Canadian skylines of the past - Page 114

Rico Rommheim · #**2261** Posted **Nov 3, 2016, 12:03 AM**

American flags in Victoria Square. Date (?)

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St-Antoine street, late 1920's

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Montreal 1800, population 9,000

Montreal 1840, population 40,000

The Windsor Hotel, 1878

thomax · #**2262** Posted **Nov 5, 2016, 4:09 PM**

Hamilton - 1940s by VintageHamilton, on Facebook

SignalHillHiker · #**2263** Posted **Nov 17, 2016, 1:55 PM**

A few from Vintage St. John's.

Not sure the year for these, but the old Cochrane Street United Church is present so it's likely late 1800s. Keeping these first two full size because they're so nice:

The east end of Water Street. Very little of this still exists - that end was largely let go.

And a few winter ones, presumably 1950s-ish, from the roof of the Benevolent Irish Society.

To the left is Military Road, to the right is Queen's Road. This view is basically unchanged today. Lots of additions but every prominent building is still there as best as I can tell.

SignalHillHiker · #**2264** Posted **Nov 17, 2016, 5:19 PM**

And one then/now. The George Street stairs some time in the 80s, I assume. Someone who knows cars at all could probably confirm:

2013 on Streetview:

And yesterday:

someone123 · #**2265** Posted **Nov 22, 2016, 9:41 PM**

Aerial of the newer Dalhousie campus and South End Halifax, 1950's. Today the downtown area and Dalhousie are blending together but back in this period they were quite separate.

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The Victorian-era university buildings are toward the top of the photo along the boulevard. The Studley campus of Dalhousie, the main campus today, was established around 1900 and didn't really fill up with buildings until the 1960's or 70's.

Martin Mtl · #**2266** Posted **Nov 22, 2016, 9:48 PM**

/\ Great find !

Rico Rommheim · #**2267** Posted **Nov 23, 2016, 12:34 AM**

Awesome St. John's set. Had (and maybe still has?) a great sense of being an 'outpost' on on the edge of the world. fascinating.

And great Halifax picture. I get a feeling that a traveler from Montreal getting off at Halifax back in the days would of felt at home (kind of).

someone123 · #**2268** Posted **Nov 23, 2016, 1:46 AM**

There are a bunch of interesting buildings visible in that aerial photo that are easy to overlook in person. The one that looks like an auditorium in the lower left is the Beth Israel synagogue, a modernist building that looks like it was built around 1940-1950. The one in the lower right is Shirreff Hall, which was built as a female-only residence around 1920. It was designed by the prominent local architect Andrew Cobb. There are a lot of whimsical Cobb-designed houses from the early 1900's nearby. The neighbourhood has some good architecture but it is a bit spread out. I'm guessing not many visitors see it.

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

And great Halifax picture. I get a feeling that a traveler from Montreal getting off at Halifax back in the days would of felt at home (kind of).

The two cities are similar in a lot of ways. Even the layout is similar, with the Citadel being somewhat like Mount Royal and Barrington being somewhat like Saint Catherine Street. The North/South ends of Halifax are like the East/West ends of Montreal. The residential areas on the far end of Dalhousie and around the Northwest Arm are reminiscent of the parts of Outremont and in/near Westmount on the sides of Mount Royal. There are some real gems in that area, but they are secluded and there's lots of modern construction as well because so many old estates were subdivided over the years.

SignalHillHiker · #**2269** Posted **Nov 26, 2016, 6:00 PM**

A few up on tourist information boards around Signal Hill.

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Some scenes from a large panorama panel from 1910.

The West End wasn't even up out of the Waterford Valley yet.

Most of the lower part of this area is gone now - highway off-ramps and modern buildings. The upper part, though, is all filled in with buildings that seem like they were built in the 1890s like all the rest.

Downtown.

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And an old map.

MonkeyRonin · #**2270** Posted **Dec 3, 2016, 7:59 PM**

Toronto in the 60s and 70s:

Martin Mtl · #**2271** Posted **Dec 3, 2016, 10:21 PM**

/\ Great set. Love those old streetcars.

BretttheRiderFan · #**2272** Posted **Dec 3, 2016, 11:20 PM**

The storefronts were so unique and colourful.

Black Star · #**2273** Posted **Dec 3, 2016, 11:26 PM**

Nice pics of the Big Smoke back in the day.......

Great thread. Keep the pics coming.

SignalHillHiker · #**2274** Posted **Dec 8, 2016, 5:00 PM**

The Giant dry goods store in Churchill Park. In the background, you can see one of the city's air raid sirens. A handful of them survived into the 1980s.

St. John's was under blackout rules throughout WWII but was never bombed from the air (the Germans did fire torpedoes at the city in through the Narrows, but they only caused minor damage). Judging by old articles from the time, the lifting of the blackout rules in 1945 allowing buildings and streets to be lit at night was quite a celebration - almost as joyous as the end of the war itself.