By DAVID VAN DYKE The location of these photos is where old Highway 2, also known as Kingston Road, meets Queen Street East. The photograph above was taken in the late 1970s. When was the last time you saw a Datsun? Do you have an old photograph of Queen Street East you’d like to share […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE Seventy years ago, there was no way you’d forget to pick up a pack of cigarettes as you strolled up to the Woods Drug Store to collect your new prescription. Things are different now from how they were in 1952, but not so with much of the exterior of this pharmacy […]
By David VAN DYKE What’s beyond the Neville Park Loop before Scarborough? Yes, it’s the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant. The photograph above was taken in 1935, six years before the facility became fully operational. At this particular time, it was Toronto’s largest treatment plant. Today, it produces 30 per cent of Toronto’s drinking water. […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE St. John’s Norway Cemetery was established in the Village of Norway (Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue area) in 1853. The archival photo above depicts the original chapel of St. John the Baptist Anglican Church. There is no date attached with the image, but around the early 1900s I would think. Do […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE There are 98 years separating these two images. These two semi-detached dwellings sit on Wheeler Avenue just south of Norway Avenue. The photo above shows the homes in 1924. The inset photo shows them earlier this year. Is there an old photograph of your house, sitting in a shoebox in your […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE This City of Toronto Archives photograph, above, depicts a house on Wheeler Avenue, just down the hill from Juniper Avenue. It was taken in the summer of 1925. Notice that the road was not paved. With our winters, I fully comprehend the whole idea of a “mudroom” which you can see […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE Thank you Carole Cowan for sending this amazing archival photograph (above) of a house that your great grandfather, Mr. Davis, built in the late 1800s. This image is at least 100 years old and the location is close to the intersection of Scarborough Road and Queen Street East. Do you have […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE The heart of the Beach, Queen Street East and Lee Avenue. My thanks to Raymond Montana for sharing this photograph (above) which he took looking west along Queen Street East in the summer of 1995! Do you, like Ray, have an old photograph of Queen and Lee, or of Kew Gardens […]
There are just six years between these two images. If the walls could talk in the century-old house on the northwest corner of Main Street and Kingston Road (which I took the top photo of in 2016), it would have had a lot to say. You see, at the turn of the century Kingston and […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE It’s been more than seven years since I took the panoramic photo at the top of the page. I was standing in front of Fire Station 227 on Queen Street East in the Beach. The Shell gas station, which had been on the northeast corner of Queen Street East and Woodbine […]
