Canadian skylines of the past - Page 166

Coldrsx · #**3301** Posted **Apr 15, 2021, 1:36 PM**

What' up with that treehouse on Laval hahaha?

Coldrsx · #**3302** Posted **Apr 20, 2021, 2:13 AM**

Some amazing footage of various places in Alberta including Edmonton, Calgary and Banff.
https://twitter.com/Morgan_C_Ross/st...88772343275520

SignalHillHiker · #**3303** Posted **Apr 20, 2021, 9:09 AM**

Via FB. Maclean’s Magazine a few years after Confederation lol. The tone of coverage of us was the same back then lol

Architype · #**3304** Posted **Apr 20, 2021, 1:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Via FB. Maclean’s Magazine a few years after Confederation lol. The tone of coverage of us was the same back then lol
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^ Did you know the 4 storey building on the right is the old city hall? There aren't many photos of it.

SignalHillHiker · #**3305** Posted **Apr 20, 2021, 1:20 PM**

No - I've seen close-cropped pictures of it but just assumed it was somewhere along Water Street. Cool!

Martin Mtl · #**3306** Posted **Apr 23, 2021, 11:44 AM**

Place d'armes, Old Montreal, 1929 versus today.

Rico Rommheim · #**3307** Posted **Apr 23, 2021, 1:12 PM**

Wow. Well done.

MolsonExport · #**3308** Posted **Apr 23, 2021, 2:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Place d'armes, Old Montreal, 1929 versus today.

great find. I'd love to walk the streets in that first photo. fortunately, much still remains.

Much more enticing than cold 50-storey blue walls of glass.

J.OT13 · #**3309** Posted **Apr 23, 2021, 2:10 PM**

Impressive. Virtually untouched in nearly 100 years.

Coldrsx · #**3310** Posted **Apr 23, 2021, 2:24 PM**

Amazing how much was able to be retained.

kool maudit · #**3311** Posted **Apr 23, 2021, 2:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

great find. I'd love to walk the streets in that first photo. fortunately, much still remains.

The big differences are west of McGill and north of St-Antoine, where there were cleaner transitions away from the financial core.

11a2b3 · #**3312** Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 3:48 AM**

Yonge & Gould looking south circa 1982 by Bill Stevenson, on Flickr

MolsonExport · #**3313** Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 2:06 PM**

^I love 'busy' shots like that one.

SignalHillHiker · #**3314** Posted **May 2, 2021, 4:04 PM**

Illustration from 1937 (one of two panels) of the capitals of British Dominions. St. John’s got a small but centered call out lol

Rico Rommheim · #**3315** Posted **May 2, 2021, 9:28 PM**

Ottawa looks like the capital of the entire empire.

Those 3 parliament towers were quite ambitious.

SignalHillHiker · #**3316** Posted **May 2, 2021, 10:02 PM**

Yeah, it reads large and historic - like some kind of British Moscow.

Rico Rommheim · #**3317** Posted **May 3, 2021, 1:13 PM**

An actual 19th century SSP-style construction update pic of Windsor Station, 1887.

La gare Windsor en construction. - 1887-1888. Reproduction d'Edgar Gariépy (1939). BM42-G1448. Archives de la Ville de Montréal. by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Train leaving Windsor station 1955.

Inauguration du nouveau train du Canadien Pacifique, à la sortie de la gare Windsor (vue vers l'est). - Dimanche 24 avril 1955. P100-02-4-D012-008. Archives de la Ville de Montréal. by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Viger station / hotel

Gare-hôtel Viger. - [194-]. VM94-42-023-D023-004. Archives de la Ville de Montréal. by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Parc metro, 1936

Gare Jean-Talon. - 9 avril 1936. VM94-Z132. Archives de la Ville de Montréal. by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

Montréal : Célébration du tricentenaire de la ville / Edgar Gariépy . 18 mai 1942?. BM42-G1554_pl-ver. Archives de la Ville de Montréal by Archives de la Ville de Montréal, on Flickr

MolsonExport · #**3318** Posted **May 3, 2021, 1:34 PM**

^great finds!!

esquire · #**3319** Posted **May 3, 2021, 2:43 PM**

Interesting photos. I remember visiting Montreal for the very first time by train in 1992... I arrived at Central Station but I also took a stroll through Windsor Station. Central is fairly substantial but Windsor was a bit underwhelming compared to the grandiose stations I came to expect in Canadian cities (with Toronto Union Station being the classic example). Of course being a kid at the time I didn't realize that Montreal historically had several significant railway stations spread throughout the central part of the city.

It's interesting how Montreal came to have a bunch of central intercity train stations as compared to the One Big Station in a place like Toronto or Ottawa, although I realize that number has basically been whittled down to one for almost 40 years now.

Rico Rommheim · #**3320** Posted **May 3, 2021, 3:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Interesting photos. I remember visiting Montreal for the very first time by train in 1992... I arrived at Central Station but I also took a stroll through Windsor Station. Central is fairly substantial but Windsor was a bit underwhelming compared to the grandiose stations I came to expect in Canadian cities (with Toronto Union Station being the classic example). Of course being a kid at the time I didn't realize that Montreal historically had several significant railway stations spread throughout the central part of the city.

It's interesting how Montreal came to have a bunch of central intercity train stations as compared to the One Big Station in a place like Toronto or Ottawa, although I realize that number has basically been whittled down to one for almost 40 years now.

Yeah it's always bugged me that in the railway hub of Canada at the time, home to the country's greatest railway companies, all that we're left with is central station, which is basically hidden from view.

Or for that matter, what a shame that the city never got an equivalent of the Chateau Laurier or Frontenac. Instead we got a mini-frontenac (Viger station) and the super-modern (by 1950's standards) Queen Elizabeth Hotel.