Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

The lone child in that City Hall photo reminded me of one of Canada's most famous historical images.

 

[DSC]

Interesting article on Edward Mallandaine at http://www.mallandain.com/edward.ramsay.htm Though he really does not look 18!

 

[Goldie]

The Knapp roller boat 1897 LAC

It was built in 1897 at the Polson Ironworks and Shipyards not far from the foot of Sherbourne Street.
The Roller Boat finally vanished in 1933 when it was buried under landfill near Frederick Street .
More details here: https://torontoist.com/2016/04/historicist-knapps-roller-boat/

 

[Blovertis]

That last photo: Toronto's waterfront really was a hellscape early in the last century.

 

[donoreo]

That last photo: Toronto's waterfront really was a hellscape early in the last century.

The near continuous filling in of the waterfront combined with it's industrial use made it so.

 

[Goldie]

Surprising caption in the archive:
"Etobicoke motel strip draws criminals who like its isolation" 1988 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Funeral of Mrs. Josephine Puccini, wife of a prominent Italian merchant of this city 1922 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Streetcars at Church & King Sts. 1905 TPL (St. James' Cathedral)

 

[Goldie]

His Majesty, King George VI, unveiled the National War Memorial in Ottawa in1939.......TPL

 

[Goldie]

Cutting ice from Lake Ontario
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, U. of T.

 

[Goldie]

Skyline c.1928 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Sir John Craig Eaton funeral at Timothy Eaton Memorial United Church 1922 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Edward Martin-builder-Shaftesbury Place-N. of Shaftesbury Ave. 1904 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Toronto improvements proposed in 1930 (from a copy of Weekly Building Reporter...TPL)

 

[Goldie]

Everyone who worked at the Ontario Legislature 1979 TPL