There’s another photo from the barn raising in the book Pioneering in North York by Patricia Hart. The Bales farm was on the south-east corner of Sheppard and Yonge. TPL has a photo (Clarence Bales Farm) showing the abandoned Bales farmhouse in 1955, shortly before it was demolished for a...

Sadly, you must be right. I was excited about the boots and shoes signage...

I think this might be 1861 when the closed and open horse cars began running in Toronto. The street directory for 1861 shows J.H. Rogers hatter and furrier on the corner and McCrossen hatter and furrier next door at 111. But 1861 is the year my great-great-grandfather moved his business from 111...

The 1912 photo Goldie posted is a gem. I suppose development along Danforth grew apace once the tracks were laid. Here’s a photo from 1913, looking east from Pape. North of Danforth still seems to be farmers’ fields; the 1915 annexation map shows streets laid out...

It is strange that a house would be built there during the ‘30s, in an out-dated Victorian style, instead of a store with apartment above (like all the others along Danforth by then).

Isn’t it odd that there’s a brick second floor on the building (furrier) next to the bank in 1930, yet it’s gone in the modern view and we can see an ?older? ?bay and gable? house behind? The ground floor is the same now as in 1930 (built onto the front of the house). The brick second floor must...

I’m pretty sure it’s Mt. Pleasant Rd. looking north at Dinnick Cres.

The last photograph is beautiful. So much interesting detail.

My friend and I loved to wander around the stables and visit the horses. It’s hard to believe that we were allowed to do that!

TPL now has the front view on its site. And here’s an old view of Woodlawn. Both are Regency villas, but other than the enclosed verandah on the one, so close in proportion and detail.

The clubhouse that was Lindally was torn down when St. Andrews Golf Course was sold to a developer ca. 1960 and became the St. Andrews Estates.

I don’t know. My parents bought a house in the subdivision in 1951, but at the south end. I was four. I do remember walking across that vacant strip of land one spring morning with the other mothers and children, to register for Kindergarten at Avondale P.S., as the school we would be attending...

This aerial view of St. Andrew’s Golf Course was taken in June 1949, looking north-west. The streets in Yorkminster subdivision are laid out and the hydro poles installed. Some of the houses have been built or are under construction, mostly on Upper Canada Dr. Beyond, on Yonge St. you can see...

The St. Andrews Golf Course clubhouse in 1956, north side, photo by James Salmon (Toronto Public Library collection). The two-storey stucco-on-brick house facing Old Yonge St. (it was just north of present-day The Links Rd.) was originally the home of Lt.-Col. Duncan Cameron, C.B., who had...

My great-grandfather was the Col. Clarke mentioned in the article. I posted a few comments on page 797 about the 127th Battalion partaking in a competition of precise marching, from Weston to the Exhibition grounds. As the above article notes, the battalion had formed up in Aurora (not...

Thank you.

Apparently you needed facial hair to get ahead in 1905. Goldie, what is the source of these photos?

Thank you, Mustapha, that was awesome!

I guess it was rifle march (140 paces per minute). The march Bonny Dundee was played for 140 paces per minute. From the memoirs: “They would march 300 feet in a minute and 5,000 yards in an hour, which included 10 minutes rest at the end of each 5,000 yards.” I wonder if such precise march...

One of my ancestors was CO of the 12th York Rangers (127th Battalion). When they formed up, there was no room left in the Exhibition grounds for training, so they got permission to occupy the newly finished Kodak building in Weston. They were invited to take part in the Division marching...