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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 &…

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…

A traffic jam, 1914-style. This view looking north on Yonge Street from Granby Street shows the Yonge, College and Avenue Road trolley cars lined up.

I wonder which was faster: the trolley car, the horse, the bike, or motorcar?

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Summary: stereograph, unmounted. People walking, on bicycle and streetcar.

From Library of Congress, Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b43049 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b43049
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-96947 (b&w film copy neg.)

The street cars used to go a lot further north back then! Courtesy of Toronto Public Library.

These snowbanks at the corner on King and Yonge were almost as high as the shoppers! Haven't seen that in a long time!

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The street car line on right is probably the Toronto & York Radial Railway that ran in heyday all the way to Sutton Courtesy, Toronto Public Library

Looking north to St. Clair, reveals, by evidence of the streetcar tracks that the Yonge subway is still a year away. The building on the east side of Yonge in the background is the 'Northgate Hotel' formerly the Rosedale hotel.

This view is looking south from Wellesley Street.
Does anyone remember when the streetcar ran along Yonge Street?

Courtesy of Toronto Public Library