Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Goldie]

Evelyn Crescent at Fairview Ave. 1900

Evelyn Crescent 1954

Evelyn Crescent 2014 - Western technical-Commerce

 

[Toronto Lad]

So there's tracks coming down Fairview presumably from Annette, but it also looks like tracks or the remnants of them running east on Evelyn, perhaps the school had service from Runneymede at one point?

That addition on the school doesn't look great but I was by there last week and the original building is still very nice.

 

[the lemur]

So there's tracks coming down Fairview presumably from Annette, but it also looks like tracks or the remnants of them running east on Evelyn, perhaps the school had service from Runnymede at one point?

It's certainly intriguing. I haven't found anything on maps yet, but there's this in the Toronto Archives:

Looking north on Fairview from Evelyn

http://goo.gl/maps/72viS


More of the Crescent Line (never heard of this until now):

ETA: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transit-toronto/conversations/topics/23053

James Salmon's "Rails from the Junction" says that the TSR Crescent route
was discontinued on November 28, 1922, after the TTC's new Humberside bus
route, with its free transfer to the Dundas car, had drawn away most of the
Crescent line's customers. The track was lifted in 1923.

The Crescent line operated from Keele and Dundas via west on Dundas Street,
south on Gilmour Avenue, east on what is now called St Johns Road, and south
on Fairview Avenue to Evelyn Crescent.

 

[Toronto Lad]

The number of streetcar lines within the city never ceases to amaze me, they were everywhere, just when you thought you knew them all a new one pops up.

 

[Toronto Lad]

From the look of the Fairview street pavement in that google view I'd bet those rails are still under the pavement.

 

[Toronto Lad]

From the look of the Fairview street pavement in that google view I'd bet those rails are still under the pavement.

Same goes for St. Johns road.

 

[Toronto Lad]

Also the trees behind the streetcar in Mustapha's 1900 pic are still there in the 1954 pic and if I'm not mistaken 3 of them are still there in the google view of today.

 

[railmus]

From the look of the Fairview street pavement in that google view I'd bet those rails are still under the pavement.

Anybody got a metal detector??

 

[the lemur]

I wonder if the railway had anything to do with the width of this curb at Fairview and Glenwood:

http://goo.gl/maps/dEutu

 

[Toronto Lad]

I wonder if the railway had anything to do with the width of this curb at Fairview and Glenwood:

http://goo.gl/maps/dEutu

I saw that myself, that corner island must be related somehow. I'll be down there next week and I'm going to measure the distance between centre's of those cracks, any bets on the average distance?

 

[FAW]

For a detailed map of Toronto's current and historical street and inter-urban railways visit my website www.cermc.webs.com to download your free digital copy that runs on Google Earth.

 

[Toronto Lad]

For a detailed map of Toronto's current and historical street and inter-urban railways visit my website www.cermc.webs.com to download your free digital copy that runs on Google Earth.

I already had that downloaded and I've really enjoyed it, I should have checked it as it answers all the questions but for the wye down at the south end, I read somewhere that it was at Woodside but clearly there is track south of that in those pictures.

 

[FAW]

I already had that downloaded and I've really enjoyed it, I should have checked it as it answers all the questions but for the wye down at the south end, I read somewhere that it was at Woodside but clearly there is track south of that in those pictures.

Can you share any evidence you have of this wye? I am not aware of one on the Crescent line.

 

[Goldie]

Dominion Bank - Yonge at Cottingham - 1914

2014

 

[Mustapha]

Evelyn Crescent at Fairview Ave. 1900

Evelyn Crescent 1954

Evelyn Crescent 2014 - Western technical-Commerce

This had to happen sooner or later , I had this location as a Then and Now in the rotation to come up but Goldie beat me to it. Here is my Now. Not sure of the 'value add' to the knowledge here, but here is the Now pic I took this past July: