Search results

And they had lots of internment camps (not sure about POW but I think they were there too) in southern interior of BC and the Rockies and foothills in Alberta.

You mean the eastern part of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, I presume. The western part was there long before 1942. And I think the eastern part had been there for awhile too, just not as "developed". I had no idea that the racetrack at Thorncliffe (or at least one end of it) was that close to...

Some amazing stuff there in just 22 years. But I just want to say that there is a beautiful robin's-egg blue "Kaefer" cabriolet (late 60s era) in the Now photo about 8-9 photos in.

Here we go. I won't vouch for the authority of this page but I think it's generally considered an accurate and reliable source. http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=52751887&page=1 Commerce Court West 1972 First Canadian Place 1975 Royal Bank 1976 south tower, 1979 north In the photo...

I worked for a summer in FCP in 1979, which I think had just opened the previous year or so. I don't remember about RBC Plaza at that point but I remember it being well established in the winter of 1981-82 when I worked as a money market messenger and went into it regularly. In early 1980 I...

What I'm interested in is what kind of equipment they used in the Then photo. With conventional cameras, vertical lines usually tend to converge from bottom to top when photographing buildings, as the Now photo duly illustrates. But in the Then photo it seems to do the opposite, at least in the...

It's interesting that that's on the Province's site. Most of the dead tree version of The Province is maybe a step up from the Toronto Sun (though sports coverage is good). I haven't been into BC Place yet since it re-opened but it looks magnificent from the outside, at least from a distance...

They're double rows of wires.

While Hastings Street (not Avenue) has its attractions, it's never going to be mistaken for Fifth Avenue. Parts of Harlem or the South Bronx in the 1970s. But a century ago, it was pretty close to being Vancouver's Fifth Avenue.

This one is actually Hastings Street - it's identified as such in the filename, though it's West Hastings and not East (the east-west divider is Carrall Street, a couple of doors down past the Army and Navy store). That once fashionable stretch has fallen on severe hard times the past few...

Yes, I noticed that too. Almost tasteful, though it looks better in black and white (pace Paul Simon). Thankfully, they haven't made it out here yet.

A wonderful building, and I can accept the wooden patio fences, but they have three contrasting and clashing signs & banners with Baton Rouge on them plus the yellow ones with who-knows-what on them. If the people responsible for that mishmash go uncensured we'll have to send an apology to Pizza...

I remember when they moved it in 1962, when we were living around the corner on Garrick Road. It was 1962? I was five years old, fergawdsake, and I still remember it. The post office is a 1960s government building of mostly uninterrupted brick walls and was about a thousand steps down in style...

Maybe they would have run into teachers from Chine Drive PS (where I went for grades 1-3) or John A Leslie (4-7).

Mine grew up on Browning but in the 20s-30s , and met my mother at East York Collegiate. I don't remember where they lived in between (East York or nearby), but by the time I came along they were on Garrick Road in Scarborough behind Heritage Ford. They (and I) always had ties to that 'hood but...

We lived around Midland and Kingston most of my years up until I was 12 or so (1969) - I remember them building the apartments on the northeast corner, and St Theresa's Church, and I remember when they moved the Halfway House out to Pioneer Village. I never thought the neighbourhood was the same...

Blan-tire, and only one A. Like the things on the bottom of your car, and not very exciting ones. Or at least the street my grandparents lived on was pronounced that way, though it's considerably further east on Queen. Not sure if it was named for the place in Scotland or the place in (then)...

We get weekly delivery of milk etc now from Dairyland/Saputo in Vancouver. Interesting to see the change in the trees - most then and nows there are more trees in the current photo, at least in already-developed locations. That parking lot looks a lot barer and starker now.

(snipping an excellent article) Most mills and factories used to (and many still do) have regular bells or whistles to signal the beginning or end of a shift. One thing about workers and watches: in a shop with machinery, wearing a watch can be an invitation to lose a limb or worse. Even if...

You mean thermometers I'm sure, not thermostats. What are those things posted on the wall beneath the thermometer?Prints of the dailies maybe - a little high up but people appear to be reading them.