{"id":3914,"date":"2009-01-05T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/01\/05\/ontario-travelogue-from-1930s\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:24:18","slug":"ontario-travelogue-from-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/01\/05\/ontario-travelogue-from-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Travelogue from 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a lush Ontario-proud technicolor travelogue from the 1930s to warm up this first real day of 2009. It starts on the green farm of then Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn<\/a> near St. Thomas and goes on to include a brief view of Toronto from the Island. Then a city of 850,000 it had “become a popular convention city, thereby justifying it’s Indian name Toronto<\/em>, which means a place of meeting .” Then it’s off to the Rideau Canal and Ottawa. Like all pre-1960s shots of Toronto’s skyline, I’m struck by how dirty the city always looks (inevitably a factory or boat belching out black smoke). I think before the modern highrises came, starting with the TD Centre, the industrial waterfront dominated the view. It’s interesting (and logical) that Toronto’s evolution into a cultural hub of Canada parelleled it’s physical evolution from dirty provincial-looking city to the one we have today. I’m glad Redpath Sugar continues to operate down on Queens Quay to remind us of this period view (and that something physical is still manufactured in the downtown core).<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jordan Hale<\/a> for the link. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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