Historic Toronto photos from May 7

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.

Short URL to share for historic photos from May 7: wholemap.com/May7

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.

1913		Construction on the south west corner of Church and Dundas (then Wilton Ave) 113 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)
1919		Spadina Ave. looking north from south of College St. - Star Cafe on left, Knox College in centre (Categorized under: El Mocambo ) 107 years ago - Wednesday, May 7, 1919 - Chinatown (Spadina Ave) Max temp: 22.2°C - Min temp: 7.2°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1924		Construction of Earlscourt Shelter - no roof yet 102 years ago - Wednesday, May 7, 1924 - Little Italy (St. Clair) Max temp: 16.1°C - Min temp: 5.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1924		Exterior complete at the Danforth Lavatory 102 years ago - Wednesday, May 7, 1924 - The Danforth Max temp: 16.1°C - Min temp: 5.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1931		St Clair Avenue level crossing, looking east to Caledonia Road 95 years ago - Thursday, May 7, 1931 - Little Italy (St. Clair) Max temp: 19.4°C - Min temp: 11.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1945		V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) - 25 Gwynne Avenue - Corporal E.B. Jamieson, Private Allan Brown 81 years ago - Monday, May 7, 1945 - Liberty Village at 25 Gwynne Ave Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1953		John Ross Robertson - Culloden House - just south of the corner of Sherbourne and Gerrard (Categorized under: Culloden house ) 73 years ago - Thursday, May 7, 1953 - Cabbagetown South Max temp: 20.0°C - Min temp: 11.7°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library)
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