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Whe does the city parks department have to plant trees in straight lines? Might help maintenance, but helter skelter is so much more....natural. Might take less trees, too.

Awww! the Coors poster matches BMV Books! As for the awnings, a snowstorm like that would end them in a snap. (Pun intended).

BLOORE (yuck!) is some 21st century attachment to the name of John Bloor, an early brewer living out his final years in Yorkville in 1861. ST CLAIRE sounds like someone was trying to give St Clair a feminine touch. Maybe there really was a St Claire, don't know. I lived on St Germain which...

Are we looking north or south? Is that Duplex Avenue or another ravine crossing east of Yonge? There wasn't a bridge or anything more substantial crossing the ravine at Duplex circa 1950. Current Toronto dwellers ought to be very proud of their snow clearance abilities. You should have seen it...

What direction are we looking toward in the Drumhead photo, Goldie? Riverdale Park was the place for showing royal visitors off to the school children of Toronto. There is bound to be a picture in the archives close to the 1939 one of the King & Queen at City Hall--as well as the one I was at in...

The first "esplanade" was Front Street. Brown's Street Directory of 1861-2 only mentions an esplanade once as if it was a spur of Front Street. This was somewhere around Simcoe. By 1864, in Mitchell's Directory, all the wharves from Gooderhams to the Queen's Wharf (for the Garrison) were on The...

Actually, there was a bit of life up north of the university in 1861 (census year). Knox and St Michael's Colleges, and St Joseph's Convent. There were houses and shops along Yonge Street. Some people had comfortable homes on the streets between Yonge and the colleges. Above Bloor, stretching...

In 1860 that was the insane asylum. The one on Queen Street was also in existence, with ever so many more patients. I tend to call this the "annexe" but it was not a word of the time. That must be dirty old snow in the front of the picture. Now there's something that hasn't changed it's looks...

The original observatory was up and running in 1861 with a staff of three or four when University College opened.

Looks like the last time they repaved the intersection was in 1963!

Forgotten that. LOL

And my husband (an Englishman) insists that ST CLAIR is SINCLAIR--to which I answer that we didn't name major streets after news readers!

One day, probably early in 1945, my mother took me on a long streetcar ride from North Toronto to a factory shop where we bought peanut butter. It must have been a rationed foodstuff. I remember it coming out of a tube and into a jar--and not the largest of jars either. Until I saw the Planters...

In the 1861 census the commonest occupation was "laborer"--I haven't seen any enumerator from then spell it any other way. You've noticed "harbor" in 1919. I wonder when Canadians put the "u" back? Certainly way before the spellers we had in school just after WW2.

The Harbour Commissioners Building should be behind the photographer and to the left in the old pic. It brings back memories of cold days in early May with the wind blowing off the lake waiting for the Bay Street car to make the circle and come back to pick us up from in front of the docks...

British cars were great until you tried to get to the cottage in one--or even tried to get the family groceries back from the supermarket!

The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has opened a new website today with a collection of the names to be found on commemorative plaques in schools throughout Greater Toronto. http://torontofamilyhistory.org/kingandcountry

Yes, that is Dad on the right, or the foremost bugler in the photo. He was in the 48th Highlanders. I don't know where the picture was taken, but I thought in front of City Hall (the old one, of course!) or in front of the Armories. It could be Queen's Park, now that you mention it. Any...

Originally Posted by DSC OXO always reminds me of the Oxo Building/Tower on the south bank of the Thames in London, near the Tate Modern. When it was built the City prohibited any advertisements on buildings in that location so the architect designed the tower with windows that are shaped...