Historic Toronto photos from August 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.

Short URL to share for historic photos from August 11: wholemap.com/Aug11

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.

 
 

1915		West side of Havelock Street 110 years ago - Wednesday, August 11, 1915 - Dufferin Grove Max temp: 28.3°C - Min temp: 15.6°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1920		Ossington Ave. south from Dundas 105 years ago - Wednesday, August 11, 1920 - Trinity Bellwoods Max temp: 28.3°C - Min temp: 18.3°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1920		Exhibition Planting in the gardens 105 years ago - Wednesday, August 11, 1920 - CNE Max temp: 28.3°C - Min temp: 18.3°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1931		Dupont St and Avenue Rd, looking north with a trolley on the way 94 years ago - Tuesday, August 11, 1931 - The Annex Max temp: 22.8°C - Min temp: 15.0°C (weather details) Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1966		Town Tavern - Roy Kral singing live in Toronto in 1966 - part of Jackie and Roy (Categorized under: Live music ) 59 years ago - Thursday, August 11, 1966 - Downtown at 16 Queen Street East just east of Yonge Street Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library)
1966		Town Tavern - Roy Kral singing live in Toronto in 1966 - part of Jackie and Roy 59 years ago - Thursday, August 11, 1966 - Downtown at 16 Queen Street East just east of Yonge Street Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library)
1980		New Massey Hall under construction in 1980 - some of the diamond shape glass already in place (Categorized under: Roy Thompson Hall ) 45 years ago - Monday, August 11, 1980 - King Street West at 60 Simcoe Street s.w. corner at King Street West Link to archive record - Map location (From the City of Toronto Archives)
1986		Pond with water fountain and kids on bikes in Toronto Mount Pleasant Cemetery 39 years ago - Monday, August 11, 1986 - Mount Pleasant Cemetery at 375 Mount Pleasant Road Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library)
1992		David Byrne of the Talking Heads live on stage in Toronto at Massey Hall in 1992 (Categorized under: Massey Hall ) 33 years ago - Tuesday, August 11, 1992 - Garden District at 178 Victoria Street Link to archive record - Map location (From the Toronto Public Library)
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