Streets--Historical : Bibliothèque de Référence Virtuelle

Yonge-breadalbane corner sold. The north-west corner of Yonge and Breadalbane Sts. is shown above. It has been sold through the real estate department of the Chartered Trust and Executor Co. by D. A. Hubbell to an out of town client and a new four-storey structure with store fronts on the street level will be erected on the site. The Yonge St. frontage is 60 feet and that on Breadalbane St. 160 feet. Work on the new building will commence at once.

Picture, 1926

How Toronto grows; number 5. The northwest corner of Wellington and Yonge in 1870 and to-day. Fifty and sixty years ago this corner was the home of one of the most powerful banks on the North American continent. The Bank of British North American was famed far and wide in those days. It was financed entirely by British capital and the popular mind firmly understood that the Bank of England was right behind it. [Incomplete]

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Kent store was founded in confederation year. Crowded Yonge St.is Shown at the Turn of the Century

Picture, 1953

Yonge street canyon; Toronto

Picture, Date Unknown

Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Historic - Streets - Yonge (1 of 2 files)

Picture, 1912

Under construction: Workmen lay streetcar tracks along Bloor St. W. in June; 1929. Just decades later; the Bloor St. tracks would be ripped up and paved over as the streetcar line was replaced by the east-west subway.

Picture, 1929

Construction held up pending court's decision. The apartment house; which is be built by Dr. MacCormack on or street west; at the right of the eral baths and which is the sub of a dispute between its owner the city. As shown in the photo building has been erected with a steel beam across the centre of the front; as the owners are seeking to erect a restaurant on the first floor. [Incomplete]

Picture, 1928

Where will all these cars be to-morrow? To-morrow; May 1; Toronto's new parking by-law comes into force with definite downtown banned parking areas during certain hours of the day. Hitherto during the day city business section streets have been lined with parked cars; every cranny and corner being made use of by automobile owners. [Incomplete]

Picture, 1931

Workmen uncover human remains on bloor St. While excavating at 38 Bloor St. W. yesterday afternoon workmen unearthed the remains of a human being. Old residents in the vicinity declare that the premises upon which the bones were found was at one time a potter's field and that about 50 years ago; following a cholera epidemic; many bodies were hastily interred at that spot. The photograph here shows the hole from which the remains were taken. In the absence of identification the bones were re-interred.

Picture, 1929

One of the sandwich men wearing the protest slogan. Note the apples for sale at McGuinness' flower store. The proprietor says fruit stores sell flowers.

Picture, 1934

Residents of Douglas drive Glen Rd.; Summerhill Ave. and other streets are protesting and threaten road block to stop the trucks. Mud and dirt that litters Douglas drive is circled. It frequently rises higher than the curb

Picture, 1951

Where large purchase was made. This is 145 to 153 Victoria street; just north of Queen street; which bought for $1;400 a foot; constituting a record deal for the year. a large building will be erected is not known at this time. [Incomplete]

Picture, 1928

Stumping operations prepare for sidewalk widening. Bloor St.; once a country road through surrounding forests; now has to adjust itself to the increasing demands of modern traffic. The photograph here shows stumping operations under way on Bloor St.; east of Spadina Ave.; in preparation for the widening of the sidewalk.

Picture, 1929

Meeting place: Pedestrian traffic was heavy near the United Cigar Store at Church and Dundas Sts. in 1929 as men stopped by to pick up their tobacco or buy a newspaper. But you'd be hardpressed to find a moment today when not one car is in the intersection.

Picture, 1929

Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Historic - Streets - King

Picture, 1939

Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Historic - Streets - Yonge (1 of 2 files)

Picture, Date Unknown

$15;000 alteration to be made. The largest business property sale reported this week is an entire business block at the southwest corner of Eglinton Ave. and Dundas St.; which has been purchased by William H. Miles for $90;000. The two-storey block; which was completed about four years ago; comprises eleven stores with twelve apartments and office suites above. Alternations involving an outlay of an additional $15;000 are contempated immediately by the new owner. The chain store department of R. B. Rice and Sons; realtors; 60 Victoria St.; negotiated the sale of this important corner property; which was formerly owned by Florence Bishop.

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Become alarmed at delays. Above are photorgraphs showing stragetic points on the route of the proposed Avenue Rd. extension; concerning which; now that the new Hoggs Hollow viaduct is nearing completion; great interest has been aroused. Residents are becoming uneasy at what they consider unnecessary delays in the development of a big civic improvement. [Incomplete]

Picture, 1928

Danforth goes parisian-sidewalk. In protest against fruit stores, which they allege, clutter up the sidewalks with their wares to the detriment of other merchants, members of the Danforth Business Men's Association, east section, went completely Montmartre today and moved their merchandise right out on to the sidewalks. From Greenwood Avenue East. you can buy anything from a shave to a casket without going inside a shop. The boys are lunching in the open and fighting over bargains under the awnings. These photographs give you the situation. (1) Some of the lads call at a cafe for dejeuner. Overcoats are de rigueur.

Picture, 1934

Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Historic - Streets - Avenue Road

Picture, Date Unknown

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Kent store was founded in confederation year. Crowded Yonge St.is Shown at the Turn of the Century

Yonge street canyon; Toronto

Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Historic - Streets - Yonge (1 of 2 files)

Under construction: Workmen lay streetcar tracks along Bloor St. W. in June; 1929. Just decades later; the Bloor St. tracks would be ripped up and paved over as the streetcar line was replaced by the east-west subway.

One of the sandwich men wearing the protest slogan. Note the apples for sale at McGuinness' flower store. The proprietor says fruit stores sell flowers.

Residents of Douglas drive Glen Rd.; Summerhill Ave. and other streets are protesting and threaten road block to stop the trucks. Mud and dirt that litters Douglas drive is circled. It frequently rises higher than the curb

Where large purchase was made. This is 145 to 153 Victoria street; just north of Queen street; which bought for $1;400 a foot; constituting a record deal for the year. a large building will be erected is not known at this time. [Incomplete]

Meeting place: Pedestrian traffic was heavy near the United Cigar Store at Church and Dundas Sts. in 1929 as men stopped by to pick up their tobacco or buy a newspaper. But you'd be hardpressed to find a moment today when not one car is in the intersection.

Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Historic - Streets - King

Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Historic - Streets - Yonge (1 of 2 files)

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