1889: Exhibition Grounds Bird's Eye View

That’s the old Crystal Palace in the left foreground, moved in 1879 and rebuilt in a new configuration. That same year the York Pioneers dismantled the Scadding Cabin at its original location on Queen Street near the Don River, and re-erected it in the Exhibition Grounds. It is seen in the lower left corner of the view next to a second, identical cabin raised by the Pioneers to show they still had the right stuff. The Fort Rouillé Monument, unveiled in 1887 to mark the site of the French fort of 1750-59 at Toronto, is near the head of the pier. See the Goad's Insurance Plans for 1884 and 1894 for something of a guide to other, more distant buildings.

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Exhibition Grounds, 1889
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Image courtesy Exhibition Place Archives

Fans of Bird’s Eye Views may enjoy contrasting the above with the following sketches:

• 1879 Toronto - Key to the Exhibition Buildings and Grounds - printed in the Canadian Illustrated News Sept 13, 1879; courtesy Exhibition Place Archives [See also LAC]. This was the ‘first’ year of the annual fair, then known as the Industrial Exhibition. 
• 1885 [View of the Exhibition Grounds] - Toronto Lithographing Co.; courtesy TPL. See also: this version.
• 1886 Industrial Exhibition Park and Buildings; courtesy Exhibition Place Archives.
• 1899 Bird’s Eye View of Toronto’s Industrial Exhibition - from Alexander Fraser’s Toronto: historical, descriptive and pictorial. Courtesy archive.org.
• 1917 Plan of the Grounds of Canadian National Exhibition. Courtesy Exhibition Place Archives.

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