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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5h

Now known as St. John’s Rehab, it was the first hospital in the Toronto area dedicated to rehabilitation care.

Founded in 1937 by the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine—pioneers in health care since 1885—it has long promoted healing of the mind, body, and soul.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5h

October 8, 1956: St. John’s Convalescent Hospital, located on the south side of Cummer Ave. between Yonge St. and Bayview Ave.

📸: Ted Chirnside
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, TPL

#Healthcare #hospital #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 23h

Eaton Centre Excavation & Holy Trinity Church, 1975

Artist: Walter Jackson Councill (1915-1982)
Medium: Watercolour painting
Credit: Toronto Public Library

#1870s #watercolour #watercolor #painting #architecture #preservation #religion #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (5 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (4 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (3 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (2 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

70 years ago today: Leaside Fire Dept., Fire Prevention Week Parade - Oct 7, 1955 (1 of 5)

Photos: James Victor Salmon
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#leaside #fireprevention #firedept #parade #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible info Raveyote, great to know these details. Thank you! 😀

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Completely rebuilt and rebranded as Greenwood Raceway in 1963, the track carried on for three decades before closing its doors in 1993.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

100 years ago: Filming movies at the old Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, October 6-7, 1925.

#woodbineracetrack #greenwood #horseracing #movies #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

For a time, both stations stood side by side — one fading into history, the other about to become a Toronto landmark.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

At photo right, the new Union Station stood nearly ready — gleaming but not yet open to the public. To photo left, the soot-darkened towers of the old 1873 station still lingered, a relic of Toronto’s earlier railway age.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

Soon, the railways that long blocked access to the waterfront would be raised above the streets as part of a sweeping viaduct project — one that coincided with the construction of the new Union Station.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

99 years ago today — October 6, 1926:
A look north on York Street from Fleet Street, when Toronto was in the midst of a grand transition.

#unionstation #railway #railroad #architecture #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

CIBC tower from Yonge and Wellington streets, Oct. 6, 1958 - Harvey R. Naylor photo.

#OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #Bank #skyscraper #architecture #artdeco #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

70 years ago today: John Barker house, (+2 kids) Albion Rd., north east side, around Calstock Drive - October 5, 1955.

📸 James V. Salmon
Courtesy of the Toronto Public Library

#farmhouse #architecture #rural #OnThisDay #OTD #1950s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

The lower floors of the Royal York Hotel dominate the background. The eastern side of the hotel seen at right is no longer visible today — it was hidden behind a 17-storey addition built between 1956 and 1959.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Traffic on Front Street West, 93 years ago today — October 5, 1932.

People, Gray Coach buses, Peter Witt streetcars, and automobiles bustle around one of the main gateways to downtown Toronto.

#frontstreet #traffic #OnThisDay #OTD #1930s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

Plaques across the region and Ernie Fauvelle’s Pioneer Spirit at the Haileybury Waterfront Complex remember the tragedy of the Great Fire of 1922.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

Many survivors sheltered in the waters of Lake Timiskaming until the fires eased on Oct. 5, aided by rain and snow.

A massive relief effort followed. Toronto sent much of the aid, including 87 repurposed streetcars from the TTC used as temporary homes (one is now at the Haileybury Heritage Museum).

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

On Oct. 4, 1922, wind-driven bush fires tore through 18 townships in northern Ontario, killing an estimated 43 people and destroying the town of Haileybury.

#Haileybury #greatfireof1922 #wildfire #transit #streetcar #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5d

Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory at UofT, a photo dated 99 years ago today - October 3, 1926.

The Soldiers' Tower is under construction, so the photo must be prior to 1924.

📸: Toronto Public Library

#uoft #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 5d

South entrance of the Armouries, University Ave., Toronto, a photo taken 100 years ago today - Oct. 3, 1925.

This is one of the “10 Toronto buildings that shouldn’t have been demolished” we talked about on Episode 1468 of the Toronto Mike'd Podcast

🎙️Listen here:
www.torontomike.com/2024/04/10-t...

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 6d

Peter Witt 2766 and the rest of the TTC Heritage Collection are currently in storage at the Halton County Radial Railway as the TTC Hillcrest complex undergoes a major renovation.

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