Yonge Street looking north from the CPR tracks in 1912. The Rosedale Hotel is on the northeast corner of Shaftesbury.
This photo was also taken in 1912, this time from Birch looking south. The bank building is on the corner of Cottingham, and it still exists as an office. In the right lower corner you can just see the tracks of the radial railway which ran along Yonge St. and terminated at Birch.
This photo is also looking south in 1912, taken from a little further north. You can better see the terminal of the radial line. The sign is partiall obscured by the pole, but it says Local Cars for Deer Park, Mount Pleasant, Davisville, Eglinton, Glengrove, Lawrence Park.
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Above is a composite of two photos of the west side of Yonge south of Cottingham, in 1914. The Dominion Bank building is still there, as offices, the next two buildings have been replaced by a modern one, the Union Bank and the two buildings south of it still exist (The Pepper Mill, now replaced by Articacts, Musashi, Rosedale Diner, etc.). The CPR is about to raise the tracks onto an embankment and construct a bridge over Yonge.
Going back two years to 1912 (might be 1907), we are looking east along Cottingham towards Yonge. You can see the backs of some of the buildings in the previous photo, and the level crossing with a steam locomotive about to cross.
This next photo is looking west along Cottingham in 1907 (can't be sure of the exact year). Canadian Pacific's North Toronto Station was on this side of Yonge, near to where York Racket Club is today. Towards the right side of the photo you can see the cupola of Cottingham school, which was then where the park is today. When they replaced the school (1950s?) they built it on the west end of the playground. I believe the building in the background, just right of the station, was on the site of the present tennis courts.
This photo was taken from Avenue Road in 1910, looking east along the tracks. Star Flour is the building I mentioned in the previous photo, on about the site of the present tennis courts. The houses on the right are on Marlborough Place and they still exist. When they raised the railway between 1913 and 1915 they must have built the embankment on the north side of the tracks initialy, tearing down Star Flour.
I think this photo proves my point about building the embankment on the north side of the tracks initially. This is looking north on Avenue Road in 1913 (though I suspect it might be 1914 or 15). The lower CPR track was at grade level and carried trains until the upper track was ready. They then routed trains onto the embankment and then widened the embankment and the overpass to the south. During this construction they detoured the Avenue Road streetcars under the bridge on the right of this photo.
Rosedale Hotel, 1914, on the northeast corner of Yonge and Shaftesbury.
Birch terminal of the Toronto & York Radial Railway, about 1910. On the next page I will tell the story about public transit on Yonge Street at this time.
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