Canadian skylines of the past

[someone123]

Here's a view of the upper/northern part of downtown Halifax, circa 1950. Not many of these buildings have survived to the present day. It wasn't a particularly beautiful area but it's interesting to see how many factories there were. The taller one was Moirs, which produced chocolates and other food products. The others were mostly textiles and clothing. Dartmouth was also an industrial town at one point, build around marine industries but also the Imperial Oil refinery (which dates back to about 1900), the ropeworks, sugar refinery, and Starr Manufacturing, which was the first company to mass produce ice skates. The factories are pretty much all gone except for breweries and marine industries.

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

https://novascotia.ca/archives/NSIS/...nguage=English

[KnoxfordGuy]

A video of a building going up in Toronto in 1925. Super cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbnMFSD_V4c

A screenshot from the film
Screenshot_2016-06-22-20-48-25 by James McGrath, on Flickr

[hipster duck]

Found this on an old Urbantoronto thread: the short-lived Adelaide Coach Terminal, on Adelaide west of Yonge. It only lasted for 10 years from 1947-1957. Scotia Plaza now sits on the site.

Will people in the future remember the GO bus terminal at Union station, which will also last for barely more than a decade?

[Dwils01]

Toronto in 1975?

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads...17389/page-108

[DrNest]

Is that dark brick building with the arches at the top still around? I don't recognise it.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by DrNest

Is that dark brick building with the arches at the top still around? I don't recognise it.

Yep

(it's the King Edward Hotel)

[DrNest]

^^ Cool. Thanks

[craner]

Originally Posted by Dwils01

Toronto in 1975?

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads...17389/page-108

Extremely Cool !

[MonkeyRonin]

Yonge Street, 1982



Yonge Street, Toronto, 1982 by Avard Woolaver, on Flickr

[MolsonExport]

Rue Sainte Catherine, Montreal (1950):

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[11a2b3]

O'Connor Street, Ottawa, 1961:

http://www.historynerd.ca/?p=3584

[Trans Canada]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Yonge Street, 1982



Yonge Street, Toronto, 1982 by Avard Woolaver, on Flickr

Awesome

[BretttheRiderFan]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Not skylines, but fascinating, nonetheless. The seedy underbelly of 1940s Montreal: What Montreal Prostitutes Looked Like In The 1940s

Also: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/mug-...lide=1.1476790

Is it just me, or are even the lowest rungs of society a lot better looking today than back then?

[cityguy]

That's Kent street in Ottawa not O'connor.

[SignalHillHiker]

Via Vintage St. John's, a look at George Street as it was for much of the city's history, until I was a child:



And today (use the taller red building for reference):





Backpacking TarePanda on George Street by Patty, on Flickr

[11a2b3]

Originally Posted by cityguy

That's Kent street in Ottawa not O'connor.

The building being constructed with all the steel in the background is the former Teron Building, at corner of O'Connor and Laurier http://www.historynerd.ca/?p=3584


https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.41928...2!8i6656?hl=en

[Daveography]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Yonge Street, 1982



Yonge Street, Toronto, 1982 by Avard Woolaver, on Flickr

"Ford Drugs"

Prescient.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by BretttheRiderFan

Is it just me, or are even the lowest rungs of society a lot better looking today than back then?

Without question. Although in fairness, you can probably say the same about every rung of society relative to what they looked like 80 years ago. Not a lot of t-shirts and tacky tattoos back in the 30s.

[MonkeyRonin]

Toronto, 1875


http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/d...ICTURES-R-5647



1884


http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/d...-8A&R=DC-E2-8A



1929


http://www.virtualreferencelibrary.c...chPageType=vrl



1930


http://www.virtualreferencelibrary.c...ICTURES-R-5652

[Rico Rommheim]

Great shots!