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Winter on Yonge St. in the 1870s looks just as cold as it does now! Fewer cars, more horses, perhaps… and electric lights replaced both types of gas streetlights you see here, at the intersection of Yonge and King. The advertisement (which used to be painted directly on the buildings) reads J.G. Joseph & Co.,…
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In the summer of 1893, it was hot and it was dry. There was a drought, and that September the City’s water intake pipe broke. This meant that water had to be brought in by wagon—people would go out into the street to meet the wagon and fill their buckets, cans and other containers. This…
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In the summer of 1893, it was hot and it was dry. There was a drought, and that September the City’s water intake pipe broke. This meant that water had to be brought in by wagon—people would go out into the street to meet the wagon and fill their buckets, cans and other containers. This…
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This 1885 image shows a shop that stood on the south-west corner of King and Frederick streets, just east of Jarvis. Walter J. Sylvester’s grocery, at 213 King Street East, and William Christie’s harness-making shop (211) are pictured here. Other local businesses in the area included a hotel, dry goods, laundry and second-hand goods shops…
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This lithograph depicts the great fire at St. John, NB, on June 20th, 1877. “The Fire broke out on York Point at half past two P.M. and burned furiously until after midnight, consuming several hundred buildings among which were the Post Office, Custom House, Academy of Music, eleven churches, a number of Hotels, Banks and…
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April 28, 1911: Men’s bones found while digging the drain for the new Sunday school of Weston Presbyterian Church. A contemporary newspaper article states that workmen excavating at the corner of Main and Mill streets, Weston, about 50 feet from the banks of the Humber River, came across the skeletons of 30 men only two…
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April 28, 1911: Men’s bones found while digging the drain for the new Sunday school of Weston Presbyterian Church. A contemporary newspaper article states that workmen excavating at the corner of Main and Mill streets, Weston, about 50 feet from the banks of the Humber River, came across the skeletons of 30 men only two…
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