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Saturday, January 24, 2015

A 1910s Toronto photo extravaganza

toronto 1910sThe second decade of the 20th century left its mark on Toronto. The city undertook several major infrastructure projects during the 1910s, including building the Prince Edward Viaduct of the Don Valley, and the infilling of the Don River mouth and construction of the Port Lands. Canadian Pacific built what was briefly the tallest building in the British Empire at King and Yonge and put up Summerhill station on Yonge St.


By far the biggest event of the decade was the outbreak of the first world war. Between 1914 and 1918, some 630,000 Canadians served in the conflict in Europe, distinguishing themselves in battles at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele. 60,661 didn't return. A further 172,000 were injured.


Here's the story of the 1910s in pictures.


toronto 1910sThe Scarborough Bluffs looking east around 1910.


toronto 1910sBayview Ave. looking north from Eglinton in 1910.


toronto 1910sThe Don Roadway (now the Don Valley Parkway) near Riverdale Park.


toronto 1910sLooking east along the Danforth at Pape in 1913.


toronto 1910sVaudeville shows at the Auditorium Theatre.


toronto 1910sE. E. Rutherford's Kensington pharmacy on the southwest corner of Nassau and Spadina in the 1910s.


toronto 1910sThe former central branch of the Toronto Public Library at College and Beverley. It opened in 1909 and is now the Koffler Student Centre.


toronto 1910sSt. Patrick's Market in 1913 opposite today's CTV HQ.


toronto 1910sThe newly-completed Methodist Church of Canada headquarters at Queen and John in 1913. It was bought by CHUM in 1985.


toronto 1910sThe Canadian Pacific Building on the southeast corner of King and Bay in 1912, the year before it was completed as the tallest building in the British Empire.


toronto 1910sLooking north from Yonge and College in 1914.


toronto 1910sYonge St. looking north between King and Queen in 1912.


toronto 1910sThe Bank of Montreal at Queen and Yonge in 1915.


toronto 1910sLooking south through dense streetcar traffic at Yonge and Richmond in 1914.


toronto 1910sThe east side of Yonge St. south of Shuter in 1910.


toronto 1910sMembers of the 1915 city council pose for a portrait at what is now "old" City Hall.


toronto 1910sGovernment House in Chorley Park in 1928. Completed 100 years ago this November, it was designed by Francis R. Heakes, the provincial architect who designed the Whitney Block at Queen's Park, and built at a cost of $215,000. It was knocked down in 1959 after a period of use as a military hospital.


toronto 1910sThe current Queen St. bridge over the Don River under construction. The design was supplied by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company of Darlington, England, the same company that built the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River, the Victoria Falls Railway Bridge over the Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.


toronto 1910sGround breaking ceremony for the Prince Edward Viaduct in 1915. Mayor T. L. Church is holding the shovel.


toronto 1910sEarly stages of construction on the Prince Edward Viaduct in 1916. The two sides would eventually meet in the middle over the Don River.


toronto 1910sThe terminal face of the viaduct in 1916.


toronto 1910sThe viaduct nearing completion. The streetcar wires and street lamps still need to be strung along the road surface.


toronto 1910sFiat, McLaughlin-Buick cars on display in the Transportation Building at the CNE in 1913.


toronto 1910sSteamer departing Toronto Harbour.


toronto 1910sToronto Island paddle steamer ferry "Mayflower" in 1915.


toronto 1910sCar accident at Bloor and Walmer Rd. draws a crowd in 1918.


toronto 1910s7-year-old mare used owned by the T. Eaton Co. and used for deliveries in 1910.


toronto 1910s"Prince," a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, makes deliveries for Matthew's Groceries and Fruit in 1911.


toronto 1910sJohn Tingle, "dairyman," 1910.


toronto 1910sA Curtiss K flying boat in the Toronto Harbour in 1914. It's likely the aircraft is the "Sunfish," a single-engine propellor plane owned by flight school instructor William A. Dean. In 1914, pilot Theodore C. Macaulay flew Toronto Daily Star sports reporter Lou E. Marsh to Hamilton in the Sunfish, setting a new record for air travel between the two cities. The trip took 31 minutes and 17 seconds.


toronto 1910sThe now-demolished High Park Mineral Baths on the north side of Bloor at Parkview Gardens in 1913.


toronto 1910sThe Broadview YMCA's rugby team in 1915.


toronto 1910sThe kids of the Davisville hockey team in 1911.


toronto 1910sNorth Toronto hockey in 1914.


toronto 1910sThe "Torontos" hockey team, the 1913-14 Stanley Cup champions. The team later became the St. Patricks and then the Maple Leafs.


toronto 1910sThe Mutual Street Arena (known then as Arena Gardens,) the first home of the hockey team that would eventually become the Toronto Maple Leafs.


toronto 1910sA drawing of the Toronto General Hospital at University and College in 1913. It's now the MaRS Discovery District.


toronto 1910sCentre Island from the air looking cityward in 1919.


toronto 1910sThe marshes at the mouth of the Don River as draining and infilling begins ahead of construction of the Port Lands around 1914.


toronto 1910sThe Keating Channel in the Port Lands under construction in 1914. The gasometers of the Consumers Gas Company at Front and Parliament are visible at the far left of the frame.


toronto 1910sThe site that would become Union Station south of Front St. in 1915.


toronto 1910sUnion Station takes shape in the late 1910s. The building wouldn't be officially opened until 1927.


toronto 1910sThe ticket hall of Union Station.


toronto 1910sThe Summerhill CPR Station in 1916, the year it opened.


toronto 1910sSoldiers departing for the first world war at Union Station.


toronto 1910sPoster encouraging Canadian men to enlist in the army during the first world war.


toronto 1910sWar bonds were sold by the Canadian government to help fund the war effort. Citizens were given a certificate that could be cashed in at the end of the conflict.


toronto 1910sYes, this was a real poster.


toronto 1910sWelcome home dinner for returning troops in 1919.


toronto 1910sPoster advertising the 1919 Canadian National Exhibition--"Canada's Victory Celebration."


Chris Bateman is a staff writer at blogTO. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisbateman.


Images: City of Toronto Archives (as marked.) All others Toronto Public Library.






by Chris Bateman via blogTO

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