John FitzGerald's photos

The intersection of College Street and University Avenue in Toronto. I believe that when this photo was taken the building was known as the Ontario Power Generation building (1976, Gordon S. Adamson, Kenneth R. Cooper). It's now the Intact Centre, although OPG still has its headquarters there. But then Intact does, too, and it's the bigger company. I prefer the full-screen view; your opinion may vary (type Z, click the frame at top right).

I just found out that an old Canadian make of car, the Ford Monarch, was in fact intended as a tribute to THE monarch, the one in England (who is also monarch in right of Canada). So this is my belated tribute to the coronation. Our current king and his mother, by the way, are the only two monarchs to be crowned as monarchs of Canada. I saw the 1952 coronation on Canadian television -- after each reel of film was developed in England it was flown to Canada on a fighter jet. Of course, the car's very regal -- look at the lion on the horn honker! And its slogan was "Ride like a king" (it came out in 1946, so George VI was the monarch then). This is a model from 1961, the last year they were produced. I know I shouldn't have leaned into the car but there you are. This was taken, by the way, at a Canadian Tire Sunday cruise, a longstanding Canadian tradition. Patriotic or what? ===== I added a shot of the exterior in the PiP at top left. You will see it has Dagmars. It also has a Continental tire kit on the back.

The Jeremiah Dinwoody house (1913, Joseph Arthur Harvey). Mr. Dinwoody made shoes, obviously very successfully. I intended my Toronto houses album to be of examples of styles not found outside Toronto, and this house isn't an example of one, but I like it so I included it in the album, anyway.

Toronto

Taken on the way to Chiswick Park on the London Underground.

Is that title pretentious enough for ya? I don't think I could make it pretentiouser. And Happy Fence Tuesday!

Norwich Market has operated continuously on this spot since the mid-eleventh century (sometime between 1066 and 1086). City Hall is on its west side and the Guildhall on the north. This was taken around lunchtime so imagine a pleasing aroma of frying fish.

No, that is not factory paint. I like the full-screen version. Could just be me, though, eh?

The Anglican cathedral in Toronto (F. W. Cumberland, 1853).

Re-edited and cropped re-post.

Sun Life Centre, East Tower, Toronto, Pearl Street elevation (1984, WZMH Architects).

Rhanks, William. You, too.

Ontario Gothic houses with bay windows. For more about Ontario Gothic houses, click the PiP at top left. I take it that's a painting of a streetcar you can see in the window of Tangle Gallery (PiP centre right). There are no streetcars on this street (Harbord) and no sidestreet there for one to be coming down,

The building at the top is the TIFF Bell Lightbox (2010, KPMB Architects and Kirkor Architects) in Toronto. The view is now blocked by another tall building.