Jadis, Sparks débutait sur Wellington via le pont Dufferin. Ce pont n’existe plus aujourd’hui ainsi que le bureau de poste et l’hôtel Russell respectivement à gauche et au centre de l’image. Depuis 1939, c’est le Monument commémoratif de guerre du Canada qui occupe ce quadrilatère.
Le tramway qui arpentait Sparks fut mis hors-service en 1959.
La photo d’archive provient du Musée McCord.
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Back in the day, Sparks Street hit Wellington Street by the Dufferin Bridge. Since 1939, the National War Memorial occupies the spot where the post office (centre) and Russell Hotel (left) used to be.
The street car running along Sparks Street stopped in 1959.
The historical photo is from the McCord Museum digital collection.
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I love looking at old pictures of the Sparks/Wellington/Elgin area. I like how the area looks today but there’s something I really like about the area in 1885.
Here is another similar picture.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexlaq/6122423906/in/photostream/
Beau travail de recherche! J’ai hâte de voir ce que tu vas trouvé dans Lowertown.
I wonder what the dark object is in the 1885 photo. It looks to me like the street were better organized back then.