Canadian skylines of the past - Page 9

Copes · #**161** Posted: **Jul 24, 2012, 11:36 AM**

I've never seen that photo post-fire, but I'm a fan. I'm learning a lot about the history of the city I live in (grew up in NS so I really have only learned what I've gone out of my way to learn).

Browsing the forums this morning, I've decided that you're an excellent asset to us here SignalHillHiker. Welcome!

SignalHillHiker · #**162** Posted: **Jul 24, 2012, 11:39 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Copes

I've never seen that photo post-fire, but I'm a fan. I'm learning a lot about the history of the city I live in (grew up in NS so I really have only learned what I've gone out of my way to learn).

Browsing the forums this morning, I've decided that you're an excellent asset to us here SignalHillHiker. Welcome!

D'aww, thanks! :-)

I'm just glad the fire happened when it did. If it had happened just a few decades later, the architecture of what we rebuilt would probably have been entirely North American and not unique at all.

davidivivid · #**163** Posted: **Jul 27, 2012, 5:13 AM**

1790

http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/...s.html?page=41

1830 : One of Quebec's biggest export at the time: huge ice cube destined to the caribbean so that rich sugar lords could appreciate their rhum with ice cubes.

http://www.obvcapitale.org/plans-dir...-saint-charles

1974

http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/...%20is%20Reborn

Wharn · #**164** Posted: **Jul 30, 2012, 2:13 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Looks a lot like London. At least that neat triangular building survived.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

Blame the automobile. Building were worth more as parking lots then as places to work and live back then.

I wouldn't blame the automobile. A select few may think of them as machines that live and breathe, but in reality they're just that: machines. Blame people. An old family friend was talking to us about this area a while ago, he says he's astounded at how trendy and modern it is right now, since back in the 1960s it was an extremely undesirable area... sort of like Rexdale today.

Coldrsx · #**165** Posted: **Aug 1, 2012, 6:05 PM**

Edmonton 1967

(http://content.lib.washington.edu/cg...B=0&DMROTATE=0)

MTLskyline · #**166** Posted: **Aug 5, 2012, 4:36 AM**

Montreal taken from Place Ville-Marie sometime between 1964 and 1967

http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/07/..._238b99bd25_b/

The_Architect · #**167** Posted: **Aug 14, 2012, 10:12 AM**

Just posted on the main page of UrbanToronto was this photo of the Toronto skyline circa 1930:

Sauce.

It's amazing to look at the area which is the current CBD filled with bank towers and plazas, and seeing it completely dense with pre-war buildings. Big losses from this picture includes the Toronto Star Building (just to the right of center of the picture), the Globe and Mail Building (the shorter building to the left of the Star at the intersection), and the Board of Trade Building (very bottom right at Yonge & Front).

flar · #**168** Posted: **Aug 14, 2012, 12:57 PM**

^^At least it got replaced with some of the most awesome skyscrapers in the country, as opposed to something like Hamilton, which got two dead malls and a whole lot of cheap parking.

Chadillaccc · #**169** Posted: **Aug 14, 2012, 1:39 PM**

and most of Toronto's are still standing along side the awesome modern towers.

Rico Rommheim · #**170** Posted: **Aug 14, 2012, 7:05 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

Montreal taken from Place Ville-Marie sometime between 1964 and 1967

http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/07/..._238b99bd25_b/

Man, that's unappealing

Rico Rommheim · #**171** Posted: **Aug 15, 2012, 2:50 PM**

Quebec City, 1870

By Alexander Henderson http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/

Montreal, 1870

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Alexander Henderson

Montreal, 1870's

Alexander Henderson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/

Montreal, 1905

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Wm. Notman & Son

Montreal from top of the Royal Bank HQ, 1927

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
J. Bertram

Construction of CN viaduct

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Anonymous

SignalHillHiker · #**172** Posted: **Aug 15, 2012, 3:13 PM**

A few submitted to the Facebook group "You know you grew up in St. John's when..."

The "Octagon Castle", which has since burned down, and from which the Octagon Pond area gets its name:

Monarchist Pride in the 1930s:

And the famous Bowring store. It still exists: "Few companies in Canada can claim as rich and long history as Bowring. Established in Newfoundland in 1811, Bowring is one of the oldest and most respected names in Canadian retailing."

Rico Rommheim · #**173** Posted: **Aug 15, 2012, 8:15 PM**

Charlottetown, 1910

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Wm. Notman & Son

Kingston, 1910

St. John, 1915(?)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Wm. Notman & Son

Lethbridge, 1904

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3221/2...446_z.jpg?zz=1
Wm. Notman & Son

Montreal, 1884

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3221/2...446_z.jpg?zz=1
Wm. Notman & Son

Winnipeg, 1887

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3221/2...446_z.jpg?zz=1
Wm. Notman & Son

Quebec, 1908

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Wm. Notman & Son

Halifax, 1901

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Wm. Notman & Son

Vancouver, 1904

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Wm. Notman & Son

St. John, 1898

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemc...n/photostream/
Wm. Notman & Son

Rico Rommheim · #**174** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 1:50 PM**

Calgary, 1889

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

Winnipeg, 1887

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

St. John's Nfld, 1900

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

St. John NB, 1870(!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

Montreal, 1896

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

Montreal, 1918

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

Montreal, 1911

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

Downtown Montreal, 1895

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

Montreal, 1890

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2919535372/in/photostream/
Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum

davidivivid · #**175** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 1:57 PM**

Great collection of pics Rico!!!

SignalHillHiker · #**176** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 2:27 PM**

^ Beautiful. I love the shot of Vancouver. For some reason, I still can't picture Vancouver as anything other than a city of towers. I half expect old pictures to show them growing up out of the earth or something...