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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

thecharioteer said:
Berkeley House:

1802:

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1885:

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1908:

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Yes, the site of Berkeley House was excavated when the Globe & Mail building was built. There are probably posts on it on that OLD UT thread. I think the consensus was that the last photo in your series shows the house at the very east end of the G&M building adjacent to the heritage building that is still there on King @ Berkeley.

A google search produced a (no longer available) Reddit Thread " Foundations for the "Berkeley House" unearthed during construction of The Globe and Mail Centre." with only this photo (2013)

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I'm sure we've seen this one before...........but its a goodie.

This is a shot that technically can't exist anymore, since the streets involved were largely erased.

This is the streetcar loop off of what is now Bay St. that ran along Louisa and down James. The picture is shooting up James towards Louisa.

The construction site to the right in the photo is the Toronto Eaton Centre.

Its from the Transit Toronto collection, photographer unknown: (July 1974)

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Give or take a few meters this is my best approximation of the today shot, from Streetview:

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Note Trinity Church appears in both photos on the upper right.
 
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Northern Light said:
I'm sure we've seen this one before...........but its a goodie.

This is a shot that technically can't exist anymore, since the streets involved were largely erased.

This is the streetcar loop off of what is now Bay St. that ran along Louisa and down James. The picture is shooting up James towards Louisa.

The construction site to the right in the photo is the Toronto Eaton Centre.

Its from the Transit Toronto collection, photographer unknown: (July 1974)

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Give or take a few meters this is my best approximation of the today shot, from Streetview:

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Note Trinity Church appears in both photos on the upper right.
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Rarer still are any photos of streetcars in service on the trackage along Louisa/Albert that extended *west* of Bay, up Elizabeth and over to Dundas. I think I may only have seen one such photo of an actual streetcar on that trackage.
 
fiendishlibrarian said:
Rarer still are any photos of streetcars in service on the trackage along Louisa/Albert that extended *west* of Bay, up Elizabeth and over to Dundas. I think I may only have seen one such photo of an actual streetcar on that trackage.
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I love a challenge!

Only the first one comes close to the brief, the rest are bonuses from the research.

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Louisa Street east of Bay: (June 1st, 1969)

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Albert, turning north onto Bay:

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Here is Albert, west of James:

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Can't find the credit for the above, source is here:
 
Northern Light said:
I love a challenge!

Only the first one comes close to the brief, the rest are bonuses from the research.

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Louisa Street east of Bay: (June 1st, 1969)

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Albert, turning north onto Bay:

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Here is Albert, west of James:

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Can't find the credit for the above, source is here:
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Love the first shot. Could that be the proverbial 'turnip truck'? An aged relative used to tell stories of driving produce into Hamilton in the old, old stake truck, down the Mountain cut, losing the back wheel and watching it go by him as they clattered along. A different time indeed.
 
An out-of-town set.

From Kitchener, because this photo showed up in my social feed.

King Street, at the CN/GO crossing.

Then: (December 1971)

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Photo credit embedded above.

Background above is the old UniRoyal Factory.

Now: (per streetview)_... (not quite the same shot, due to a grade separation)

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Factory adapted to Google offices.
 
I recently discovered this hidden gem for myself after stumbling across a couple of photos on Toronto Archive:

year 19xx (unknown):
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year 1929:
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This is Ormscliffe/Myrtle Villa located on the south side of Lake Shore Blvd. W. across from Vimy Ridge Parkette. The manor (designed by Frederick H. Herbert) was built in 1910 along with the back gardens (designed by Dunington-Grubb).

Here is the current layout of the state of the property:
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Sufficed to say, the property suffered immensely from mid-20th century infill projects of the 3/4-storey walk-up apartment variety.

Here are some shots of the historic garden and the main building from my walk this past weekend:

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Full Metal Junkie said:
I recently discovered this hidden gem for myself after stumbling across a couple of photos on Toronto Archive:

year 19xx (unknown):
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year 1929:
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This is Ormscliffe/Myrtle Villa located on the south side of Lake Shore Blvd. W. across from Vimy Ridge Parkette. The manor (designed by Frederick H. Herbert) was built in 1910 along with the back gardens (designed by Dunington-Grubb).

Here is the current layout of the state of the property:
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image source

Sufficed to say, the property suffered immensely from mid-20th century infill projects of the 3/4-storey walk-up apartment variety.

Here are some shots of the historic garden and the main building from my walk this past weekend:

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Great find. Here is a 1911 pic of "A.B. Ormsby's residence Ormscliffe, Lakeshore Road"

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Here is an article on the house: https://www.etobicokehistorical.com...ong-history-along-mimicorsquos-lakeshore.html

and https://www.acotoronto.ca/building.php?ID=9047
 
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