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Originally Posted by Coldrsx
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Toronto looks like a podunk midwestern city in this pic, like it would eventually be Fort Wayne, IN or Akron, OH or some place like that. It's hard to believe it would grow into one of the largest, most important cities on the continent.
What's kind of funny is that Toronto has historic landmarks of reasonably impressive size scattered around what is, today, considered to be different quadrants of the downtown. Things like Queens Park and the ROM being 2 km north of that pic, or Maple Leaf Gardens and Eaton's College Park being 1.5-2 km in another direction. But, at the time, they would have been islands of metropolitanism surrounded by leafy residential neighbourhoods.
Over 70 years later, Toronto still takes the same approach to city building, except those islands are much further flung in places like Yonge and Eglinton or North York Centre.
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