View from south-west corner of King Street and Bay Street. ca. 1926-2009
Always the heart of Toronto’s financial district, the north-east corner used to be home to Sterling Bank Headquarters from 1905 to 1924. It’s now home to the Bank of Nova Scotia building.
Before and After will appear each Friday showcasing mixed Then and Nows by local artist and Toronto history enthusiast Alden Cudanin.
Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, f1244_it7098
6 comments
I’m confused. The Scotiabank building is on the north-east corner, not the north-west corner. The north-west corner is where one would find the edge of First Canadian Place, which I think is showing on the left hand side of this photo. I think the photo is taken from the south-west corner, not south-east. Or am I totally turned around?
Please post a link to a much larger image file when you post these things. It’s so frustrating having to squint at the screen.
…not to sound ungrateful. I love these images!
matt is right. first canadian place is on the north-west corner and scotia plaza is on the north-east corner.
here is a rough guide to the skyscraping bank towers:
– white = first canadian place (bmo)
– red = scotia plaza (scotiabank)
– black = td centre (td canada trust)
– gold = royal bank plaza (rbc)
– silver = commerce court west (cibc)
caption says photo “is” taken on south-west corner meaning we are viewing the picture north, not south. so yes first can. would be on the left side of the photo, scotia on the right side, and behind the viewing perspective would be td dominion. but yes a little confusing, because there are so many changes 🙂
The correction has been made, thanks. We are looking at the north-east corner.
Going forward I will have a link to a larger version of the photo. 🙂