Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Oh!…to attend a "state dinner" and behave like a king…put it on my bucket list.

Last State Dinner, Government House, Toronto, 1912

 

[W. K. Lis]

Oh!…to attend a "state dinner" and behave like a king…put it on my bucket list.

Last State Dinner, Government House, Toronto, 1912
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Guessing it's not FordFest.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Guessing it's not FordFest."
W. K. Lis.

Haven't seen a PINKOpRogCOMMENT or other, on this Forum for over a year - and you have to go and Screw-it up.

J T

 

[adma]

Would that have been *old* Government House? (i.e. where Roy Thomson Hall now sits)

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Would that have been *old* Government House? (i.e. where Roy Thomson Hall now sits)"
adma.

http://torontoist.com/2008/08/historicist/

Regards,
J T

 

[Goldie]

Danforth streetcars, 1920

 

[Goldie]

High Park, 1916

Front St., 1931

 

[DSC]

Amusing to see how the taxis of 2017 act exactly like those of 1931 .

 

[Goldie]

Prohibition parade, Yonge St., 1916

 

[Goldie]

The Yonge, College, Carlton intersection did not always intersect in the same manner as it does today.

1912 - looking South

1929

 

[Goldie]

Union Station 1916

Union Station 1917

 

[Goldie]

A busy Yonge St. c.1980-89

 

[Koolgreen]

berlinetta???

 

[Goldie]

Canadian Authors Association, 1923
Do we have a literary expert who can make any identifications?

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

Canadian Authors Association, 1923

In my estimation, the man, holding a light coloured Fedora within his left hand and overcoat draped over his left arm,
he also wearing Spats, standing to his right, is Steven Leacock.

Regards,
J T