Toronto in Murdoch's Time

[lizmc]

Great collection of photographs, including few of the Great Fire: www.blogto.com/city/2015/01/a_1900s_toronto_photo_extravaganza/

[omgurl40]

Those are awesome! So many great photos. I particularly liked the cycling ones but there were a lot of good ones.

I was intrigued by the underground public restrooms - think those could become a very interesting part of an episode if the writers chose to work them in.

[lizmc]

An 1890s streetcar on Yonge Street:

[oklahomafan]

Jan 15, 2016 0:19:32 GMT lizmc said:

An 1890s streetcar on Yonge Street:

There have been some good episodes with streetcars so this is very appropriate.

[lizmc]

You could have had a ride in this in Mimico in 1891:

Toronto had quite an extensive network of streetcar lines and radial railways up to about the 1950s. We still have some streetcar lines Downtown, but several were removed....

[lizmc]

Snow clearance in Murdoch's time: torontoguardian.com/2016/01/vintage-toronto-winter-photographs/

(None of this is needed for this winter....)

[lizmc]

Union Station in Murdoch's time: www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/06/24/next-week-in-toronto-history-july-1-1873-the-second-union-station-is-opened.html

[urbanperegrine]

Jan 6, 2016 20:06:29 GMT omgurl40 said:

Those are awesome! So many great photos. I particularly liked the cycling ones but there were a lot of good ones.

I was intrigued by the underground public restrooms - think those could become a very interesting part of an episode if the writers chose to work them in.

At the risk of sounding creepy, I think one of those public restrooms would make an excellent crime scene. : )