Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for June 12.


Then. 249 Russell Hill Road. c1910. Residence of W.B. Brumell.

Now. September 2011.

 

[wwwebster]

Regarding old Union Stations, see attached map images. The 1860 Tremaine indicates a “Union Depot,†and the 1862 Browne shows a “Union Railway Station.â€

 

[Goldie]

Thanks for correcting the record regarding UNION stations, wwwebster.
I wonder if anyone knows the origin of the term.
I always assumed it referred to a station where two or more rail lines merged.

 

[EVCco]

^ I believe it actually has something to do with different railways sharing the same station (ie Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific)

 

[Goldie]

Another early Toronto railway station (attached).

 

[Mustapha]

Another early Toronto railway station (attached).

Who would have thought this ever existed? Nice discovery Goldie, thank you.

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for June 13.


Then. 45 Russell Hill Road. c1910. S. Baker, Architect.

Now. September 2011.

 

[Red October]

The privacy must be nice and I do like me a good birch tree but I think it would look better without the Amazon in front of it in the "now" picture.

 

[donoreo]

The privacy must be nice and I do like me a good birch tree but I think it would look better without the Amazon in front of it in the "now" picture.

It is not as bad as it looks. I know that house, my in laws live just down the street.

 

[Anna]

Another early Toronto railway station (attached).

I'm no expert, but don't you have to have tracks to have a station

On the 1884 Goad's it's described as the Northern Railway Offices.

 

[Anna]

p.s. here's the same building in 1924

 

[Goldie]

p.s. here's the same building in 1924

Well there you go - right beside tracks!
I do agree with you that it appears to be an office rather than a "station."
The tracks would have been immediately on the other side of Front St.
OR: another erroneous caption?

 

[Goldie]

Is someone in the neighbourhood of Yonge & Sheppard who can give us a "Now" view of this 1922 scene?
Looking east along Sheppard (across Yonge St.) - once known as the Lansing area.
That would be the old Dempsey's Hardware store on the left (N/W corner).

 

[Anna]

Well there you go - right beside tracks!

I was afraid you would notice those...

According to the TPL site, the Northern Railway used:
First Union Station [1859]
William Armstrong. 1859.
Watercolour, pen & brown ink over pencil. 38.2 x 55.5 cm.
TPL (TRL) Acc. JRR 291

The Grand Trunk Railway built this frame station at the foot of York Street in 1858 overlooking the harbour. The Great Western and Northern railways were tenants. By 1871, the volume of traffic had become too much for this station. It was torn down and the second Union Station was constructed just west of it.

So the current one is the third Union Station?

 

[Anna]

Is someone in the neighbourhood of Yonge & Sheppard who can give us a "Now" view of this 1922 scene?
Looking east along Sheppard (across Yonge St.) - once known as the Lansing area.
That would be the old Dempsey's Hardware store on the left (N/W corner).

How about another 'then'?