Canadian skylines of the past

[Chadillaccc]

Ye olde 1990s Rocky Mountain Cowtown.


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[Darkcanadian]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Ye olde 1990s Rocky Mountain Cowtown.


http://www.trojansafety.com/branch/calgary

This pic make Calgary looks like Denver

[SKYSTHELIMIT]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

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Nice early 90s shot(I am gathering) Toronto started to get it right with the Harbourfront with the buildings to the west but then there were those horrendous beige slabs.

[Chadillaccc]

I'd love to do a comparison montage of cities like Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver just to visualize how drastic the changes to those cities skylines have been over the last 13 years. Each of those cities has also categorically raised their levels of influence, livability, and urbanity during that point. Maybe this period will one day be known as the Canadian renaissance? As almost all of the cities in the country are now starting to join in the advancement!

[The_Architect]

Aside from the vast empty lots around the Skydome, scary enough I'm almost preferring that, when you had a clear view of the banking towers and the Royal York.

[SignalHillHiker]

The view did look more muscular back then. But other styles will fill in and lessen the airy glass appearance over the years.

[niwell]

I think the view looked better from the lake then, but it looks much better from almost any other vantage point now. I've always thought the stereotypical postcard harbour view was Toronto's least flattering to be honest.

The most impressive view now is from the west near the Humber - you can see how far the skyline stretches and the bank buildings are still prominent.

[The_Architect]

Originally Posted by niwell

I think the view looked better from the lake then, but it looks much better from almost any other vantage point now. I've always thought the stereotypical postcard harbour view was Toronto's least flattering to be honest.

The most impressive view now is from the west near the Humber - you can see how far the skyline stretches and the bank buildings are still prominent.

The classic is the classic, but I agree it doesn't do the city justice anymore.

The Humber is great to show the size and reach of the skyline, but as far as aesthetics go, the angle from the Riverdale Park is the best looking:

[MolsonExport]

^one of my fave Toronto pix anywhere.

[Dylan Leblanc]

1978 view of Vancouver - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hhjohns...n/photostream/

[davidivivid]

Percé, early 1900s


Perce and the rock, St. Lawrence. Province of Quebec par Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, sur Flickr

[MonkeyRonin]

Montreal, 1897 (?)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De...%280946%29.jpg

[SignalHillHiker]

From the Provincial Archives.

Duckworth Street, St. John's, Newfoundland - May 6, 1935

[SignalHillHiker]

And a few more from the same source, 1920s-1930s.

The view from the Roman Catholic Basilica of St. John the Baptist (this one is actually 1905, the others are 1920s-early 30s):



And a couple then/now scenes of the view from the Newfoundland Hotel:

Gower Street to the left, Military Road to the right. The park to the right is Bannerman Park.





The houses in the foreground are actually still there today, I just didn't pan down enough and they're mostly blocked by trees.

[The_Architect]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Montreal, 1897 (?)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De...%280946%29.jpg

That building on the left looks like the old post office on Adelaide:

[Martin Mtl]

That was the Old Post Office of Montreal :-)

[Coldrsx]

Edmonton


(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a.../historic2.jpg)


(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...P4w5uJWOqu8X5g)

[Chadillaccc]

Wow Cold, that is a great view. I have looked for an old Edmonton shot like that for years but can usually ever find ones taken/drawn from Strathcona. Thanks!

[kool maudit]

what an interesting shot of montreal... we were so young then, the city and country, we had no idea what we would end up becoming.

at that point, the canadian and american experiments remained free to diverge to a greater degree than they did. my mind fills with images of the strange, barely-recognizable cities that canada might have hosted were it to have decided to be another sort of country altogether. arctic havanas and vaguely swiss-looking postcards, skylines of liverpool-esque waterfronts and stalin-era chateau-topped skyscrapers.

[MTLskyline]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Edmonton


(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a.../historic2.jpg)


(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...P4w5uJWOqu8X5g)

Did Edmonton preserve most of its historic buildings or where they mostly demolished? It looks to have quite a few nice buildings in the first shot. Love the prominence of the Hotel Macdonald.