Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[wwwebster]

Looks like they purchased the Methodist church at the northeast corner of University & Elm:

http://data2.archives.ca/e/e431/e010759247-v8.jpg

 

[Goldie]

Looks like they purchased the Methodist church at the northeast corner of University & Elm:

http://data2.archives.ca/e/e431/e010759247-v8.jpg

Double thanks (again) for that useful map, wwwebster.
University Avenue has certainly seen a major alteration over the years.

 

[thecharioteer]

Colonial Tavern 201 Yonge:

Topping off of TD Centre:

 

[Goldie]

Plenty of "ancient" streetcars in the Coxwell yards of the Toronto Railway Company - 1927

 

[thecharioteer]

Back to Avenue Road and St. Clair.

Looking north:

Looking east:

NE corner (note the little shelter on the NW corner):

Looking west:

NW corner:

NE corner (the park emerges):

NW corner:

1964:

 

[adma]

Funny how that same fundamental park bench design has served for at least 80 years...

 

[DTowner]

Back to Avenue Road and St. Clair.

Wot! Is this still around?

 

[unimaginative2]

Funny how that same fundamental park bench design has served for at least 80 years...

You're right. It seems quite strikingly modern for that period.

 

[adma]

Wot! Is this still around?

http://torontoist.com/2008/06/historicist_to_the_spirit_of_childr.php

 

[thecharioteer]

Six pictures, all taken on the same day June 8, 1914 at King & Yonge. People coming and going. An ordinary day........

 

[thecharioteer]

Six pictures, all taken on the same day June 8, 1914 at King & Yonge. People coming and going. An ordinary day........

And the photographer returns three days later:

 

[junctionist]

Those are interesting photos because Yonge Street, from The Esplanade to King Street, was entirely paved with stone blocks in the early twentieth century, which are visible in those photos. Asphalt is being poured onto the "cobblestone" surface, presumably to accommodate modernity: the car.

 

[Edward]

Cool shots.

 

[thecharioteer]

The first Victoria Day 1854:

In mourning 1901:

The Queen's Park stature May 27, 1903:

 

[Goldie]

A Garden Party at the Stanley Barracks in 1904 - the photo's a little fuzzy, but the affair appears to have been magnificent!