williamnotman

Welcome to the Commons! Is there a reason we cannot help tag the photos? It looks like tagging is turned off.

amazing view. Somewhat sad to see how much different they seem now, knowing how much they have been artificially changed.

Bravo McCord Museum for your contribution to Flickr. Welcome to the wide open world of Web 2

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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Black and White [AllEdges], and we'd love to have this added to the group!

The older residents would have still remembered it being called Bytown.

That would have been just under the falls, right? Victoria Island perhaps? I'm an admin for a group called Chaudière Falls - Ottawa/Gatineau, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

The photo was probably taken on Lebreton Flats, the centre of the lumbering industry in Ottawa and the major employer, even after the federal capital was established in Ottawa. It was called Bytown after Lt-Col John By who was in charge of the construction of the Rideau Canal from Ottawa to Kingston.

Do you have any information on which intersection this looks north from? Nothing on it is identifiable to me. (I live downtown Toronto.)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Brick Streets, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Cool

If you look at the original print at the McCord Museum you can zoom in a bit more. One of the signs is for Dineens Furs. If you do a Google search for that store you can find an ad in the Jan 10th 1913 Toronto Sunday World newspaper saying it is located at 140 Yonge St Cor Temperence.

I can't even imagine taking the streetcar like this. Epic picture.

The United Empire Bank of Canada (I just found out while trying -- unsuccessfully so far -- to track down the intersection) only existed from 1906 to 1911, so the "about 1890" can't be right here.

Hello, We had the right date in the date field but not in the title. Thank you for noticing this inconstancy. The McCord Museum team

Oh of course - that makes sense! Now I just need to find out where on Yonge Street it was. With any luck it'll just appear before me later this week when I'm downtown :)

Lú_: Do you think that might be the King Edward Hotel in the middle-distance? That might make this Wellington Street, which would make some sense with the presence of banks?

It looks like Yonge St at Front St, looking North. What is now the hockey hall of fame is on the left (West).