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Winter on Yonge St. in the 1870s looks just as cold as it does now! Fewer cars, more horses, perhaps… and electric lights replaced both types of gas streetlights you see here, at the intersection of Yonge and King.

The advertisement (which used…

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

Courtesy of Toronto Public Library

Snow removal in 1922, by shovel, cart and horse! Not a salt truck or plough to be seen.