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The price for Toronto real estate in 1963.

It was made for you my love:*

The CN Tower just turned 41 years old, and you'd still be hard-pressed to name a building that's defined Toronto more powerfully. Love it or loathe...

Photographer: City of Toronto Planning and Development Department ca. 1980 City of Toronto Archives Series 1465, File 144, Item 25

Davenport Road might lack the stature of some of the other streets we've featured in our series of Toronto history, but even if it was never develo...

As Toronto's southernmost east/west thoroughfare prior to major infill efforts in the early part of the 20th century, it's not surprising that Fron...

Photographer: Earnest Edgar Strathy Smith December 4, 1954 City of Toronto Archives Series 381, File 319, Item 12641-3

Toronto of the 1940s was place defined by war and its aftermath. Many of these images reveal the effort taking place at home and overseas, whether ...

The Toronto of the 1970s was, in the words of Anthony Astrachan, "a city that works." Unlike a number of major urban areas in the U.S., T...

Photographer: Alfred Pearson May 22, 1935 City of Toronto Archives Series 71, Item 10884

Next time you complain your home/apartment/condo is too small, think about the occupants of 128 Day Avenue, a property near Dufferin and Rogers Roa...

Photographer: Arthur Goss June 17, 1919 City of Toronto Archives Series 372, Subseries 58, Item 811

Ossington Avenue used to have many names. Perhaps most notably (and confusingly) the stretch that now runs between Dundas and Queen West was itself...

Ossington Avenue used to have many names. Perhaps most notably (and confusingly) the stretch that now runs between Dundas and Queen West was itself...

Toronto taxis have been a staple in the city for a century, but rarely become the focus of photographic endeavours. Given the ubiquity of cabs in ...