Lighting in Toronto

Counter at 19 Toronto Street from the early 1900s. Note the new electric post lights on the wickets.

Toronto Hat store in the 1930s/40s. Love those black and white Art Deco Pendants.

Eaton's College Street Lighting Department featuring Art Deco lighting.

1919 photograph from a house on Madison Avenue in Toronto. Nice late Victorian early electric fixture hangs in the room.

1920s picture from a house in High Park. New Neo Classical candle arm pan light hangs in the center of the room.

Bloor and Yonge in the 1920s. All of those old signs would have been illuminated at night. Pure magic.

Toronto Interior from around 1910-20. Lovely Neo Classical wood and gesso dome hangs in the center of the room.

Toronto hospital from the 1920s-30s. Note the school house globes and early electric reading sconces above the beds.

King Street in the late teens early 1920s. Stunning old lamp posts once adorned this city.

Albert Street next to the Eaton's complex. Great example of an original street light.

Consumers Gas lighting showroom circa 1910. Gas lighting was trying to complete with the new electric light. Neat to see original gas street lights next to a new electric street light.

Two fingers of whisky....neat. Bar at the Lakeview Hotel on Parliament St with original gas lighting

Check out those combination gas electric chandeliers.

New electric lighting in Toronto's first skyscraper. The Forresters Building.

Photo from around 1910. Lighting and plumbing shop at the corner of King St W and Dunn Ave in Parkdale.

Shop lighting over the produce at Carlaw and Danforth from the 1930s-40s

Electric lighting showroom at Carlaw and Gerrard in a Toronto Hydro building.

Late Victorian interior from a house on Madison Avenue

Queens Hotel interior from 1920. Originally sat at the site of the Royal York hotel.

1929 lobby of commercial building on Bay Street

Rooming house from 1912. The single J arm gas light in the center lit the entire room.

Art Nouveau interior of the Walker House hotel from 1913

Interior on Adelaide Street from around 1910. Note the Victorian plaster medallion is missing its gas light and the new electric light sits next to it.

Rooming house on King St. Single gas light hangs at the back of the room