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- Waterfront viaduct photographs
Waterfront viaduct photographs
subseries1925-1934Fonds 200 > Series 372 > Subseries 79
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Bay Street temporary bridge
Spadina Avenue, looking south-west
Spadina Avenue and Front Street, looking west
Looking south from Spadina bridge
East side Spadina Avenue - north of Main Line
Spadina Avenue, from Front Street
Bay Street temporary bridge: custom house
Bay Street temporary bridge: custom house
Bay Street temporary bridge from tower
Bay Street temporary bridge from south ramp
Sherbourne Street dump
Spadina Avenue bridge from southwest
Bay Street temporary bridge from the east
Bay Street temporary bridge from the Cassidy Building
Sherbourne Street sewer extension from south
C.N.R. at Queen looking east
C.N.R. at Queen looking west
Looking south on Degrassi to Queen
C.N.R. looking north across Eastern Avenue
C.N.R. looking west on Eastern Avenue
C.N.R. looking east on Eastern Avenue
Gas mains north east side of Eastern Avenue
Don Bridge west abutment
Don Bridge east abutment
Spadina bridge from the west
Spadina bridge
Spadina bridge steel
Spadina bridge - north abutment
Parliament Street dump
Don Bridge west abutment
Don Bridge
Eastern Avenue west abutment
Eastern Avenue south abutment
Steel forms new street at Jarvis
Don Bridge
Don Bridge
Spadina Avenue Bridge
Spadina Avenue Bridge
Don Bridge plate girders
Looking west from Don Bridge
South from roof of 7 Wardell Street
North from 9 Wardell Street roof
Eastern Avenue north abutment
Rear station from York Street Bridge
Bay Street, Front Street
Union Station from A.R. William's roof
Union Station
Union Station
Where
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- Held by
- City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
- Dates
- 1925-1934 (indexed as 1925–1934)
- Level
- subseries
- Extent
- 638 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm and smaller; 533 photographs : b&w negatives ; 13 x 18 cm and smaller
- Scope & content
- Subseries consists of images detailing the construction of the elevated railway viaduct along Toronto's downtown waterfront. The viaduct was designed to eliminate the railway grade crossing for major roads and a new Union Station for passenger traffic. The City, Toronto Harbour Commissioners, Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway had their final design proposal approved by the Board of Railway Commissioners on July 1913. While the focus of the photographs is the road underpasses, they also document the extensive changes in railway infrastructure. Union Station, the architectural centrepiece for this engineering work, was also photographed extensively during construction.In addition, these images capture the transformation of the waterfront that occurred at the same time. Many buildings, such as the old Toronto Electric Light Company steam powered generating station, were torn down to make way for the new elevated trackwork. Approximately 2.7 million cubic meters of earth was moved to increase the track's elevation, coming from borrow pits in Leaside and Scarborough. Also included in this project were underpasses on Eastern, Logan, Greenwood, Coxwell, and Woodbine to eliminate level crossings. Construction began June 1925 and was completed on January 1931.
- Location
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- Subjects
- Toronto (Ont.). Dept. of Works; Union Station (Toronto, Ont., 1927-); WATERFRONTS; RAILWAYS; ROADS; BRIDGES; CONSTRUCTION
- Harvested
- 2026-10-22T05:25:59Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto