Before the Bentway: CBM Bathurst, 1998
Photographer Peter MacCallum shares images of the concrete plant that once occupied space beside the Gardiner Expressway
By Peter MacCallumThe bent of the Gardiner Expressway flanking the west side of Bathurst Street currently functions as the eastern entrance to the Bentway, but when I photographed it in 1998, it framed an open vista stretching west toward Strachan Avenue. Sitting in middle of the flat plain to the southwest was a small curious-looking industrial complex, the Canada Building Materials concrete batching plant known as CBM Bathurst, which dispatched truckloads of ready mixed concrete to construction sites in... Read more
