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Rogers Road facing West from near Blackthorne Avenue. Dated July 29th, 1925. Here you can see the new extention built to go to the soon to be Bicknell Avenue loop with the line having opened in November 1924. The Rogers Road streetcar would head east to the St. Clair carhouse for the last time on July 19th, 1974. Swipe for present day. * #torontohistory #toronto #history #oldtoronto #ontario #humbertothedon #architecturelover #toronto_insta #Torontobefore #heritage #thankyoutoronto #lovetoronto #blogto #6ixwalks #imagesoftoronto #streetsoftoronto #torontoclicks #dailyhiveto #yyzishome #imagesofcanada #canada #tohistory #torontobuildings #heritagetoronto #memoirsoftoronto #vintagetoronto #tbt #fbf #ttc #streetcar (at Toronto, Ontario)

An 1818 Plan of York, Surveyed and Drawn by Lieutenant Phillpotts Royal Engineers. Close up shots included, for reference "To Niagara" is Ossington Avenue and the Military Reserve is Queen West. #torontohistory #toronto #history #oldtoronto #ontario #humbertothedon #architecturelover #toronto_insta #Torontobefore #heritage #thankyoutoronto #lovetoronto #blogto #6ixwalks #imagesoftoronto #streetsoftoronto #torontoclicks #dailyhiveto #yyzishome #imagesofcanada #canada #tohistory #fortyork #heritagetoronto #memoirsoftoronto #vintagetoronto #york #muddyyork #warof1812 (at Toronto, Ontario)

#fbf Wellington and Church Streets facing South East, dated June 10th, 1913. Swipe for present day. #torontohistory #toronto #history #oldtoronto #ontario #humbertothedon #architecturelover #toronto_insta #Torontobefore #heritage #thankyoutoronto #lovetoronto #blogto #6ixwalks #imagesoftoronto #streetsoftoronto #torontoclicks #dailyhiveto #yyzishome #imagesofcanada #canada #tohistory #torontobuildings #heritagetoronto #memoirsoftoronto #vintagetoronto #torontoarchives #stlawrencemarket (at Toronto, Ontario)

"Toronto’s first public washroom, built in 1885, was located in the middle of Toronto Street, opposite the central post office building. It was supposed to be in a lane beside the Inland Revenue Office—later the Toronto Street Post Office and the headquarters of Conrad Black’s Argus Corp.—but nearby businesses balked at the idea, fearing nasty odours and unsanitary conditions. The facility was accessed via a set of stairs, protected by an ornate iron fence, that descended into a small subterranean room. In the tiled, male-only washroom there was a set of four urinals, three wooden stalls, and an attendant who offered boot cleaning and fresh towels for a small fee of about 5 cents. The Toronto Street lavatory was joined around 1905 by another, also in the middle of the street, at Queen and Spadina. A decorative light standard marked the entrance, which was a little west of the streetcar rails, just south of Queen. In 1921 the decision that put the kibosh on the city’s tentative public toilet installation scheme: a new city bylaw required every new gas station (and there were soon to be many) to include a public washroom, essentially passing the burden of relieving the public to private companies." SOURCE:http://spacing.ca/toronto/2014/07/09/happened-public-washrooms-toronto/ #torontohistory #toronto #history #oldtoronto #ontario #humbertothedon #architecturelover  #toronto_insta #Torontobefore #heritage #thankyoutoronto #lovetoronto #blogto #6ixwalks #imagesoftoronto #streetsoftoronto #torontoclicks #dailyhiveto #yyzishome #imagesofcanada #canada  #tohistory #torontobuildings #heritagetoronto #memoirsoftoronto #6tour #vintagetoronto #waybackwednesday #torontoarchives (at Toronto, Ontario)

The Bathurst Street Hill just North of Davenport Road facing North and South respectively before the retaining walls, streetcar tracks or proper roads were put in. Both dated November 11th, 1913, swipe for present day. #humbertothedon #torontohistory #torontoblogger #historygeek #oldtoronto #lakeontario #architecturephoto  #toronto_insta #Torontobefore #heritageto #thankyoutoronto #lovetoronto #blogto #6ixwalks #bathurst #streetsoftoronto #torontoclx #dailyhiveto #dirtroad #imagesofcanada #canada🇨🇦 #tohistory #torontoarchitecture #heritagetoronto #memoirsoftoronto #ttc #hillcrest #vintagetoronto #muddyyork #torontoarchives (at The Tollkeeper's Cottage)

#tbt Caption Reads as "St. Clair Avenue West, looking east from the vicinity of Lauder Avenue, 14 October 1911. This photograph was taken to document the progress of the St. Clair streetcar track construction and the "Lauder Ave fill," as the original caption stated. The fill was used to busy part of the western branch of Garrison Creek, visible in the middle right. The newly-opened Oakwood High School is on the upper right." CTA Salmon 1737.* Swipe for present day. * Taken from “St. Clair West in Pictures” by Barbara Myrvold and Nancy Byers. The PDF can be accessed for free via the Toronto Public Library here: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-125102&R=DC-125102 * #torontohistory #toronto #canadianhistory #oldtoronto #ontario #humbertothedon #archi_ologie  #toronto_insta #Torontobefore #heritage #thankyoutoronto #lovetoronto #blogto #6ixwalks #imagesoftoronto #streetsoftoronto #1910s #dailyhiveto #yyzishome #imagesofcanada #muddyyork  #tohistory #torontobuildings #heritagetoronto #memoirsoftoronto #ttc #vintagetoronto #naturallandscape #torontoarchives (at Oakwood Collegiate Institute)

Dupont Street facing East from Clinton. Dated October 16th, 1926, swipe for present day. #torontohistory #toronto #heritageto #oldtoronto #streetcar #humbertothedon #architecturelover   #toronto_insta #Torontobefore #1920s #thankyoutoronto #lovetoronto #blogto #ttc #imagesoftoronto #streetsoftoronto #torontoclicks #dailyhiveto #yyzishome #imagesofcanada #canada  #tohistory #torontobuildings #heritagetoronto #memoirsoftoronto #the6ix #vintagetoronto #consciousto #torontoarchives (at Loblaws)

Men pouring tar on wood block pavement somewhere on Ossington Avenue. Dated August 18th, 1915. By this time many other cities such as Chicago stopped the use of wood for roads. Toronto would continue to do so in some areas for some time in the early 20th century. * For more on Toronto's roads at the time and why the switch to asphalt was made please, please, please read this great piece "Asphalt Modernism on the Streets of Toronto, 1890–1900" By Phillip Gordon Mackintosh of Brock University * https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/18058/21931 * #torontohistory #toronto #history #oldtoronto #oldtowntoronto #humbertothedon #victorianarchitecture  #toronto_insta #Torontobefore #localhistory #thankyoutoronto #lovetoronto #blogto #6ixwalks #imagesoftoronto #streetsoftoronto #torontoclicks #dailyhiveto #woodbrick #ossington #brickwork #tohistory #torontobuildings #heritagetoronto #memoirsoftoronto #igtoronto #vintagetoronto #brockuniversity #torontoarchives @brockuniversity (at Toronto, Ontario)