As a special project to help mark our 50th anniversary, TBETHS called for volunteers to create a photographic record of the neghbourhood as it existed in 2024. This was a good year for such a project, not only because of the anniversary, but because of the many changes happening locally, including new legislation encouraging intensification, generational changeover, and disruptive economic challenges. A snapshot of the present to be preserved for the future.

Because those areas show more change over time, photographers focused on the major commercial streets in the TBETHS catchment area, which extends from Coxwell to Victoria Park, and Danforth to Lake Ontario. By year end hundreds of photographs had been submitted, showing the marvellous variety of the neighbourhood: from Victorian stores and houses to early 20th century walkups to mid-century malls to 21st century condos. Photographers captured vestiges of East Toronto's railroad past, lakeside concessions, thriving new businesses and empty storefronts--sometimes side by side. They shot parks, murals, fashions, steetcars, traffic, bikes and street 'furniture'. The way things looked in 2024.

Many thanks to the volunteers who made this project possible:

Project Lead
Katherine Vice

Photographers