Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Toronto's oldest Free Mason lodge........1901 TPL

 

[Geogblog]

In those days the city's masonic lodges tended to specialise in who they attracted. St Andrew's Lodge tended to attract teachers and Methodist clergy. Ionic Lodge attracted lawyers and doctors, Mount Sinai Lodge attracted Jewish men, Zetland attracted businessmen, Georgina Lodge attracted commercial travelers, Rehoboam attracted city officials and Alpha Lodge attracted the police.

 

[Richard White]

Alpha Lodge attracted the police.

Virgin sacrifices I presume?

 

[donoreo]

Looking north east from York St. and Queen's Quay W. 1929 TPL
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I know that is all infill and in this photo, and others of the time, makes it look like a wasteland.

 

[Goldie]

From The Saturday Globe of 1894.......Toronto Public Library Archives
Article access here: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-GLOBE1894JAN13-10&R=DC-GLOBE1894JAN13-10

 

[lenaitch]

"The Switzerland of Canada"!

 

[Goldie]

Leaside 1950 TPL

 

[jaborandi]

Oh my!

 

[Goldie]

Certainly more "GREEN" today, isn't it?

 

[Geogblog]

Leaside 1950 TPL

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Is that Margaret Atwood I see down there?

 

[Goldie]

University of Toronto neighbourhood 1947

 

[Goldie]

Toronto 1920......Yonge St. at the right

 

[Goldie]

University Avenue 1957............site for New City Hall at bottom-right

 

[Goldie]

Steel helmets manufactured at General Steel Wares during WWII

And appropriately,.........this image from 74 years ago, today.........May 8, 1945

 

[W. K. Lis]

Guess we should add "York Memorial Collegiate Institute" to this thread.

From link.

From link.