Amazing to look back at this to get the full perspective. My dad was born in 1920 in Dauphin. Came to Toronto in 1922 becoming his true hometown. He sold newspapers at 13 during the Depression on downtown streets and Maple Leaf Gardens to make a buck for the family. Was at the Toronto Maple Leaf overtime game where Ken Doraty scored the eventual winner. Back then, overtime ran a full 10 minutes with unlimited scoring. My dad, arguably the greatest newsy in Canada, sold a record 4,110 newspapers (incl. Telly fun cheques, for car draw) by the CNE ferris wheel on a single Labor Day in the 1960s. He was steeped in Toronto history and one of the Three Stooges was his friend, Curly Joe DeRita, who would send us a Christmas card every year. I got autographed pictures of the Stooges at the Royal York Hotel after a performance at the CNE's Exhibition Grandstand. Many fond memories. Thought you might find this interesting. I was very lucky to have such a great father.
1:08 City Hall and Clock Tower 1:24 Bay Street looking north towards City Hall Clock Tower 1:32 Yonge Street looking north at King Street (Hennessy’s Drug Store, Yonge Street) 1:50 King Street looking east at Yonge Street 2:25 Canadian Pacific Railway building, 69 Yonge Street 3:10 The Royal York Hotel 3:48 Union Station train terminal on Front Street 4:09 Casa Loma 4:16 Birth home of actress Mary Pickford (211 University Avenue, now demolished) 4:30 Ontario Legislative Building at Queen’s Park 4:51 University College building at University of Toronto campus 5:11 Hart House building at University of Toronto campus 5:21 Sunnyside Amusement Park 5:58 Sunnyside Beach 6:32 Princes’ Gates entry to Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) 6:50 Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building at CNE grounds (now Medieval Times Dinner Theatre) 7:07 Horticulture Building at CNE grounds (now Toronto Event Centre) 7:15 The Midway Strip of the CNE
The Royal York Hotel was completed June 11, 1929. The CNE takes place annually from the third Friday in August until the first Monday in September. Therefore this film was likely made in 1929 during August to September.
This is absolutely wonderful to see. I’m from Toronto and this means a lot that you did a video on the city where I live. So fascinating to see this. Thank you and a wonderful job you did on this restoration with an accompanying soundscape. Cheers! 👍🏻😀
Toronto now smells like garbage and has mentally ill people on every street corner the state has thrown to the streets and abandoned. No graffiti back then like now everything has crap tags or bad art on it. Drugs being used openly every where these days and openly sold by csis/rcmp employees. Imagine how clean the air was back then. and no FFFFFing camera watching everything u do!
You’re not alone the people in charge of it in 2024 don’t realize it’s a big city Have minimal underground subway tunnels compared to cities of the same size around the world Toronto has to get rid of its country bumpkin mentality leaders
@@yvonneplant9434 Ok I guess I need to explain my comment.. I never had a reason to google Toronto 1920s before this video. Therefore, I was surprised to find out it was a huge city even at that time.
The shots of Bay Street towards Old City Hall, casaloma, and the University of Toronto feels like not much has changed. It's kind of eerie to look at all these people even the children and realize they are long gone
So nice to see my city as it was in the 1920s. So many of the buildings are still around today. The city has changed in so many ways while remaining somewhat familiar. Toronto has truly evolved over the last 100 years. Today's metropolitan population is roughly 8 times what it was in the late 20s. Crazy to see the CNE as packed back then, as it is today. Thanks for this wonderful time capsule. Hope there are more videos like this one out there.
At 1:25. Many of those buildings in this shot of Bay Street still stand today. And on Yonge Street the same. There are office towers there from the 1890s. Part of the current Hudson's Bay department store has the original building from the 1800s.
In 2010 at the age of 58 I left Toronto for a quieter, smaller, less congested town about 110 kilometres away. It's wonderful to view all of this incredible architecture from a time when it was mostly new to Torontonians. Many of these grand, old buildings still stand today but Toronto is a far more modern metropolis now about 100 years later. This is a real trip down memory lane, thanks very much for bringing the city I love so much to life once again. What a treat!
Love this film, especially the scenes from the C.N.E. Wonderful to imagine seeing my grandparents and extended family walking through the crowds. Gives a real perspective to family history. Thanks for posting!
My father came to Toronto in 1926, when he was 18. He saw signs that read "No Catholics or Irish need apply." Nevertheless he made his way and really enjoyed Toronto, living in beautiful Parkdale, and joining what would become The Boulevard Club, playing Tennis. He told us of all the great music in the 30s and 40s, when he would go dancing,imlooked for him at Sunnyside.
It's amazing how the Canadian and American cities looked so dang similar. Great post, thanks. My only bone to pick is that the horn honks from the cars sound too modern. Didn't they have more of a bull horn sound. Just watch the old Laurel and Hardy or Three Stooges episodes and you will see.
Wonderful! Remember my grandparents telling about arriving in Canada in the 30s and how they lived and worked downtown in the garment industries. Thank you Nass !
great work....my mom was born in 1914 in Toronto...I wonder where she was then these shots were taken...for that matter I wonder where she is now...thanks again....
Nass, thanks for another fabulous upload. I truly enjoy your work. At 1:30 Love scenes like this with people, streetcars, horses and cars all sharing the street. I thought at first it may be early 1920's but may be later with statue sign at 6:41. At 7:45 Canadiens had their own amusement park., They did not have to go Next door to enjoy Coney Island, New York! Haha!
The Royal York Hotel 3:10 was opened on June 11, 1929. The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) 6:32 takes place annually from the third Friday in August until the first Monday in September. Therefore, this film was likely shot in 1929 during the months August to September.
For all of you who thinks "life was better back then" compared to today, think again! WW1 just finished, the Great Depression was going to happen, and when you think it's over, WW2 starts. My grandfather was in Toronto in that era, life was AWFUL for him. He worked as a CN rail laborer. He was sent to fight in WW2 (Hong Kong then in Singapore), lost his hearing.
This is the Toronto my grandparents and great-grandparents lived in…can you imagine what they’d say if they could see it today? It doesn’t look like the same city, you can’t even see the Royal York Hotel anymore (it used to be the tallest building in the British Empire when it was completed). It’s now buried behind a massive wall of glass and steel monstrosities.
@@selene7134 5th gen Torontonian- my Scottish great-great- grandfather was an engineer who came from Edinburgh to help construct the Prince Edward viaduct in 1915. Imagine how I feel. A minority in my own city. Torontoistan.
@@randomrazr they meant to switch to buses but kept procrastinating, like they always do with TTC improvements, until the whole environmental movement became prominent. Then they were like oh, electric streetcars are better!
@@sorrywrongplanet8873 so torontto street cars exists because they were to lazy to switch em up asap like almost all other cities and by the time they wanted to....environmentalists pushed that they were good?
I love these beautiful old buildings and also watching the interactions between humans and especially the children and how different things were how much more gentle people were
This is Gold! I don’t care if the color is fake!…some of those tracking shots going up the buildings are exceptionally smooth, even by today’s standards. Toronto lookde so clean and uncluttered….PS, where are the dandelions?
Look how nice people dressed. I love seeing people going on with their daily lives. Sure wish cities still looked like this.. not trash heaps like they are now.
How did you accomplish this? It is incredible. I and mine have lived in Toronto since the late 1890's. Ran an investment firm. I know all these places even now. The Royal York. Casa Loma. Old City Hall. Yonge Street stretching north out of sight. Union Station. Except for the horses; the whole psychology is the same. My dad was born in '26 and lived 86 years serving Toronto. And then there is UC. Holy cow. So good. CNE. Princess Gates... so much more. THANK YOU. I know all of these places well. (U of T and The Spadina trams... 'streetcars'.) Talk about living history.
I couldn't believe I actually saw a few men without hats !!! Incredible how that was such a thing back then. Probably went out of fashion in the 1950s. The Canadian National Exhibition is still packed, but nothing like what we see in this old movie. The city back then was fairly dirty and gritty. Just look at the scene at the CNE and you can see the pollution coming from smokestacks downtown.
The amusements would have been at Sunnyside in the 1920s. These grounds would have been used more for industrial exhibits at this time. This video is only a rendering.
The sound effects were obviously added not long ago since sound films did not begin in earnest until the late 1920s. With the first talkie feature film being 'The Jazz Singer's made in 1927 and only a partial talkie at that.
There's something creepy errie to seeing old videos of people motioning about way back when they were alive, and knowing they are dead now as if ghosts frozen in time.
@@Mikey-kh4yc Well speak for yourself, but, i, am, jim morrison, and seeing my old music videos seems creepy errie to me, and because i can now only exist in this digital database. Oh well, party on Garth.
So great to see my adopted home town from back then. I graduated from U of T and passed though those heavy doors daily. Being on campus was always like a time capsule:)
Lived in Toronto from 1964 to 1971, then from 1977 to 2002....Strange to see how much of the city was so different in the 20s......I bet my Grandfather would see this and think of his childhood here, as this wa his era...
Honestly, we look like an experiment. All those people have already left, where to? where will we go? Maybe there's nothing after this. Why are we here? What is the reason ? That is the question. Much love to all.
@@Consume_Crash I respect Religion, but nowadays it seems more like a method of mass control than something "real" to rely on. Outside of the Church, there is nothing else.
We will return to bones like billions before us. Humans do not live long enough. But there are trees on this planet still standing after 300 years, they have seen it all.
This is the time when my dad was born in Toronto. And, at least for a little while, he’s still with us! I’ll show him this video when I see him Wednesday, although the earliest times he remembers are the 1930s.
At 7:17. I can’t believe the amount of people in that crowd that’s just barely able to shuffle along. How can that possibly be an enjoyable day out? I’m not sure if this is the Canadian Exhibition or a separate amusement park, but either way how can you fight that crowd to enjoy any ride or exhibit? And I can’t help but think, what if you are in the middle of all that and suddenly have an intestinal “emergency”? You couldn’t get to where you needed to “go.”
The Midway (where the rides and games were) were always crowded when I was a kid too in the 1960's. The Food building was a zoo as well since there were always free giveaways as well as many small businesses and farmers that sold specialty foods. My favourite building was the Arts and Crafts Building where you could get all sorts of models, crafts. stamps for collectors, model railroads, kites, chemistry sets and other things like that - activities which have declined into almost oblivion when PC-s and Cell phones etc. became accessible.
In the 80s my brother got a serious ear infection from swimming in the lake. The problem was bird guano. Some years ago they started spraying turpentine on seagull nests,, and tbe situation improved. Last time I I was in Toronto I was swimming in the lake (for the first time in my life and I come from there) at a man-made and very nice beach at Bluffer's Park, at the bottom of The Scarborough Bluffs
Great one, thanks. As a 6th generation Torontonian, I heard many stories of the city from this era. Toronto lost a lot of its beautiful architecture in parts of the downtown, but the vast majority seen in most of this video is still there. Although, right now the wokesters have the John A Macdonald statue at the foot of Queen’s Park in a box: it’s at the 4:33 mark. Speaking of that, I have to head there now!
"Toronto lost a lot of its beautiful architecture in parts of the downtown", you can't keep everything, the structures that are tagged as Heritage, are kept and that's why most of us can still recognize Toronto from this video.
@@stephenp448 most are boomer gammons farting in their free time on old videos reminiscing a time when they could get away with all crimes they committed on their wives and kids.
This footage is absolutely amazing. The camera angles are perfect in showing how life moved back then. The sheer size of those buildings are a marvel in themselves. Every man seems to be wearing a hat and intersections with no signals. The kids in the water are priceless. And holy crap, The Flyer!!!
Thats ME at 1:51...I'm 139 years old now, still hanging in there quite well. Love that there is gootage. I remember seeing a guy walking around with a camera then and that is why I looked.
At 2:06 now this is a scene you do not see much anymore. A man in straw hat tips his hat to the ladies and one lady in white hat straightens her hat & nods his way!
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Would You like to live back in the 1930s??
Without antibiotics? Are you nuts?
No AC in the summer! Forget it
Would you like to get off the Internet and just write letters?
Yes!
Yes please
Amazing to look back at this to get the full perspective. My dad was born in 1920 in Dauphin. Came to Toronto in 1922 becoming his true hometown. He sold newspapers at 13 during the Depression on downtown streets and Maple Leaf Gardens to make a buck for the family. Was at the Toronto Maple Leaf overtime game where Ken Doraty scored the eventual winner. Back then, overtime ran a full 10 minutes with unlimited scoring. My dad, arguably the greatest newsy in Canada, sold a record 4,110 newspapers (incl. Telly fun cheques, for car draw) by the CNE ferris wheel on a single Labor Day in the 1960s. He was steeped in Toronto history and one of the Three Stooges was his friend, Curly Joe DeRita, who would send us a Christmas card every year. I got autographed pictures of the Stooges at the Royal York Hotel after a performance at the CNE's Exhibition Grandstand. Many fond memories. Thought you might find this interesting. I was very lucky to have such a great father.
sounds like an amazing dude!!! :D
Brilliant! Your dad sounds like a great fella. God bless.
That was quite the interesting and pleasurable read. Thank you for sharing a snippet of your family’s history. All the best you!
Amazing!
thanks for sharing that !
Very nice but you went a little overboard with the car horns.
I don’t think the cars shown in the films had the same kinds of horns that are in the soundtrack. That might be worth a little bit of research.
@Sullivanworks They had 16 yr old drivers back then too, didn't they? KoL
100% agree
Didn’t the car horns sound like “arooooogaaa” back then?
All that traffic noise is music to my ears after 6 months being stuck here.
1:08 City Hall and Clock Tower
1:24 Bay Street looking north towards City Hall Clock Tower
1:32 Yonge Street looking north at King Street (Hennessy’s Drug Store, Yonge Street)
1:50 King Street looking east at Yonge Street
2:25 Canadian Pacific Railway building, 69 Yonge Street
3:10 The Royal York Hotel
3:48 Union Station train terminal on Front Street
4:09 Casa Loma
4:16 Birth home of actress Mary Pickford (211 University Avenue, now demolished)
4:30 Ontario Legislative Building at Queen’s Park
4:51 University College building at University of Toronto campus
5:11 Hart House building at University of Toronto campus
5:21 Sunnyside Amusement Park
5:58 Sunnyside Beach
6:32 Princes’ Gates entry to Canadian National Exhibition (CNE)
6:50 Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building at CNE grounds (now Medieval Times Dinner Theatre)
7:07 Horticulture Building at CNE grounds (now Toronto Event Centre)
7:15 The Midway Strip of the CNE
That's Old City Hall of course.
Thanks. very helpful. what about 7:07?
@@hc8843Horticulture Building at CNE grounds (now an event space). Added to list. Thank you.
The Royal York Hotel was completed June 11, 1929. The CNE takes place annually from the third Friday in August until the first Monday in September. Therefore this film was likely made in 1929 during August to September.
@@siroptimistic thank you.
Absolutely brilliant, thank you NASS. The fact that this exists is heart rendering.
This is absolutely wonderful to see. I’m from Toronto and this means a lot that you did a video on the city where I live. So fascinating to see this. Thank you and a wonderful job you did on this restoration with an accompanying soundscape. Cheers! 👍🏻😀
Toronto now smells like garbage and has mentally ill people on every street corner the state has thrown to the streets and abandoned. No graffiti back then like now everything has crap tags or bad art on it. Drugs being used openly every where these days and openly sold by csis/rcmp employees. Imagine how clean the air was back then. and no FFFFFing camera watching everything u do!
Great archival footage. Fascinating to see history in motion. Thanks for sharing.
Whoa I didn’t realize it was already such a big city in the 1920s!
Las grandes ciudades existen desde 1879 y que decir de europa, Londres 1830
Lensky Blames the World ........
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You’re not alone the people in charge of it in 2024 don’t realize it’s a big city
Have minimal underground subway tunnels compared to cities of the same size around the world
Toronto has to get rid of its country bumpkin mentality leaders
Can't just google to find out its stats?
@@yvonneplant9434 Ok I guess I need to explain my comment.. I never had a reason to google Toronto 1920s before this video. Therefore, I was surprised to find out it was a huge city even at that time.
The shots of Bay Street towards Old City Hall, casaloma, and the University of Toronto feels like not much has changed. It's kind of eerie to look at all these people even the children and realize they are long gone
And the shots of the CNE were incredible, life was so much simpler than it is now
I thought the same, Queen and Yonge look almost identical too.
Amazing to see this.
As a Torontonian of 55+ years, I certainly recognize most of the locations. This footage reminds me of my folks and grandparents.
So wild seeing my home town like this. Thank you for everything that you do. ♥️
will only get worse and worse as the white Euro stock that built the country gets replaced with the third world
Home town 🤭 when are you from 1800? That there is a city
So nice to see my city as it was in the 1920s. So many of the buildings are still around today. The city has changed in so many ways while remaining somewhat familiar. Toronto has truly evolved over the last 100 years. Today's metropolitan population is roughly 8 times what it was in the late 20s. Crazy to see the CNE as packed back then, as it is today. Thanks for this wonderful time capsule. Hope there are more videos like this one out there.
“Evolved” is probably not the right word. 😟
@@sovereignty14 devolved??
Then Toronto the Good and the Belfast of Canada !
At 1:25. Many of those buildings in this shot of Bay Street still stand today. And on Yonge Street the same. There are office towers there from the 1890s. Part of the current Hudson's Bay department store has the original building from the 1800s.
Would love to see a video like this around Christmas time and see how everything was decorated back then.
Magical childish thinking was probably more popular then than today, going back throughout the gregorian calendar accordingly.
@@truetech4158I think so too. I hope there is some old footage that can be restored of the holidays. I love these videos
"I would love to see this town in the Autumn." ua-cam.com/video/w23Mn0bZY5w/v-deo.htmlsi=xwcMlMVo0tCmo5yU
@@jonathanbaltrusaitis6558 agreed, that would be nice to see
In 2010 at the age of 58 I left Toronto for a quieter, smaller, less congested town about 110 kilometres away. It's wonderful to view all of this incredible architecture from a time when it was mostly new to Torontonians. Many of these grand, old buildings still stand today but Toronto is a far more modern metropolis now about 100 years later. This is a real trip down memory lane, thanks very much for bringing the city I love so much to life once again. What a treat!
That little boy really knew how to charm those two young ladies sitting on the steps didn't he? ;-) Outstanding restoration, thank you!
2024 - did you assume genders? hahah
@@UnknownUnrecognized Yes, based on attire. We'd hope a channel like this would be a refuge from US politics, but that's rarely the case.
@@fredsands9220 that's not even us politics, it is world wide propaganda and brainwashing:)
Love this film, especially the scenes from the C.N.E. Wonderful to imagine seeing my grandparents and extended family walking through the crowds. Gives a real perspective to family history. Thanks for posting!
My father came to Toronto in 1926, when he was 18. He saw signs that read "No Catholics or Irish need apply." Nevertheless he made his way and really enjoyed Toronto, living in beautiful Parkdale, and joining what would become The Boulevard Club, playing Tennis. He told us of all the great music in the 30s and 40s, when he would go dancing,imlooked for him at Sunnyside.
Yes , my father used to tell me about those signs but by a few years later this was an "Orange " city and it was no Jews or Catholics .
I heard this story from my client who's now 85 y/o.
Parkdale. That's where I buy my crack.
Parkdale oh dear . And what has it now become he’d be so disappointed.
@@danieldonnelly3602it’s become a den of misfits mentally ills and crack dens yes
This is wonderful footage of Toronto and dutifully remastered. Thank you.
It's amazing how the Canadian and American cities looked so dang similar. Great post, thanks. My only bone to pick is that the horn honks from the cars sound too modern. Didn't they have more of a bull horn sound. Just watch the old Laurel and Hardy or Three Stooges episodes and you will see.
I believe they were added for effect.
They are all Tartarian.
It would have been a silent camera . Sound film didn't begin in earnest until the late 1920s. The sound effects have been added well afterwards.
@@2Sugarbears Mmmm......I love Tartar sauce.
Canadian & American cities “looked” similar because they were all built by European people… of course. Canada & America is the “New World”, after all.
I was at the CNE celebrating its 100th birthday and now it's coming up to its 150th.
Wonderful! Remember my grandparents telling about arriving in Canada in the 30s and how they lived and worked downtown in the garment industries. Thank you Nass !
great work....my mom was born in 1914 in Toronto...I wonder where she was then these shots were taken...for that matter I wonder where she is now...thanks again....
Thx!!👍
💖For sure...in Deinem Herzen.💖👍
This is 1927 so she would have been 13, probably at school.
probably workin a corner somewhere
@@noahgabriel210 My grandmother was born in 1911 and died in 2014 2 months shy of her 103 rd b-day.
Nass, thanks for another fabulous upload. I truly enjoy your work. At 1:30 Love scenes like this with people, streetcars, horses and cars all sharing the street. I thought at first it may be early 1920's but may be later with statue sign at 6:41. At 7:45 Canadiens had their own amusement park., They did not have to go Next door to enjoy Coney Island, New York! Haha!
Hi!! thank you very much!!
Lovely Toronto; for an isolated city in North America of 1920's, Toronto certainly had a fair size population.
The Royal York Hotel 3:10 was opened on June 11, 1929. The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) 6:32 takes place annually from the third Friday in August until the first Monday in September. Therefore, this film was likely shot in 1929 during the months August to September.
For all of you who thinks "life was better back then" compared to today, think again! WW1 just finished, the Great Depression was going to happen, and when you think it's over, WW2 starts. My grandfather was in Toronto in that era, life was AWFUL for him. He worked as a CN rail laborer. He was sent to fight in WW2 (Hong Kong then in Singapore), lost his hearing.
People cared about dressing well, not like today. Excellent video.
I just saw how my great grandparents lived and experienced life in Toronto. Cheers Nass, you Rock ! 🍻
This is the Toronto my grandparents and great-grandparents lived in…can you imagine what they’d say if they could see it today? It doesn’t look like the same city, you can’t even see the Royal York Hotel anymore (it used to be the tallest building in the British Empire when it was completed). It’s now buried behind a massive wall of glass and steel monstrosities.
Before diversity was our strength
Strength?!? 😂😂 it’s the city’s downfall. It’s a third world country now
@@kristophert932I was being sarcastic, of course. The entire West has been ruined. I can't believe we've let this happen
@@selene7134 poopskins are taking over the west
@@selene7134 5th gen Torontonian- my Scottish great-great- grandfather was an engineer who came from Edinburgh to help construct the Prince Edward viaduct in 1915. Imagine how I feel. A minority in my own city. Torontoistan.
@@Brunettte-Barbieand immigrant, don’t forget, we are all immigrants
thanks nass late to the show today i never miss one of ur productions! great as always
thank you!!
Even today Toronto is not that loud. However the engine sounds are legit for the era. Thank you for providing this material.
Can we just appreciate the technology that allowed us to travel 100 years in time and hang out in downtown Toronto.
the one city that was smart enough to not destroy its entire street car system
Infraestructura imposible para esa época, la historia oficial es una farsa, en todo el mundo igual...
It wasn’t so much smarts and planning as delays and apathy until streetcars started to look like a good idea again.
@@sorrywrongplanet8873 can u elaborate?
@@randomrazr they meant to switch to buses but kept procrastinating, like they always do with TTC improvements, until the whole environmental movement became prominent. Then they were like oh, electric streetcars are better!
@@sorrywrongplanet8873 so torontto street cars exists because they were to lazy to switch em up asap like almost all other cities and by the time they wanted to....environmentalists pushed that they were good?
One thing l noticed is that everyone is slim. People walked everywhere back in the day as cars were expensive.
Thank you.
As a Torontonian. It nice to see my beautiful city presented.
I love these beautiful old buildings and also watching the interactions between humans and especially the children and how different things were how much more gentle people were
Pretty cool filmography/I was think ing around 1930- thnx 4 posting👏
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing. If you don’t like the sound, turn down your volume.
This is Gold! I don’t care if the color is fake!…some of those tracking shots going up the buildings are exceptionally smooth, even by today’s standards. Toronto lookde so clean and uncluttered….PS, where are the dandelions?
Very cool! Would love to see something like this from Houston Texas if it exists. 😊
ok ;))
@@NASS_0 watched the San Antonio video. That was awesome 👌
Look how nice people dressed. I love seeing people going on with their daily lives. Sure wish cities still looked like this.. not trash heaps like they are now.
How did you accomplish this? It is incredible. I and mine have lived in Toronto since the late 1890's. Ran an investment firm. I know all these places even now. The Royal York. Casa Loma. Old City Hall. Yonge Street stretching north out of sight. Union Station. Except for the horses; the whole psychology is the same. My dad was born in '26 and lived 86 years serving Toronto. And then there is UC. Holy cow. So good. CNE. Princess Gates... so much more. THANK YOU. I know all of these places well. (U of T and The Spadina trams... 'streetcars'.) Talk about living history.
I couldn't believe I actually saw a few men without hats !!! Incredible how that was such a thing back then. Probably went out of fashion in the 1950s. The Canadian National Exhibition is still packed, but nothing like what we see in this old movie. The city back then was fairly dirty and gritty. Just look at the scene at the CNE and you can see the pollution coming from smokestacks downtown.
now it's a 3rd world shithole
The amusements would have been at Sunnyside in the 1920s. These grounds would have been used more for industrial exhibits at this time. This video is only a rendering.
Love the video, but the cars had aoogah horns.
I have lived downtown for fifty years. I never (NEVER) ever heard a horn. Not til 2021.
The sound effects were obviously added not long ago since sound films did not begin in earnest until the late 1920s. With the first talkie feature film being 'The Jazz Singer's made in 1927 and only a partial talkie at that.
Thank you from Toronto!
Thx!!👍
There's something creepy errie to seeing old videos of people motioning about way back when they were alive, and knowing they are dead now as if ghosts frozen in time.
@@Mikey-kh4yc Well speak for yourself, but, i, am, jim morrison, and seeing my old music videos seems creepy errie to me, and because i can now only exist in this digital database.
Oh well, party on Garth.
Wow. Toronto was quite the bustling city in the roaring 20s. Great work! Thank you! 🙂
Thx!
This is the first time I've seen old videos of Toronto ! I was half-hoping to see a relative in the crowd lol
They were probably at the the exhibition , it looked crowded
Wow, Queen's Park actually looks clean! Some of the places looks almost the same!
NASS! Thanks for posting this video
Thx bro!
Incredible. Imagine being a rural farmer and driving into this back in the day? Would have been jaw dropping.
Toronto was very nice back then.
At this time, The Royal York Hotel (3:10) was the tallest building in Canada
It's interesting how the copper roof hadn't turned green yet. I wonder how long the process took.
I think the year maybe 1929. Great video. Thanks for sharing it with us. I lived in Toronto my entire life. 66 now.
So great to see my adopted home town from back then. I graduated from U of T and passed though those heavy doors daily. Being on campus was always like a time capsule:)
Muito lindo, belo vídeo!! 👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Beautiful. Thanks for unearthing and sharing.
Lived in Toronto from 1964 to 1971, then from 1977 to 2002....Strange to see how much of the city was so different in the 20s......I bet my Grandfather would see this and think of his childhood here, as this wa his era...
WOW MY DEAREST CITY WHAT HAVE YOU NOW COME TO
So happy for all these people that they didn't have to go through TikTok.
Honestly, we look like an experiment. All those people have already left, where to? where will we go? Maybe there's nothing after this. Why are we here? What is the reason ? That is the question. Much love to all.
Anunnaki
Jesus Christ is the reason.
@@Consume_Crash I respect Religion, but nowadays it seems more like a method of mass control than something "real" to rely on. Outside of the Church, there is nothing else.
We will return to bones like billions before us. Humans do not live long enough. But there are trees on this planet still standing after 300 years, they have seen it all.
A.I. takes over,,,we become man/machines,,,,then just machines
Lovely old Tartarian building.
This is the time when my dad was born in Toronto. And, at least for a little while, he’s still with us! I’ll show him this video when I see him Wednesday, although the earliest times he remembers are the 1930s.
ask him what a hooker cost in 35'
Refreshing... No dudes wearing head diapers
Or high heels.
Beautiful. Why can't we make things look as beautiful as they did back then?
Outstanding. Thanks, NASS.
thank you very much
Now Toronto is a construction and traffic nightmare
Great stufff! posted it on my substack.
Every person seems more relaxed, less paranoid, more peaceful.
Amazing 😍 Thank you🙏
Thx!!
At 7:17. I can’t believe the amount of people in that crowd that’s just barely able to shuffle along. How can that possibly be an enjoyable day out? I’m not sure if this is the Canadian Exhibition or a separate amusement park, but either way how can you fight that crowd to enjoy any ride or exhibit? And I can’t help but think, what if you are in the middle of all that and suddenly have an intestinal “emergency”? You couldn’t get to where you needed to “go.”
That is most definitely the Canadian National Exhibition.
@@fjcrod In 1927
The Midway (where the rides and games were) were always crowded when I was a kid too in the 1960's. The Food building was a zoo as well since there were always free giveaways as well as many small businesses and farmers that sold specialty foods. My favourite building was the Arts and Crafts Building where you could get all sorts of models, crafts. stamps for collectors, model railroads, kites, chemistry sets and other things like that - activities which have declined into almost oblivion when PC-s and Cell phones etc. became accessible.
Truly amazing
Thx!!!
best and with most character buildings were already standing. 100+ years ago. Almost unbelievable.
Wow, over 100 years ago I can’t believe people use to actually swim in the lake
People always have and still do. You never heard of Toronto Island?
@@jamesholler1811 Nobody from Toronto swims in that water anymore. Too polluted.
In the 80s my brother got a serious ear infection from swimming in the lake. The problem was bird guano. Some years ago they started spraying turpentine on seagull nests,, and tbe situation improved. Last time I I was in Toronto I was swimming in the lake (for the first time in my life and I come from there) at a man-made and very nice beach at Bluffer's Park, at the bottom of The Scarborough Bluffs
@@jamesholler1811 Not to the same scale at all though.
In the 1920's is it the last time the Maple Leafs won Lord Stanley?
1967
Great work, many thanks!👍👍
Great one, thanks. As a 6th generation Torontonian, I heard many stories of the city from this era. Toronto lost a lot of its beautiful architecture in parts of the downtown, but the vast majority seen in most of this video is still there. Although, right now the wokesters have the John A Macdonald statue at the foot of Queen’s Park in a box: it’s at the 4:33 mark. Speaking of that, I have to head there now!
thank you
What's he doing on a box? Is this a joke, like Robin Hood in a bag
@@MrCanadatomnope British and French contributions to Canada are non grata nowadays it seems.
@@mikeman4695 Nonsense. They have a box around the statue to protect it. It's happened before.
"Toronto lost a lot of its beautiful architecture in parts of the downtown", you can't keep everything, the structures that are tagged as Heritage, are kept and that's why most of us can still recognize Toronto from this video.
My mom was born 1918 in Toronto…she d be a young girl when this was filmed
Nice to see old pictures of my hometown much as my parents might’ve seen it as children although they were born in the 20s actually.
OMG..LOVE IT...I am born and bred here in T.O.....great to see this...thx
I wonder if any of those old Tartarian buildings are still in Toronto. Tartaria was the civilisation before ours, in case you were wondering.
People then are so modest and move with such orderly fashion!
Beautiful video!
"Toronto the good". The beautiful city and country that was.
It still is
Sure, as long as you were White and Protestant (for the record, I'm both). It wasn't much fun for anybody else.
@@stephenp448 most are boomer gammons farting in their free time on old videos reminiscing a time when they could get away with all crimes they committed on their wives and kids.
*masterfully done*
👍
Toronto still had horse-drawn trams in the 1920s? Wow!
That's awesome, I hope you find Ottawa footage
its amazing how much and so little has changed, ton of people, ton of cars and a ton of bicycles, a reminder they have always been a thing
This footage is absolutely amazing.
The camera angles are perfect in showing how life moved back then. The sheer size of those buildings are a marvel in themselves. Every man seems to be wearing a hat and intersections with no signals. The kids in the water are priceless. And holy crap, The Flyer!!!
This one rang a bell 🔔 with me. I lived in Toronto for 8 years!
At 4:50. That looks like the U of Toronto campus. This building still stands.
Very nice ❤ Thanks for sharing 😊
Very cool little time machine
Thats ME at 1:51...I'm 139 years old now, still hanging in there quite well. Love that there is gootage. I remember seeing a guy walking around with a camera then and that is why I looked.
At 2:06 now this is a scene you do not see much anymore. A man in straw hat tips his hat to the ladies and one lady in white hat straightens her hat & nods his way!
The Maple Leafs had a Stanley Cup winning team in the 1920's. Incredible how time has changed.
It cool seeing old videos.
Well done, Nass! A+ to you! 👍👍👍
thank you!!!!👍
Absolutely incredible.