Toronto’s changing skyline is documented here in collected images spanning over 120 years.

Best known aerials taken by airplane right after WW1 - Billy Bishop, flying ace.

Toronto Streets have been captured by city photographers, photographic artists, and amateur photographer. However postcards provide a unique look back into time. Not only have they captured an image, but many in the collection were mailed, and as such are postmarked with a date and time “ time stamping “ the image. In addition some of the messages whether they be news, gossip, postcard pals, notes home offer a unique insight into the social history of the period.

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Toronto street scenes as captured by professional photographer and amateur photographers not only document the changing history of the city, but also architectural styles prevalent at different periods of time, as well as lost buildings, stores, restaurants now long gone but still vivid memories in the minds of many Torontonians.

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Social history is that which concentrates upon the social, economic, and cultural institutions of a people.

The social history component of the archive covered important events, visits, social institutions, recreation.

Toronto Island has been for decades a place for city dwellers to escape. The calm and serene surroundings with the bustling city and all of its troubles and burdens far off in the distance.

These images are part of a larger album in the collection which were selected as they depict the city, the islands, fashion, social history and recreation.

World War 1 broke out and the boys in Toronto lined up to enlist to fight the enemy

The Toronto Past and Present Series: Victor has been re-photographing for this series for over 10 years. He takes original images from the collection, as well as city archives. The sites are re-photographed by Victor D. which provide a visual comparison and insight into the change and preservation throughout our city. The work displayed here contains both commissioned and work completed for the archive.

Toronto ephemera gives us a glimpse back into Toronto’s past. It’s one thing to have an image, it’s another to have the artifact itself in your hands.

the earliest panoramic photographs were created using a camera called a

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