Tag: Morley Avenue

  • Subdivision of the Ashbridge’s Farm and sale by Robins Ltd., 1908

    Subdivision of the Ashbridge’s Farm and sale by Robins Ltd., 1908

    $2 Down payment, Toronto Star, April 9, 1908
    Take A Stock Investment, Toronto Star, April 9, 1908
    Robins Circus Tent, Toronto Star, April 9, 1908
    New subdivisions, Toronto Star, April 9, 1908
  • March 14th

    March 14th

    Sale Norway House, Globe, March 14, 1859
    Robins ad Gerrard Street East, Toronto Star, March 14, 1908
    John Nelles Bastedo, Toronto Sunday World, March 14, 1909
    Danforth Tech Toronto World, March 14, 1914
    Brick manufacturers prepare for building boom, Toronto Star, March 14, 1919
    Globe March 14 1922
    W.W. Hiltz to build stores Danforth, Woodbine, Dawes Toronto Star, March 14, 1922
  • 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

  • February 23 in the past: a visual tour of Gerrard Street from Greenwood to Coxwell

    February 23 in the past: a visual tour of Gerrard Street from Greenwood to Coxwell

    Three new stores Gerrard and Ashdale, Toronto Star, Feb. 23, 1913
    Sheep grazing Gerrard and Greenwood, Globe, June 4, 1909
    Douglas Fairbanks in “The Thief of Bagdad” – Ideal Bread Company Limited, Ideal Bread – Purity Flour, two billboards and a painted wall advertisement located on the south side of Gerrard Street East opposite Redwood Avenue. View is looking south-west, showing the south side of Gerrard Street East. opposite the Redwood Theatre
    Looking west on Gerrard towards Greenwood between 1920 and 1926, advertisement on the side of a building.
    Gerrard Street east of Greenwood Avenue
    Looking west on Gerrard towards Greenwood from Woodfield Road, between 1920 and 1926, advertisement on the side of a building. The apartments on Highfield Road (right of photo) are distinctive.
    Little India streetscape, Gerrard Street East, north side, looking east near Woodfield Road – October 10, 2008
    Morley Avenue (Woodfield Road) and Gerrard St fill, April 28, 1912
    Southwest corner of Gerrard and Woodfield
    Hamilton’s Hardware, Gerrard St. E., s. side, e. of Hiawatha Rd., 1920, Shows Mr. & Mrs. John Hamilton, with son Jim
    Gerrard and Hiawatha 1960s
    Gerrard & Hiawatha ca 1966
    St. Monica’s Church, Ashdale and Gerard (where the library is)
    Gerrard Ashdale library, Globe, May 14, 1924
    North-east corner of Gerrard and Ashdale – [between 1975 and 1988]
    Site of the Black Pony, Gerrard Street and Rhodes Avenue, south west corner, June 16, 1919 Creator: Goss, Arthur, 1881-1940
    Ad T.F. Dove and Co Ltd, Real Estate Brokers, 1614 Gerrard St E, just west of Coxwell Ave. View is looking west along Gerrard Street