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Old Posted Jul 15, 2012, 1:39 AM
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A drawing of London, Ontario from around 1840. This looks towards the courthouse from the west bank of the Thames River, just upstream from the fork:



Think Toronto looked like a third world city in the 1800s? Welcome to downtown London, ca. 1880. I believe this is an early version of the Covent Garden market, with Dundas street in the background. All these buildings have likely since been demolished:



Fast-forward to the 1990s. Here's a shot of One London Place under construction in 1991:



And a shot of the downtown in 1996. The black building to the right is the old CN building, which doubled as the city's train station:



And that was imploded in early 2001, making London perhaps one of the few cities in this thread to actually create a larger gap in its skyline. Strange to think this was only a few months before 9/11.

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