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Toronto Harbour The entrance to Toronto Harbour from Lake
Ontario, c. 1842. Hand-coloured lithograph by John Richard Coke Smyth
(1808-1882). ID #23220 |
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Great Western Railway Great Western Railway station at Yonge
Street, Toronto, Ontario. The Great Western Railway was extended to Toronto in 1855, running
from Niagara Falls to Windsor via Hamilton. ID #20348 |
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Colborne Lodge Winter scene of the new railway line at
Colborne Lodge, High Park, Toronto, Upper Canada, c. 1860s. ID #20401 |
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Electric Railway The first electric railway in Toronto, Ontario,
1885. This train ran from the south end of Strachan Avenue to the Exhibition
Grounds. ID #20371 |
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Yonge Street-1 Yonge Street, north from Adelaide, Toronto,
Ontario, c. 1885. ID #20247 |
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Yonge Street-2 Early photo of Yonge Street, north of York,
Upper Canada. It was cut through the forests in a straight line northward from York and the
clearing of land and settlement soon followed. ID #20296 |
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Russell Cars Line of Russell cars outside Toronto City Hall,
Ontario, c. 1909. The builder, T.A. Russell, sits beside the driver in the first car. ID #20514 |
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Toronto in 1914 Toronto, on the eve of the First World
War. ID #20824 |
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Canadian Volunteers Volunteers of the Queen's Own Rifles
leaving Union Sation, Toronto, in August, 1914. ID #20830 |
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C.P.R. Station North Toronto C.P.R. Station, which opened in
1916. ID #21908 |
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Garbage Wagon Garbage men with a wagon and sleigh, Toronto,
1918. ID #21880 |
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