City of Toronto Archives earlier this month uploaded 17,984 new images to their database. If you haven’t checked out the collection, now may be the time to do so.
One of the new online collections is Fonds 620 of photographer Avard Woolaver’s photos of Toronto street life in the 1980s that can be browsed. The 695 images document many aspects of Toronto predominately from the 1980s, including Kensington Market, Nathan Phillips Square, the Eaton Centre, Ontario Place, and CN Tower. The images also include Toronto streetscapes, including small businesses, various neighborhoods, and portraits of notable Toronto artists and musicians.
To conduct a keyword search within the Avard Woolaver collections, use the Advanced Search feature. Enter the keyword, such as Kensington, in the Keyword field and Fonds 620 in the Forms part of field. The images in this collection are protected by copyright.
You can browse the municipal archives’ entire digitized collection by subject,
In addition to searching by keyword, you can browse by fonds and series.
If only interested in looking at digitized images, make sure you check off the box for Online/scanned records only. Otherwise, you’ll become frustrated unless you plan to visit in person.
A featured category that may interest family historians is World War I. You can also research of the history of a house.
Only interested in photos? Start your search in the database here.
