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Toronto Railway Museum @torailwaymuseum.bsky.social · 1h

Oct 15, 1929: the Canadian Pacific Railway opens a new 28-stall locomotive roundhouse and passenger car facilities at the foot of John Street, replacing an older facility first opened in 1897. It was built 17 ft. (5 m) higher due to the new elevated railway viaduct for Toronto Union Station. 1/3

A view of the City of Toronto skyline looking northeast from a grain elevator on Toronto's harbourfront, circa 1930. The nearly-new Canadian Pacific John Street Roundhouse and coach yard are in the foreground, with Union Station and the Royal York Hotel in the background behind them. Photo from the Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 6h

Catfish Pond at High Park, October 15, 1915

📸: John Boyd
Toronto Star Photograph Archive / Toronto Public Library

#waybackwednesday #nature #HighParkToronto #park #pond #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 6h

You're welcome. I agree, must be an away game.

Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 6h

Looking east to Toronto City Hall from the grounds of Osgoode Hall, October 15, 1910.

📸: Thompson, Stuart Logan, 1885-1961
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#osgoodehall #law #cityhall #OnThisDay #OTD #1910s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 7h

Hi Stephen! I don't believe these were taken in Toronto, but in Detroit, Michigan.

I feel the building with Olympia painted on the roof is Olympia Stadium, located at 5920 Grand River Ave. from 1927-1987.

Baseball fields still exist across the street, at Bishop Park.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 8h

Publisher: Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd.
Medium: Watercolour / Ink
Credit: Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

Notes: Took place to the south side Front St. West, west of Simcoe St., view is looking south east.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 8h

Lady Elgin turning the first sod for the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron Railway, Toronto, Oct. 15, 1851

#1850s #illustration #railway #railroad #transportation #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 1d

Heavy skies

Toronto, Ontario
July, 2017

Shot of Kodak Ektar 100

#WeekPforPink #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #sunset #ShareCanGeo #blueskyphotography #Toronto #LakeOntario #skyline #sunset #reflection #Toronto #MyToronto #beleiveinfilm #filmsnotdead #KodakEktar #35mmfilm

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 13, 1910: Railway crossing at High Park - Now Colborne Lodge Drive, north of Lake Shore Blvd. W.

‪#HighParkToronto #Railway #Railroad #OnThisDay #OTD #1910s #history‬ ‪#torontohistory #toronto #canada ‪#jeremyhopkin ‬

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

Next to the hotel is the Sunnyside Bus Terminal waiting room. The building was rented out as a donut shop for several years after Gray Coach's closure before becoming a McDonald's.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

Edgewater Hotel, Roncesvalles Ave., west side, north of The Queensway, Oct. 13, 1957.

📸: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#hotel #parkdaletoronto #transit #busterminal #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

The view looking south at the intersection of Yonge & Bloor Streets, Toronto, October 13, 1938.

#yongestreet #bloorstreet #1930s #streetcar #advertising #streetscenes #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Annual church parade of the Toronto Police Force, October 12, 1930.

#police #church #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1930s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Soldiers' Tower under construction, University of Toronto, October 12, 1923.

#memorial #warmemorial #university #uoft #onthisday #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Resurfacing Beverley Street in Toronto with Tarvia, October 12, 1910.

Tarvia is a formerly trademarked surfacing and binding material made from coal tar.

#roads #construction ‪#onthisday #OTD #1910s #history‬ ‪#toronto #canada ‪#jeremyhopkin ‬

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Canadian Pacific Railway inspection car, Oct. 12, 1916.

"...used by CPR officials in making inspection trips - carries flags and markers like a regular train. It can make 60 miles per hour easily."

📸: John Boyd Sr. / City of Toronto Archives

#1910s #railway #railroad #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

East Riverdale Baseball Champs, 1940.

#baseball #championship #riverdaletoronto #OnThisDay #OTD #1940s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

85 years ago today: East Riverdale Bantams & Juniors — Playground and City and Toronto and District Baseball Champions.

#baseball #championship #riverdaletoronto #OnThisDay #OTD #1940s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

King Street & Yonge Street, looking east from west of Yonge, Toronto. Image from a circa 1910 postcard.

Gift of Norm Attikin
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#postcards #1910s #streetcar #trolley #streetscape #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Toronto Railway Museum @torailwaymuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Oct 10, 1975: the City of Toronto serves formal notice of its intention to designate Toronto Union Station under the Ontario Heritage Act. The designation would have given the building far more protection than National Historic Site designation, which also occurred in 1975. 1/2

The Front Street facade of Toronto Union Station, May 1971. Photo by F. Ellis Wiley, City of Toronto Archives.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5d

I feel exactly the same way. 💸

A good print will have to suffice.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5d

Much agreed Kara! I'm hoping that whoever buys it makes it readily available for local public viewings.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5d

Auction listing for "Lights of a City Street":
tinyurl.com/575z6jt8

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5d

From the Hudson’s Bay Company Collection — now being sold after HBC’s bankruptcy.

I feel we should ask City of Toronto or the Toronto Public Library, or the AGO to acquire this painting and keep it public within the city it depicts.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5d

Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith’s "Lights of a City Street" (1894)
Yonge & King at dusk — will soon be up for auction.

A luminous, living snapshot of downtown Toronto.
Auction: Nov 19, 2025.

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