CanadianNational
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Regent Park and Portlands, looking South-South East from 40 Homewood Ave.
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Evocative Images of Lost Toronto
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Goldie
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Tallest buildings in The British Empire until 1962.
The Royal York Hotel (built 1929) and The Bank of Commerce (built 1930).
The Royal York Hotel (built 1929) and The Bank of Commerce (built 1930).
lenaitch
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Which is quite amazing when you think about it, and how long some of the other 'Empire' cities had been around.
Richard White
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Just walking past Queen and Portland when I noticed this sign in the pavement. I presume it marks a former street.
Any idea where or what Lot Street is?
Any idea where or what Lot Street is?
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Lot Street is old name of Queen Street. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Street_(Toronto) The Lots were run north/south from Lot Street!
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The fun Lots were more in the St Lawrence area where there were lots of taverns etc :->
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Anyone interested in the history of Toronto and, in particular, Lot Street (Queen Street) discussed above might enjoy http://parklotproject.com/
Koolgreen
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I drove by there a thousand times coming home from Chinatown....Never registered as it disappeared after the turn of the century....
what year was it torn down?
what year was it torn down?
Goldie
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Dufferin St. stoplight at De Havilland (Downsview) Airport runway c.1940
The aircraft appears to be a De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber
The aircraft appears to be a De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber
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Tim MacDonald
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Oh wow! That looks like a bad day coming soon. Would love to know more context regarding that movement.
SubHuman
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I would assume one of the airport runways in use at that time (but long since closed) had an intersection with the road, and the red light would stop the cars when a plane was landing or departing on that runway. ( I would guess probably 09/27 ? )
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/98727416803290606/
Downsview Airport - Wikipedia
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2013/08/05/history-dufferin-street/
http://www.michaeld.ca/downsview/deHavilland_and_CFB_Downsview.html
This abandoned section of runway has been cut off from a Toronto airport since the 1980s
Toronto's post-WWII-era defence needs and the coinciding rise of boomer car culture have created an awkward anomaly just east of Downsview Park. Open…
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Downsview Military Base
The start of World War II was the beginning of the military’s interest in the lands of Downsview. In 1937, the Royal Canadian Air Forces expropriated portions of the site to enlarge the airstrip and established the RCAF Station Downsview. At the end of the Second World War (1946/47), the RCAF...
www.id8downsview.ca
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Tim MacDonald
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Fantastic @SubHuman ! It reminds of Gibraltar airport where the road crosses the active but they have a little more than a traffic signal to stop traffic. I've probably been to YZD maybe three times - once 40 years ago for a class trip to see the de Havilland factory when Twin Otters, Buffalo, and Dash 7s rolled off the assembly line, once when the Pope came here in 1984 and once about 15 odd years ago for a Wings and Wheels show where they had a full size mockup of the Avro Arrow.
lenaitch
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Now at the Edenvale airport on Hwy 26 between Barrie and Stayner.
adma
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I might be mistaken, but I think I read somewhere that this photo is not of Downsview, but of Barker Field (further S off Dufferin, N of Lawrence)