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Toronto Port Lands 1899. Looking northwest to Toronto skyline in left background. (Toronto, Ontario)

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Toronto Port Lands 1899. Looking northwest to Toronto skyline in left background. (Toronto, Ontario)

Date1899

Names

Willson, John (author)

Format

Picture

Notes

Toronto Port Lands 1899. Looking northwest to Toronto skyline in left background. (Toronto, Ontario)

Subject

Medium

Watercolours (paintings)

Dimensions274 x 540 mm

Language

CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession NumberPICTURES-R-1401

Country:Canada

City, town or township:Toronto

Neighbourhood:Downtown||Port Lands||St. Lawrence

Province or state:Ontario

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Looking northwest to Toronto skyline in background

Looking northwest to Toronto skyline in background

1900

Opposing views: Mayor Art Eggleton (far left) favors housing on Port of Toronto lands (above) but harbor commission chairman Betty Disero wants to keep the area industrial

Opposing views: Mayor Art Eggleton (far left) favors housing on Port of Toronto lands (above) but harbor commission chairman Betty Disero wants to keep the area industrial

1/17/1985

Image shows some dredging being done in the port area.

Dredging and filling for the expansion of the Port Lands. Toronto, Ontario

1914?

Image shows oil storage tanks by the lake.

Oil storage tanks, Keating Street, Port Lands. Toronto, Ont.

192-?

Most early mornings this spring, the Upper Canada College heavyweight eight has deposited its shell in Lake Ontario and set off on a rigorous cruise with the Toronto skyline in the background

Most early mornings this spring, the Upper Canada College heavyweight eight has deposited its shell in Lake Ontario and set off on a rigorous cruise with the Toronto skyline in the background

5/15/1990

60-Mph hovecraft skims Toronto Harbor, With Toronto's skyline rising in the background, a 60-mile-an-hour hovercraft skims over the surface of Toronto(...)

60-Mph hovecraft skims Toronto Harbor, With Toronto's skyline rising in the background, a 60-mile-an-hour hovercraft skims over the surface of Toronto(...)

1/31/1972

Toronto's Skyline in the background, Prof

Toronto's Skyline in the background, Prof

7/23/1973

Image shows an aerial view of the railway yards with some buildings in the background.

Toronto Railways Lands 1884, looking north from John St

1884

Tank cars and oil storage tanks, Port Lands

Tank cars and oil storage tanks, Port Lands

192-?

Mayor lands a big one. Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion flaunts the 31-pounder she caught off Port Credit yesterday in The Star's Great Salmon Hunt. The contest ends tomorrow

Mayor lands a big one. Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion flaunts the 31-pounder she caught off Port Credit yesterday in The Star's Great Salmon Hunt. The contest ends tomorrow

9/2/1988

Art Eggleton: Toronto mayor's annoyed by suggestion the public has been left out of railway lands plan

Art Eggleton: Toronto mayor's annoyed by suggestion the public has been left out of railway lands plan

8/9/1984

Across the prairie lands of Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest, a Wiltshire man's travels in the summer of 1882

Across the prairie lands of Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest, a Wiltshire man's travels in the summer of 1882

1883