Canadian skylines of the past

[craner]

^Awesome Halifax find

[Darkoshvilli]

The Main in 1865


http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbexplo/8375764496/

1910


http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbexpl...n/photostream/

[MonkeyRonin]

1800s




Early 1900s








1920s








1930s




1980s




From the Toronto Archives

[SignalHillHiker]

Great Toronto shots. That first one is awesome.

Originally Posted by Architype

Here is an aerial view which shows the area of Atlantic Place (block at center) and Scotia Centre (block at left), the caption says 1949.



Source: http://www.delcampe.net/items?language=E&cat=401

Originally Posted by Architype

Here is a larger version, it was from the arterial access road around 1987 or 88:


(my photo)

[Martin Mtl]

Wow, this is amazing. Looks like a European town. What is that castle/train station like big building at the left ?

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

1800s



From the Toronto Archives

[MonkeyRonin]

That's the old Union Station (demolished in 1927).

[Chadillaccc]

I like the current Union much better! Though I wish they hadn't demolished that one.


Ps. those Toronto pics are incredible.

[Andrewjm3D]

The clock tower is now located in Muskoka on the Huntsville town-hall.

[caltrane74]

Toronto looks like Quebec City! lol!

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

I like the current Union much better! Though I wish they hadn't demolished that one.


Ps. those Toronto pics are incredible.

Union station is a great building, especially the exterior.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

That's the old Union Station (demolished in 1927).

This almost looks line Venice.

[Andrewjm3D]

Our waterfront is going to look like a paradise in a few years compared to this. I can only imagine how polluted the inner harbour used to be. On some of our older structures you can still see the black soot from years of coal burning in our city.

[Rico Rommheim]

Awesome TO skyline shots. Very interesting how Mtl and TO skylines were completely different in philosophy and form!

[Rico Rommheim]

Canadian national railways' masterwork of urban renewal, 1963


That particular spot, 20 years earlier


Central Station again, as it first appeared when it opened

http://www.montrealmoderne.net/image.../photos_05.jpg

[SignalHillHiker]

Gorgeous photos, Rico. So many of our historic shots just aren't nice photos - in composition, quality, etc.

Those are brilliant, especially the first and last.

[Rico Rommheim]

Here's one for train fanatics. Train leaving Windsor station, montreal.
The source claims this was taken in 1911. But the tower in the background wasn't built until 1916.

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com...65435275095877

[MonkeyRonin]

I'm not going to post them here as this is for skylines, but if anyone wants to see some pictures of Toronto's biggest slum in the early 1900s, check 'em out here: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=992


Or for some slightly nicer fare: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=993

[Darkoshvilli]

Looking east, 1896


http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbexpl...n/photostream/

[Chadillaccc]

This is from a mural on the hoarding around the construction site of EAP II.


100_2386 by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[davidivivid]

Expo '67 par Light Collector, sur Flickr