[20000LeaguesUnderTheDon]

Looking north up Yonge Street from King, c1860

Looking south down Yonge to the bay from King, c1860

Source: A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City That Was by Mike Filey; Pages 2 & 3

 

[W. K. Lis]

Looking north up Yonge Street from King, c1860
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Looking south down Yonge to the bay from King, c1860
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Source: A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City That Was by Mike Filey; Pages 2 & 3

Note the gravel roads back then. It was the bicycle lobby of the time that got the city to pave the gravel roads. Unfortunately, it also provided the later appearance of the automobile to get a smooth surface for them, which the automobile expropriated the roads for themselves.

 

[Goldie]

Circus in Riverdale Park 1930s - looking S-E towards Broadview and Don Jail TPL

 

[Goldie]

The amazing detail in this 1926 image is most interesting.
I just couldn't avoid posting this even though it's not Toronto, but a St. Catharines market.

 

[20000LeaguesUnderTheDon]

The south side of Front Street, looking west from Yonge, c1880

Looking west on Front Street, from Church, c1885

Looking east on Adelaide Street East, c1880

Looking north on West Market Street to the St. Lawrence Hall and King Street, c1875

Source: A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City That Was by Mike Filey

 

[nostalgic]

Looking north up Yonge Street from King, c1860
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Looking south down Yonge to the bay from King, c1860
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Source: A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City That Was by Mike Filey; Pages 2 & 3

What a thrill to see these images of Yonge St in 1860! The view north from King shows my 2X great-grandfather’s business at 86 Yonge. If only it were more clear! F. Clarke and Son Boots and Shoes was there from 1860 to 1876. His first business and home in Toronto was at 111 King St. E. – the only building of all the ones the family occupied in Toronto and Deer Park that’s still standing.

 

[Geogblog]

Just got back from hearing the Shuffle Demons play at Hugh's Room. Here is their 1984 hit "Spadina Bus'

 

[20000LeaguesUnderTheDon]

A Yonge Street toll house, before 1870

The Queen's Hotel in the 1860s

Yonge Street pier at the end of the century

At the foot of Brock Street (Spadina Avenue), 1862

Source: A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City That Was by Mike Filey

 

[Geogblog]

A Yonge Street toll house, before 1870
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The Queen's Hotel in the 1860s
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Yonge Street pier at the end of the century
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At the foot of Brock Street (Spadina Avenue), 1862
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Source: A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City That Was by Mike Filey

This is the terminal of the Northern Railway. You can see that in 1862 it is still on the broad gauge. Most of the schooners tied up at the wharf were built in the 1850s. Although still new, they are built from forests that have already vanished. The NR terminal shipped grain as well as timber. Two steam-powered elevators.

 

[Goldie]

Barn raising on the Rutherford farm in 1929 at the intersection of Rutherford and Weston Rd.-Vaughan Archives

 

[LPCI]

Now built over with houses and roads. It was prime farmland.

 

[Goldie]

Can you find the outnumbered woman, Miss Gates?

 

[20000LeaguesUnderTheDon]

#350. 2nd row from the bottom, 8th from the right.

 

[Geogblog]

Led to the creation of the Women's Canadian Historical Society.

 

[Goldie]

Toronto Harbour 1923 looking east - Bay St. in foreground TPL