Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Goldie]

PapaBob (and others), there is quite a collection of Panoramic WWI Canadian Expeditionary Force photos on the Digitized Manuscripts section of the British Library Website
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx

Search with 'Canada' as the keyword and a date range of 1875-2000
This is the 86th Machine Gun Bn at Niagara
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=hs85!10!31090_f001r

More info here:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk...story-photographed-canada-in-world-war-1.html

Wonderful links Anna. Thanks.
Here's one of the fantastic panoramas.
On the British Library site they can be greatly enlarged - more so than this copy:

 

[FAC33]

That's an amazing discovery, Mustapha!
The school is out-of-sight to most passersby.

I've passed this by hundreds of times and never noticed a thing. Interesting that they chose to adapt an old building in this manner.

 

[Mustapha]

I've passed this by hundreds of times and never noticed a thing. Interesting that they chose to adapt an old building in this manner.

Goldie, yourself and I shared the same sense of surprise on this one. When I saw the old picture at the TPL website, my first reaction was 'it's not there anymore'; even after doing a Google streetview look-see.

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for November 6, 2012.



Then. Frontenac Arms. Jarvis Street. 1950-ish?

Now. May 2012. It's a Ramada now.....It was built in 1930 as an apartment house. It eventually became a hotel; the only former names I can remember now are: The Carriage House and The Essex House. I'm guessing here but it is probably the third oldest hostelry still in business after the King Edward and the Royal York.

 

[thecharioteer]

For a designated building (with a Heritage Easement Agreement no less), Preservation Services was certainly asleep at the switch regarding the "renovations" to the ground floor (not to mention the windows).

http://app.toronto.ca/HeritagePreservation/details.do?folderRsn=2436151&propertyRsn=698573

 

[wwwebster]

Then and Now for Oct 25.

Then. 303 Bay street. c1909. A wwwebster sourced picture.

http://www.thenationalclub.com/

Now. June 2011.

Circa 1906, according to the TPL site:

 

[teridactyl]

Then and Now for November 6, 2012.

I'm guessing here but it is probably the third oldest hostelry still in business after the King Edward and the Royal York.

Hotel Victoria at 56 Yonge should probably be included in this list. Formerly called Hotel Mossop, it opened in 1909. http://www.scribd.com/doc/50657479/Hotel-Victoria-Construction-Magazine-November-1909

 

[Mustapha]

Circa 1906, according to the TPL site:

Wonderful picture wwwebster. I've never seen this on the interwebs. It says 'Robinson House'. I wonder what trade they were engaged in?

 

[Mustapha]

Hotel Victoria at 56 Yonge should probably be included in this list. Formerly called Hotel Mossop, it opened in 1909. http://www.scribd.com/doc/50657479/Hotel-Victoria-Construction-Magazine-November-1909

teridactyl, I forgot about the Hotel Victoria. This changes the rankings then.

King Edward 1903

Hotel Mossop 1909

Royal York 1929

Frontenac 1930

Thank you!

Your link has me wondering how much of the original decor still exists inside. Anyone know?

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for November 7, 2012.


Then. #s 3 - 19 Wilmot Street. July 29, 1949. This long gone street was about 50 paces S of the present intersection of Sackville and Gerrard. We are looking WSW.

Now. June 2012.

 

[wwwebster]

It says 'Robinson House'. I wonder what trade they were engaged in?

from:

http://www30.us.archive.org/details/countyofpeterbor00connuoft

 

[driverso]

Circa 1906, according to the TPL site:

What is that round roofed structure in the back between the buildings?

 

[Mustapha]

What is that round roofed structure in the back between the buildings?

Toronto Opera House/Majestic Theatre.. please click on link and scroll halfway down the page for thecharioteer's postcard view:

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/6947-Miscellany-Toronto-Photographs-Then-and-Now/page113

 

[Goldie]

Mustapha's photo (June/2011) of the National Club reveals the newly constructed Trump Tower to the left.
The other image is a view of the north wall of the National Club before Trump arrived.

 

[Mustapha]

from:

http://www30.us.archive.org/details/countyofpeterbor00connuoft

'...and every attention will be paid to the wants of guests.' But, being a 'Temperance Hotel'; except the wants of those in extreme thirst. Thank you wwwebster.