lost toronto

This building at the S/E corner of Queen and Dovercourt was originally a YMCA. This postcard from 1914 courtesy of Chuckman's Postcard C...

I've never seen a vending machine that sells worms... This was in Cambridge Ontario.

After nearly 115 years Dufferin Street has be re connected with itself north of Queen.. When the original subway was built in 1897, Duffer...

Two similar views nearly 100 years apart. The S/W corner of Queen and Dufferin in 1917. When the subway was completed in 1897 the road was ...

Another fine cover from Crime Must Pat the Penalty Feb. 1955. Nice use of dramatic perspective and colour. It looks like the Holland Tunnel ...

The Hendry House on Mimico Avenue was built in 1850 and is the original farmhouse. It is currently for sale and listed at $529,000.

Switch N' Go were a series of battery powered cars/tanks/trucks that ran on a closed circuit track. The operator could squeeze a set of ...

John's Color TV on Dundas West has a nice hand painted sign on the east side of the building.

It's hard to tell from the photo but this wood frame house in the Junction has quite a serious lean to it. It's been condemned by th...

These two photos were taken almost 100 years apart. I suspect that at some point the road was widened along with the stone gates, specifical...

These two photos were taken about 100 years apart. Sometimes things don't change that much. Ellis Avenue looking north, just north of t...

These shots, supplied by Andrika Lawren, illustrate why it's important to pay attention. This 7/11 on Dundas and Euclid is a little wors...

A series of shots around the intersection of Yonge and Shuter. You can click on any of the images for a bette...

This photo from 1956 looking west along Gerrard to Yonge Street. The WCTU sign on the right is for The Women's Christian Temperence Unio...

This photo was taken in 1958. Sometime later the second floor was added and it's been the Black Angus Steakhouse since the 1964. I rece...

The house in the middle is where my Grandparents lived from about 1958-1968. Previously they had lived in a house on Dunn Avenue that was de...

This old house on Dundas near Burnhamthorpe has managed to survive.