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On April 19, 1904, fire ripped through downtown Toronto in what is now the Financial District. It started in a tie factory. Wooden exterior fire-escapes and window-sills meant it spread quickly. New-fangled elevators became chimneys. Because of the strong winds and cold, ice congealed on the telegraph wires, the streets and the firemen, who came…
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The new airport express is "full steam ahead" and will open, they say, on June 6. All this talk of trains made me think of all the wonderful shots of trains we have in our Digital Archive (http://ift.tt/1Dn4XI8). This one is a steam locomotive photographed by James Victor Salmon near Strachan Avenue in 1955. Creator:…
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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 west of the current one,…
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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. Clifton Sifton and Miss Katherine…
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Taken just a year and a few weeks after the Great Toronto Fire of 1904, this dramatic shot of the fire at the Canadian Feather & Mattress Company on Melinda St. just east of Bay Street, illustrates the difficulty that the new taller buildings posed to firefighters. The relatively newly-developed elevator technology of the day…
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Published in The Globe on April 21, 1923: "SPRING-AT LAST! The beautiful weather of yesterday afternoon brought forth the artists from their indoor work, and the young folk are interested spectators. The picture was taken at the Grange." Sorta how I feel, too. Go out and enjoy after that long, long, long cold winter! Happy…
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Everyone’s talking about teachers and their students today. This 1902 photograph of the Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave. public school shows the principle, Alexander Muir, and Miss Adda Burger, the teacher of this grade 5 class. Mr Muir is best known for having written the song “Maple Leaf Forever”. The original school (Alexander Muir), built in 1888,…
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The Williams Omnibus (in use 1850-1862) was the first mass-transportation system in Toronto. Here, it’s shown in front the northern terminus of the line — the Red Lion Hotel, which stood on the east side of Yonge St., just north of Bloor St. The southern terminus was the St. Lawrence Market. Creator: Staples, Owen (1866-1949),…
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The recent visit of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Consort of Queen Elizabeth II, made us think of another royal visit, also in May. This is a photograph of the present Queen’s parents (George VI, King of England, and Elizabeth, his queen consort) attending the King’s Plate at the Woodbine race track during their…
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