Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Bogtrotter]

48th Highlanders, 12th Infantry, & 10th Royal leave Toronto for camp
Library of Congress - Bain (News Service) Collection c.1914

Example of a cut-and-paste (faked) news photo from 1914

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Toronto Star archives? A lot of their older images are edited, some quite dramatically altered.

 

[Goldie]

Simpson's Department Store, Mail Order Dept., 1961

 

[r937]

seven years after that photo, goldie, i was hired as a Simpsons delivery driver

 

[Goldie]

seven years after that photo, goldie, i was hired as a Simpsons delivery driver

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Where are such drivers today?---------Working for Amazon?

 

[Goldie]

I have a great fondness for huge-group-panorama-photos such as these.
It's one aspect of photography that we rarely see today.

Med students - 1939-40

Soldiers 1939 - featuring one who disobeyed orders? (crossed legs).

 

[gimbal]

1935 Dominion Conference of Mayors in Montréal

I suspect the photographer was from Ontario. Camillien Houde (Mayor of Montréal) appears to be having a nap.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

Cool, in more ways than one; fur-felt hats; overcoats; SPATS!

Regards,
J T

 

[Goldie]

R.S.McLaughlin, founder of the automotive empire in Oshawa - at CNE 1959

 

[Goldie]

To commemorate the last days of summer, here's Sunnyside in 1923

 

[Goldie]

We're nearing the end of CNE 2017.
Here's CNE 1917

And Electrical Building 1931

 

[Goldie]

Toronto freight terminal 1926
Foreground is the approximate location of today's CBC Broadcasting Centre.

 

[DSC]

Toronto freight terminal 1926
Foreground is the approximate location of today's CBC Broadcasting Centre.

Great picture! A view that I had never seen before!

 

[Goldie]

Movies introduced to Toronto at Toronto Industrial Exhibition 1896

 

[Blovertis]

Toronto freight terminal 1926
Foreground is the approximate location of today's CBC Broadcasting Centre.
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Great view of what replaced Ontario's third parliament building.

 

[Goldie]

In recognition of this weekend's CNE Air Show (Sept. 2, 3, 4), here's the event 102 years ago.