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And more Hanlan's Stadium c.1910
Baseball team
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Lacross game
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Some wonderful old (more that 100 years) photographs of children:
Kew Beach Public School group 1910 TPL
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Kew Beach Public School group 1913 TPL
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Kew Gardens Picnic - ready to race? 1910 TPL
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This is an 1854 plan. Anyone care to try and place this area in today's world? I assume the "creek" is Taddle Creek. Map from TPL collection. Site of the new 'orange' server farm building?

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I think I have answered my own question. It became the site of the "new gas works" in the 1857 Fleming Ridout & Schreiber: Plan of the City of Toronto which then became the orange server farm.


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This is an 1854 plan. Anyone care to try and place this area in today's world? I assume the "creek" is Taddle Creek. Map from TPL collection. Site of the new 'orange' server farm building?

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I think I have answered my own question. It became the site of the "new gas works" in the 1857 Fleming Ridout & Schreiber: Plan of the City of Toronto which then became the orange server farm.


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I’ve spent an enjoyable hour or so over lunch, looking up maps and trying to figure out the “creek” named on the plan. I don’t think it’s Taddle Creek. The 1857 Fleming Ridout & Schreiber map shows the “creek" clearly, flowing southeast across the city from Queen’s Park but not connected to Taddle Creek, which seems to disappear around Yonge St except for a few remnants west of the mystery creek. Was Palace St. renamed Front St.? If so, Google street view shows a vacant lot on the site (August 2017).
 
I’ve spent an enjoyable hour or so over lunch, looking up maps and trying to figure out the “creek” named on the plan. I don’t think it’s Taddle Creek. The 1857 Fleming Ridout & Schreiber map shows the “creek" clearly, flowing southeast across the city from Queen’s Park but not connected to Taddle Creek, which seems to disappear around Yonge St except for a few remnants west of the mystery creek. Was Palace St. renamed Front St.? If so, Google street view shows a vacant lot on the site (August 2017).
Palace Street is now Front Street East.

I think it IS Taddle Creek (See: http://www.lostrivers.ca/content/MudYrkRch.html )

The City actually noted this at the parklet at Parliament and Adelaide.

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Palace Street is now Front Street East.

I think it IS Taddle Creek (See: http://www.lostrivers.ca/content/MudYrkRch.html )

The City actually noted this at the parklet at Parliament and Adelaide.

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I had looked at the Lost Rivers site but couldn’t reconcile it with the 1851 Fleming topographical map: http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/datapub/digital/NG/historicTOmaps/1851flemingliberatedfromsid.jpeg
Here’s a detail that shows Taddle Creek on the left and the mystery creek on the right, its mouth seemingly at Queen’s Park.
 

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I really do not know but here is info on Enoch Turner which seems to confirm that it IS Taddle Creek. http://www.lostrivers.ca/content/points/enochturner.html
I might have to concede that the mystery creek could be Taddle Creek… but with a caveat. The 1851 Fleming topographical map shows two water courses, but an 1842 map shows one water course branching at Lot St. east of New St.
http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/dvhmp/Scans/G_3524_T61_1842.jpg
I suppose it comes down to how accurate the map makers were; and who copied.
On the delightful 1802 Plan of Maryville ("at the east end of the City of York”) the mystery creek is called a “rivulet emptying itself into York Harbour." https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/rare-maps-of-toronto.18321/page-3
 
Yes, jaborandi and they were still crowded in 1980.
Waiting to return to the city from Centre Island 1980 - photo from Toronto Public Library
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