World’s Biggest Book Store on Edward Street on April 16, 1981. Photo from the Toronto Archives, F1526, Fl001, Item 2. I attended high school in
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Toronto’s Temple Building (demolished)
The Temple Building on Bay Street in 1902, after a tenth storey had been added. The camera faces the northwest corner of Bay and Richmond
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Toronto’s old movie theatres in Toronto Life magazine
Toronto Life magazine has published online many photographs of Toronto’s old movie theatres. They were derived from the book shown below. Published by Dundurn Press,
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Toronto’ disappearing Bay and Gable houses
Bay and Gable houses comprise two of the three houses in the above photo. Located at 324-328 Richmond Street West, they were built between 1873
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Toronto’s Board of Trade Building (demolished)
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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Memories of springtime in Toronto in the 1940s – Historic Toronto
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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Arena Gardens (Mutual Street Arena) now demolished
Mutual Street Arena, City of Toronto Archives, SC 646 When I was a boy in the 1940s, my friends and I enjoyed roller skating