1845 | ![]() | St. Michael's Roman Catholic Cathedral plans and photos (Categorized under: Architectural drawings --- St Michaels Cathedral ) 178 years ago - 1845 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
1865 | ![]() | Plan for completion of Tower and Spire St. Michael's Roman Catholic Cathedral - Henry Langley (Categorized under: Architectural drawings --- St Michaels Cathedral ) 158 years ago - Thursday, April 27, 1865 - Garden District Max temp: 13.9°C - Min temp: 5.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
1865 | ![]() | Completion of pinnacles of St. Michael's Cathedral - Henry Langley (Categorized under: Architectural drawings --- St Michaels Cathedral ) 158 years ago - Thursday, December 28, 1865 - Garden District Max temp: 1.7°C - Min temp: -2.8°C - 0.3cm of snowfall (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
1867 | ![]() | Unitarian Church - designed in the neo-Gothic style by William Thomas 1854, demolished 1949 156 years ago - 1867 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From Archives of Ontario) |
1874 | ![]() | Sketches: Inside and Outside Elevation, spire, etc... of Jarvis Street Baptist Church (Categorized under: Architectural drawings ) 149 years ago - Tuesday, April 28, 1874 - Garden District Max temp: 4.4°C - Min temp: -2.2°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
1874 | ![]() | Jarvis Street Baptist Church South Elevation - Henry Langley (Categorized under: Architectural drawings ) 149 years ago - Tuesday, April 28, 1874 - Garden District Max temp: 4.4°C - Min temp: -2.2°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
1875 | ![]() | Jarvis Street Baptist Church by Henry Langley (Categorized under: Architectural drawings ) 148 years ago - 1875 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
1890 | ![]() | Steamrollers and crew on Jarvis Street at Wilton Ave (now Dundas) 133 years ago - 1890 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1890 | Allan Gardens pavilion (1878-1902); interior full of flowers 133 years ago - 1890 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
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1890 | ![]() | Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute - built 1871, across from Allans Gardens 133 years ago - 1890 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From Archives of Ontario) |
1890 | ![]() | Power lines down, covered in ice - Ontario Street south of Dundas St (was Wilton Avenue) looking north 133 years ago - 1890 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1894 | Massey Hall interior (Shuter St., s.w. corner Victoria St) (Categorized under: Downtown theatres --- Massey Hall ) 129 years ago - 1894 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
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1895 | Pavilion (1879-1902) and fountain in the Horticultural Gardens - now Allan Gardens - Aquatint photogravure 128 years ago - 1895 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
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1902 | Paderewski playing the piano at Massey Music Hall $1.00 to $2.50 per seat (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 121 years ago - Wednesday, March 5, 1902 - Garden District Max temp: 1.1°C - Min temp: -5.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
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1903 | ![]() | Manual labour on Wilton Avenue (now Dundas) 120 years ago - Monday, November 2, 1903 - Garden District Max temp: 16.1°C - Min temp: 1.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1910 | ![]() | Southwest corner of Shuter and Bond streets with Massey Hall in background 113 years ago - 1910 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1910 | ![]() | Red Mill theater with crowd out front (Categorized under: Downtown theatres ) 113 years ago - 1910 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1910 | Massey Music Hall exterior, Toronto, Canada (before fire escapes) (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 113 years ago - 1910 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
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1911 | ![]() | Sherbourne and Wilton - track construction and house demolition 112 years ago - Saturday, April 15, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 10.0°C - Min temp: 2.2°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Church Street north at Wilton Street (Dundas Street) Track laying 112 years ago - Friday, May 5, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 20.0°C - Min temp: 1.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Church and Wilton - laying streetcar track 112 years ago - Friday, May 5, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 20.0°C - Min temp: 1.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Wilton and Church - track construction 112 years ago - Thursday, May 25, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 21.1°C - Min temp: 10.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Wilton west of Jarvis - track construction 112 years ago - Thursday, May 25, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 21.1°C - Min temp: 10.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Wilton Cres. west of Sherbourne -track construction 112 years ago - Wednesday, June 7, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 17.8°C - Min temp: 11.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | All Saints Church in distance at Wilton Cres. east of Sherbourne 112 years ago - Wednesday, June 7, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 17.8°C - Min temp: 11.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Wilton and Victoria - streetcar track 112 years ago - Friday, June 9, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 22.2°C - Min temp: 12.2°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Victoria Street south from Shuter Street 112 years ago - Sunday, July 16, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 24.4°C - Min temp: 16.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Shuter and Victoria, paving and street car trackwork 112 years ago - Wednesday, July 26, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 21.7°C - Min temp: 9.4°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | ![]() | Victoria and Shuter Streets looking east on Shuter Street 112 years ago - Wednesday, July 26, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 21.7°C - Min temp: 9.4°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1911 | Toronto Garrison Church Parade program - Massey Hall (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 112 years ago - Wednesday, October 11, 1911 - Garden District Max temp: 14.4°C - Min temp: 11.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |
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1913 | ![]() | Girls class at Jarvis Collegiate Institute (1871-1924) Irene Lindala and Impi Svenski were the first Finnish girls in the Institute 110 years ago - 1913 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From Archives of Ontario) |
1913 | ![]() | Red Mill Theatre, north of Queen Street at 183 Yonge Street (Categorized under: Downtown theatres ) 110 years ago - Tuesday, April 8, 1913 - Garden District Max temp: 7.8°C - Min temp: -1.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1913 | ![]() | Red Mill Theatre opened 1906 by John Griffin under the name of The Theatorium (Categorized under: Downtown theatres ) 110 years ago - Tuesday, April 8, 1913 - Garden District Max temp: 7.8°C - Min temp: -1.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1913 | ![]() | Red Mill Theatre, north of Queen Street on Yonge Street (Categorized under: Downtown theatres ) 110 years ago - Tuesday, April 8, 1913 - Garden District Max temp: 7.8°C - Min temp: -1.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1913 | ![]() | Allan Gardens - tulip beds, Burns monument 110 years ago - Saturday, May 3, 1913 - Garden District Max temp: 26.7°C - Min temp: 13.3°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1913 | ![]() | Construction on the south west corner of Church and Dundas (then Wilton Ave) 110 years ago - Wednesday, May 7, 1913 - Garden District Max temp: 15.0°C - Min temp: 4.4°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1913 | ![]() | Bank of Montreal, northeast corner of Queen and Yonge streets 110 years ago - Tuesday, December 30, 1913 - Garden District Max temp: 2.2°C - Min temp: -1.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1914 | ![]() | Wilton Avenue East of Yonge Street with O'Keefe's in background 109 years ago - Thursday, October 1, 1914 - Garden District Max temp: 17.2°C - Min temp: 6.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1915 | ![]() | 363 Wilton Ave. - curb heaved up by frost 108 years ago - Tuesday, May 4, 1915 - Garden District Max temp: 11.7°C - Min temp: 5.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1915 | ![]() | Carlton St. west from Sherbourne St. with Allan Garden to the left 108 years ago - Wednesday, November 10, 1915 - Garden District Max temp: 8.3°C - Min temp: -1.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1916 | ![]() | Rialto Theatre, southeast corner of Yonge and Shuter streets (Categorized under: Downtown theatres ) 107 years ago - Thursday, October 5, 1916 - Garden District Max temp: 24.4°C - Min temp: 6.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1916 | ![]() | Rialto Theatre (side) Yonge and Shuter with Power and Weber Eye of God ad (Categorized under: Downtown theatres ) 107 years ago - Thursday, October 5, 1916 - Garden District Max temp: 24.4°C - Min temp: 6.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1916 | ![]() | Rialto Theatre - Yonge and Shuter Streets - south east corner (Categorized under: Downtown theatres ) 107 years ago - Thursday, October 5, 1916 - Garden District Max temp: 24.4°C - Min temp: 6.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1916 | ![]() | Wilton (now Dundas) and Jarvis north west corner 107 years ago - Saturday, October 28, 1916 - Garden District Max temp: 10.0°C - Min temp: 0.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1916 | ![]() | Waiting to cross the street at Wilton and Jarvis 107 years ago - Monday, October 30, 1916 - Garden District Max temp: 17.8°C - Min temp: 6.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1916 | ![]() | Slum housing - 263-269 Church Street 107 years ago - Wednesday, November 1, 1916 - Garden District Max temp: 9.4°C - Min temp: 6.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1917 | ![]() | Northwest corner Wilton and Victoria 106 years ago - Friday, April 20, 1917 - Garden District Max temp: 18.3°C - Min temp: 5.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1917 | ![]() | Northwest corner Wilton and Victoria 106 years ago - Friday, April 20, 1917 - Garden District Max temp: 18.3°C - Min temp: 5.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1917 | ![]() | Queen Street West at Bond Street, streetcar tracking machine 106 years ago - Sunday, April 29, 1917 - Garden District Max temp: 12.2°C - Min temp: 3.9°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1919 | ![]() | Massey Hall interior looking from the stage out to the audience - Street railway strike meeting (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 104 years ago - 1919 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1919 | ![]() | Dundas Street west from Bond Street to Yonge 104 years ago - Friday, May 9, 1919 - Garden District Max temp: 12.8°C - Min temp: 7.2°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1919 | ![]() | Bond Street and Dundas Street looking south 104 years ago - Friday, May 9, 1919 - Garden District Max temp: 12.8°C - Min temp: 7.2°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1920 | ![]() | Metropolitan Church (Queen Street, before the 1928 fire) 103 years ago - 1920 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1920 | ![]() | British Welcome & Welfare League, Gerrard and Pembroke streets 103 years ago - 1920 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1920 | ![]() | Looking from St. Michaels Cathedral grounds towards Metropolitan Church (Categorized under: Ornamental gate --- St Michaels Cathedral ) 103 years ago - 1920 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1921 | ![]() | Path and flowers in an Allen Gardens greenhouse 102 years ago - Wednesday, March 16, 1921 - Garden District Max temp: 8.3°C - Min temp: 1.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1922 | ![]() | Cafeteria and carpet cleaning ad on southwest corner Shuter and Church 101 years ago - Friday, February 17, 1922 - Garden District Max temp: -8.9°C - Min temp: -21.7°C - 0.3cm of snowfall (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1923 | ![]() | Dundas and George, looking east 100 years ago - Wednesday, April 18, 1923 - Garden District Max temp: 7.8°C - Min temp: 0.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1923 | ![]() | Dundas and Bond, looking west 100 years ago - Wednesday, May 30, 1923 - Garden District Max temp: 21.7°C - Min temp: 7.2°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1925 | ![]() | St. Michaels Cathedral, northeast corner of Shuter and Bond streets (Categorized under: St Michaels Cathedral ) 98 years ago - Monday, June 1, 1925 - Garden District Max temp: 33.3°C - Min temp: 17.8°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1925 | ![]() | Massey Hall interior during a W. L. M. King meeting (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 98 years ago - Friday, October 23, 1925 - Garden District Max temp: 7.8°C - Min temp: -1.1°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1926 | ![]() | Massey Hall - Toronto Symphony Orchestra fifth season, 1926-1927 (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 97 years ago - 1926 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1926 | ![]() | Baptist Bible Union First Annual Convention, Jarvis Street Baptist Church 97 years ago - Saturday, April 24, 1926 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From Archives of Ontario) |
1928 | ![]() | Demolishing old Jarvis Collegiate (1871-1924) view from the south 95 years ago - Friday, August 3, 1928 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1928 | ![]() | Ho Look Laundry 17-27 Mutual Street, looking south-east 95 years ago - Friday, December 14, 1928 - Garden District Max temp: 4.4°C - Min temp: 0.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1929 | ![]() | Loews Theatre on right - 189 Yonge St looking north from Queen, traffic at 1 p.m (Categorized under: Downtown theatres ) 94 years ago - Saturday, August 31, 1929 - Garden District Max temp: 31.1°C - Min temp: 10.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1929 | ![]() | Jarvis St, north, from Shuter, showing condition of roadway after snowstorm 94 years ago - Tuesday, December 24, 1929 - Garden District Max temp: -1.1°C - Min temp: -9.4°C - 0.5cm of snowfall (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1929 | ![]() | Shuter St, east from Jarvis, showing condition of roadway after snowstorm, (Way Department) 94 years ago - Tuesday, December 24, 1929 - Garden District Max temp: -1.1°C - Min temp: -9.4°C - 0.5cm of snowfall (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1934 | ![]() | Walnut Hall - 19th century Georgian townhomes 102 - 110 Shuter Street 89 years ago - Monday, November 5, 1934 - Garden District Max temp: 10.6°C - Min temp: 5.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1938 | ![]() | W. York Laundry at 390-396 Church Street 85 years ago - Saturday, May 28, 1938 - Garden District Max temp: 22.2°C - Min temp: 15.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1940 | ![]() | Avonmore Hotel fire damage - Gerrard and Jarvis streets - A&P and Nicholls Drug Stores on main floor (Categorized under: Hotels ) 83 years ago - Saturday, March 16, 1940 - Garden District Max temp: 2.2°C - Min temp: -5.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1940 | ![]() | Avonmore Hotel fire - side entrance, separate for men and ladies (Categorized under: Hotels ) 83 years ago - Saturday, March 16, 1940 - Garden District Max temp: 2.2°C - Min temp: -5.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1955 | ![]() | MacKenzie House - Greek Revival row-house family home of William Lyon Mackenzie at 82 Bond St 68 years ago - 1955 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1956 | ![]() | Massey Hall Audience - Toronto on Sunday - commissioned by Time Incorporated (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 67 years ago - Monday, November 19, 1956 - Garden District Max temp: 8.9°C - Min temp: 1.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1965 | ![]() | Toronto Labour Temple for sale - 167 Church St. - Moorish Revival built as the Athenaeum Club 1891 58 years ago - Tuesday, September 7, 1965 - Garden District Max temp: 21.1°C - Min temp: 15.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From York University Archives) |
1973 | ![]() | View of the 260 foot St. Michael's spire, looking north from Queen St East ??? (Categorized under: St Michaels Cathedral ) 50 years ago - Monday, July 16, 1973 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1979 | ![]() | St. Michael's Cathedral - view up to window details on the roof (Categorized under: St Michaels Cathedral ) 44 years ago - Wednesday, March 7, 1979 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1979 | ![]() | Outside view of a rose window in St. Michaels Cathedral (Categorized under: St Michaels Cathedral ) 44 years ago - Wednesday, March 7, 1979 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives) |
1980 | ![]() | Warwick Hotel, Dundas Street East at Jarvis Street (Categorized under: Hotels ) 43 years ago - 1980 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location |
1980 | ![]() | Warwick Hotel - interior shots before demolition (Hotel Warwick) (Categorized under: Hotels ) 43 years ago - Wednesday, November 19, 1980 - Garden District Max temp: 3.1°C - Min temp: -1.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From Collations Flickr stream) |
1984 | ![]() | 247-249 Dundas St E and an awful addition (which remains to this day) 39 years ago - Saturday, February 4, 1984 - Garden District Max temp: 2.8°C - Min temp: 0.7°C - 3.2cm of snowfall - 11.0cm of snow on the ground (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From Collations Flickr stream) |
1994 | Massey Hall - fish-eye lens, all decked out in ribbons for its 100th anniversary (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 29 years ago - Friday, June 10, 1994 - Garden District Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library) |