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Your points are all well taken. Front St in the 50s looks shabby, yes, but it has character. I may be just weird, but I'd take that gritty, crumpled vista over the current profligation of mediocre, glass and steel sameness any day.

It seems I'll never get over it. Every time I see a before and after like this, an exquisite edifice destroyed and ultimately replaced by an unimaginative, generic p.o.s., I just want to scream. "Urban renewal" was a 10 year period of mass dementia.

That's captured German submarine UC 97 beside the tug on its tour of the Great Lakes before being sunk in Lake Michigan in 1921 by the US Navy. Hence the large crowd, I imagine.

I think so too. I think that may be Perth street on the left at 3:18.

Nice screen capture. I noticed that as well and thought for a second that he was galloping at breakneck speed - until of course I realized the film, like many old films, was running about 30% faster than normal! Glad you enjoyed it.

Wonderful footage. Longtime lurker here, thought maybe I would contribute something. This is wonderful. Apologies if you've already seen it:

Stunning. Thank you so much for posting these; I could pore over them for hours. Nice to learn about Lambeth too and his "documentary humanism." Cheers, ElJay (UT lurker extraordinaire).

German medal? The medal on the chap at left looks a lot like a WWI German medal for bravery.. Interesting, no? He couldn't be wearing such a thing in 1918 in Canada though could he???

you captured my feelings exactly! the only thing better than the exact date is the rare instance when there is the time of day as well. kind of brings home the reality of an image being a real point in time, in someone's life, frozen forever.

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