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March 4 addition. Then. February 22, 1937. Danforth looking E. Main street is a few dozen yards behind the photographer. Note the Duckworth's Fish and Chips. Now: December 2009. Note the Duckworth's Fish and Chips. The difference between this pair and the...

A tree grows at Brookdale! Despite the slush the corner looks better today than on that hot summer day in 1960-whatever. Trust companies make tidier corners than service stations. The whole scene has lost its suburban look.

I just found James Way and family in the 1861 census of Toronto. He was a storekeeper aged 29 with a wife Margaret of 24. At that stage they had two children: William John, 5, and Harriet M, 3. They were located on the north side of Queen West (St Patrick's Ward, District 2)--the census...

I am amazed you had to come all the way across on Wilson to Yonge Street to get downtown. Wasn't there public transport in from Weston? I grew up four blocks south and two blocks west of the Hoggs Hollow loop. During the war Loblaws was across the street from where it is now and it was our...

Was that pop bottle showing in any of those photos of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Spadina & Bloor) a few weeks ago? I wonder if the whole collection was taken about 1961-62 when the Bloor subway was still at the blueprint stage? (I was working at an office on that corner way back then.)

Merry Christmas everyone! :)

I think the Clifton Road extension was up and running before Jarvis was made five lanes. The extension opened 1950 or 1951. Persuading people to change lanes on Jarvis happened a few years later.

Thanks, Anna, for the pic of the 1944 snow. I didn't realize quite how close the anniversary was. Now, who can find the photo of the streetcar lying on its side? This was the memorable pic from that day.

Some poor city worker with a camera was doing overtime on the 24 Dec 1929.:) The snow scenes are the best. Not that many big cities can have to cope with snow and traffic problems on an annual basis. But I haven't seen any pictures of the Big Snow of 1944. For those of you who can't remember...

I was wondering why the Bay Street car was travelling along Bloor Street. That was a bad day in the labelling department. Or maybe 6775 wasn't supposed to be the street number.

The taste of the CNE. From earlier yesterday. Sam McBride. I always wondered who it was they named the Island ferry after.

It was real all right. Bus and street car tickets were still in use and you couldn't use tokens on the buses because the drivers would accuse you of just dropping in a dime or an out-of-date token from before the last price hike. In other words tokens were often useless for the return journey if...

The first time I saw the street sign Lower Jarvis Street (on a trip home a few years ago) I immediately asked myself why they hadn't named it Nelson Street. I guess location was more important than history.

Thank goodness they never filled in the lagoons at Centre Island for safety's sake. Ex-Islander as well as NomoreaTorontonian.

I had a look at Mitchell's City Directory of 1863-64 to see who lived at 311 Jarvis then, only to discover there was a series of house numbers missing around Carlton. I assume it hadn't been built yet. Should have known from the architecture.

I was making a sketch map of St David's Ward from a similar map to the one Goldie shows us just a few weeks ago and also noticed Danforth Road in what I thought was a peculiar place. There were other roads with names that surprised me up at the northern end of the ward and I wondered if the...

Could someone please bring me up to date? When did the Toronto Stock Exchange get wrapped 'round by Ernst & Young? And where does the TSE hang out these days? My first summer job was in the Statistical Dept of the Stock Exchange back in 1955. Down in the basement where there was air con but...

Eglinton East or West, or both? Did Edo replace the Noshery or not?

With a bit further investigation I think I have now found the original family who anonymously found their way on to the plaque on the house at King and Berkeley. In Caverhill's Directory (1859-60) John Henry lives at 53 Berkeley Street and he is a porter. The census says Henry is 41--the...

Mitchell's Directory of 1864 has a tavern run by Hugh Taylor on that corner.