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Here's a few that may interest you, the parade for Marilyn Bell 1954. Looking south from somewhere up high in City Hall Queen St. looking east to Yonge St. Queen St. looking west from Yonge St. South east corner Queen St. and Bay St.

I was by this place last June and it was closed down, but I liked the sign so I thought I'd grab a quick picture as the plaza is slated for development, too bad I didn't take a better one. 621 Kennedy road at Corvette.

Moore Ave Bridge Some more good pictures of the Belt Line bridge on Moore Ave, here they are. Dec. 1912 - The Moore Ave bridge giving a great perspective of the station's proximity to Moore Ave. The view is north, the station house south of Moore on the west side of the tracks. Dec...

The neighbor to the east is Mr Root according to this picture from the archives that shows Tomsett's garage across the road. It's tagged "View of Bathurst St. bridge over C.N.R. and its approaches : Mr. Root's entrance to Bathurst St." Here's one of the Root house after the grading...

With regard to the street numbering, all I have is what I found on ancestry which shows the Tomsett family at 2005 Bathurst St and the pictures from the archives which show the house was on the west side of the street. I really have no clue how that came to be, I've always thought of Toronto as...

I wonder if it was SOP for the city to take before and after pictures to cover themselves or if they were anticipating an issue in this case?

Bathurst bridge over CNR (beltline) at Roselawn Ave I don't think you guys have covered this one here please excuse me if you have... While looking for pictures of the bridge on Bathurst St just north of St Clair Ave I found these, pictures of the bridge that was once over the CNR tracks...

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Start Book number two More to follow...

What's that you say? more more more... End of book number one.

I'm going to post some scans of the meeting minutes from the club, as you can imagine they give us an insight not only into club history, but into everyday life in Toronto at the time. There's some interesting notes made during the war, perhaps some of you will find your relatives or people...

Picking it up where we left off... This one’s taken looking west on court #3 which they used for the final matches so must have been the good one, I’ll just quote my dad from the back of the picture; “1972 – Keith Carpenter (Davis Cup player for Canada) wins the men’s singles at...