Runnymede Road, 1911

Runnymede Road in 1911.  The neighbourhood of Runnymede doesn't look at all like this anymore.  That looks like a lovely big jack pine in the foreground.

Indian Road, Early 1900s

Indian Road (compare with the previous entry in February) in the early 1900s.  Based on the dates of the other photos on the same page as this one, it is somewhere between 1903 and 1911.  Suffice it to say that Indian Road, near the Toronto neighbourhood of High Park, is paved and heavily populated.

Indian Road Crescent 1903

Indian Road Crescent, south of Bloor Street West and near High Park, in February of 1903.  Check out the large, pre-global warming snowbanks.  Toronto doesn't look like that very often any more.

Unknown Road

An unknown road.  Given the picture's place in the album, it is likely around High Park area, and the road is most likely Bloor Street West.

I believe this is my grandmother in the area of High Park in the first decade of the 1900s.

An unknown road in Toronto, sometime between 1909 and 1924.  Given the other photos nearby in the album, it is likely somewhere near High Park, and could even be Bloor Street West.

Dundas Bridge in the 1920s

Dundas Street West bridge in the 1920s.  It sure doesn't look like this any more.

A Roller Coaster from the 1920s

A roller coaster most likely at the CNE or Sunnyside Amusement Park (which would make this the Sunnyside Flyer), in the 1920s.  If this is indeed from Sunnyside, it would be built in the vicinity of this previous entry.

Brown's Hotel on Old Weston Road

Brown's Hotel (left) on Old Weston Road in 1924.

"To Lambton" in 1912

On the way to Lambton Mills in 1912.  I'm unsure of what trail or road this is, but it sure doesn't look like the area around Dundas Street West and the Humber River these days.

Lambton Mills at Dundas Street West and the Humber River, 1912

Two ladies follow the sidewalk on Dundas Street West in 1912, at Lambton Mills.

Lambton Mills was a neighbourhood at the east side of the Humber River, where it intersects with Dundas Street West, near the modern neighbourhood of Lambton.  This is one of the oldest settled areas of Toronto, long pre-dating European settlement, originally site of the local First Nations peoples' Toronto Carrying Place Trail.  Originally founded c. 1806, 106 years before the taking of this picture, Lambton Mills was originally called "Cooper's Mills" and named after the many mills in the area that relied on the Humber.

In 1915, three years after this photo was taken, all but one building in Lambton Mills burned to the ground.