We hope you will enjoy this selection of photographs from the Archives’ collection, which illustrate the beauty of our city when it is lit up at night.
Yonge Street, north from King Street, January 15, 1913, Fonds 1231, Item 2049
Decorations at City Hall for visit of the Prince of Wales, August 29, 1919, Series 372, Subseries 41, Item 97
Decorations at City Hall for visit of the Prince of Wales, August 29, 1919, Series 372, Subseries 41, Item 98
1887 Yonge Street – illuminated signs at night, March 9, 1923, Series 372, Subseries 58, Item 1044
Night scene, Alexandra Gates at High Park, December 23, 1923, Fonds 1548, Series 393, Item 18586
Ontario Parliament buildings1929Series 372, Subseries 41, Item 274
Whitney Block, 1929, Series 372, Subseries 41, Item 273
Improved lighting on safety zone for streetcar loading on St. Clair Avenue near Christie Street, March 23, 1933, Series 71, Item 9675
Aerial view at night, taken from the Canada Life Building, looking southeast down University Avenue, 1934, Series 1317, Item 828
Gray Coach Lines terminal on Bay Street – high intensity mercury vapour 440 watt lamps, May 22, 1935, Series 71, Item 10884
Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum, [ca. 1936], Fonds 1488, Series 1230, Item 1090
Marquee of the Midtown Cinema, [ca. 1936], Fonds 1230, Item 6072
Snow blower at night, 1943, Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 1373
University Avenue lighting, looking north from South African monument, July 2, 1945, Fonds 70, Series 327, Subseries 4, File 49
Club One Two, January 7, 1952, Fonds 1653, Series 975, File 804
Backyard barbeque, June 13, 1957, Fonds 1653, Series 975, File 2400
Glenholme and St. Clair avenues, February 1958, Series 372, Subseries 100, Item 691
O’Keefe Centre opening night, 1960, Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 812
View from Eglinton terminal, looking east, November 1962, Fonds 1567, Series 648, File 118
City Hall, aerial view at night, February 22, 1967, Fonds 1268, Series 1317, Item 300
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