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Fort York and Garrison Common Maps Thanks JT & thecharioteer for your kind words. I would like to draw your attention to a new project of mine: Fort York and Garrison Common Maps. A collaboration with (noted local historian) Stephen Otto and The Friends of Fort York, this site has...

If I might be permitted to add some additional Jolly Miller images [sorry if these have been previously posted]... Alas, I do not have dates for the last two. Identification, anyone? 1915 sketch of the Jolly Miller -- formerly David Birrell's Hotel 1954 1957

A couple of years later... check out: Historical Maps of Toronto and Goad's Atlas of Toronto -- Online! By no means comprehensive, but still a sweet selection. :) [sorry for reviving an old inactive thread. This post is more for the benefit of anyone doing a search for old Toronto maps...

Greetings all. Hope you are faring well! I'd like to mention a couple of items of possible interest... The Goad Atlas project - updates With respect to the Goad's Atlas site, I've slowly and incrementally managed to more than double the number of years available since I originally posted about...

What Does a Decade of TTC Metropass Designs Look Like? All right, the following kind of strays from the standard photographs of historical structures in this thread -- so apologies in advance if it's not appropriate -- but I think it still marginally falls under the rubric of 'Toronto Then and...

The Globe wasn't funding the building -- it was the parent corporation (Woodbridge) that was doing that. The Globe were to be simply tenants of the new structure -- as they are at the current location.

For what it's worth (probably not much in these exuberant parts :p), the Anderson Building - 284 King W and Eclipse Whitewear - 322 King W are both designated as being of cultural and heritage interest. The bylaws enacting the designations can be found here; look-up 1150 and 1151. [hat tip to...

Thank you for the kind mention! A minor note for your (Mustapha's) attention: the URL link (to the map site) on the corresponding Urban Toronto post seems to have been truncated (or, rather, elided) in the middle, and consequently doesn't resolve. In the spirit of sharing useful resources, I'd...

I could pretend that the following re-revisitation of Bay and Elm was prompted by this mention a few pages back, but really I just wanted to insert a new photo I found, add an annotation or two, as well as look at the North East corner of Bay and Elm... apologies if this has been covered before...

As a result of overwhelmingly positive feedback, I've updated the Atlas site to include the 1892 Insurance Plan of Toronto from Goad. As thecharioteer notes, many of the sheets possess a delightful amount of detail due to the scale. Thank you for your attention and I hope people find the...

This will be a slight revisitation of a corner previously posted (by Mustapha and colbyb somewhere in this thread) -- I don't *think* anyone has compiled all of these together. [and if they have, well, here goes anyway] Then: Bay and Elm, SE corner, 1928 A slight turn eastwards, in...

thecharioteer began this fantastic thread, Like most of you, I have spent considerable time looking at, or tracking down specific plates of the Goad Atlas of Toronto. Aren’t they beautiful? I was excited to see Atlases put up by the TPL, but soon discovered that navigating their catalogue...

Perhaps it doesn't look like a massive wall to you, but this was my initial reaction to the render for the Bathurst section: We are condo-developer Borg. Your historic neighbourhood will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. I think the Bathurst facing side looks overwhelming and...

Let's hope not. Half your photo is taken up by CityPlace -- widely acknowledged to be an incipient ghetto, the next St. Jamestown. A whole new 'wrong side of the tracks', lacking in integration with the rest of the city. Rife with poor quality workmanship, and copy and paste architecture...

Here's some coverage of the group in the Grid which may answer your questions.

The Globe posted an update about this site -- the archeological dig is finished and development is proceeding...

posted by FAC33: Just to follow up on this [the thread was around here], the Globe posted another article today about the site -- the archeological dig is giving way to the development... Read article here.

Just to go a little bit further back in time: A postcard of this building viewed from the north (previously posted by thecharioteer)... Then: "The City Dairy, on the north-east side of Spadina Crescent, was established by Walter Massey (son of Hart Massey) to provide a safe supply of...

I really don't think that was Ned Hanlan. This photo also appears as a postcard in Toronto Flashbacks 2, a collection of Toronto archival photos selected by Mike Filey. Filey's note on the postcard reads: "Selected as the city's first "official" Miss Toronto in the summer of 1926, Jean Ford...