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Possibly the carriage of the Misses Clark (Jean Mortimer Clark and Elise Gordon Clark, daughters of Sir William Mortimer Clark) who were perhaps the last in Toronto to keep to a carriage. Date Created year approximate for 1935.

Yonge St. Arcade was built in 1884 on the East side of Yonge St., opposite Temperance St., and demolished in 1954.

This electric streetcar belonging to the Toronto and York Radial Railway is pictured on Yonge at Yonge Blvd. Incorporated in 1877, this railway was animal-powered until it converted to electric in 1890. The Metropolitan station was located at Yonge &…

My dad was an Irish immigrant from Belfast and it was such a struggle to raise a family in those days but he always walked so proud and dressed perfectly. A good man. He died in 1979.

A painting of Thomas Nightingale's house, which stood near the corner of Yonge & Roxborough streets, just north of the modern Rosedale subway station, in the 1870s.

This bridge was built over the West Don River, just east of Yonge Street and a little to the north the Yonge Blvd.

A view from Yonge Street looking west along Queen Street in about 1888. You can see horse-drawn streetcars and wagons, and gas lamps on the telephone poles (remember those?). Men and boys wore hats and women wore bustles, and the streets were…

The Bedford Park Volunteer Fire Brigade, pictured in front of John Atkinson's shop at Yonge and Bedford Park Avenue in about 1900.

This is a scene from the 1850s, depicting the Hoggs Hollow toll gate, situated in North Toronto on Yonge Street near York Mills. The neighbourhood itself is named after the Hogg family, who settled the area in the 1820s. They owned a whiskey…

Black and white photo showing Cumberland Street facing east towards Yonge Street - this is one block north of Yonge and Bloor on the west side of Yonge. This photo includes #4 Cumberland, MacMillan's Health Products store, and also 773 Yonge Street,…