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1. Allen Gardens and Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Canada. Post marked 1911.

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

2. Church Street, Looking South, Toronto, circa 1909
Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

3. Toronto, King Street. Post marked 1906.
Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

4. Corner Yonge and King Streets, Toronto. Post marked 1906.

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

5. Toronto University, Queen's Park Entrance, Toronto. No date.
Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

6. Queen's Park and University Ave., Toronto. Post marked 1914.
Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

7. Yonge Street Dock, Toronto, Canada. No date.
Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

6. Water Front Toronto. Post marked 1906.
Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Map of Toronto showing:
  1. Known addesses of the Sykes and Lands, indicated with light green lines and light blue type.
  2. Locations of the postcards, numbered in black.
Known addresses of the Sykes and Lands:
  • Law Land and Elizabeth Sykes were at 26 Avenue Street in 1883.
  • Law Land and Elizabeth Sykes were on Dupont Street from 1888 to 1890.
  • Robert Walker Sykes and Annie Hepworth were at 28 Denison Avenue, rear, in 1887
  • Samuel and Caroline Sykes were at 340 Markham Street in 1889
  • Samuel and Caroline Sykes were at 20 Sully Cresent from 1893 to at least 1914

More Postcards of Toronto

University Avenue, Toronto, Canada

Post marked 1910

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Queen Street East, Toronto, Canada

Post marked 1908

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

St George Street, Toronto

Posted 1906.

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Public Reference Library, corner College and St George Streets, Toronto, Canada

Not posted.

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Spadina Avenue from Queen Street, Toronto

The Lands lived on Denison Street between Spadina and Bathurst north of Queen Street.

Not posted

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Spadina Road looking North, Toronto

The cross street was not listed on the card.

Not posted

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

College Street as Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Canada

No post mark

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

College Street at Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Canada

Posted 1915.

This intersection is not far from Denison Street where Law and Elizabeth lived in 1883.

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Spadina Avenue fand Knox College, Toronto

Not posted

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

College Street Baptist Church and Palmerson Boulevard, Toronto, Canada

Elizabeth Land sent a copy of this postcard to her son, Percy, in 1914.

Posted 1910.

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck
College Street Baptist Church on the north/west corner of Palmerson Boulevard and College Street opened in 1889. The congregation, originally established in 1872, had met at College and Lippincott before the new church was built.

Bathurst Street at College, showing King Edward School, Toronto, Canada

Post marked 1909.

This intersection is between Denison St and Sully Court. The family of Samuel Sykes lived on Sully Court in 1893. Law Land and Elizabeth Sykes Land lived on Denison Street in 1883.

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Technical School and College Street, Toronto, Canada
Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Jarvis Street, Toronto, Canada

Not posted.

Postcard in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Jarvis Street, Toronto

Not posted.

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

St. Joseph Street nearing Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada

Not posted.

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Young Street Dock, Toronto, Canada

Post marked 1909

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Church of the Redeemer and Bloor Street looking East, Toronto, Canada

Post marked 1914

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Bloor Street Viaduct, Toronto, Canada

Not posted.

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Hanlan's Point, Toronto, Canada

Not posted.

Hanlan's Point is/was a recreational area on the Toronto Islands since at least 1862. The amusement park was built in 1894, several years after Law and family left Toronto.

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Hanlan's Point at night, Toronto, Canada

Not posted.

Post Card in the collection of Maggie Land Blanck

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Toronto Parks

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Suggested by Richard Bonner, November 2006.


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