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Great video! Thanks

Agreed. This is the missing piece.

Always interesting to see how main streets were often misaligned crossing Yonge.

Great Work!

Love it!

Thanks for the link!

Very interesting..thanks

Thanks for the link!

Thanks Goldie! Can't believe you had this! It seems that the building was nothing more than an impressive roof.

Thanks for the link! What an impressive and unusual building. Demolished without much thought I imagine. Too bad.

Thanks Goldie! I appreciate your photos of the now identified, curling rink. The OHA deconstruction was certainly one of the stranger conversions in recent memory. "Dramatic Building Conversions" would make a good thread!

Thanks mattelderca! It certainly didn't last very long. If anyone has photos of this interesting structure kindly post them. Thanks! lonk

What is that white domed structure?

I lived just around the corner from 1968 through til 1990. In all that time I do not recall the river ever flooding much beyond its banks. The arch of the bridge is pretty much the limit of the size of the river at any time. The houses were set back quite far and would not have been in any...

I think the level crossing was closed to vehicular traffic on Old Cummer sometime in '71, but certainly no later than '73. That sounds about right GenerationW. I was only 6 or 7 at the time, but I actually remember being disappointed when it closed because we had to use "New Cummer."

Yes, Anna that is it. Here is a cap from Google Street View. Here's what I have found about the house: John Cummer, Jacob's son, lived at what is now 44 Beardmore Crescent which overlooked Jacob's Cummer Mill on the Don River. The house was originally a farm house built circa 1850 but was...

I can fill in some of the blanks for the Cummer bridge. Originally the sides of the bridge were much more ornate. The ones you see today are not original. They are replacements designed to imitate the original design which had open crosses (in the shape of an X) of concrete and rebar. I...