This picture shows the spectators at a baseball game held on then-vacant land in 1900. They stood (some sat) on the south side of Deforest Rd., between Kennedy and Runnymede in Toronto. The area is now a residential street. Check out your area in our Digital Archive (http://ift.tt/1Dn4XI8). Creator: Unknown Read More →
Down south, it’s election time! Before Twitter, we relied on slower means of communications. Below, a crowd of concerned Ontarians await the result of the provincial elections on June 8, 1908, at the corner of Bay and Melinda. Creator: Unknown Date: 1908 Identifier: B 10-36a Format: Ephemera Rights: Public domain Read More →
This silver-gelatin print shows some of the 6,000 young men who left Toronto’s Union Station in 1923, headed for the Prairies to help out with the harvest for a daily wage. The station in the picture is the predecessor of the modern-day Union Station , however, which stood (1873-1927) just Read More →
Hoping you all glide through Valentine’s day as gracefully as the two couples pictured here, from the in 1923. These members of the Toronto Skating Club are pictured in “Graceful Movements” (show), presented in their Dupont Street rink. At left: Mr. Melville Rogers and Miss Sydney Pepler. At right: Mr. Read More →
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