vintagephotos : 'Toronto Flashbacks' Part 4

'Toronto Flashbacks' Part 4

A horse-drawn streetcar belonging to the Toronto Street Railway Company travels south on Yonge Street at Queen, c.1885.

The water chute at Scarborough Beach Amusement Park. The park was operated by the streetcar company as a means of getting riders for under-used equipment on nights and weekends in the early years of the century.

'Ardwold', Sir John Eaton's residence built on the brow of the hill overlooking Davenport Road, c.1910. Demolished 1936.

Cutting ice on Grenedier Pond, 1909. The pond was named after War of 1812 Grenediers who crashed through soft ice and drowned while in retreat from American invaders.

"Girlie Show" barker makes his pitch at the 1939 Canadian National Exhibition midway show.

Front Street looking west from Yonge Street after the Great Toronto Fire, April 1904.

Josie Dyment and Myrtle Cook (right) await the starter's gun, 1926. Cook won a gold medal at the Amsterdam Olympics, 1928, as a member of Canada's women's 400 metre relay team.

In the suburban Toronto of 1908, atrocious road conditions on the Earlscourt area forced bread delivery to be done by handcart.

"Canada's Strongman" Fred H. Beasley shows off at Hanlan's Point, Toronto Island, 1922.

The first job for many recently arrived immigrants in Toronto was as labourers building sewer and water mains under the city's streets, c.1906.