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
Category: Architecture
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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 Examples of McEachern houses, McEachern Houses, Governor’s Bridge, April 19, 1926 Examples of McEachern houses, McEachern Houses, Governor’s Bridge, April 19, 1926 Examples of McEachern houses, McEachern Houses, Governor’s Bridge, April 19, 1926 Monarch Park, Toronto World, April 19, 1913 Monarch Park, Toronto World, April 19, 1913 -
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 
Poverty, 171 Coxwell Ave, Toronto Star, April 6, 1946 
Poverty, 171 Coxwell Ave, Toronto Star, April 6, 1946 
Poverty, 171 Coxwell Ave, Toronto Star, April 6, 1946 
Poverty, 171 Coxwell Ave, Toronto Star, April 6, 1946 
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 
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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:
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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 
Dump truck nuisance, Greenwood garbage pit, March 27, 1962 
Dump truck nuisance, Greenwood garbage pit, March 27, 1962 
Dump truck nuisance, Greenwood garbage pit, March 27, 1962 
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March 10th
Articles and images from March 10th in the neighbourhood
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
House Famine, Toronto World, March 10, 1917 
359 Ashdale Horse and Wagon for sale Toronto Star, 10 March 1922 
Architects’ drawing Ashdale Library, Globe, March 10, 1923 -
March 9th
Hargraves moving building Norway, Globe, March 9, 1882 
For a Greater Toronto Globe, March 9, 1909 
For a Greater Toronto Globe, March 9, 1909 
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
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
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 
Scholarships Kiwanis Music Festival, Globe, March 8, 1948 
Scholarships Kiwanis Music Festival, Globe, March 8, 1948 
Scholarships Kiwanis Music Festival, Globe, March 8, 1948 
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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
The Midway Historical Society of Toronto 