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'80s Kite Watcher

The Barrie Public Library has one of the enormous kite-watching people who hung in the Dundas Street entrance of the Toronto Eaton Centre from 1986 to 2003. Source.

St. Paul's, Queen Street East

St. Paul's does a good impression of an Italian basilica that was built in phases from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. Source.

Central Reference Library

The Central Reference Library, University Avenue, Toronto, built in 1920. This room later became the U of T Bookstore. Source.

The Great Fire of Toronto, 1904

Bay Street. Source.

University College Fire, 1890

University College, Toronto, burned down on February 14, 1890, but was rebuilt, largely retaining the original shell. Source.

Union Station, Toronto, 1916

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Bloor Street Viaduct, 1916

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Inside Scarborough College

The Meeting Place at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, or possibly the hangar deck of Battlestar Galactica. Witold Rybczynski compares Scarborough College and Massey College here.

A New Mouth for the Don

Toronto is building a new mouth for the Don River. Source.

Queen's Park Faces