Links to archive photos of local industry

Bloor Street

Bloor Street crossing east to Perth Avenue - March 9, 1914 (Image shows Mickle Dyment & Son Mill Work)

Bloor Street - Perth Avenue crossing from the east March 23, 1923 (Image shows Milnes Coal Co. Ltd)

Bloor Street - Perth Avenue crossing from the west March 23 1923 (Image shows Milnes Coal Co. Ltd)

Bloor Street and CPR and C.N.R.. looking west - September 16, 1924 (Image shows Canada Bread building)

Hancock Lumber Company, Bloor Street West October 31, 1935

Hancock Lumber Company, Bloor Street West October 31, 1935

Hancock Lumber Company, Bloor Street West October 31, 1935

Lansdowne Avenue

Lansdowne Avenue car barn June 7, 1911 (This barn was torn down in 2003 and is now a vacant lot waiting to be decontaminated.)

Lansdowne Avenue south over Davenport Road laying track June 13, 1916 (Image shows foundry)

Lansdowne Avenue north from C.P.R June 28, 1916 (Image shows foundry)

Lansdowne Avenue - Dupont Street level crossing looking north July 25, 1923 (Image shows Canadian General Electric plant (former foundry))

Subway - Lansdowne Ave, north of Royce Ave April 23, 1932 (Image shows Canadian General Electric plant (former foundry) as well as new underpass)

Davenport Yard

C.N.R. Davenport Station and Yard - June 15, 1923

C.N.R. Davenport Yards from the south - July 5, 1923

Gladstone Avenue

Collapse of Neilson's building, Gladstone Avenue ca 1909