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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

Toronto Globe Building (1895-1938) - Yonge St. s.w. corner Melinda St. - 1935
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Yonge at Melinda S:W.jpg

Google street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.648...aDX985W3RF3k9onjwNR2g!2e0!3e11!7i13312!8i6656
 

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Western Congregational Church - Spadina Ave. - east side between D'Arcy & Baldwin Sts.
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From c.1922 to c.1961, used as Hebrew Men of England Synagogue.
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Guess they made the Walmsley Brook into a sewer.
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From link.

Walmsley Brook (named for John Walmsley, a settler in the Leaside area) started as two small streams near Duplex Avenue and Alexandra Boulevard, which joined west of Yonge Street and flowed SW to Mount Pleasant Road and Broadway Ave. From there it flowed in a generally easterly direction past the corner Bayview Avenue and Eglinton Avenue to meet the West Don River in Ernest Thompson Seton Park, just north of Overlea Boulevard. It was approximately six kilometres long and had one and a half kilometres in two tributaries. Walmsley Brook is divided into three reaches in this account: Broadway Reach, from its source to Bayview Avenue; Leaside Reach, to the CPR Railway; and Power Lines Reach, from the CPR to where it joins the West Don River. Elvina Stream, a small tributary, which joins the Broadway Reach just east of Mount Pleasant Road, and Northlea Stream, joining Leaside Reach, are briefly described.
 

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Grand Opera House, Adelaide St. W. .......1928 ..LAC

The Grand Opera House was supposedly demolished in 1927, so that photo may be earlier than 1928. Interesting photo from the post-Ambrose Small disappearance, when many Torontonians of the day would have viewed this theatre as having a bad reputation.
 
Bay St. at Lakeshore Blvd. ...1928
from Toronto Harbour Commission Administration Building. 1928.jpg


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Image from 2013
 

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Bay St. at Lakeshore Blvd. ...1928
Interesting that Yonge seems to have ended at Front or The Esplanade. (The area at the Toronto Wholesale Fruit Market : formerly the Great Western Railway Co. of Canada terminal, is shown here, it can be seen in Goldie's photo and was at north-east corner of Yonge and The Esplanade, where the L-Tower now is.

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Interesting that Yonge seems to have ended at Front or The Esplanade. (The area at the Toronto Wholesale Fruit Market : formerly the Great Western Railway Co. of Canada terminal, is shown here, it can be seen in Goldie's photo and was at north-east corner of Yonge and The Esplanade, where the L-Tower now is.

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Yes DSC........ Yonge St. ended just S. of the Esplanade and RR tracks.
The waterfront and wharfs were at the end of Yonge as can be seen in this 1903 image (looking S. on Yonge from Front).
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Toronto Postal Delivery Building (built 1941) ……photo 1944
Toronto Postal Delivery Building 1944.jpg


Postal building and Royal York barely visible in this 2013 photo.
With a new addition (1999), the Postal Bldg. became Air Canada Centre and will soon be named (July 1, 2018), Scotiabank Arena.
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The Grand Opera House was supposedly demolished in 1927, so that photo may be earlier than 1928. Interesting photo from the post-Ambrose Small disappearance, when many Torontonians of the day would have viewed this theatre as having a bad reputation.

And to those confused by the modern photos, the Wood Gundy façade was moved from King to Adelaide on behalf of Scotia Plaza in the 80s.
 

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