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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

Evelyn Crescent at Fairview Ave. 1900

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Evelyn Crescent 1954

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Evelyn Crescent 2014 - Western technical-Commerce

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So there's tracks coming down Fairview presumably from Annette, but it also looks like tracks or the remnants of them running east on Evelyn, perhaps the school had service from Runneymede at one point?

That addition on the school doesn't look great but I was by there last week and the original building is still very nice.
 
Toronto Lad said:
So there's tracks coming down Fairview presumably from Annette, but it also looks like tracks or the remnants of them running east on Evelyn, perhaps the school had service from Runnymede at one point?
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It's certainly intriguing. I haven't found anything on maps yet, but there's this in the Toronto Archives:

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Looking north on Fairview from Evelyn

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More of the Crescent Line (never heard of this until now):

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ETA: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transit-toronto/conversations/topics/23053

James Salmon's "Rails from the Junction" says that the TSR Crescent route
was discontinued on November 28, 1922, after the TTC's new Humberside bus
route, with its free transfer to the Dundas car, had drawn away most of the
Crescent line's customers. The track was lifted in 1923.

The Crescent line operated from Keele and Dundas via west on Dundas Street,
south on Gilmour Avenue, east on what is now called St Johns Road, and south
on Fairview Avenue to Evelyn Crescent.
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The number of streetcar lines within the city never ceases to amaze me, they were everywhere, just when you thought you knew them all a new one pops up.
 
Also the trees behind the streetcar in Mustapha's 1900 pic are still there in the 1954 pic and if I'm not mistaken 3 of them are still there in the google view of today.
 
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FAW said:
For a detailed map of Toronto's current and historical street and inter-urban railways visit my website www.cermc.webs.com to download your free digital copy that runs on Google Earth.
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I already had that downloaded and I've really enjoyed it, I should have checked it as it answers all the questions but for the wye down at the south end, I read somewhere that it was at Woodside but clearly there is track south of that in those pictures.
 
Toronto Lad said:
I already had that downloaded and I've really enjoyed it, I should have checked it as it answers all the questions but for the wye down at the south end, I read somewhere that it was at Woodside but clearly there is track south of that in those pictures.
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Can you share any evidence you have of this wye? I am not aware of one on the Crescent line.
 
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Goldie said:
Evelyn Crescent at Fairview Ave. 1900

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Evelyn Crescent 1954

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Evelyn Crescent 2014 - Western technical-Commerce

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This had to happen sooner or later :) , I had this location as a Then and Now in the rotation to come up but Goldie beat me to it. Here is my Now. Not sure of the 'value add' to the knowledge here, but here is the Now pic I took this past July:

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