Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Ice boating on Toronto Harbour - c.1872 - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library-UofT

 

[The Rover]

South African War - Canadian troops on Bay St. at Richmond 1900 TPL

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South African War - Canadian troops on Yonge St. - looking n. from s. of Charles St. 1900 TPL

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What was that building next to J. Dixon’s Carriage Works? Looks interesting. Does anyone know if any photos of it exist from a better angle?

 

[Goldie]

Toronto Island, Regatta at the Long Pond c.1900 TPL

Chippewa (1893-1939) approaching Toronto through Eastern Gap, viewed from Ward's Island beach, 1918 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Found during a home renovation (dated 1936)

 

[Goldie]

Abramo Puccini (1873-1952) came from Italy in 1890s and ran a Toronto bakery ......photo-1908 TPL

 

[Goldie]

I'll always have fond memories of the many trips my family made in the summertime across Lake Ontario on this ship (the Cayuga).
To a child, it was like an ocean voyage to travel from Toronto to Niagara-on-the-Lake aboard such a large, crowded vessel.
We travelled by bus from NOTL to Niagara Falls to see the famous attractions.......and the late night return trip was an additional and exciting experience.

Photo 1955 Toronto Public Library

 

[Goldie]

Scarboro Bluffs subdivision 1912 TPL

 

[adma]

Pretty precocious for windy-street "garden subdivision" (and I presume bluffs erosion curtailed some of the plans)

 

[Goldie]

Foot of Bay St. c.1925? CTA

 

[Goldie]

"Raffles" the escape artist at Victory Bond rally City Hall 1915

 

[W. K. Lis]

Not sorry to "lose" this. Now part of "lost" Toronto.
From 1999.

From link.

 

[LPCI]

Not sorry to "lose" this. Now part of "lost" Toronto.
From 1999.

From link.

Ok, beats me. Who is this. What’s the story?

 

[W. K. Lis]

Ok, beats me. Who is this. What’s the story?

Back in 1999. From link, Giorgio Mammoliti’s most memorable gaffes

He goes shirtless at city hall
In 1999, to protest against the nude beach at Hanlan’s Point, Mammoliti stripped to his pants and a gold chain in council chambers, which only sort of illustrated his argument that “today, it’s a secluded beach, tomorrow it will be the beachfront and then it will be the streets.”

 

[pman]

See how quickly it happens? For years we dissed him and wished him gone. But now that the loveable scamp has gone, we sorta miss him.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Mayor John Shaw, and ex-mayors, aldermen and ex-aldermen, at opening of City Hall

On September 18, 1899.

Don't think the little kid is one of them.

From link.