Toronto, City of Gas, 1909-1936
As presented in the commercial photography of F.W. Micklethwaite Studio for the Consumers' Gas Company
By Peter MacCallumOnce they had been declared functionally obsolete, most of the monumental industrial structures that figured on the skylines of North American cities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were promptly demolished, with no consideration being given to their historical significance. This was certainly the fate of thousands of manufactured gas plants that had distributed “town gas” to urban customers in North America between 1816 and the mid-1960s. In these facilities, gas for... Read more
