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TAKE A GUESS: name this intersection, March 28th

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We want you to identify this intersection. Leave your guess in the comments section: we’ll hold on to your picks until 3pm. If you want to see a larger version of the photo check it out Spacing Photos.

UPDATE AT 3pm: I guess this was too easy as almost everyone got it: looking south on Lansdowne at Davenport. 

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33 comments

  1. Landowne & Davenport looking south. If it isn’t, it sure looks like it!

  2. Lansdowne & Davenport looking south. If it isn’t, it sure looks like it!

  3. Looking south on Lansdowne at Davenport tx

  6. Davenport and Lansdowne, looking south…?

  7. I think it’s looking south on Lansdowne from Davenport.

  8. Looking south from davenport at the Canadian General Electric factories just north of Dupont. Did you guys photoshop the signs out of the pictures?

  9. I guess Lansdowne and Davenport, looking south. This based on the building (looks like the Candada Foundry) the grade, and the streetcar tracks being laid.

  10. This is almost definitetly looking south on Lansdowne from Davenport Road – the details of those buildings match up perfectly with the former General Electric buildings along Landsdowne (and there’s 2 of them as well). These buildings are currently being converted into lofts (the “Foundry Lofts”) and the rest of the site behind them (to the right) has been rapidly filled in with stacked townhouses in the last year or so.

    GE operated here until 1981 manufacturing electrical components and transformers – as a result, there was significant contamination of (among other things, no doubt) PCB’s – GE has spent at least $20 million cleaning up the Davenport sites alone. 3 buildings (including the 2 on the right of the photo) are designated heritage buildings. The buildings were built around 1904 by Canada Foundry Co. Ltd. (which was controlled by GE, but grew from an old Toronto locomotive engine and car building foundry located on Front St) and continued in the business at this site. Eventually, GE took over the operations focussing on electrics, primarily in the post-war period from the sound of it.

    Funnily enough, Davenport Road itself seems to be absent – which makes very little sense – is the photographer standing on the very edge of it, or am I wholly mistaken?

  12. Maybe somewhere down on the east waterfront? Lake Shore & Parliament looking south?

  13. This is Davenport and Lansdowne then, luxury loft spaces today.

  15. Front St. looking West towards Parliament?

  17. Looks like the old General Electric works on Lansdowne Ave. just south of Davenport Rd.

  18. Looks like the old General Electric works on Lansdowne Ave. just south of Davenport Rd.

  20. I think it might be Dupont and Dovercourt, looking east…. or wait! Davenport and Lansdowne, looking south! I’m almost completely sure of it now!

    Hasn’t changed much.

  21. Lansdowne and davenport looking south

  22. Maybe all these old factories look alike, but that looks an awful lot like one at Lansdowne & Davenport (facing south). Needless to say, it’s now a loft condo development with a godawful web site.

  23. Early in our 21st century, like many such brick and mortar megacity march madnesses, these buildings are playing ‘Lofts Gone Wild’ on Lansdowne north of Dupont.

    This is The Foundry east of the Junction.

    Trains were built here through the 20th century.

  24. Well, I’ll have to make the same guess I made yesterday, Davenport and Lansdowne…. 🙂

  25. Bathurst/Front, looking northbound. We are seeing grading underway for the truss bridge over the rail corridor north of Fort York.

  26. Lansdowne, looking south from Davenport. Looks like brand new streetcar track, so I date this to 1915-1919 (or so, can’t remember). If I’m correct (about the date, I’m sure of the intersection), the track is not being laid for the TTC, the TRC or the Toronto Suburban, but for another street railway, the Toronto Civic Railways.

  27. Is this Lansdowne Ave. just south of Davenport?

    The GE Davenport Works on the right?

  30. I was surprised no one mentioned that I had messed with the signage on top of each building so it wasn’t so easy.

  31. The seventh poster did mention it 😉