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Deja Views: The Willow Avenue ‘fixer-upper’ that went for $51,000 in 1985

May 9, 2022 0 Comments

By David Van Dyke In 1985, Fauna Coates and her husband purchased a then-condemned cottage on the bottom of Willow Avenue, north of Queen. The cost? $51,000! Certainly, this would never happen in today’s marketplace. Thank you Fauna for sending me this wonderful image. You and your husband did an awesome job restoring this house […]

Deja Views: Looking back to the Queen Street East and Lee Avenue area in 1996

April 24, 2022April 21, 2022

By DAVID VAN DYKE Lorie Murdoch sent me the wonderful image above. She photographed these businesses (on the sunny side of Queen Street East, just a little west of Lee Avenue) in 1996. Thank you Lorie, I don’t know how many times my son and I strolled into Beach Food Mart to be warmly greeted […]

Deja Views: The building of the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant in 1933

April 10, 2022April 8, 2022 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE This archival photograph (above) depicts the laying down of 42-inch concrete drain pipes in the reservoir of the still to be completed R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant on Queen Street East. The year is 1933, just a year into its construction. Another eight years would pass before the plant would become […]

Deja Views: The Price Bros. homes on Glen Manor Drive remembered

March 27, 2022March 25, 2022 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE Thanks to Barbara Myrvold for sending the photo at top of page showing the double duplexes from 48 to 90 Glen Manor Dr. The year is 1929 and these buildings were near completion. They were built and owned by the Price Bros. and built on the site of the former Scarboro […]

Deja Views: Celebrating Beach Metro’s 50th anniversary and looking back at the changes in Beach house prices

March 13, 2022March 11, 2022

By DAVID VAN DYKE Congratulations Beach Metro Community News on your 50th anniversary, to the friendly staff, the board members and all of our readers. That is an incredible milestone to achieve, especially for print media in today’s era. I remember, it’s been more than 20 years now, strolling into the BMN office on Gerrard […]

Deja Views: Looking towards Kew Gardens in 1904

February 27, 2022February 25, 2022

By DAVID VAN DYKE This archival photograph at the top of this page was taken in 1904. The location is Queen Street East just west of Lee Avenue. In the background, left of the frame, is Kew Gardens which was established in 1879. At the time the above photo was taken, the Beaches Public Library […]

Deja Views: A look at, and some information on, Woodbine Avenue stores in 1921

February 13, 2022February 11, 2022 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE Look at the merchants that used to be on the southeast corner of Woodbine and Corley avenues, between Kingston Road and Gerrard Street East. There was once a meat shop, a shoe repair shop and store there that sold cigars and other items. The above photo was taken in 1921. Thanks […]

Deja Views: A Greenwood racetrack grandstand memory

January 30, 2022January 27, 2022 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE After his wife passed, John Leslie Harrison moved to the Beaches Lions Centennial Apartments on Norway Avenue. He would regularly walk up to three kilometres a day, often with a camera in tow. The photograph above was taken in the late 1980s, and is looking north from Lake Shore Boulevard East […]

Deja Views: A Kimberley Avenue memory going back 15 years

January 16, 2022January 14, 2022

By DAVID VAN DYKE I first photographed this Kimberley Avenue house (photo above) in the mid 2000s. At the time, which was 2007, it sat on a huge undeveloped lot, close behind the fire hall on Main Street. Inevitably, townhouses later sprouted up on the land. Do you have any old photos of Kingston Road […]

Deja Views: Remembering Joseph Price and the family home on Glen Manor Drive

December 26, 2021December 24, 2021 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE This incredible hand-coloured photograph (above) is from Paul Warner who is the great grandson of Joseph Price, seen here, standing by his car. The Price brothers built more than 100 duplex and fourplex dwellings on the site where the Scarboro Beach Amusement Park used to be. This majestic estate is located […]

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