Toronto Public Library

The Toronto Public Library has a wide range of historic photos, paintings, and maps online. While the collection focuses on Toronto, there are many items from around Ontario, and across Canada.

You can access the library collection in a couple of ways:

• Browse by neighbourhood
• Search the digital archive

We have 542 records from this source in our database ranging from 1802 to 1995.

(Click here to see the complete list of sources available on Wholemap.)

Return to our historic Toronto photos from today page or pick from a collection of Toronto neighbourhoods with historic photos, or see a subset of the images arranged by subject.