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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
 
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.
 
The south side of Front Street, looking west from Yonge, c1880
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Looking west on Front Street, from Church, c1885
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Looking east on Adelaide Street East, c1880
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Looking north on West Market Street to the St. Lawrence Hall and King Street, c1875
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Source: A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City That Was by Mike Filey
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
Can you find the outnumbered woman, Miss Gates?

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