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 576 records from this source in our database ranging from 1802 to 1999.

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

Jump back in to the historic Toronto photos organized:

• by date from today
• by Toronto neighbourhoods with historic photos
• by subject
• by street name