old city photos?

[bartzman]

Ive seen alot of historical pictures of canadian cities on this site over the past few years. i was wondering where most of these pictures have come from. i know that provincial archive websites have some historic photos, but any other sites for canadian cities? thanks

[vid]

http://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/index.htm and http://www.fwhp.ca/homepage.html have old pics of the lakehead, but you have to dig around.

Also try http://www.flickr.com/ (GREAT source for photographs of cities, some people have scanned in old photographs) and there is one other site, I think it's called community snapshots or something, it has a lot of pictures of cities from the past.

[SpongeG]

the city of vancouver keeps an archive on line

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/photos/

[Distill3d]

may possibly be on the same topic, does anyone here have any maps/pictures predating the Port Mann Bridge in Vancouver (prior to 1964)?? i've been looking all over and have yet to find a thing.

[SpongeG]

theres a collection of photos here

http://www.surrey.ca/Living+in+Surre...on/default.htm

quite a lot here is a sample:
1910


tollgate on patullo bridge 1937



port mann construction 1963


old yale road 1913


pacific highway tree clearing 1922


BCER Car barn in new west - 1911


port mann 1930

[Boris2k7]

The Glenbow Museum collections...
http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/

[rgalston]

An excellent resource for photos of Winnipeg from 1870-1950ish: http://www.virtual.heritagewinnipeg.com/gallery.htm

And a good collection of images from Canadian cities and towns:
http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/scenic/index.cfm

[bartzman]

thanks guys, and holy moly, that CN images site is amazing.


does anyone happan to have any 20th century pictures of beautiful
nelson BC, elora ON, fergus ON or port hope ON?

[Distill3d]

Originally Posted by Boris550

The Glenbow Museum collections...
http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/

glenbow's collection is exstensive. i find it to be one of the best reasources for old school Calgary

[Ottawa]

Here's a link to an extensive collection of pictures from 1860+ Saint John, NB. The "golden era".

http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/CAIN/engli...e=1&Results=50

[BrannyMuffin]

The City of Regina website has archives here: http://regina.ca/content/info_servic...es/index.shtml
They're neat because they're profiles, so they have stories to go along with them.
There are some here as well: http://www.reginalibrary.ca/commform...s/archives.htm

[alps]

Here's a website with lots of historical photos of Halifax, put together in 1999 for the 250th anniversary of the city.

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/halifax/

Macdonald Bridge opening:


Last trolley:


Magazine Hill exploding:


VE Day riots:


Dartmouth, 1988: