Interesting that by 1921, 6 years after this picture was taken, Toronto was laying double streetcar tracks on this section of Bloor Street to Jane Street. As well, by 1968, 54 years after the photo, the Bloor-Danforth HRT subway was extended from Keele, past this hill at High Park, to Islington. The HRT subway in this section is now 42 years old.
In just 4 years, this photo will be 100 years old.
i've always been fascinated with the way the spaces between the outlying western and northwestern municipalities like Swansea, Mimico, Mt. Dennis, West Toronto etc were 'filled in'; and how quickly they transitioned from being largely rural outposts to being stitched into the larger urban fabric of the city....
Cutting wheat at farm of William Rennie, Swansea, Ontario, circa 1900
Family of William Rennie, curling party, Swansea, Ontario, December 25, 1904
South Kingsway or Riverside Drive
Looking west on Lakeshore Road at Etobicoke Creek, Etobicoke Twp: Toronto & York Radial Railway, Mimico Division bridge over road
Single truck double deck car - Toronto and Mimico Railway, taken about 1891
Double truck open car - Long Branch Line, taken about 1891
Hon. W.H. Price, cutting ribbon, at easterly limits of New Toronto, official opening of Lake Shore Car Line
Lake Shore Road, near Mimico Creek, looking east
Lake Shore Road, Mimico, Mimico Ave, stop 10, looking east, December 5, 1927
Humber bridges, Lake Shore Rd, east of Jane St
