North Toronto Station 
On page 1 is a photo of CPR's North Toronto station on the west side of Yonge and south of the tracks. The railway decided to build a more grand station on the east side of Yonge at the same time as the railbed was raised onto an embankment and overpasses were constructed across Yonge, Avenue Road, Davenport, Spadina and other roads. Construction started in 1915 and the station was officially opened on June 14, 1916. There is more information in this Wikipedia page.
Early postcard of CPR's North Toronto Station
This 1916 photo shows the station under construction.
This photo from 1920 shows the old station in the foreground and the new station in the background.
Other interesting photos
Summerhill Avenue went down into the valley, across the creek, and up into Rosedale. Shaftesbury joins on the right.
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Summerhill Avenue bridge with the CPR railway bridge in the background.
Southwest corner of Yonge and Alcorn, 1914
Yonge and Birch, 1920
West side of Yonge, North of Woodlawn, 1917
Looking south from Shaftesbury, 1925
McGill Coal, 1925
Yonge south from Woodlawn, 1931. The traffic was bad even then. There is an earlier photo from the same location on page 2.
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Southwest corner of Yonge and Roxborough, 1924. Notice the gas station attached to the pharmacy. There was a gas station on that corner for decades, eventually replaced by Starbucks.
Rosedale Hotel, 1950. I presume it was there until the Ports of Call was built, I believe in the 1960s.
About me and the photos: I am Ken Brown and I have lived on Cottingham Street since 1970. While I have always been interested in local history I have never done any research until a Facebook page called Vintage Toronto was created in January, 2012. Hundreds of old Toronto photos have been posted, some of them in the Summerhill area. This prompted me to inquire at the Toronto Archives and, while I have yet to do a search there, they did tell me that many photos are available online. I have also found a few online photos from the Toronto Public Library.
Toronto Archives: Click on Search the Archives' Database, tick the box for scanned photos only, and enter keywords.
Toronto Public Library: Search the Digital Archive.
I also got some of my information from the book Riding The Radials as mentioned on page 2, and from North Toronto vs the T&YRR.
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