Looking northwest along Mt Pleasant Rd towards Merton St, in the Davisville Village neighbourhood of Toronto.
The archive photo provides a glimpse into the past when the Dominion Coal and Wood facility occupied the southwest corner. The nine concrete coal silos were constructed in 1928. The facility received coal and wood via rail along the former Belt Line Railway, which was then sold as heating fuel to area homeowners and businesses.
For more than seventy years, the towering silos were a prominent feature of the landscape. Dominion Coal and Wood expanded into selling building materials when coal sales declined but eventually closed the site in 1999. Despite their significance as a rare example of industrial architecture, the once-mighty silos were dismantled in 2001.
Today, a residential building stands at the site of the former facility and silos.
Then and Now
SOURCE
- Photo: Denise Marie for TorontoJourney416
- Vintage Photo: City of Toronto Archives
