Dundas Street looking westward

Dundas car leaves deadend track heading east to city hall. Behind it is unique curved sign of Tamblyn drug store chain.

Complex work under traffic adds to danger.

United Cigar Store part of a major chain selling tobacco products occupies a key location in the Campbell Block built in 1888.

Complex trackwork continues.

Temporary track at curbside allows service to continue. Sidewalk piled high with materials.

Same area two and one half years later.

Paving machine at work, one of the few pieces of equipment used.

Amo Cafe a well-known restaurant serving Canadian food operated for many decades into the 1950's by a Chinese family.
Crystal Theatre including vaudeville at left with a sign next door advertising $15.00 fur coats!

Welder at work while streetcar operates on temporary track along curb.

St. Johns Road runs off to the left at an angle. YWCA is hidden behind large Polarine Motor Oils sign.
Horse and horseless vehicles are on the street with car in the distance.

This view better shows the newly-opened Imperial Oil service station beneath their Polarine Motors Oils sign;
truly, a "sign of the times".

Crescent Line branches off south on Gilmour Avenue.
Still single track at this point in middle of street and moving over to the side of the road as it approaches Runnymede Road.

Street dug up to lay new double track with one temporary track at far right.

Double track with tracks going north on Runnymede Road.

 

Eleven months later work is nearing completion.

Here route is reduced to single track beyond the Runnymede Loop at City Limit. Dundas Iron & Metal at right.

Dundas Street west from Runnymede into York Township.

Note: This part of the line was not upgraded. Instead, it was abandoned and replaced with buses August 17, 1928.

Dundas Street looking east from Runnymede Road to Keele Street.

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