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Naval related archaeology has always fascinated me. Since my son signed on as a reserve RCN sailor I've been digging into Canadian and Commonwealth naval history. I came across the history of this Australian ship that still exists as a breakwater. Neat to read about and see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMVS_Cerberus


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Just revisiting the Worlds Biggest Bookstore/Olympia Bowling conversation we had recently...


That's the 1973 Yonge street mall in the distance. They did this for a couple of years. The street was completely closed to traffic. Every teenager in the city converged at the time. You would always bump into someone you knew from school or work or a cousin. Nowadays when cell phones and internet keep everyone 'connected' virtually but not physically, those were a magical couple of summers.

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September 2014.

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Was Edward St. really that much wider in 1973, or it an optical illusion?
 
Statue of King Edward VII (by Thomas Brock 1919), originally installed in India in 1919, removed in 1967 and re-installed at Queen's Park, Toronto 1969.

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Toronto 1969
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Toronto 1969
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Toronto 2011
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Toronto 2012
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Naval related archaeology has always fascinated me. Since my son signed on as a reserve RCN sailor I've been digging into Canadian and Commonwealth naval history. I came across the history of this Australian ship that still exists as a breakwater. Neat to read about and see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMVS_Cerberus


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Thanks for that piece of Aussie history ,thought you may also be interested in HMAS Melbourne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Melbourne_(R21) which was sold to China for scrap in 1985,Melbourne was also involved in two major collisions with allied vessels. On the evening of 10 February 1964, Melbourne collided with and sank HMAS Voyager when the Daring class destroyer altered course across her bow. Eighty-two of Voyager '​s crew were killed, and two Royal Commissions were held to investigate the incident. The second collision occurred in the early morning of 3 June 1969, when Melbourne collided with and sank the Allen M. Sumner class destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in similar circumstances. Seventy-four United States Navy (USN) personnel died, and a joint USN–RAN Board of Inquiry was held. These incidents, along with several minor collisions, shipboard accidents, and aircraft losses, led to the reputation that Melbourne was jinxed.

You may also be interested in this,
British and Australian Submarines in the Dardanelles, 1915http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/5environment/submarines/ae2.html
 
Statue of King Edward VII (by Thomas Brock 1919), originally installed in India in 1919, removed in 1967 and re-installed at Queen's Park, Toronto 1969.

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Toronto 1969
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Toronto 2011
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Toronto 2012
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Which replaced the elegant bandstand which once stood on the spot:

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When was that bandstand removed, anyway? Even if it were still the pre-Crombie era, 1969ish still seems awfully late for such a thing to be deemed dispensible...
 
Toronto Union Station: A classic from the great Railway era of the past...

One of the great spaces in Toronto - to me - is the great hall in our Union Station. This ceiling puts me in a contemplative mood; thinking of all those who've passed underneath it; yada yada... :)

Unlike the ceilings in some of our grander churches; this one can be enjoyed nonsecularily.




Mustapha: Toronto Union Station is a classic - Thankfully it has prospered and been refurbished in recent years and among the memories I have
is my first visits to Toronto by train in 1979-80 and later learning that this great hall was once threatened to be demolished - I believe sometime
in the later 60s/early 70s era...TUS is a symbol of Toronto and its railways from the golden days of rail transport that is alive and quite well today...

LI MIKE




Then. Sometime soon after its opening in 1927. Looking E.

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Dec. 5, 2014. The Christmas Market ends today, Sunday. My Now pic was shot looking SW.

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LI MIKE (note post reply above)
 
I'm only guessing at the street location, but these homes sure look similar.

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Morrish Store - Highland Creek Village
Kingston Rd. at Morrish Rd. (N/E corner)

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