Historic photos from around TorontoThere are a number of great web sites that provide historic photos from around Toronto. As I was collecting them for an interactive historic map of the city I realized that it was also interesting to find photos that were taken around the current time of the year. How much snow was there at the end of March in 1916, for example?And so this page was born. It will always show a collection of photos from around Toronto over the last few weeks. You can also see all the historic photos for a given neighbourhood. A subset of the photos have also been arranged by subject.
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| September 24 images permanent link to this day | ||
| 1912 |  | Silver Birch Ave., looking north from the lakefront 114 years ago - Tuesday, September 24, 1912 - The Beaches Max temp: 15.6°C - Min temp: 14.4°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| 1924 |  | Oakwood, north of Earnscliffe Rd - York Township 102 years ago - Wednesday, September 24, 1924 - Oakwood at 241 Oakwood Ave Max temp: 15.0°C - Min temp: 5.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1928 |  | From the rear of the new Union station the huge new Royal York hotel under construction (Categorized under: Royal York Hotel ) 98 years ago - Monday, September 24, 1928 - Financial District at 100 Front Street West across from Union Station Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| 1929 |  | High Park duck and goose pond 97 years ago - Tuesday, September 24, 1929 - High Park at 1873 Bloor Street West Max temp: 23.3°C - Min temp: 8.3°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1929 |  | A black stork (Ciconia nigra) in the stork family Ciconiidae in the High Park Zoo 97 years ago - Tuesday, September 24, 1929 - High Park at 29 Deer Pen Road Max temp: 23.3°C - Min temp: 8.3°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1979 |  | Construction of the New Massey Hall progressing at King and Simcoe Sts. in downtown Toronto 47 years ago - Monday, September 24, 1979 - King Street West at 60 Simcoe Street s.w. corner at King Street West Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| 1980 |  | Flightstop by artist Michael Snow towards the Queen Street portion of the Eaton Centre 46 years ago - Wednesday, September 24, 1980 - Downtown at 220 Yonge Street south end of the mall Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| September 23 images permanent link to this day | ||
| 1920 | Nut Krust Bakeries sign for electric baked ovens since 1919 - Danforth and Broadview Ave 106 years ago - Thursday, September 23, 1920 - The Danforth at 90 Danforth Ave Link to archive record - Map location (From the Library and Archives Canada) |
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| 1927 |  | Campbell house in distance at the top of Frederick Street looking at west entrance to freight sheds on The Esplanade (Categorized under: Campbell House ) 99 years ago - Friday, September 23, 1927 - Old Town at 85 Frederick Street Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1980 |  | James Scott Howard house - Toronto's first post office - revealed - with the windows rounded and bricked up (Categorized under: First Toronto post office ) 46 years ago - Tuesday, September 23, 1980 - St. Lawrence at 260 Adelaide Street East just east of George Street Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| September 22 images permanent link to this day | ||
| 1933 |  | Switchboard at the High level pumping station (Categorized under: High level pumping station ) 93 years ago - Friday, September 22, 1933 - Republic of Rathnelly at 25 Poplar Plains Road just north of Macpherson Ave Max temp: 18.3°C - Min temp: 10.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1933 | | High level pumping station - under Gallery north side (Categorized under: High level pumping station ) 93 years ago - Friday, September 22, 1933 - Republic of Rathnelly at 25 Poplar Plains Road just north of Macpherson Ave Max temp: 18.3°C - Min temp: 10.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1933 | | Switchboard (rear) - High level pumping station (Categorized under: High level pumping station ) 93 years ago - Friday, September 22, 1933 - Republic of Rathnelly at 25 Poplar Plains Road just north of Macpherson Ave Max temp: 18.3°C - Min temp: 10.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1949 |  | Dalhousie Street looking south from Gerrard Street East 77 years ago - Thursday, September 22, 1949 - Ryerson Max temp: 21.7°C - Min temp: 8.9°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1950 |  | Looking south across Shuter street to Massey Hall with outside fire-escape (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 76 years ago - Friday, September 22, 1950 - Garden District at Shuter Street east of Yonge street Link to archive record - Map location (From Archives of Ontario) |
| 1979 |  | Bride, groom, piper from the 48th Highlanders, and a 1912 Rolls-Royce Ladybird outside the Timothy Eaton Memorial church (Categorized under: Timothy Eaton Memorial Church ) 47 years ago - Saturday, September 22, 1979 - Forest Hill at 230 St. Clair Avenue West Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| September 21 images permanent link to this day | ||
| 1967 |  | Friar's Tavern - The Sugar Shoppe performing live at Friars Tavern in the late 1960s (Categorized under: Live music ) 59 years ago - Thursday, September 21, 1967 - Downtown at 238 Yonge Street just south of Yonge and Dundas Square Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| 1968 |  | Movie poster for The Chelsea girls by Andy Warhol showing at the ROM auditorium in 1968 58 years ago - Saturday, September 21, 1968 - Royal Ontario Museum at 100 Queens Park s.w. corner at Bloor Street West Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| 1984 |  | Knox Presbyterian Church on Spadina Ave 42 years ago - Friday, September 21, 1984 - University of Toronto (U of T) at 630 Spadina Ave south of Harbord Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
| 2010 | | El Mocambo tavern interior painted blue - Think Bike workshop (Categorized under: El Mocambo ) 16 years ago - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - Chinatown (Spadina Ave) at 464 Spadina Ave Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| September 20 images permanent link to this day | ||
| 1915 | | 464 Dupont St. The Exclusive Wardrobe. Cleaning, Dyeing & Pressing Phone Hill 1658 111 years ago - Monday, September 20, 1915 - The Annex at 464 Dupont Street Max temp: 21.7°C - Min temp: 7.8°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
| 1915 | Fishermans Island Public School with wooden sidewalk on the sand (Categorized under: Schools ) 111 years ago - Monday, September 20, 1915 - Cherry Beach at 1 Cherry Street Max temp: 21.7°C - Min temp: 7.8°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Library and Archives Canada) |
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| 1915 | Path looking west from foot of Cherry St. on Fishermans Island towards Wards Island 111 years ago - Monday, September 20, 1915 - Cherry Beach at 1 Cherry Street Max temp: 21.7°C - Min temp: 7.8°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Library and Archives Canada) |
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| 1922 | | Avoca Avenue south to Pleasant Boulevard 104 years ago - Wednesday, September 20, 1922 - Moore Park Max temp: 20.0°C - Min temp: 10.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |