Here Be History
David McLelland posted a photograph of a building with a sign for the now defunct Scharf Grocer.
ORESTA cosmetics at O’Conner and Pretoria has taken the cake when it comes to history showing its past. The owner has tracked down the names of the previous owners of their building and stuckoed their names onto the side. Not only that, but they’ve tracked down the businesses as well.
Some highlights: the Supreme Court of Ontario was based there for four days in September, 1922. Okay. That was the highlight. Aside from that, it’s mostly people with British sounding names.
Update: Bit of a rewrite when David pointed me to his original post.
That was me, and the link is here.
Neat follow-up, by the way… I don’t think I’ve ever been by that particular corner, I’ll have to check it out someday.