Category: Architecture

  • April 18-20 in our neighbourhood’s past

    April 18-20 in our neighbourhood’s past

    Montreal CNR soccer at Ulster Stadium Globe, April 19, 1929
    Paving streets East Toronto Toronto Star, April 19, 1920
    Fred Dawes, George Bird, T. A., Chalmers, Small’s Pond, first canoes of the season, Toronto Star, April 19 1920
    Vincent Moffatt, 242 Rhodes Ave, struck by streetcar, Globe, April 19, 1910
    Water supplied outside city limits, Aldridge and Wagstaff, Toronto Star, April 19, 1900

    Monarch Park, Toronto World, April 19, 1913

    CNR Tempo train lies scattered across the railway right-of-way year Woodbine Racetrack after running through an open switch April 20, 1969 by Bob Olsen, Toronto Star

  • April 14-18 in our neighbourhood’s history

    April 14-18 in our neighbourhood’s history

    Break in, 476 Rhodes Ave, Globe, April 14, 1913
    Danforth area Toronto Star, April 14, 1920
    Norway School, Toronto Star, April 14, 1924
    15 18 and 20 Ashdale Ave, Grimshaw sold to W.H. Westman, Toronto Star April 15 1920
    Bowmore Road, War threatens, Globe & Mail, April 15, 1938
    Bungalow from Martin Senour paint ad, Maclean’s, April 15, 1923
    Bungalow from Martin Senour paint ad, Maclean’s, April 15, 1923
    Girls Don’t Get Married – Kelvin Park Toronto Star, April 15, 1922
    425 Coxwell Ave. Herbert Hosiery, The Ottawa Citizen, April 16, 1953
    Cridlands ad, Toronto Star, April 16 1953
    McEachren ad, Globe, April 16, 1914
    Flemish giant and other kinds of young rabbits, 168 Ashdale, Toronto Star, April 17, 1919
    E H Foster wounded Toronto Star April 17 1918
    Monarch Park ad Toronto Star, April 17, 1912
    Monarch Park ad Toronto Star, April 17, 1912
    Real estate, Toronto Star, April 17, 1920
    Sugar dumped, Globe and Mail, April 17, 1940
    Fred Scott killed by streetcar Hillington Ave, Owen Sound Daily Sun Times, April 18, 1940
    Scott killed by streetcar Hillingdon & Danforth, The Kingston Whig Standard, April 18, 1940
    Ulster Stadium offered to the City for $33,000, Toronto Star, April 18, 1944
    Ward One Real Estate, Toronto Star, April 18 1914

  • Early April in the neighbourhood

    Ashbridges Estate, Robins ad, Toronto Star, April 2, 1908
    Kingsmount Park ad, Toronto World, April 5, 1912
    Kingsmount Park ad, Toronto World, April 6, 1912
    Glenmount Park ad, Toronto Star, April 4, 1912
    Glenmount ad, McEachren, Globe, April 3, 1923
    Danforth Car House plan (Buildings Department) – April 6, 1923
    Poverty, 171 Coxwell Ave, Toronto Star, April 6, 1946
    Coxwell Stadium, Globe and Mail, April 3, 1952
    Gerrard Street East, east of Woodbine, looking west – April 3, 1984
    Gerrard Street East, looking east across Hollywood Crescent – April 3, 1984
    Gerrard Street East, looking east across Hollywood Crescent – April 3, 1984
    View of Gerrard Street East, looking west at Greenwood Avenue – April 3, 1984
  • Sovereign Homes, 1911

    Sovereign Homes, 1911

    Sovereign Readi-Cut Homes 1911

    Gallery #1 is the introduction to the product

    Gallery #2 These designs include many that you can see in a ten-minute walk through the neighbourhood. They range from simple cabins to substantial two-storey homes.

    Gallery #3 features the most popular style of the time, “the rage” (as in “all the rage”) of the pre-World War One cities in North America. Many of these designs carried on through to the end of “the Roaring Twenties”

    Gallery #4 Summer Cottages. Many of these were built in Cottage Country, but many were also built as year-round homes in Toronto.

    Gallery #5 Barns, hunters’ lodges, “auto houses” (garages), additions, store fronts, school house, etc. and “The Power of Cash”.

    If you enjoyed this and want to see more catalogues like this you can go to the Toronto Public Library’s (TPL) digital archives and flip through them online or download them to your computer. Here is the search page for the TPL digital archives: https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/

    This link will take you to Sovereign’s 1916 catalogue:

    Aladdin Homes 1918:

    Aladdin Homes 1920:

    Aladdin Homes 1932:

  • Weekly history round-up, April 1

    No Typhoid in O’Keefes, Toronto Star, April 1, 1911. No joke, typhoid was a real problem in the neighbourhood at the time, especially on Rhodes Avenue and Craven Road.
    Sovereign Homes ad, Toronto World, April 1, 1911. One of the most popular kit house manufacturers. Many houses in the area are readi-built designs, flat-packed like a famous European furniture maker, and shipped out to be put together by the buyer or a contractor.
    Glenmount and Kingsmount ad, Toronto Sunday World, March 31, 1912
    Greenmount Park, Toronto Star March 30, 1913. This was Ravina Crescent and the Pocket
    Canada Bread, Danforth Ave Toronto Star, April 1, 1930
  • March 10th

    March 10th

    Articles and images from March 10th in the neighbourhood

    359 Ashdale Horse and Wagon for sale Toronto Star, 10 March 1922
    Architects’ drawing Ashdale Library, Globe, March 10, 1923
  • March 9th

    March 9th

    Hargraves moving building Norway, Globe, March 9, 1882
    For a Greater Toronto Globe, March 9, 1909
    Brick Prices Firm, Globe, March 9, 1920
    Cottage in classroom, Danforth Tech, Toronto Star, March 9, 1961
  • March 7th in our neighbourhood’s past

    March 7th in our neighbourhood’s past

    Petry Child almost buried alive at St John of Norway, Globe, March 7, 1905
    Woodycrest Avenue south to Danforth Avenue – March 7, 1916
    Roden School Helps Bomb Victims, Toronto Star, March 7, 1942
  • March 8th in our neighbourhood’s past

    March 8th in our neighbourhood’s past

    Chickens, Wrenson Road, Toronto Star, March 8, 1920
    Flooding Glebemount Rd, Toronto Star, March 8, 1922
    TTC Office Building, Danforth Avenue, Creator: Alfred J. Pearson Date: March 8, 1923
  • March 4 in the neighbourhood’s past

    March 4 in the neighbourhood’s past

    Price-fixing, bricks, Globe, March 4, 1904
    Our New East Side Proposition (subdivision on Ashbridges Estate), Toronto Star, March 4, 1908 Morley Avenue is today’s Woodfield Road. Applegrove Avenue is now part of Dundas Street East.
    Brick manufacturers expect boom Toronto Star, March 4, 1919