Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[wwwebster]

Any ideas on location of first photo? (Church Street??)

I think that’s E.J. Lennox’s Cobban Building in the background, so west of Bay.

http://data2.archives.ca/e/e431/e010757119-v8.jpg

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"E.J. Lennox’s Cobban Building in the background "
QUOTE: wwwebster.

Cobban Mfg.
Picture frames, mirrors, etc.

(You had better watch yourself DSC, wwwebster just might be with the expectation of an invite for another free breakfast
at The St Lawrence Sunday Market!)
LOL.


Regards,
J T

 

[wwwebster]

I contribute because I benefit. No further compensation required. As the song says:

If you take, then put back in
If you steal, be Robin Hood

 

[thecharioteer]

Mad Men Toronto-style, (Peake and Whittingham Studio):

Caption:

Item consists of 1 black and white negative depicting the final Peake & Whittingham studio at 159 Elm Street, just west of University Avenue. The studio interior shows W. J. (Bill) Whittinham behind the camera, while his son, Ted, arranges the shot of Squibb Vitamin products.

 

[the lemur]

I contribute because I benefit. No further compensation required. As the song says:

If you take, then put back in
If you steal, be Robin Hood

I thought it was 'put back good' (to rhyme with 'Hood')? Either way, your contributions are always very valuable.

 

[wwwebster]

Thank you! And thanks for the correction; you're right!

 

[thecharioteer]

View of harbour from the Royal Bank at King & Yonge. April 20, 1925:

April 21, 1925:

 

[themarc]

View of harbour from the Royal Bank at King & Yonge. April 20, 1925:

What is the shallows/form-work taking shape along the right (mid) border of this picture?

 

[Goldie]

What is the shallows/form-work taking shape along the right (mid) border of this picture?

That may be the beginnings of the landfill that eventually extended that far into the harbour.
It's approximately where we'd find the Harbour Castle Hotel today.

 

[adma]

I'd vouch for that, too--indeed, 1925 almost seems disconcertingly *late* for the waterfront to be that close.

And a little further west, of course, the Terminal Warehouse was shortly to materialize.

 

[thecharioteer]

Speaking of the waterfront:

Plan of improvements 1837:

The plan that didn't happen (Proposed Waterfront Pleasure Gardens), 1852, signed by John Howard, City Surveyor;

Harbour construction (1910's):

 

[thecharioteer]

Queen's Quay November 24, 1927

Looking east from Bay:

Looking west from Bay:

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Speaking of the waterfront:
Harbour construction (1910's):"
QUOTE Thecharioteer.
(First set, third pic.)

You can't fool us as to you not being there, Thecharioteer! Your fingerprints are all over that picture!
(Uupper right side, 2 inches below the top edge.)
(LOL)


Kind regards,
J T

 

[thecharioteer]

Religious buildings Financial District:

Drawing by Owen Staples in the TPL, used in Landmarks of Toronto, 1895-96, of Jewish Synagogue, south side of Richmond Street, east of York Street:

The United Presbyterian Church in 1851, SE corner of Richmond and Bay, painted in 1912 by Frederick Victor Poole:

Lithograph 1860:

African Methodist Episcopal Church, Richmond Street, north side, east of York, 1913:

Zion Congregational Church, NE corner of Bay and Adelaide, 1855:

Richmond Street Methodist Church, south side between Yonge and Bay, 1867:

Knox's Church, south side of Queen, between Yonge and Bay, 1847:

St. Andrew's, 1876:

 

[Goldie]

Thanks for those reminders, thecharioteer.
One can easily understand how Toronto became known as "The City of Churches."
I have two question: How many Toronto churches have been demolished since 1900 and is the pace of destruction increasing?