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Thanks for the very interesting maps, I think the 1912 bridge is the Queen Street Bridge. In my opinion the entry in Wiki on Toronto Bridges is TERRIBLY wrong. (Among other errors, they call the Queen Street Bridge the Queen Street Viaduct! A viaduct is a bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley.)
From the 1833 map King did cross the Don a bit south of Queen/King but not nearly as far south as where Eastern Avenue now runs. (Palace Street is the old name for Front Street) There is now no King Street Bridge over the Don because King does not go over the Don, it joins Queen just to the west of the river. The existing Queen Bridge was built in 1911/12 and was refurbished about 5 years ago. Goads Atlas of 1910 shows King meeting Queen about where it does now so I think the "King Street Bridge" in the 1923 book is really what we now call the Queen Street Bridge.
The old, unused, bridge at Eastern Avenue looks to be about the same age as the Queen one (1911/12) and Eastern used to go right through before they built the Don Valley Parkway. (Goad is not clear enough, to me anyway, to see if there was actually a bridge in 1910 but the street is certainly on both sides of the Don. Until the West Don Lands work started a couple of years ago Eastern Avenue used to go up to the rail tracks at that point, I am not sure if the new layout will bring it so far east. The 1884 Goads map shows Eastern had no bridge at that date.
The bridge north of the (unused) Eastern Avenue Bridge is an Enbridge Gas bridge - there used to be many gas plants and storage tanks on both sides of the Don in that area (the western ones are now City offices on Eastern Avenue near McGeee/Booth. The eastern ones are now the police station and the Canadian Opera building on Front at Berkeley.)
From the 1833 map King did cross the Don a bit south of Queen/King but not nearly as far south as where Eastern Avenue now runs. (Palace Street is the old name for Front Street) There is now no King Street Bridge over the Don because King does not go over the Don, it joins Queen just to the west of the river. The existing Queen Bridge was built in 1911/12 and was refurbished about 5 years ago. Goads Atlas of 1910 shows King meeting Queen about where it does now so I think the "King Street Bridge" in the 1923 book is really what we now call the Queen Street Bridge.
The old, unused, bridge at Eastern Avenue looks to be about the same age as the Queen one (1911/12) and Eastern used to go right through before they built the Don Valley Parkway. (Goad is not clear enough, to me anyway, to see if there was actually a bridge in 1910 but the street is certainly on both sides of the Don. Until the West Don Lands work started a couple of years ago Eastern Avenue used to go up to the rail tracks at that point, I am not sure if the new layout will bring it so far east. The 1884 Goads map shows Eastern had no bridge at that date.
The bridge north of the (unused) Eastern Avenue Bridge is an Enbridge Gas bridge - there used to be many gas plants and storage tanks on both sides of the Don in that area (the western ones are now City offices on Eastern Avenue near McGeee/Booth. The eastern ones are now the police station and the Canadian Opera building on Front at Berkeley.)
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