Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[thecharioteer]

A building I've walked by many times (NW corner of Richmond West and Tecumseth) and wondered about how odd it looks today. Finding this pic on the TPS site shows the original design (the Memorial Baptist Church 1897), albeit needing some TLC in 1957. Would love to see the original details brought back.

 

[thecharioteer]

Brant and Camden:

1937:

2019:

 

[thecharioteer]

16 Brant Street:

April 1939:

September 1939:

2020:

 

[lenaitch]

It seems to have survived its underpinning. Unsplit single phase power snuck i through the transom window.

 

[thecharioteer]

It seems to have survived its underpinning. Unsplit single phase power snuck i through the transom window.

Which was also there pre-reno....

 

[Goldie]

Front St. E., looking w. from Jarvis St. 1884 TPL

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[Goldie]

Joseph W. Weston (behind his daughter Ann Fern Weston) butcher shop 1896, Carlton St., n.w. cor. Parliament St

 

[isaidso]

As in the Weston family: Loblaws, Holt Renfrew, Shoppers Drug Mart, etc?

 

[W. K. Lis]

As in the Weston family: Loblaws, Holt Renfrew, Shoppers Drug Mart, etc?

Weston started out as a bakery. See link.

 

[Monk]

Ann Fern was born January 26, 1896 so it’s possible that the picture was taken slightly later. She passed away in 1995 at the age of 99.

 

[thecharioteer]

The corner of Richmond Street West and Maud, looking SE.

1921. The old St. Andrew's Market, which would be demolished in 1932, replaced by a new municipal building called the Waterworks Building:

Construction of the Waterworks Building 1932:

1970's:

Demolition of the middle portion of the site (heritage bricks being retained) September 2017:

December 2017:

February 2018:

December 2019:

July 2020:

 

[Goldie]

 

[Goldie]

Young Men's Christian Association, central building, Yonge St., south east corner McGill St. 1888 TPL

EDITED, Aug. 11 with the addition of...........Origin of that arch::

 

[Richard White]

Young Men's Christian Association, central building, Yonge St., south east corner McGill St. 1888 TPL
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I don't think this is the same place Goldie. If I am not mistaken was Yonge renumbered a long time ago?

 

[evolutionTO]

Not from as long ago as some of the Then and Now pairs, but interesting to see the evolution all the same.

2020 (Top) vs 2014 (Bottom)