Canadian skylines of the past

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

Yeah, that's Livingstone. It's quite nice right there, then gets quickly trashified as you go along, haha.

Yeah, that is one rough-looking neighbourhood. The line of homes that are 3-4 floors high on the harbour side, but only one-floor high fronting Livingstone Street... it looks like a row of cottages when you drive past there. It's awful. Those homes should have been 4-5 floors high to ensure at least two floors fronting Livingstone.

[GDS]

Jacques Cartier Bridge under construction - 1929



Place des Arts - 1968



Complexe Desjardins - 1975



Metropolitan and St. Laurent Blvd -1979



CIBC under construction - 1964



St-Josephs oratory - 1937

[chrisallard5454]

Pictures too big.

[SignalHillHiker]

Faubourg à M'lasse 1963 by bobbob65, on Flickr

[Rico Rommheim]

A real butcher job that was. Hundreds of families evicted, dozens of restaurants, green grocers, depanneurs and other shops torn down too. 40 years later, the spaces are inadequate for broadcasting, the employees are relegated to tiny offices (many of them down in basements) and the sea of parking lots is the subject of a decade-old plan to build condos, with no due date in sight. What was once a busy community is now a complete no man's land.

Thank you, CBC.

Here was the CBC a few years later.


http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/...re0166_07x.jpg


Here is a very preliminary draft of this proposal.


http://www.google.ca/search?client=s...ml%3B650%3B444

[MolsonExport]

That radio-canada edifice is the asshole centre of a very large pile of urban shit.

[craner]

CIBC under construction - 1964


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I absolutely love this one!

[MTLskyline]

Too bad the Kontiki is no longer around. Relatively little has changed in that streetscape (aside from the cars and the signs on the buildings).

[someone123]

My grandmother has randomly mentioned going to Kon-Tiki in the 60's. I didn't know it was such a popular spot and didn't expect to see it on SSP.

Here's an old aerial shot of the waterfront power plant in Halifax, circa 1970:



A story about how the building was reused is here (too bad they don't have a comparable present-day photo): http://www.archdaily.com/317150/nova...mh-architects/

[Rico Rommheim]

Wow, the guests at Halifax's swankiest hotel were offered quite the gritty urban industrial experience back in those days it seems.

[Chadillaccc]

and now that same building is the beautiful Nova Scotia Power headquarters!

[someone123]

You can see from the photo why the waterfront wasn't so desirable in past decades. The sites with the oil tanks are still empty today, probably in part because nobody wants to deal with land that would require expensive remediation.

In behind you can also see lots of little rowhouses and older apartment buildings. That area is a great neighbourhood. The lot in the foreground on the right has an active proposal and the lot behind it was developed in the 80's.

Behind the power plant on the left you can see one part of the pitched roof of an old brick streetcar shed. I guess it was torn down shortly after this picture was taken. Too bad -- it probably would have been an interesting building to convert to some other use.

[MolsonExport]

I went to the newer edition of the Kon Tiki (Cours mt royal)....way back in the early 90s on a date. Really neat but expensive drinks. faux polynesia. closed a long time ago.

[SignalHillHiker]

All photos from Vintage Winnipeg: https://www.facebook.com/VintageWinnipeg

[Jeff]

ah! i just joined that facebook group! love it!

[Rico Rommheim]

Those Winnipeg pictures blew my mind. It really was a major player once. I mean, look at this:



This picture immediately tells you that you're in a big city:

[entheosfog]

I'm a little surprised I haven't posted anything Vancouver in this thread, or at least I don't think I have. Here's a few skyline pics I've put up over the last few months on the Vancouver: Then Facebook page, in random order:

From City Hall, looking north, 1939:


North Vancouver, 1919:


1892, from Mount Pleasant:


1966:


1946:


1886, Georgia and Granville:


False Creek area, Olympic Village is now in the upper left part of the photo, 1970s:


1961:


1972:


1966:


1960:


1960:


1960s:


1960s:


Georgia and Hornby streets, 1898:


1969:


1901:


1912:

[MonkeyRonin]

Halifax, 1900



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ha...,_ca._1900.jpg

[davidivivid]

http://www.photographium.com/general...nada-1918-1920

[SignalHillHiker]

I'm in love.

Also, that dude on the right is fancy as ****.