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Is it strange that two semis would share one attic vent? I wonder if that house was originally a single house that got an extension on one side so it could be made into two semis.

Re the Star story about the house that was cut in half... the house at the southeast corner of Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Moore Ave was cut in half in 1949 to widen Mt Pleasant. The 2010-ish Google streetview pic was taken when the half-house was getting a "stucco" finish over the brick. The...

I think the play bills, and ad in the Star, confirm the date as 1906 (even down to the time of year... apparently a cold spring). I looked up the address in city directories. The same doctor was at 2 Bloor E in 1899, 1905 and 1906 (a dentist as well in 1905, and a dressmaker instead of the...

Wow – that's impressive sleuthing! In 1906 those children would have been 12 and 10 so now I wonder who those people are and why the photo is in my great-grandparents' album.

Bloor and Yonge a few years earlier... looking northeast across the intersection around 1898 (based on the ages of the children with my great-grandmother). They lived on Rosehill Ave in Deer Park.

Three years late with a response but I only just discovered this thread... What a great photo: Women's Bakery and Loblaws as it used to be. Blade roasts for 49¢ a pound!

How wonderful to see the entry at "Kodak Heights" where my grandfather worked during the '20s, '30s and '40s. It's hard to believe now that Kodak dominated the field for most of the 20th century. Shocking, sickening vandalism.

The sorriest cemetery in the GTA has to be the Richview Memorial Cemetery that's stuck in the middle of the spaghetti tangle where Hwy 427 smacks into Hwy 401 and Eglinton Ave. Another pioneer cemetery, it's apparently all that's left of the village of Richview.

Or west? In the Boulton Atlas detail above there seems to be a bay on the west side.

What a beautiful Victorian drawing room, not dark and stuffy as so many were.

Ha! According to Stephen Otto's history of the neighbourhood cited above by k10ery, Widder bought his house Lyndhurst from Robert Jameson, who had built it for his wife Anna, who wrote that fascinating book Winter Studies and Summer Rambles. The house might have been buried somewhere in the...

I agree that it's frustrating to use. When I click on a rectangle, a folder is downloaded with three unreadable files (Unix Executable File??) and a jpg. It's pretty well guesswork figuring out the rectangle that has the info I want; it helps to compare the aerials to Google maps (satellite...

Wow, from country to densely populated, with six lanes on Don Mills Rd... in 15 years.

Yes, I just realized that Eglinton didn't go through. "Until the mid-1950s, Eglinton did not cross either of the valleys of the Don River. The road ended at Laird or Brentcliffe and resumed west of Victoria Park Avenue (then known as Dawes Road)." Here's one of those fabulous aerials (I'll be...

Ha, of course – Flemingdon Park! I was basing my info on Sauriol's book. He wrote that Fleming took over Donlands Farm in 1922... maybe it extended south of Eglinton. I only remember the barns and house north of Eglinton...

I think Donlands airfield was simply the fields of Donlands farm, which was east of Don Mills Rd and north of Eglinton (across from the eventual IBM site) and, as you say, south of the RR crossing. According to Sauriol in Remembering the Don, Donlands was owned by the Taylors (the same Taylor...

Goldie, was it serendipity that you posted those two aerial images together? When I was looking for photos of Donlands Farm, I found out that there was an aviation meet there in 1911. The farm was also known as R.J. Fleming's farm. This image looking south on Don Mills Rd is "sometime after...

The TPL site has a couple of good photos of the bridge, hard right and hill (1954 and 1958)

It's hard to believe that even in the ‘50s the stretch of Don Mills Road at the top of that hill and north was still country. I remember a large dairy farm on the east side at Eglinton, smaller farms on the west side where the Science Centre is now. My father would drive down Don Mills Rd. on...

When I was in grades 7 and 8 (late '50s) our class was bussed down to York Mills PS for cooking (tomato soup and butterscotch tea biscuits were highlights) and sewing classes (apron, embroidered guest towel, and a sleeveless shirt with collar that I hated). I suppose the boys did "shop." We were...