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Toronto History Aficionado, Artist & Graphic Designer, Ambassador of Motorista Studio, Proud Husband & Father

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Eaton Centre Excavation & Holy Trinity Church, 1975

Artist: Walter Jackson Councill (1915-1982)
Medium: Watercolour painting
Credit: Toronto Public Library

#1870s #watercolour #watercolor #painting #architecture #preservation #religion #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

08.10.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (5 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

07.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (4 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

07.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (3 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

07.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (2 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

07.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (1 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

07.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible info Raveyote, great to know these details. Thank you! πŸ˜€

07.10.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Completely rebuilt and rebranded as Greenwood Raceway in 1963, the track carried on for three decades before closing its doors in 1993.

07.10.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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100 years ago: Filming movies at the old Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, October 6-7, 1925.

#woodbineracetrack #greenwood #horseracing #movies #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

07.10.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

For a time, both stations stood side by side β€” one fading into history, the other about to become a Toronto landmark.

06.10.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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At photo right, the new Union Station stood nearly ready β€” gleaming but not yet open to the public. To photo left, the soot-darkened towers of the old 1873 station still lingered, a relic of Toronto’s earlier railway age.

06.10.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Soon, the railways that long blocked access to the waterfront would be raised above the streets as part of a sweeping viaduct project β€” one that coincided with the construction of the new Union Station.

06.10.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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99 years ago today β€” October 6, 1926:
A look north on York Street from Fleet Street, when Toronto was in the midst of a grand transition.

#unionstation #railway #railroad #architecture #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

06.10.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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CIBC tower from Yonge and Wellington streets, Oct. 6, 1958 - Harvey R. Naylor photo.

#OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #Bank #skyscraper #architecture #artdeco #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

06.10.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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70 years ago today: John Barker house, (+2 kids) Albion Rd., north east side, around Calstock Drive - October 5, 1955.

πŸ“Έ James V. Salmon
Courtesy of the Toronto Public Library

#farmhouse #architecture #rural #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

05.10.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The lower floors of the Royal York Hotel dominate the background. The eastern side of the hotel seen at right is no longer visible today β€” it was hidden behind a 17-storey addition built between 1956 and 1959.

05.10.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Traffic on Front Street West, 93 years ago today β€” October 5, 1932.

People, Gray Coach buses, Peter Witt streetcars, and automobiles bustle around one of the main gateways to downtown Toronto.

#frontstreet #traffic #OnThisDay #OTD #1930s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

05.10.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Plaques across the region and Ernie Fauvelle’s Pioneer Spirit at the Haileybury Waterfront Complex remember the tragedy of the Great Fire of 1922.

04.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Many survivors sheltered in the waters of Lake Timiskaming until the fires eased on Oct. 5, aided by rain and snow.

A massive relief effort followed. Toronto sent much of the aid, including 87 repurposed streetcars from the TTC used as temporary homes (one is now at the Haileybury Heritage Museum).

04.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Oct. 4, 1922, wind-driven bush fires tore through 18 townships in northern Ontario, killing an estimated 43 people and destroying the town of Haileybury.

#Haileybury #greatfireof1922 #wildfire #transit #streetcar #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

04.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory at UofT, a photo dated 99 years ago today - October 3, 1926.

The Soldiers' Tower is under construction, so the photo must be prior to 1924.

πŸ“Έ: Toronto Public Library

#uoft #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

03.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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South entrance of the Armouries, University Ave., Toronto, a photo taken 100 years ago today - Oct. 3, 1925.

This is one of the β€œ10 Toronto buildings that shouldn’t have been demolished” we talked about on Episode 1468 of the Toronto Mike'd Podcast

πŸŽ™οΈListen here:
www.torontomike.com/2024/04/10-t...

03.10.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Witt 2766 and the rest of the TTC Heritage Collection are currently in storage at the Halton County Radial Railway as the TTC Hillcrest complex undergoes a major renovation.

02.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, only one remains in TTC service β€” Peter Witt 2766.

Restored in 2002 and dedicated to transit historian Ray Corley, it still appears for charters and special events, lovingly cared for by TTC staff.

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With their high-capacity, all-steel bodies, they were a huge step up from the old wood-clad cars Toronto had relied on for decades.

Designed by Cleveland transit commissioner Peter Witt (1869–1948), the cars became a TTC staple: between 1921 & 1923, 575 Peter Witts rolled out across the city.

02.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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October 2, 1921 β€” The TTC’s first β€œPeter Witt” streetcars entered regular service on the Broadview route.

#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #streetcar #trolley #transit #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

02.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Hadley! Great to see these beautiful old houses are still standing.

01.10.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Royal Canadian Curling Club, 131 Broadview Ave., Toronto - Sept. 30, 1929. The club is still there today.

Their history in brief:
royalcanadiancurling.com/index.php/ou...

#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #curling #sports #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

01.10.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Streetcar track reconstruction on Queen St. W., 109 years ago today - Sept. 30, 1916.

#OnThisDay #OTD #1910s #streetcar #trolley #construction #transit #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

30.09.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A "View in Rosedale", Toronto - Postmarked September 30, 1906

πŸ“Έ: Toronto Public Library

#rosedale #postcards #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

30.09.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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