“Frozen in Time: Canada’s History” brings the past to life through rare and remarkable photographs of Canada’s journey. From everyday moments to historic milestones, each image captures the spirit of a nation as it grew, changed, and thrived. Step back in time and explore Canada’s story through timeless visuals.
The view facing North to Spadina and College around 1910
Westwood Theatre at 3743 Bloor Street in the 1970s
Yonge street in 1974.
Did you ever get your hair cut at House of Lords?
Julie’s Place at 515 Jarvis Street in the 1970s. Now the Keg Mansion.
“New” City Hall in the late 1960s.
Terry Fox throwing out the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game at Exhibition Stadium in 1980 in Toronto.
The original TTC subway map in the 1950s.
Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion flying alongside the Northern Lights aerobatics squad downtown Toronto in 1995
A&A records on Yonge street in 1984
A young boy wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater in Frobisher Bay, NWT(now Iqaluit, Nunavut) in 1960
The Seahorse Motel on Lakeshore in the 1960s.
Bayview-Leaside in the 1980s or late 1970s
Yonge street in the 1980s
The Petro Canada at Eglinton and Avenue road in 1990. credit: City of Toronto Archives
Yorkdale Shopping Centre in the 1960s
The Constellation Hotel in the 1960s
High Park in 1973
Did you ever go on the CHUM Wildcat?
Yonge street at Charles facing North towards Bloor in the 1980s. Neil Young worked as a stock boy at a Coles Book Store on the left in 1965. 
Bay Street in 1958
The CNE in the 1970s
Honest Ed’s in the 1980s. c/o City of Toronto Archives.
Greenwood Racetrack at Queen Street East and Woodbine in the early 1990s. Formerly known as Woodbine Race Course. Did you go? 
Most of the outlined area would shortly after become Eaton Centre. 1970s.
Union Station in the 1970s 
The view North up University Avenue in the 1960s.
“The World’s Biggest Bookstore” in 1981.
