted **Jun 30, 2021, 1:01 PM**

A scene in the Central Slum in the 1950s. The photographer is standing in an area already cleared looking toward a few remaining scraps where people were still waiting for their new accommodations (council housing) elsewhere.

Memorial University has been occupied several times, but never knew the high schools got in on the action as well.

Protestants protesting with Catholics back then warms my heart. That's when my mother was in school and my main... indication... of how it was back then was just a few years ago I was driving my mother downtown, took a turn off Freshwater Road on to Adam's Avenue and my mother grabbed the handle above the door like I was about to crash. I asked, in politer words, WTF, and she said, "Sorry... it's just when I was your age, a Catholic girl from Quidi Vidi didn't set foot in Pennywell." Like there was a literal moment of instinctive fear from her before she remembered it wasn't the 60s anymore. So knowing lots of little stories like that, a Gonzaga student leading students from PWC, who were WILLING TO JOIN, is really heartwarming.

Well done, past kids lol

Rico Rommheim · #**3410** Posted **Jul 2, 2021, 4:39 PM**

Some screen grabs I took from a great clip on youtube, worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh5C-F5hSXQ

Windsor station, Montreal

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Quebec City

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Ottawa

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Toronto

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Kenora

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Winnipeg

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Saskatoon

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Calgary

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Edmonton

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Banff

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Vancouver

Canada_1925_screengrabs by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

MolsonExport · #**3411** Posted **Jul 2, 2021, 5:25 PM**

thanks for sharing your treasure chest

MolsonExport · #**3412** Posted **Jul 3, 2021, 7:03 PM**

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Tone · #**3413** Posted **Jul 4, 2021, 5:50 PM**

(Not a real skyline)

February 2008

July 2021

MolsonExport · #**3414** Posted **Jul 4, 2021, 9:49 PM**

It is an interesting skyline for a smallish city with some great natural assets

Coldrsx · #**3415** Posted **Jul 6, 2021, 3:08 PM**

From my flagging station at the 2008 Indy.

SignalHillHiker · #**3416** Posted **Jul 20, 2021, 6:38 PM**

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This one freaks me out a bit. The opening vignette is EXACTLY the Newfoundland Folk Dancing style I was in as a child. And the first film they profile (Morning), is EXACTLY me. That's when all my pics are from, and for exactly that reason lol

Monolith · #**3417** Posted **Jul 23, 2021, 4:26 AM**

Vancouver - 1984

Downtown Vancouver from Queen Elizabeth Park by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Downtown Vancouver Skyline from Queen Elizabeth Park -- August 1984 by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Looking northeast from Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, BC -- August 1984 by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Downtown Vancouver Skyline from Lost Lagoon, Stanley Park -- August 1984 by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia -- August 1984 by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Looking down Melville Street from Pender Street, Vancouver, BC -- August 1984 by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Looking along Thurlow Street at Robson, Vancouver, BC by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC -- August 1984 by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Vancouver skyline looking across English Bay from Jericho Beach by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Downtown & West End Skyline from Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC -- August 1984 by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Vancouver skyline from Stanley Park by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

Vancouver, BC -- August 1984 by Todd Jacobson, on Flickr

MolsonExport · #**3418** Posted **Jul 23, 2021, 2:31 PM**

The Vancouver I used to know. With all those seedy hotels that rented rooms by the month/week/day/hour.

CivicBlues · #**3419** Posted **Jul 23, 2021, 10:52 PM**

Granville Street Bridge without a centre divider

Melville and Pender looks unrecognizable save for that one pre-war Apartment building.

Everything else, despite the massive numbers of condos today, looks familiar. Basically all the office buildings are the same today with some subtle logo changes.

esquire · #**3420** Posted **Jul 27, 2021, 9:36 PM**

Vancouver in those days looked more like a standard-issue Western Canadian city not all that different from Edmonton or Winnipeg in terms of built form. That's as compared to now when it is basically doing its own thing as far as Canadian cities go.