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1. – Dundas streetscene early 1900s – looking east along Dundas from midway between Cordova and Burnhamthorpe Crescent. The flowering catalpa trees were planted by
J. D. Evans; Dunn's Store is at the left.

2.   – C. 1913. Once located at 4906 Dundas Street, this is the most recent version of Hopkins' Store, a general store which sold groceries, boots and dry goods.

3. – Appleby's car, this is a 1917 Chevrolet. Seated left to right are Annie, Mary and William.

4.   – Dunn's Dry Goods, early 20th Century.  Dunn's Store and Islington Post Office were on the North/East corner of Dundas Street and Burnhamthorpe Crescent (close-up of #1)

5.   – C. 1912. Dundas Street looking east from Burnhamthorpe, the old Wesleyan Methodist Church at the right and Hopkins Store at the left.

6.   – C. 1917. Mary Appleby and Helen Tier are seen on Mimico Creek Bridge. The apple orchard behind them was on the North/West corner of Dundas Street at Islington Avenue.

7.   – C. 1917. Boys playing in the gravel pit on the North/West corner of Dundas Street at Burnhamthorpe Crescent, between today's R.B.C. Financial and Islington United Church.

8.   – 4884 Dundas Street West (Site has been a post office, phone exchange, Dr Brown's office, an antique shop, and a hair salon. Dr. Brown's widow still owns the property and her son-in-law has an office upstairs.

9. – Late 1920s, the Union Bank - which became the Royal Bank and is now the R.B.C. Financial - was located on the south side of Dundas Street just west of Canning Avenue.

10.  – Little Red Schoolhouse –No longer in existence, the Little Red Schoolhouse was built on Cordova Ave.- where Islington Community School is now - in 1898.

11.  – Moorehouse Family on verandah – A slice of life from the 1920s, the second Mrs. Moorehouse was photographed with her family at 34 MacPherson Avenue (now Aberfoyle).

12.  – Islington House early 20th Century – The Islington House Hotel, Residences and Driveshed, were on the north side of Dundas Street and the driveshed once stretched across what is now Burnhamthorpe Road.

13. – men on steps of town hall.

14.  – Hopkins' Store, prior to the brick renovation in 1912 – The second of 3 incarnations, Hopkins' store was located at 4906 Dundas Street.

15.  – Village Shoemaker, Mr. Nelson, early 20th Century – The Village Shoemaker was on the south side of Dundas just west of Cordova and the shop is still there today.

16.  – Apple Packers, C 1917 – During the first half of this century many varieties of apples were grown in the Islington. The Bingham family, whose apple packers are seen here, owned extensive orchards in the area.

17.  – C. 1900, the Appleby family is seen in front of their home on the North West corner of Dundas and Islington.  Mary Appleby's father is at left with his parents and siblings.

18.  – C. 1927 Etobicoke Township Hall, Once located at 4906 Dundas, the building has been a church, library, a Police Division, a gift shop and a pub. It is now the Fox n' Fiddle.

19.  – C. 1954, Canadian Pacific train is seen steaming into Islington Station on the North/West corner of Bloor Street at Islington Avenue.

20.  – C. 1917. The photo of this apple picker was taken on the South West corner of Kipling Avenue and Dundas Street West.

21.  – C. 1918, Russell's Bus – Russell Fife operated a Jitney service from Lambton Mills to Six Points.

22.  – Late 1920s or early 30s, the Imperial Station and 6-Point Hotel (aka Love's Hotel) were located at the corner of Dundas and Bloor, the east point of Six Points.

23.  – C.  1940, Gordon's Dairy, Originally a school and now Islington Seniors' Centre, Gordon's Dairy was once located at 4968 Dundas Street West. Their 'delivery wagons' look strikingly similar to today's Smart Cars!

24 -  Gone but not forgotten, Briarly, the homestead of the Montgomery family who owned Montgomery's Inn (photo - 1)

25 -  Gone but not forgotten, Briarly, the homestead of the Montgomery family who owned Montgomery's Inn (photo - 2)

26 - Skating on Mimico Creek during the 1940s (photo - 1)

27   - Skating on Mimico Creek during the 1940s (photo - 2)

28 - Etobicoke volunteer fire fighters who used to flood Mimico Creek and maintain a skating rink below Montgomery's Inn

29 - The Electric Radial line which ran through Islington, connecting Lambton Mills and Guelph (photo - 1 without streetcar)

30 -  The Electric Radial line which ran through Islington, connecting Lambton Mills and Guelph (photo - 2 with streetcar)