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Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

Sold for $137,000 ---Danforth-Main St. area  1987  TPL.jpg
 
Third Willowdale School with teacher and pupils 1887 TPL
Third Willowdale School with teacher and pupils 1887  TPL.jpg


School, built in 1875. List of names taken from original photo in possession of Miss Lina Gibson in 1961.

Back row: Mr. Ball, teacher. Middle row: Mary MaKenzie, Nellie McBride, Ethel Lackie, Mabel Irwin, Mabel Gibson, Kate Schribener, Eva Gibson, Hannah Scribener, Jennie Lackie, Amy Gibson, Maggie Johnson, Minnie Crann, Ethel Lackie, Amy Carruthers, Lina Gibson, Ida Armour, Netta Armour, Mabel McBride, Georgina Cooper, Evelyn Murphy, Ida Thompson. Front row: Unkown, Unknown, Albert Crann, Henry Kindrew, John, Percy Lackie, John Boucock, Bert Gibson, John Johnson, Unknown, Ewart Ball, Everett Dunn.
 
Kensington Market, Kensington Ave. 1924 TPL
Kensington Market, Kensington Ave. 1924  TPL.jpg

Old World scene on Kensington Avenue, in the heart of Toronto's Jewish section, where every Thursday a market is held, with every variety of fruit and vegetable dear to the hearts of its patrons on sale from shop and wagon. Image of discriminating purchasers making their selection from a cartful of oranges
 
Kensington Market, Kensington Ave. 1924 TPL
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Old World scene on Kensington Avenue, in the heart of Toronto's Jewish section, where every Thursday a market is held, with every variety of fruit and vegetable dear to the hearts of its patrons on sale from shop and wagon. Image of discriminating purchasers making their selection from a cartful of oranges

Kensington Market would be illegal with the current zoning by-laws in both the 416 and 905. Cannot be walkable, must be drive-able. Allowed because of "grandfathering", but still there are city (and provincial) regulations that made Kensington Market not as it used to be.
 

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