@TorontoPast

Toronto Past is a collection of vintage images collected and shared by Vic D Caratun.

 Toronto, Ontario
instagram.com/toronto_past/
Joined March 2018
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Rest well, David Marsden, legendary CKEY personality as #DaveMickie and the man behind #TheSpiritOfRadio at CFNY @the_edge. Herewith some words from @alancross: globalnews.ca/news/12075652/…
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Our 1945 Ford Transit bus photographed inside Barn #4 in 2026. Formerly Kitchener Transit #20, now in TTC colours.
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Michael L.@mnl416Jul 28
I believe this was a branch of the Dominion Bank of Canada when it was built. @TorontoPast can you confirm?
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Michael L.@mnl416Mar 29
With special appearances from the Don Jail and The Lakeview Diner. 😀
The Sting
@TheStingisBackMar 29
Cocktail (1988) won a Razzie for Worst Film of the Year, and I demand a recount. It shaped bar culture. It looks gorgeous, you get Elisabeth Shue AND Gina Gershon, an ultra-charismatic Bryan Brown, and Tom Cruise doing Tom Cruise-type things. That bad? Or do we love it a little?
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Brandon
@LibOrNormal19 Dec 2025
If they made a 90s rock Christmas album 🔥
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Aug 14, 1980: the Canadian Transport Commission authorizes @CNRailway to remove fifteen station agents and close eight of its stations in the Toronto area. The CN stations to be closed included Ajax, Mimico, Scarborough and Uxbridge. 1/2
The CN Mimico station in 1979. Photographer unknown.

ALT The CN Mimico station in 1979. Photographer unknown.

The former CN Uxbridge station in November 1986. Photo by Gerry Lee.

ALT The former CN Uxbridge station in November 1986. Photo by Gerry Lee.

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Michael L.@mnl4162 Jul 2025
1940! Wow, I thought it would have been since the 80’s.
Toronto Railway Museum@TORailwayMuseum2 Jul 2025
Jul 1, 1940: the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Retail Outlet No. 10 opens in the @CanadianPacific Railway's North Toronto Station. The initial ten-year lease was for $5,100 a year. The @LCBO has used the building for 82 years, almost six times as long as it was used by CP. 1/2
The former Canadian Pacific Railway North Toronto Station in use as a Liquor Control Board of Ontario outlet circa 1950. City of Toronto Archives photo.

ALT The former Canadian Pacific Railway North Toronto Station in use as a Liquor Control Board of Ontario outlet circa 1950. City of Toronto Archives photo.

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Michael L.@mnl41620 Mar 2025
Night time in the urban jungle.
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Josh Matlow
@JoshMatlow29 Mar 2025
Old City Hall must be saved, restored and opened back up to the public- including a Museum of Toronto. I appreciated visiting this truly special place that’s been such an important part of our city’s story.
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Michael L.@mnl4166 Dec 2023
Hear me out Strathcona Hotel! 😁
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Michael L.@mnl4168 May 2024
Something is missing from the Lowes Theatre on Yonge. 🤔😱
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A good example of what parking did to the city. Corner was the Bank of Toronto building, before being demolished for a one storey modern building in the 60s, which made more than half the lot parking - which the burger joint occupies today (with the parking and a patio addition)
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Feb 7, 1874: the Canada Car & Manufacturing Co. opens in an old steel works by the Central Prison for Men at King St. and Strachan Ave. The prison provided convict labour for CC&M, an early attempt to combine incarceration with rehabilitation by teaching prisoners a trade. 1/3
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This GTA teacher couldn’t find books for her students about the First World War’s all-Black battalion. So she made her own. When putting together Remembrance Day resources for students, Serena Virk found a glaring hole in what was available. trib.al/N7tvtI7
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Bad news. One of the best 19c buildings in Toronto - 149 College, by Old City Hall architect E.J. Lennox, 1894 - is now a potential development site.  This means this structure could be reduced to a facade. – at Toronto, Ontario
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Ontario Line@OntarioLine2 Nov 2023
Introducing the heritage barricade. This important tool helps teams who are preserving materials during demolition to be used in future builds. They’re being used at Queen-Spadina and King-Bathurst sites so we can keep some of that good Toronto history in our future stations.
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Punk CD Commercial 1991 / Westwood Promotions 👊sound on👊
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Mirvish Productions mourns the death of Tony Bennett, 96. Bennett was a longtime friend of the Mirvish family & a frequent guest at Ed’s Warehouse Restaurant. In 1978, Bennett performed a week of concerts at the Royal Alex that remains a highlight of its storied history.
1978, Bennett (R), Peter O’Toole (L) Ed Mirvish (M).

ALT 1978, Bennett (R), Peter O’Toole (L) Ed Mirvish (M).

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1. Clowns & firefighters got into a brawl at a Toronto brothel on this night 168 years ago. It sparked the strangest riot in the city's history. So, here's a thread about the Toronto Circus Riot…
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For #CanadianMulticulturalismDay and with our first #ChineseCanadian mayor elected in Toronto, we reflect on an upcoming #HTplaque and #HTtour on our #Chineseheritage - and its stories of struggle, challenge and resilience. 👇
Black and white image of a group of five men crowding around a storefront window reading a bulletin posting as others pass by on the street.

ALT Black and white image of a group of five men crowding around a storefront window reading a bulletin posting as others pass by on the street.

mage of a photo identity card issued by the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization in 1924 to Ruth Ma; the card contains a photo of a little girl holding a doll.

ALT mage of a photo identity card issued by the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization in 1924 to Ruth Ma; the card contains a photo of a little girl holding a doll.

Black and white group shot of a delegation (40 persons) meeting with Prime Minister Diefenbaker who seats in the middle in a light-coloured suit beside a woman wearing a black dress and a small white hat.

ALT Black and white group shot of a delegation (40 persons) meeting with Prime Minister Diefenbaker who seats in the middle in a light-coloured suit beside a woman wearing a black dress and a small white hat.

Historical photo of a commercial street scene; several men in suits and flat caps stand outside a restaurant with a sign that reads: Chop Suey.

ALT Historical photo of a commercial street scene; several men in suits and flat caps stand outside a restaurant with a sign that reads: Chop Suey.

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