The Board of Trade Building in 1900, located at 2-8 Front Street East, at Front and Yonge Streets. Photo from the Toronto Archives, Fonds 1568,
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Toronto’s Hanlan’s Point Baseball Stadium (demolished)
Hanlan’s Point Stadium in 1912, Toronto Archives, F1244, Item 6048. My father and one of his brothers arrived in Toronto as young immigrants in 1921.
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The old Riverdale Zoo—Toronto
Riverdale Zoo in Riverdale Park in May 1923, Toronto Archives, Series 71, Item 5868. In the 1940s, on a hot Sunday afternoon in summer, my
On the Friday before the Victoria Day holiday in 1945, my dad splurged and spent three dollars on firecrackers at a store on Oakwood
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Memories of springtime in Toronto in the 1940s
Sometimes, I teasingly tell people that there are three terrible aspects of living in Canada – January, February and March. However, I quickly add
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Toronto’s Sunnyside Amusement Park (demolished)
Sunnyside Amusement Park in 1923. When I visited it as a child in the 1940s, its appearance was basically the same, so the above photo
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Demolition of historic Westinghouse building
The Westinghouse building on the southeast corner of Peter and King Street West is being demolished (April 2016), only the north and west facades being
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Toronto’s Brunswick House (now closed)
The Brunswick House, view gazing east along Bloor Street from west of Brunswick Avenue. The Brunswick House, a well-known icon of the Toronto pub scene
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Toronto’s Cyclorama (demolished) on Front Street
In the foreground is the building that once housed Toronto’s Cyclorama, on Front Street West. The photo was taken c. 1975, the year prior to
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Walker House Hotel (demolished) – Front and York Streets
The Walker House (hotel) on the southwest corner of Front and York Streets in 1954, Toronto Public Library r- 4958 Although I was never inside