Canadian skylines of the past - Page 108

Skyisnolimit · #**2141** Posted **Apr 16, 2016, 6:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

1953

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=23318

Wow never realized how bad Toronto was in the 50's all those soot covered buildings. This truly needs to be a before and after pic with modern Toronto .

Architype · #**2142** Posted **Apr 16, 2016, 8:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce

Where would this be exactly? Looking towards the West End from Kitsilano?

Probably a view of the Gastown area, which was the whole city at the time, from the harbour or from Stanley Park.

Dr Awesomesauce · #**2143** Posted **Apr 16, 2016, 8:53 AM**

^Ahhh that makes more sense...

MolsonExport · #**2144** Posted **Apr 16, 2016, 6:59 PM**

Before there was Toronto the Good, there was Toronto the Brown.

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hipster duck · #**2145** Posted **Apr 16, 2016, 8:35 PM**

This picture was taken at roughly the same timeframe (early 1950s), and gives some detail of the area immediately behind Toronto Harbour that the other picture cuts off.

It's interesting that so much of that area was unused. Maybe the port had already begun its decline?

Source

Procrastinational · #**2146** Posted **Apr 17, 2016, 12:07 AM**

I wonder if that dirty picture of Toronto was taken after a period without much rainfall... Surely a good downpour would have washed away most of the soot?

11a2b3 · #**2147** Posted **Apr 30, 2016, 10:31 AM**

Ottawa, ca. 1895:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

Dwils01 · #**2148** Posted **May 2, 2016, 2:46 AM**

Sault Ste. Marie city hall under construction in 1973.

The building is 97,000 square feet and cost 4.3 million to build. The building uses gold tinted mirror glass and brown porcelain steel panels.
It was completed in December 1974.

This used to be the site of the ferry terminal to take passenger for Ontario to Michigan. With the completion of the International bridge in 1962, the terminal was no longer in use shortly there after and the land sat vacant until construction started on the city hall. All that remains today of the ferry terminal area is the cut out of land where the ferry used to dock on the east side of city hall.

Source: https://www.sootoday.com/columns/rem...windows-288095

MolsonExport · #**2149** Posted **May 2, 2016, 12:47 PM**

Montreal rising

ville.montreal.qc

MolsonExport · #**2150** Posted **May 2, 2016, 12:48 PM**

1950s

photosfromthe1950s

kool maudit · #**2151** Posted **May 2, 2016, 1:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Montreal rising

ville.montreal.qc

I always liked Beaver Hall Hill. It's a porky little cross-section of 20th century Montreal.

WhipperSnapper · #**2152** Posted **May 2, 2016, 2:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Procrastinational

I wonder if that dirty picture of Toronto was taken after a period without much rainfall... Surely a good downpour would have washed away most of the soot?

I remember the buildings being stained black as a small kid in the early 1980s. Makes me wonder if the lack of appreciation in the 1960s and 1970s was partly because you couldn't see the details.

kwoldtimer · #**2153** Posted **May 2, 2016, 2:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

I remember the buildings being stained black as a small kid in the early 1980s. Makes me wonder if the lack of appreciation in the 1960s and 1970s was partly because you couldn't see the details.

That black coating was not unique to Toronto - thank the coal age with dirty autos tacked on. It is interesting to note that after cleaning, these buildings no longer blacken with time - we breath a much better quality air pollution these days!