History of Toronto by year

English: A selection of historic images of Toronto by year, from 1783 to 1945. For more images, see Category:Toronto by decade.

Français : Une sélection d'images historiques de Toronto par année, de 1783 à 1945. Pour plus d'images, voir Toronto par décennie.

1793

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  Toronto harbour
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  Toronto harbour looking west to what is now Bathurst Street
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  The harbour looking west from the Don River

1798

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  Notice to settlers on Yonge Street

1803

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  The settlement at York, looking east from what is now Jarvis Street

1804

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  Front Street in York
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  Fort York

1808

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  The Island lighthouse

1815

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  Toronto Bay and Island

1828

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  York from Gibraltar Point

1829

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  York, Capital of Upper Canada

1834

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  Looking east on King Street from York Street
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  Upper Canada parliament buildings
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  Celebrating the incorporation of the City of Toronto

1835

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  King Street, looking east from Toronto Street
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  North side of King Street, between Church and Toronto Streets

1836

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  Curling on the Don River

1840

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  Entrance to Toronto Harbour

1841

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  Toronto's waterfront

1843

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  Wharf at the new barracks

1847

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  The "Coffin Block" building (predecessor to the Gooderham Flatiron Building)

1851

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  View of Toronto from north

1854

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  Toronto viewed from "top of jail"

1855

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  Front elevation of Osgoode Hall
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  View of Toronto's skyline

1856

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  The Monarch steamship stranded off Toronto Island
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  York Street with Osgoode Hall
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  The Parliament Buildings on Front Street
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  View from roof of Rossin Hotel
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  King Street East looking west

1859

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  Man and woman in garden
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  St. James Cathedral
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  Toronto's first Union Station

1860

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  The Don Jail
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  Looking east on King Street from St. Lawrence Hall
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  St. Lawrence Hall and King Street looking west
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  Yorkville as seen from the tower of the University
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  Offices of the Globe newspaper on King Street

1861

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  Survivors of the War of 1812 in Rosedale

1863

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  Davenport railway station

1864

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  Toronto Rolling Mills iron works

1865

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  The Shakespeare Hotel at the northeast corner of King and York Streets
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  Orangemen's Parade on King Street East

1867

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  Provincial Asylum on Queen Street West
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  Rossin House Hotel at the southeast corner of King and York Streets
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  Great Western Railway station

1868

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  Looking north from St. Lawrence Market
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  Bank of Toronto at Church and Wellington Streets
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  College Avenue (later University Avenue), looking north
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  Post Office on Toronto Street
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  Toronto City Hall
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  Toronto Normal School

1869

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  Prince Arthur turning the sod for a new railway in Weston
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  Timothy Eaton's first store in Toronto

1870

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  Looking south at Lake Ontario from Colborne Lodge
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  View of Toronto from Union Station
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  Great Library at Osgoode Hall

1871

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  First Parliament of Ontario

1872

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  Bank of Upper Canada on Adelaide Street
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  Front Street west of Yonge Street
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  The Golden Griffin Great Silk and Clothing House, one of Toronto's great shopping emporiums of the day

1873

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  Toronto's second Union Station

1875

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  King and Yonge Streets
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  Tollkeeper's cottage, Davenport and Bathurst

1876

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  A horse-drawn carriage on Front Street

1878

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  Toronto Stock Exchange at King and Wellington Streets
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  Map of Scarborough
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  Map of Etobicoke

1880

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  Stereocard view of the Yonge Street Wharf
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  An early photo of the Simpson's department store at Yonge and Queen Streets

1883

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  Members of the Toronto Police Force
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  View of Toronto in 1883

1885

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  The Grand Opera House on Adelaide Street
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  Queen Street West at Yonge Street
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  St. Lawrence Market
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  Hanlan Hotel on the Toronto Islands
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  Union Station
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  Yonge Street looking north from Queen Street
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  Yonge Street looking north from Front Street
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  Intersection of Wellington, Church and Front Streets

1886

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  Red Lion Inn on Yonge Street, north of Bloor Street

1887

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  Architectural drawings of the proposed City Hall

1888

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  Queen's Hotel on Front Street
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  Horse-drawn streetcar in Parkdale

1890

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  Bank of Montreal at Front and Yonge Streets
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  The Confederation Life building on Richmond Street
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  Cutting ice on the Don River
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  King Street looking east from Church Street
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  Toronto-Richmond Hill stage coach in front of the Green Bush Hotel at Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue
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  Victoria Row on King Street

1891

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  Ontario Legislative Building under construction
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  Yonge Street north of Queen Street
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  A twelve-horse team pulling a snow sweeper

1893

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  A card game in Long Branch
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  A group of legislative pages at the Ontario Legislature

1894

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  A poster for the Toronto Industrial Exhibition
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  Erecting a telephone pole at King and Dufferin Streets
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  Moore Avenue Station on the old Toronto Beltline

1895

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  The Ontario Legislative Building, construction still incomplete
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  Reservoir Park

1896

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  A streetcar at Broadview and Danforth Avenues
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  The Gooderham and Worts distillery
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  Metropolitan and St. Michael's Cathedral churches
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  The Toronto Armouries on University Avenue
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  View from the roof of Orange Hall

1899

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  A cyclist passing the new City Hall

1900

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  King Street looking west
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  Muddy Danforth Avenue
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  Toronto Armouries

1901

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  A barn raising in Lansing, North York Township
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  Looking north on Bay Street
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  Celebrating the end of the Boer War on Yonge Street
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  Horse-drawn dairy delivery cart
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  City Hall at night
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  Toronto as seen from Lake Ontario

1902

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  Dedication of the Robert Burns Monument in Allan Gardens

1903

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  Jarvis Street
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  Funeral procession for Oliver Mowat
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  Statue of Queen Victoria at Queen's Park
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  King and Yonge Streets
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  Yonge Street looking north

1904

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  The midway at the Canadian National Exhibition
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  Flower and fruit show at St. Lawrence Market
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  Viewing the aftermath of the Great Toronto Fire of 1904

1905

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  Construction of Logan and Withrow Avenues
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  Toronto Telegram newsboy
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  The General Post Office on Adelaide Street

1906

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  Sleighing party at Queen's Park
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  Varsity Rugby champions

1907

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  Children hitching a ride on a carriage
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  Couple snowshoeing in High Park
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  Crowd at Scarboro Beach Park
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  Children cycling in Mimico
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  Pushing a bicycle up muddy St. Clair Avenue
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  Flagpole painter looking west along Front Street
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  Hunters on Bathurst Street
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  The diving Horse at Hanlan's Point
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  Opening of the Canadian National Exhibition

1908

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  The Customs House at Front and Yonge Streets
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  Advertisement for Eaton's department store
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  Government House
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  Nasmiths Bread delivery wagon in Earlscourt
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  Streetcar at Yonge and Queen Streets
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  University Avenue
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  Three men on a bench in Queen's Park

1909

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  Spadina Avenue at Queen Street West
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  Child and adult collecting coal
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  Looking north on Church Street
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  Butcher shop interior
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  Simpson's mail order office
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  Men curling

1910

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  Women playing ice hockey outside Varsity Arena
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  Arrival of immigrants at Union Station
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  Comique Theatre on Yonge Street
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  Herbalist on York Street
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  Memorial service for King Edward at Massey Hall
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  Shoppers crossing between Simpson's and Eaton's
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  Sidewalk display of coal
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  Yonge Street wharves

1911

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  Opening ball of High Parl Curling and Lawn Bowling Club
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  Home economics class
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  Yonge Street stereoview
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  Cows grazing at the Don River
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  The wreckage of the first airplane crash in Toronto
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  First meeting of the new City Council
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  A flyer listing activities that were prohibited in Ontario on Sundays

1912

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  Confederation Life Building on Richmond Street
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  Horse-drawn fire wagon on Bloor Street
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  Ice hockey players at Christie Pits
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  Yonge and Eglinton
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  Danforth and Broadview looking east
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  Yonge Street north from Front Street

1913

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  Group of swimmers at Hanlan's Point
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  Union Station
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  Sir Wilfrid Laurier at Arena Gardens
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  Withrow Park

1914

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  Crowds in front of Red Mill Theatre on Yonge Street
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  Crowds wave farewell to troops at Union Station
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  Recruits drilling at the Toronto Armouries
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  Opening of Agincourt Public School
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  Women walking on Eglinton Avenue at Bathurst Street
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  The Torontos, the 1913-14 Stanley Cup champions
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  A crowd at Sunnyside

1915

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  Sir Robert Borden at a Victory Bond rally
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  Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in Toronto
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  Sunnyside station
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  Troops marching on Yonge Street
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  Yonge and King Streets

1916

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  Prince Edward Viaduct under construction
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  Prince Edward Viaduct under construction
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  Barmen march in protest against prohibition
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  North Toronto railway station
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  Teenagers playing billiards at the Moss Park Recreation Centre
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  Mount Pleasant Road looking south to Merton Street

1917

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  Forging core of 75mm shells
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  Skiing and snowballs in High Park
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  Victory Bond billboard on College Street
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  Gooderham and Worts Distillery
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  Display of a tank at City Hall as part of a Victory Loan drive

1918

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  The Eaton's Santa Claus Parade
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  Eaton's store windows on Yonge Street
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  Family reads newspaper announcing Armistice
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  First air mail delivery in Canada

1919

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  Troops return home
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  Men reading the want ads
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  Large Union Jack on Eaton's department store for Royal visit
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  Toronto Harbour
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  A strike meeting of streetcar drivers at Massey Hall
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  King Edward Hotel

1920

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  The Brunswick Meat Market
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  Eaton's department store, mail order and factory buildings
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  City Hall gargoyles
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  Unidentified Toronto Maple Leafs player (Charlie Conacher?)
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  The Green Bush Inn at Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue
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  Toronto Bay at Cherry Street

1921

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  The Grand Opera House
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  Shea's Hippodrome
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  The McCaul Street Synagogue

1922

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  A garbage pile on the waterfront
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  A streetcar on Pape Avenue
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  A horse and buggy in Kensington Market

1923

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  Queen and Bay Streets
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  Boys in front of a movie theatre on Dundas Street
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  Hockey in Withrow Park
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  Log cabin school on (what is now) Sheppard Avenue
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  Keele and Dundas Streets

1924

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  Sunnyside Beach
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  Toronto Argonauts versus the Ottawa Rough Riders
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  Queen Street looking east towards Yonge Street
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  Noon hour traffic on Bay Street
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  Opening of the Township of York street railway on Oakwood Avenue

1925

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  Skiers in High Park
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  Men standing on a utility pole at Danforth and Greenwood Avenues
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  Lake Shore Boulevard in a snowstorm
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  St. Matthews lawn bowling club in Riverdale

1926

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  The Danforth Hockey Team
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  The Palais Royale dance hall

1927

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  York Street from the gates of Osgoode Hall
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  Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King opens the Canadian National Exhibition
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  The Prince of Wales at the official opening of Toronto's third (and current) Union Station
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  The Horticultural Palace at the CNE
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  City Hall decorated for Dominion Day, the "60-year Jubilee" of Confederation in 1867

1928

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  A concession stand on the Toronto Islands
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  The construction site for the Royal York Hotel
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  The new Millwood Bridge

1929

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  Sculpture Court of the Art Gallery of Ontario
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  Toronto Cricket Team
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  Front of the newly constructed Royal York Hotel

1930

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  The Bank of Commerce building and the R-100 airship
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  Queen's Park Circle looking north to Bloor Street
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  Bayview and Lawrence Avenues
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  Bloor Street
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  Eaton's College Street
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  Front and Yonge Streets
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  Movie premiere at the Royal Alexandra
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  View down Bay Street

1931

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  Raising the last stone of the Canada Life building
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  Fruit stand at Danforth and Logan Avenues
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  Ontario College of Art
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  The unemployed marching on Bathurst Street

1932

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  Fountains on Centre Island
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  Toronto Flying Club, Wilson Avenue, Downsview
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  Chorley Park

1933

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  View of Bay Street from City Hall
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  Food line at the Yonge Street Mission

1934

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  Maple Leaf Gardens
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  Poster for Toronto's Centennial celebrations
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  Kew Beach
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  City Hall decorated for the Centennial celebrations

1935

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  Kingston and Brimley Roads in Scarborough
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  Eaton's carpet salesroom

1936

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  Yonge Street at York Mills in North York Township
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  Aerial view of Mimico

1937

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  Toronto Star building on King Street
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  Window shopping at Simpson's
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  New trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange

1938

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  Mary Pickford in the Toronto City Council chamber
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  Unemployed sleeping in Queen's Park
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  Yonge Street, south from Bloor Street

1939

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  King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Toronto City Hall
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  King and Queen proceed along a ceremonial route in Toronto
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  Simpson's, Woolworths and Eaton's decorated for the Royal Visit
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  The Dionne Quintuplets arrive in Toronto
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  Conn Smythe enlisting in the armed forces
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  Making army uniforms at Tip Top Tailors

1940

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  Airmen training in Toronto
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  Entrance to the QEW
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  Fruit and vegetable store on Coxwell Avenue

1941

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  Munitions worker
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  Wartime rally at Maple Leaf Gardens
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  Lady Eaton presents a cheque to the Canadian Red Cross

1942

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  Aerial view of old City Hall
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  Telegraph office
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  Maple Leafs versus the Red Wings
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  Miss War Worker Beauty Contest at the CNE

1943

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  Buying food with ration coupons
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  Streetcars in front of Union Station
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  Skyline from the harbour

1944

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  Globe and Mail staff await news of the D-Day invasion
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  Toronto Island Airport
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  Launching of the 1000th Canadian-built vessel
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  Main Street on Centre Island
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  Milkman on the Toronto Islands
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  Munitions workers

1945

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  Fibber McGee and Molly at a Victory Loan Rally in Maple Leaf Gardens
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  Selling Victory Bonds
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  War Savings parade
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  New housing for war workers in North York
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  VE Day on Bay Street