Toronto, Canada 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Toronto, Canada in the 1920s. Views of city streets, traffic, walkers and cars in the streets. A panoramic view of Toronto. Views of Mary Pickford's birthplace, the Legislative Assembly and the National Gallery of Canada.
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Library and Archives Canada. Gordon H.N. Parker fonds, 1982-0199, IDC 7737
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Would You like to live back in the 1930s??
@albertchurchill4845
25 күн бұрын
Without antibiotics? Are you nuts?
@robertbruce1307
24 күн бұрын
No AC in the summer! Forget it
@walterbrunswick
23 күн бұрын
Would you like to get off the Internet and just write letters?
@daveweiss5647
23 күн бұрын
Yes!
@yvonne495
22 күн бұрын
Yes please
1:08 City Hall and Clock Tower 1:24 Bay Street looking north towards City Hall Clock Tower 1:32 Yonge Street looking north at King Street (Hennessy’s Drug Store, Yonge Street) 1:50 King Street looking east at Yonge Street 2:25 Canadian Pacific Railway building, 69 Yonge Street 3:10 The Royal York Hotel 3:48 Union Station train terminal 4:09 Casa Loma 4:16 Birth home of actress Mary Pickford (211 University Avenue, now demolished) 4:30 Ontario Legislative Building at Queen’s Park 4:51 University College building at University of Toronto campus 5:11 Hart House building at University of Toronto campus 5:21 Sunnyside Amusement Park 5:58 Sunnyside Beach 6:32 Princes’ Gates entry to Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) 6:50 Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building at CNE grounds (now Medieval Times Dinner Theatre) 7:07 Horticulture Building at CNE grounds (now Toronto Event Centre) 7:15 The Midway Strip of the CNE
@cyberspacekosmonaut
25 күн бұрын
That's Old City Hall of course.
@hc8843
24 күн бұрын
Thanks. very helpful. what about 7:07?
@siroptimistic
24 күн бұрын
@@hc8843Horticulture Building at CNE grounds (now an event space). Added to list. Thank you.
@siroptimistic
22 күн бұрын
The Royal York Hotel was completed June 11, 1929. The CNE takes place annually from the third Friday in August until the first Monday in September. Therefore this film was likely made in 1929 during August to September.
@hc8843
21 күн бұрын
@@siroptimistic thank you.
Amazing to look back at this to get the full perspective. My dad was born in 1920 in Dauphin. Came to Toronto in 1922 becoming his true hometown. He sold newspapers at 13 during the Depression on downtown streets and Maple Leaf Gardens to make a buck for the family. Was at the Toronto Maple Leaf overtime game where Ken Doraty scored the eventual winner. Back then, overtime ran a full 10 minutes with unlimited scoring. My dad, arguably the greatest newsy in Canada, sold a record 4,110 newspapers (incl. Telly fun cheques, for car draw) by the CNE ferris wheel on a single Labor Day in the 1960s. He was steeped in Toronto history and one of the Three Stooges was his friend, Curly Joe DeRita, who would send us a Christmas card every year. I got autographed pictures of the Stooges at the Royal York Hotel after a performance at the CNE's Exhibition Grandstand. Many fond memories. Thought you might find this interesting. I was very lucky to have such a great father.
@TheStefZeppelin
22 күн бұрын
sounds like an amazing dude!!! :D
@richosborne2154
22 күн бұрын
Brilliant! Your dad sounds like a great fella. God bless.
My father came to Toronto in 1926, when he was 18. He saw signs that read "No Catholics or Irish need apply." Nevertheless he made his way and really enjoyed Toronto, living in beautiful Parkdale, and joining what would become The Boulevard Club, playing Tennis. He told us of all the great music in the 30s and 40s, when he would go dancing,imlooked for him at Sunnyside.
@brian13105
16 күн бұрын
Yes , my father used to tell me about those signs but by a few years later this was an "Orange " city and it was no Jews or Catholics .
@mdtorres_76
10 күн бұрын
I heard this story from my client who's now 85 y/o.
@danieldonnelly3602
3 күн бұрын
Parkdale. That's where I buy my crack.
Whoa I didn’t realize it was already such a big city in the 1920s!
@antonioanchiraico4542
Ай бұрын
Las grandes ciudades existen desde 1879 y que decir de europa, Londres 1830
@cosmoray9750
29 күн бұрын
Lensky Blames the World ........ kzread.info/dash/bejne/loqgzquwl9yZlLA.html
@nahshonimmanuel1704
24 күн бұрын
You’re not alone the people in charge of it in 2024 don’t realize it’s a big city Have minimal underground subway tunnels compared to cities of the same size around the world Toronto has to get rid of its country bumpkin mentality leaders
@yvonneplant9434
22 күн бұрын
Can't just google to find out its stats?
@stephanieparker1250
22 күн бұрын
@@yvonneplant9434 Ok I guess I need to explain my comment.. I never had a reason to google Toronto 1920s before this video. Therefore, I was surprised to find out it was a huge city even at that time.
The shots of Bay Street towards Old City Hall, casaloma, and the University of Toronto feels like not much has changed. It's kind of eerie to look at all these people even the children and realize they are long gone
@jeffkrebs
27 күн бұрын
And the shots of the CNE were incredible, life was so much simpler than it is now
@theDyingArts
18 күн бұрын
I thought the same, Queen and Yonge look almost identical too.
This is absolutely wonderful to see. I’m from Toronto and this means a lot that you did a video on the city where I live. So fascinating to see this. Thank you and a wonderful job you did on this restoration with an accompanying soundscape. Cheers! 👍🏻😀
@AlanKelly-nm9lx
21 күн бұрын
Toronto now smells like garbage and has mentally ill people on every street corner the state has thrown to the streets and abandoned. No graffiti back then like now everything has crap tags or bad art on it. Drugs being used openly every where these days and openly sold by csis/rcmp employees. Imagine how clean the air was back then. and no FFFFFing camera watching everything u do!
@Ahmiseysoh75
20 күн бұрын
Great archival footage. Fascinating to see history in motion. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice but you went a little overboard with the car horns.
@sullivanworks9777
18 күн бұрын
I don’t think the cars shown in the films had the same kinds of horns that are in the soundtrack. That might be worth a little bit of research.
@chairlesnicol672
17 күн бұрын
@Sullivanworks They had 16 yr old drivers back then too, didn't they? KoL
@bethgibbs-bartel5480
16 күн бұрын
100% agree
@cbeausoleil
13 күн бұрын
Didn’t the car horns sound like “arooooogaaa” back then?
So wild seeing my home town like this. Thank you for everything that you do. ♥️
@justinberber9848
29 күн бұрын
will only get worse and worse as the white Euro stock that built the country gets replaced with the third world
Like And Share Please!
@vityamba1274
Ай бұрын
Дякую, Бро 🖐️👁️як завжди,дуже круто👍це,якась ...магія кіноплівки,що може переносити нас у ті часи....як машина часу☝️Ще раз,дякую‼️Привіт із України ✌️🇺🇦🦾🦾🦾
@Anthony_Spilotro
Ай бұрын
Absolutely! This is amazing footage.
@francobina
26 күн бұрын
Hi I really enjoyed watching this, but the car horns sound modern to me and so I preferred to watch it mute. Otherwise awesome!
Amazing to see this. As a Torontonian of 55+ years, I certainly recognize most of the locations. This footage reminds me of my folks and grandparents.
I was at the CNE celebrating its 100th birthday and now it's coming up to its 150th.
At 1:25. Many of those buildings in this shot of Bay Street still stand today. And on Yonge Street the same. There are office towers there from the 1890s. Part of the current Hudson's Bay department store has the original building from the 1800s.
Would love to see a video like this around Christmas time and see how everything was decorated back then.
@truetech4158
23 күн бұрын
Magical childish thinking was probably more popular then than today, going back throughout the gregorian calendar accordingly.
@ryderstrong3899
23 күн бұрын
@@truetech4158I think so too. I hope there is some old footage that can be restored of the holidays. I love these videos
@jonathanbaltrusaitis6558
23 күн бұрын
"I would love to see this town in the Autumn." kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWZnr9Bpkr2_Zdo.htmlsi=xwcMlMVo0tCmo5yU
@ryderstrong3899
23 күн бұрын
@@jonathanbaltrusaitis6558 agreed, that would be nice to see
That little boy really knew how to charm those two young ladies sitting on the steps didn't he? ;-) Outstanding restoration, thank you!
@UnknownUnrecognized
Ай бұрын
2024 - did you assume genders? hahah
@fredsands9220
Ай бұрын
@@UnknownUnrecognized Yes, based on attire. We'd hope a channel like this would be a refuge from US politics, but that's rarely the case.
@UnknownUnrecognized
Ай бұрын
@@fredsands9220 that's not even us politics, it is world wide propaganda and brainwashing:)
This is wonderful footage of Toronto and dutifully remastered. Thank you.
So nice to see my city as it was in the 1920s. So many of the buildings are still around today. The city has changed in so many ways while remaining somewhat familiar. Toronto has truly evolved over the last 100 years. Today's metropolitan population is roughly 8 times what it was in the late 20s. Crazy to see the CNE as packed back then, as it is today. Thanks for this wonderful time capsule. Hope there are more videos like this one out there.
@sovereignty14
25 күн бұрын
“Evolved” is probably not the right word. 😟
@maydom04
24 күн бұрын
@@sovereignty14 devolved??
There's something creepy errie to seeing old videos of people motioning about way back when they were alive, and knowing they are dead now as if ghosts frozen in time.
@Mikey-kh4yc
16 күн бұрын
And we, too, are all the ghosts of tomorrow ... people in 2124 will see us in full 4K clarity while most of us will, by then, be lost to the mists of the past ...
@truetech4158
16 күн бұрын
@@Mikey-kh4yc Well speak for yourself, but, i, am, jim morrison, and seeing my old music videos seems creepy errie to me, and because i can now only exist in this digital database. Oh well, party on Garth.
It's amazing how the Canadian and American cities looked so dang similar. Great post, thanks. My only bone to pick is that the horn honks from the cars sound too modern. Didn't they have more of a bull horn sound. Just watch the old Laurel and Hardy or Three Stooges episodes and you will see.
@bobbykiriakidis9753
Ай бұрын
I believe they were added for effect.
@2Sugarbears
27 күн бұрын
They are all Tartarian.
@JohnChalmers617
27 күн бұрын
It would have been a silent camera . Sound film didn't begin in earnest until the late 1920s. The sound effects have been added well afterwards.
@2painful2watch
27 күн бұрын
@@2Sugarbears Mmmm......I love Tartar sauce.
@sovereignty14
25 күн бұрын
Canadian & American cities “looked” similar because they were all built by European people… of course. Canada & America is the “New World”, after all.
I love this and was about to share it with my wife until the last few frames. She's Ojibwe you see, and the fair shots where clearly, briefly, indigenous people are 'on display' made me pause. Then the realization that basically everyone else in this video is white made me hesitate. She loves Toronto, but that would be painful for her to see. I'm white and I'm not trying to make a great statement here but it does illustrate how beautiful, yet how brutal, these times were.
Nass, thanks for another fabulous upload. I truly enjoy your work. At 1:30 Love scenes like this with people, streetcars, horses and cars all sharing the street. I thought at first it may be early 1920's but may be later with statue sign at 6:41. At 7:45 Canadiens had their own amusement park., They did not have to go Next door to enjoy Coney Island, New York! Haha!
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
Hi!! thank you very much!!
Lovely Toronto; for an isolated city in North America of 1920's, Toronto certainly had a fair size population.
thanks nass late to the show today i never miss one of ur productions! great as always
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
thank you!!
I just saw how my great grandparents lived and experienced life in Toronto. Cheers Nass, you Rock ! 🍻
great work....my mom was born in 1914 in Toronto...I wonder where she was then these shots were taken...for that matter I wonder where she is now...thanks again....
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
Thx!!👍
@sonjagatto9981
Ай бұрын
💖For sure...in Deinem Herzen.💖👍
@bardo0007
28 күн бұрын
This is 1927 so she would have been 13, probably at school.
@noahgabriel210
28 күн бұрын
She's right there in the baby carriage at City Hall. Didn't you see her? Her parents were there getting her birth certificate.
@stangsswang8355
24 күн бұрын
probably workin a corner somewhere
Thank you from Toronto!
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
Thx!!👍
This is Gold! I don’t care if the color is fake!…some of those tracking shots going up the buildings are exceptionally smooth, even by today’s standards. Toronto lookde so clean and uncluttered….PS, where are the dandelions?
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing. If you don’t like the sound, turn down your volume.
The Royal York Hotel 3:10 was opened on June 11, 1929. The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) 6:32 takes place annually from the third Friday in August until the first Monday in September. Therefore, this film was likely shot in 1929 during the months August to September.
Beautiful. Thanks for unearthing and sharing.
Wow, some of those buildings are still recognizable today. Some of those buildings that are still here have extended buildings built on top. Really amazing love your video thank you.
@NASS_0
21 күн бұрын
thank you.
NASS! Thanks for posting this video
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
Thx bro!
Pretty cool filmography/I was think ing around 1930- thnx 4 posting👏
the one city that was smart enough to not destroy its entire street car system
@fernandorubio972
Ай бұрын
Infraestructura imposible para esa época, la historia oficial es una farsa, en todo el mundo igual...
@sorrywrongplanet8873
26 күн бұрын
It wasn’t so much smarts and planning as delays and apathy until streetcars started to look like a good idea again.
@randomrazr
26 күн бұрын
@@sorrywrongplanet8873 can u elaborate?
@sorrywrongplanet8873
26 күн бұрын
@@randomrazr they meant to switch to buses but kept procrastinating, like they always do with TTC improvements, until the whole environmental movement became prominent. Then they were like oh, electric streetcars are better!
@randomrazr
26 күн бұрын
@@sorrywrongplanet8873 so torontto street cars exists because they were to lazy to switch em up asap like almost all other cities and by the time they wanted to....environmentalists pushed that they were good?
I love these beautiful old buildings and also watching the interactions between humans and especially the children and how different things were how much more gentle people were
Love the video, but the cars had aoogah horns.
@2Sugarbears
27 күн бұрын
I have lived downtown for fifty years. I never (NEVER) ever heard a horn. Not til 2021.
@JohnChalmers617
27 күн бұрын
The sound effects were obviously added not long ago since sound films did not begin in earnest until the late 1920s. With the first talkie feature film being 'The Jazz Singer's made in 1927 and only a partial talkie at that.
Amazing 😍 Thank you🙏
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
Thx!!
How did you accomplish this? It is incredible. I and mine have lived in Toronto since the late 1890's. Ran an investment firm. I know all these places even now. The Royal York. Casa Loma. Old City Hall. Yonge Street stretching north out of sight. Union Station. Except for the horses; the whole psychology is the same. My dad was born in '26 and lived 86 years serving Toronto. And then there is UC. Holy cow. So good. CNE. Princess Gates... so much more. THANK YOU. I know all of these places well. (U of T and The Spadina trams... 'streetcars'.) Talk about living history.
Outstanding. Thanks, NASS.
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
thank you very much
Very nice ❤ Thanks for sharing 😊
Truly amazing
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
Thx!!!
Lived in Toronto from 1964 to 1971, then from 1977 to 2002....Strange to see how much of the city was so different in the 20s......I bet my Grandfather would see this and think of his childhood here, as this wa his era...
Very cool! Would love to see something like this from Houston Texas if it exists. 😊
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
ok ;))
@jayhuskey2280
Ай бұрын
@@NASS_0 watched the San Antonio video. That was awesome 👌
Wow, over 100 years ago I can’t believe people use to actually swim in the lake
@jamesholler1811
Ай бұрын
People always have and still do. You never heard of Toronto Island?
@missj2045
Ай бұрын
@@jamesholler1811 Nobody from Toronto swims in that water anymore. Too polluted.
@MrCanadatom
Ай бұрын
In the 80s my brother got a serious ear infection from swimming in the lake. The problem was bird guano. Some years ago they started spraying turpentine on seagull nests,, and tbe situation improved. Last time I I was in Toronto I was swimming in the lake (for the first time in my life and I come from there) at a man-made and very nice beach at Bluffer's Park, at the bottom of The Scarborough Bluffs
@alukuhito
9 күн бұрын
@@jamesholler1811 Not to the same scale at all though.
Can we just appreciate the technology that allowed us to travel 100 years in time and hang out in downtown Toronto.
Lovely old Tartarian building.
I couldn't believe I actually saw a few men without hats !!! Incredible how that was such a thing back then. Probably went out of fashion in the 1950s. The Canadian National Exhibition is still packed, but nothing like what we see in this old movie. The city back then was fairly dirty and gritty. Just look at the scene at the CNE and you can see the pollution coming from smokestacks downtown.
@stephenedgecock
Ай бұрын
now it's a 3rd world shithole
@junkbox_
Ай бұрын
The amusements would have been at Sunnyside in the 1920s. These grounds would have been used more for industrial exhibits at this time. This video is only a rendering.
Nice to see old pictures of my hometown much as my parents might’ve seen it as children although they were born in the 20s actually.
Muito lindo, belo vídeo!! 👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you. As a Torontonian. It nice to see my beautiful city presented.
This is the first time I've seen old videos of Toronto ! I was half-hoping to see a relative in the crowd lol
@bardo0007
28 күн бұрын
They were probably at the the exhibition , it looked crowded
*masterfully done*
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
👍
Well done, Nass! A+ to you! 👍👍👍
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
thank you!!!!👍
I think the year maybe 1929. Great video. Thanks for sharing it with us. I lived in Toronto my entire life. 66 now.
Before diversity was our strength
@kristophert932
Ай бұрын
Strength?!? 😂😂 it’s the city’s downfall. It’s a third world country now
@selene7134
Ай бұрын
@@kristophert932I was being sarcastic, of course. The entire West has been ruined. I can't believe we've let this happen
@justinberber9848
29 күн бұрын
@@selene7134 poopskins are taking over the west
@Brunettte-Barbie
29 күн бұрын
@@selene7134 5th gen Torontonian- my Scottish great-great- grandfather was an engineer who came from Edinburgh to help construct the Prince Edward viaduct in 1915. Imagine how I feel. A minority in my own city. Torontoistan.
@Lizwindsor
29 күн бұрын
@@Brunettte-Barbieand immigrant, don’t forget, we are all immigrants
OMG..LOVE IT...I am born and bred here in T.O.....great to see this...thx
its amazing how much and so little has changed, ton of people, ton of cars and a ton of bicycles, a reminder they have always been a thing
At this time, The Royal York Hotel (3:10) was the tallest building in Canada
@alukuhito
9 күн бұрын
It's interesting how the copper roof hadn't turned green yet. I wonder how long the process took.
Every person seems more relaxed, less paranoid, more peaceful.
Nice find!
This one rang a bell 🔔 with me. I lived in Toronto for 8 years!
Shocked to see how many people attended the CNE back then.
One thing l noticed is that everyone is slim. People walked everywhere back in the day as cars were expensive.
Maravilloso 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Holy crap, The Flyer! And to think I went on that in the early eighties!!!!
Honestly, we look like an experiment. All those people have already left, where to? where will we go? Maybe there's nothing after this. Why are we here? What is the reason ? That is the question. Much love to all.
@user-hb1ve6mc6f
Ай бұрын
Anunnaki
@Consume_Crash
Ай бұрын
Jesus Christ is the reason.
@beautifulsoul3281
Ай бұрын
@@Consume_Crash I respect Religion, but nowadays it seems more like a method of mass control than something "real" to rely on. Outside of the Church, there is nothing else.
@bardo0007
28 күн бұрын
We will return to bones like billions before us. Humans do not live long enough. But there are trees on this planet still standing after 300 years, they have seen it all.
@stangsswang8355
24 күн бұрын
A.I. takes over,,,we become man/machines,,,,then just machines
The engine sounds are accurate but all the horns! Too many, to begin with and more importantly they should be Klaxon horns with the characteristic "aoohga" sound. I would live back then in a heartbeat. There was way too much injustice but life was soo much more my speed.
So great to see my adopted home town from back then. I graduated from U of T and passed though those heavy doors daily. Being on campus was always like a time capsule:)
This is the time when my dad was born in Toronto. And, at least for a little while, he’s still with us! I’ll show him this video when I see him Wednesday, although the earliest times he remembers are the 1930s.
@stangsswang8355
24 күн бұрын
ask him what a hooker cost in 35'
Wow, Queen's Park actually looks clean! Some of the places looks almost the same!
Toronto still had horse-drawn trams in the 1920s? Wow!
At 2:06 now this is a scene you do not see much anymore. A man in straw hat tips his hat to the ladies and one lady in white hat straightens her hat & nods his way!
Old City Hall looks like a fancy ginger bread house.
Now Toronto is a construction and traffic nightmare
At 4:50. That looks like the U of Toronto campus. This building still stands.
Great one, thanks. As a 6th generation Torontonian, I heard many stories of the city from this era. Toronto lost a lot of its beautiful architecture in parts of the downtown, but the vast majority seen in most of this video is still there. Although, right now the wokesters have the John A Macdonald statue at the foot of Queen’s Park in a box: it’s at the 4:33 mark. Speaking of that, I have to head there now!
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
thank you
@MrCanadatom
Ай бұрын
What's he doing on a box? Is this a joke, like Robin Hood in a bag
@mikeman4695
Ай бұрын
@@MrCanadatomnope British and French contributions to Canada are non grata nowadays it seems.
@anonanon7235
20 күн бұрын
@@mikeman4695 Nonsense. They have a box around the statue to protect it. It's happened before.
@anonanon7235
20 күн бұрын
"Toronto lost a lot of its beautiful architecture in parts of the downtown", you can't keep everything, the structures that are tagged as Heritage, are kept and that's why most of us can still recognize Toronto from this video.
Very cool little time machine
In the 1920's is it the last time the Maple Leafs won Lord Stanley?
@nthdegree1269
Ай бұрын
1967
Toronto still clinging to the streetcars from the 20s
wow this is ho Toronto looked like before nonstop construction. Such open streets, practically no traffic.
At 7:17. I can’t believe the amount of people in that crowd that’s just barely able to shuffle along. How can that possibly be an enjoyable day out? I’m not sure if this is the Canadian Exhibition or a separate amusement park, but either way how can you fight that crowd to enjoy any ride or exhibit? And I can’t help but think, what if you are in the middle of all that and suddenly have an intestinal “emergency”? You couldn’t get to where you needed to “go.”
@fjcrod
Ай бұрын
That is most definitely the Canadian National Exhibition.
@bardo0007
28 күн бұрын
@@fjcrod In 1927
@gabithemagyar
21 күн бұрын
The Midway (where the rides and games were) were always crowded when I was a kid too in the 1960's. The Food building was a zoo as well since there were always free giveaways as well as many small businesses and farmers that sold specialty foods. My favourite building was the Arts and Crafts Building where you could get all sorts of models, crafts. stamps for collectors, model railroads, kites, chemistry sets and other things like that - activities which have declined into almost oblivion when PC-s and Cell phones etc. became accessible.
My Dad was born in Toronto, April 9, 1900.
Back when construction, roads, and traffic were actually organized properly 😂😂
@soulscanner66
Ай бұрын
True. Pedestrians had the right of way everywhere.
do you have a channel on bilibili? i really want to share this video in china.
My dad was born in Toronto on April 9, 1900.
Incredible. Imagine being a rural farmer and driving into this back in the day? Would have been jaw dropping.
It's a wonder that the video capture had enough data to be able to be remastered. Im also wondering if "sound" was added and isn't original.
I wonder if any of those old Tartarian buildings are still in Toronto. Tartaria was the civilisation before ours, in case you were wondering.
My grandgmother grandfather and baby sailed from England where they owned a small green grocers to Toronto. I was born there in 52 and moved to Durham Region in my 40s. Toronto is a travesty. I had seen so many pics of the oldest Toronto. It was a wonderful dignified place...now it has been destroyed and is a chaotic ugly dissonant mess. I don't even visit. It's like landing on another planet.
Wow, amazing...if time travel was a thing, this would be it.
Did they have drones back then lol. How they take videos from above?
this is definitely after 1924 as this was the first year Canadians drove on the right hand side of the road (and the monument at 6:45 shows 1927 so must be late 20s)
@bardo0007
28 күн бұрын
It's the exhibition of 1927...
@jdm1505
15 күн бұрын
@@bardo0007 The Royal York Hotel opened in 1929.
@alukuhito
9 күн бұрын
This is made of several clips though, so some could've been taken before 1927.
Fashion is such a strange concept. Imagine dressing up to go to the beach.
Ik its not a huge city but could you remaster downtown/queen st vintage footage for Niagara falls?
@NASS_0
Ай бұрын
yes!!
@D33Lux
21 күн бұрын
Would love to see all of Niagara Falls during that era.
Brand new Union Station; very cool!
best and with most character buildings were already standing. 100+ years ago. Almost unbelievable.
Its so insane watching people get into the lake at Sunnyside. My dad used to do this as a kid.
Was this from 1928 or 29? Because CNE says 1927 on it.
What causes the “Inception” look with the windows in buildings at the beginning?
Look how nice people dressed. I love seeing people going on with their daily lives. Sure wish cities still looked like this.. not trash heaps like they are now.