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Old Posted Nov 20, 2020, 4:17 AM
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Love these (Water Street, St. John’s, 1946 - still driving on the left, no longer independent but not quite yet Canadian. National purgatory lol), via FB.
Huh, I didn't know Newfoundland drove on the other side at all, actually. When did it change? What was Labrador like?
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Not sure about Labrador, but I assume they (and the rest of Canada?) drove on the left at some point.

We switched at midnight on New Year’s Eve in 1947. Or, rather, half the island did. The other half did later. It was chaos because we did little very preparation (for example, public transit still had its doors on the left so people were getting off buses and the like in the middle of two lanes of traffic).

And we have lots of intersections at angles to reduce the grade. Those, unlike a square grid, are a little harder to switch to driving on the opposite lane so we’re still left with intersections in the core where a left turn is almost 360 degrees or there’s no real line of sight, etc. lol
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Saint John, NB Pre 1877 fire when the downtown (or uptown by locals) was still wooden

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Didn't want this picture lost in the shuffle lol
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Not sure about Labrador, but I assume they (and the rest of Canada?) drove on the left at some point.

We switched at midnight on New Year’s Eve in 1947. Or, rather, half the island did. The other half did later. It was chaos because we did little very preparation (for example, public transit still had its doors on the left so people were getting off buses and the like in the middle of two lanes of traffic).

And we have lots of intersections at angles to reduce the grade. Those, unlike a square grid, are a little harder to switch to driving on the opposite lane so we’re still left with intersections in the core where a left turn is almost 360 degrees or there’s no real line of sight, etc. lol
Fascinating. I mean that without hyperbole too. What a niche it is to be interested in the layouts of irregular street patterns.
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Saint John, NB pre 1877 fire before the city made it illegal to build with wood.

by James McGrath, on Flickr

The same view today via Google:

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Saint John, NB Pre 1877 fire when the downtown (or uptown by locals) was still wooden

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I've come back to this picture a few times this week and I think I figured out what about it intrigues me so much: this is presumably what St. John's looked like prior to the Great Fire of 1892. In pictures from that before that time, the quality is so low it's hard to see the detail of the wooden buildings like in this photo - but the general roof shape and window placement and scale of the buildings is the same as all the wooden parts of the core at that time (Water Street was already mostly stone). I think our two cities would've been visually interchangeable at that time. It's only after 1892 that we did our own thing using the trends popular at that time (curved mansard roofs, etc.).
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They would have been pretty identical.
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A few taken in the 1870s/80s here (from Memorial Archives), before the Great Fire, just to give you an idea how much shittier the photography equipment was here













Duckworth Street:





Water Street:







I think we did the opposite of most cities and rebuilt more with wood after the Great Fire than before it, which makes sense given our economic situation at the time and the need to rehouse all the homeless quickly.
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Yes, I was going to say that there is a lot of stone.
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Ottawa, 1861. Future site of the Château Laurier on one side of the Rideau Canal, staging area for Parliament construction on the other.


https://twitter.com/CapHistOttawa/st...09589541752832

1864 Parliament u/c. Left of the Hill we can see the Cathedral and Académie Lasalle (Hotel Champagne or original uOttawa at that time), both still stand today.



1869, Chaudière District (today Zibi) from Parliament Hill.



Ottawa, 1858. Original wing of the General Hospital (now Bruyere Continuing Care), Académie Lasalle and the Cathedral can be seen lined-up centre, left. ByTown Museum hiding lower, right.


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Truly a gorgeous setting for a city.
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Saint John, NB pre 1877 fire before the city made it illegal to build with wood.

by James McGrath, on Flickr

The same view today via Google:

by James McGrath, on Flickr
Holy shit. Just now scrolling through my Facebook feed, and I thought: I literally saw that picture posted on SSP today as being from New Brunswick.

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Québec around 1925. Fairchild Aerial Surveys Co. Of Canada Ltd.










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Halifax, looks like ~2005 vs. 2020 (too bad the old picture doesn't go a bit farther to the left):


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Québec around 1925. Fairchild Aerial Surveys Co. Of Canada Ltd.
Wow, thanks! I had never seen these aerial pictures before. I spent like 30 minutes looking at them - it is great to see what has survived and what has disappeared.
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Nicholas Spark's house (1829-1954). He bought most of what is now downtown Ottawa in 1823 (roughly Wellington, Slater, Bronson and Nicholas). Some land was sold to Government for the Rideau Canal and other projects, while other lots/buildings were donated, such as a former market building for Ottawa's (or ByTown) first Town Hall in 1849, between Queen and Albert (roughly where the NAC now stands).

It was demolished for the West Memorial Building.






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http://www.capitalmodern.ca/modern/w...ial-buildings/
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Hamilton, 1888. This angle looks east of the downtown core... the "east end" of that era because it doesn't look like there was much more than a few blocks of buildings right of the church (I think that's St. Patrick's), with forest beyond it.




This could be late 19th or early 20th century, one of two "incline railways" up the Niagara Escarpment in the city:




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Another Hamilton image, looking northwest across Gore Park (apparently it's from a card that was in a cigarette package)

The larger building on the left was originally the Bank of Hamilton, and it began as a two or three storey structure, expanded to 10 in the early 1900s. Later it housed the Bank of Commerce after a merger in 1924, then eventually CIBC. It was demolished in the mid-1980s and replaced by a pair of generic glass towers.

Judging by the cars, and the Bank of Commerce sign not being up yet atop the bank tower, and the flagpole in the foreground (which was removed in 1921 and replaced by a Cenotaph) this is probably from sometime during the 1910s.


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The guys in that first Hamilton one look cool.
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The guys in that first Hamilton one look cool.
Yeah, I love the sideburns and thick moustache on the one who is standing. Plus the hat. Makes him look like he was one tough hombre.
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