Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Mustapha]

Let me get right on that.

Ok then. We are looking at the NE corner of Avenue Road and Davenport. I'm guessing that is our former Traders Bank branch. Does anyone have access to a trade directory?

Actually I think I did a Then and Now on this intersection but I don't know how to work the search feature.

This corner building has been replaced with some sort of glass 60s thing.

Those old houses on the left are still there.

 

[HamiltonTransitHistory]

So, prior to the viaduct - a trip from anywhere on the Danforth to say, Bloor and Yonge; required a streetcar west to Broadview, south to Gerrard, and then west to Yonge and north to Bloor.

Yup.

And even the opening of the viaduct didn't change things. It wasn't until 1923 that there was through service along Danforth & Bloor.

History of the Bloor Streetcar

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Does anyone have access to a trade directory?" QUOTE Mustapha


Need you ask? (LOL)


Having "more money than tyme", rather than doing an "internetarchives.org" search, I went directly to

my 'case and retrieved Might's 1909 (08) City of Toronto directory:


PLEASE NOTE: THE BELOW IS TOTALLY WRONG, WITH IT'S CORRECTION LATER IN THIS THREAD.

THIS POST ONLY REMAINS TO RETAIN CONTINUITY WITH PICS & COMMENT BY 'THECHARIOTEER". (His name now being upgraded to caps!)

REGARDS,
j t


1) 173 Avenue Road; Dominion Bank.

2) 709 Queen St East; Dominion Bank.

Pure conjecture:

This leads me to suppose that the Dominion Bank may not only have taken the Trader's buildings, but

also absorbed (not amalgamated) same due to a possible "bust".


Regards,
J T

 

[thecharioteer]

Ok then. We are looking at the NE corner of Avenue Road and Davenport. I'm guessing that is our former Traders Bank branch. Does anyone have access to a trade directory?

Actually I think I did a Then and Now on this intersection but I don't know how to work the search feature.

This corner building has been replaced with some sort of glass 60s thing.

Those old houses on the left are still there.

I think it was on the SE corner (demolished for the Davenport widening, along with the entire south side of the street). There's still a TD branch there:

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"I think it was on the SE corner . . . There's still a TD branch there:" QUOTE thecharioteer


TOTAL SCREW-UP ON MY PART!

Not only did I misread the Might's in that the Dominion Bank was indeed on the S/E corner of "Ave & Dav",

(no Trader's Bank as yet on the N/E - 1908) but the Queen/Broadview Trader's Branch was at the

N/W corner in the Broadview Hotel, not the S/E, where indeed was the Dominion Bank.


Regards,
j t

 

[wwwebster]

(no Trader's Bank as yet on the N/E - 1908)...

1912 edition says 146 Avenue (SW corner).

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"1912 edition says 146 Avenue (SW corner)." QUOTE WWWEBSTER (now also in caps!)


YES, YES!


With a Mrs Jane Brown (wid Henry) living above.


Regards,
J T

 

[Mustapha]

1912 edition says 146 Avenue (SW corner).

Have we hashed this out yet, or will there be fisticuffs?

146 Avenue Road coming right up. Our former Traders later Royal Bank branch later demolished is now the right turn lane for Davenport Road.

 

[wwwebster]

Have we hashed this out yet, or will there be fisticuffs?

All done now ('til next time).

 

[Mustapha]

Just a thought... sometimes at the Sunday antiques day at St. Lawrence Market one can find paper ephemera from vanished Toronto businesses - like our Traders Bank. It's a cool way of "touching" the past. I used to collect stuff like this - stopped now - filing cabinet is full. There is an occasional "paper show" where the prices are quite elevated for these items that have intrinsic value certainly but I used to seek them out outside of this channel and paid much less.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

" I used to collect stuff like this - stopped now - filing cabinet is full." QUOTE Mustapha.


QUESTION:

What do you give a man who has everything?

ANSWER:

Storage space!


As an aside, there will be no snack bar at the market this (entire) weekend - wedding being held in Chicago.


Regards,
J T

 

[thecharioteer]

Have we hashed this out yet, or will there be fisticuffs?

Dare I say, Might's makes Right?

 

[thecharioteer]

Never knew this, but the long-demolished Royal Bank on the NE corner of Bloor and Yonge was originally a Traders Bank:

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Dare I say, Might's makes Right? " QUOTE THECHARIOTEER. (in CAPS!)


With the above noted case - with DEFINITE ABANDON!


Regards,
j t

 

[DTowner]

Never knew this, but the long-demolished Royal Bank on the NE corner of Bloor and Yonge was originally a Traders Bank:

This was at Yonge and Bloor? Where the Hudson's Bay building is? Really? Those cars are from the 70s, though.