October 2 in history

King Street (looking east over bridge at Don River) October 2, 1903Creator: Unknown Date: October 2, 1903 Archival Citation: Fonds 200, Series 376, File 4, Item 8 Credit: City of Toronto Archives http://www.toronto.ca/archives Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required.
Toronto Star, Oct. 2, 1906
Globe and Mail, Oct. 2, 1946 ad for forelady
Broadview Boys’ [Fall] Fair, Nelson McDole, 165 First Avenue, goat Kiddo Oct. 2, 1930
Military Service Act, Toronto Star Oct. 2, 1917

October 1 in history

Queen Street East – Old track – October 1, 1913 Looking west to Logan Avenue (Coca Cola sign on side of drugstore)
Queen Street East – Old track – October 1, 1913
Rolph Clark Stone Oct 1, 1948
Leslie Grove Playground October 1, 1913
The Canadian Engineer, Vol. 27, (October 1, 1914)
Lost Creeks 1909 Topo map with labels

September 28 in history: Bridges

The bridge to Leslieville through Riverside, over the Don River: Queen St bridge September 28, 1910
Queen St bridge September 28, 1910
Queen Street – King Street – Don River bridge looking east Sept 28 1910
John McPherson Ross painted a landscape scene looking east along Queen Street over “Ashport”, the tiny creek at today’s Vancouver Avenue. The old 1811 Ashbridge House is in the distance. This digital painting was done using a black and white photograph of the original painting from about 1910.
Rainy day, Austin Avenue, September 28, 1916

There are lost bridges (buried under fill and pavement in Leslieville. One of those lost creeks crossed at the end of Austin Avenue. City of Toronto Creek Locations 1912

Goad’s Atlas 1903
Looking east along Gerrard Street from the top of the railroad bridge at Carlaw Avenue. The boys are sledding on the banks of that little creek that crossed Austin and Badgerow. Another branch of the same creek crossed Gerrard just east of the firehall. Photo – February 20, 1904
This photo shows the bridge over that little lost creek.
Gerrard At Carlaw, 1964 – Unknown Photographer

The Blake Street Subdivision Lot 11, Concession One from the Bay, Subdivision Plan 154

Someone graciously shared a digital copy of this original subdivision plan which I have adjusted to make it a little straighter and easier to read.

Auction Leslieville, Saturday, August 12, 1882
Lot 11, Concession One, Subdivision Plan 514 1884 Goad’s Atlas
Subdivision Plan 514, Blake Street area, Goad’s Atlas 1890