Historic Toronto photos from May 11

There 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.

If you'd like to see photos from today, you can always load this page without parameters to see the last few days worth of photos.

You can also see all the historic photos for a given neighbourhood. A subset of the photos have also been arranged by subject.

1912 Historic photo from Saturday, May 11, 1912 - Standing on the bridge over the Don looking west to Riverdale park in Riverdale parkStanding on the bridge over the Don looking west to Riverdale park
112 years ago - Saturday, May 11, 1912 - Riverdale park
Max temp: 20.6°C - Min temp: 8.3°C (weather details)
Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1912 Historic photo from Saturday, May 11, 1912 - Riverdale Park : looking north on east side of Don River in Riverdale parkRiverdale Park : looking north on east side of Don River
112 years ago - Saturday, May 11, 1912 - Riverdale park
Max temp: 20.6°C - Min temp: 8.3°C (weather details)
Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1912 Historic photo from Saturday, May 11, 1912 - Riverdale Park : looking northwest from near Gerrard St in Riverdale parkRiverdale Park : looking northwest from near Gerrard St
112 years ago - Saturday, May 11, 1912 - Riverdale park
Max temp: 20.6°C - Min temp: 8.3°C (weather details)
Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1912 Historic photo from Saturday, May 11, 1912 - Riverdale Zoo Park : duck pond when nearly dry in Riverdale parkRiverdale Zoo Park : duck pond when nearly dry
112 years ago - Saturday, May 11, 1912 - Riverdale park
Max temp: 20.6°C - Min temp: 8.3°C (weather details)
Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1937 Historic photo from Tuesday, May 11, 1937 - North east corner of Sussex Avenue from Mayor Street in Harbord VillageNorth east corner of Sussex Avenue from Mayor Street
87 years ago - Tuesday, May 11, 1937 - Harbord Village at 84 Sussex Ave
Max temp: 20.6°C - Min temp: 6.7°C (weather details)
Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1974 Historic photo from Saturday, May 11, 1974 - View from University College central tower looking at the turret and city beyond in University of Toronto (U of T)View from University College central tower looking at the turret and city beyond
50 years ago - Saturday, May 11, 1974 - University of Toronto (U of T)
Max temp: 13.9°C - Min temp: 6.1°C (weather details)
Link to archive record - Map location (From the University of Toronto Archives)
1977 Historic photo from Wednesday, May 11, 1977 - Queen Street East - Don Bridge - before Time and a Clock Bridge addition in Riverside-South RiverdaleQueen Street East - Don Bridge - before Time and a Clock Bridge addition
(Categorized under: Queen Don bridge )
47 years ago - Wednesday, May 11, 1977 - Riverside-South Riverdale at 578 Queen Street East
Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1977 Historic photo from Wednesday, May 11, 1977 - New Edwin Hotel on Queen Street East looking west from Baseball Place in Riverside-South RiverdaleNew Edwin Hotel on Queen Street East looking west from Baseball Place
(Categorized under: Hotels )
47 years ago - Wednesday, May 11, 1977 - Riverside-South Riverdale at 650 Queen Street East n.e. corner at Carroll Street
Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1983 Historic photo from Wednesday, May 11, 1983 - Edwards Gardens mini waterfalls in May, 1983 in Edward GardensEdwards Gardens mini waterfalls in May, 1983
41 years ago - Wednesday, May 11, 1983 - Edward Gardens at 755 Lawrence Ave East s.w. corner at Leslie Street
Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library Still not back as of March 2024)
2011 Historic photo from Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - Filtration room, R.C. Harris water treatment plant at 2701 Queen St. E. at the foot of Victoria Park Ave
 in FallingbrookFiltration room, R.C. Harris water treatment plant at 2701 Queen St. E. at the foot of Victoria Park Ave
(Categorized under: R C Harris Water Treatment Plant )
13 years ago - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - Fallingbrook at 2701 Queen Street East foot of Victoria Park Ave.
Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
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