Bay and Albert streets, view looking southeast, 1918. (13/96)
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I like the horse and buggy
i don’t think thats a buggy, looks like the guy is plowing the dirt.
“Shea’s Hippodrome Theater” is shown top right and was a famous vaudeville venue that was on Bay St. north of Queen, across from Old City Hall. Later a movie theater it was demolished for the New City Hall.
Hard to imagine.
Love this photo. Notice how the man is plowing the land ! A lot of physical labour for both the man & the horses.
That area around city hall was called The Ward and it was literally the worst slum in the city and probably the country. It was mostly alleys and tin shacks and not a nice place to live. The man ploughing in the picture was probably trying to grow vegetables just so people could eat. It wasn’t nearly as quaint and bucolic as some folks might assume by looking at the picture.
Incidentally the photograph is taken from the western side of The Ward, which is where Toronto’s first Chinatown stood (on what is now Nathan Phillips Square and the Sheraton Centre property).