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Canada’s Wonderland Opening Year Vintage Photographs

July 7, 2016 Joel Levy

In 1981, the Taft Broadcasting Company, along with Great West Life, opened up Canada’s first theme park, Canada’s Wonderland in […]

Maid of the Mist niagara falls Settlement Photographs
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Vintage Settlement Photographs from Ontario

July 1, 2016 Joel Levy

For Canada Day, I thought I would share some vintage settlement photographs from around Ontario. The website Ancestry.ca recently released […]

Toronto Swimming Club - vintage swimming photo
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Vintage Swimming Photographs from Toronto

June 21, 2016 Joel Levy

The warm weather is here in Toronto and this past weekend was great for getting out to cottage country or […]

Vintage Photographs
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Vintage Photographs from the Toronto Islands

May 26, 2016 Joel Levy

I found a ton of old photographs from the Toronto Islands while browsing the Toronto Archives this week. There is […]

1857 - Plan of the City of Toronto, Canada West, Fleming Ridout & Schreiber copy - Vintage Toronto Maps
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Curated Collection of Vintage Toronto Maps

May 12, 2016 Joel Levy

I found a bunch of cool vintage Toronto maps on the Toronto archives and the Toronto Public Library archives. Maps […]

1916-Don-Valley-boys-returning-from-fishing - Vintage Fishing Photographs
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Vintage Fishing Photographs from Toronto

April 27, 2016 Joel Levy

Last week, while browsing images for our Vintage Boating Photographs post, I discovered a bunch of really cool fishing photographs. […]

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Vintage Boating Photographs from Toronto

April 15, 2016 Joel Levy

The weather is getting nice this weekend in Toronto and it is a great time to get out on the […]

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Old Photographs of Restaurants in Toronto (1910-1990)

March 28, 2016 Joel Levy

Dive into Toronto’s past with a unique collection of photos from the Toronto Archives, chronicling the evolution of the city’s […]

CNR train telephone, test train. - May 5, 1929
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Vintage Train Photographs from Toronto

March 17, 2016 Joel Levy

This week, the Toronto archives had me browsing vintage train photographs. There were a ton of photos so I had […]

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Old Photographs of People, their Pets and Other Animals in Toronto

March 10, 2016 Joel Levy

On one of my many visits to the Toronto Archives I discovered a plethora of old photographs of people with […]

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