Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[adma]

The bridge is definitely still there, it was just backfilled, like Crawford. Now, what condition either is really in, if you removed the soil is a bit of a question mark. Both would doubtless require restoration.

As per the plaque above, the Crawford bridge already underwent a deck-and-sidewalks "renewal" in 2004, so I presume that what lay underneath was deemed safe and sound enough--albeit along the lines of wooden rail trestles that still exist under subsequent fill.

The interesting thing is that because of that conspicuous railing, the Harbord bridge had a more "palpable" presence post-burial than the Crawford bridge, which (pre-2004) one wouldn't have sensed was there beneath the fill because all surface evidence was obliterated...

 

[LPCI]

Evocative….the old horse trough Toronto. Today, and functional every summer in Parry Sound.

 

[LPCI]

 

[W. K. Lis]

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Liquid fuel for horses and people replaced with liguid fuel for motor vehicles.

 

[Towered]

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They dumped it in Parry Sound??

 

[lenaitch]

They dumped it in Parry Sound??

I can't find anything that says the one in Parry Sound is the one in the photo or even came from Toronto. They were pretty common back in the day.

I couldn't find anything online that had the provenance of the one in Parry Sound.

 

[LPCI]

I can't find anything that says the one in Parry Sound is the one in the photo or even came from Toronto. They were pretty common back in the day.

I couldn't find anything online that had the provenance of the one in Parry Sound.

That’s why I called it “evocative”. What I liked is that it still works. I have no idea of the provenance of the one in Parry Sound.

 

[thecharioteer]

Photos taken at the CIBC branch at197 Yonge (now Massey Tower) in 1964 following a bank robbery. In the Toronto Telegram Archives

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[LPCI]

That’s why I called it “evocative”. What I liked is that it still works. I have no idea of the provenance of the one in Parry Sound.

I did a little bit of research. The Chamber of Commerce, Parry Sound pointed me to a website that had a photo of that location where the horse trough is, and it wasn’t there in 1869. The Parry Sound Museum told me it was manufactured by the Canada Foundry company Limited. Further digging led to another website showing the Canada Foundry was in existence under that name from 1900 to 1923 in Toronto when it was bought by Canadian General Electric. There is a horse trough currently in St. James Cathedral Park, Toronto.

 

[DSC]

View 1914:

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Here is another view of the Rogers' Yards.