nice to see someone get that one so afst...good one mr kirk.

I'm far too interested with each photo posted.

http://www.canadacastle.hpg.ig.com.br/d4-34.jpg

from the source webpage, I would think. I also think that it is a game on with Dundurn.

Being from Hamilton and all originally, I am surprised that anyone from Toronto figured that one out.

Have to be tougher next time.

game on fres

I've actually worked in Hamilton a few times and my brother went to McMaster, so I'm pretty familiar.

Anywho...

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...posts/1500.jpg

That would be the Museum of Steam and Technology on Woodward Avenue, the former pumping station for the City of Hamilton's water supply.

You got it. I took the tour and it was really amazing. They even got the huge fly-wheels running for us. Excellent historical site.

Game on :thumbsup:

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...4/DSCF0331.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...4/DSCF0337.jpg


Here's a slightly more challanging one.

Taken by yours truly whilst suspended just outside the outriggers of the bridge.

Give me the name of the bridge and what city.

Leaside Bridge - Toronto
http://www.toronto.ca/wes/techservic...es/map_400.gif
http://www.toronto.ca/wes/techservic..._arial_400.jpg

Very good.

Too easy again.

It was built in 10 months and was under budget if you can imagine that.

They worked round the clock and brought in all the steel by rail.

The bride steel was fabricated by the late great "Canadian Bridge Company" of Walkerville Ontario.

Here is a link to a bit of fascinating history on the bridge.

http://www.toronto.ca/wes/techservic...use_panels.pdf

Game on Charlatan

A few interesting photos from the past...

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...nderbridge.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...ingdetail1.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...308_it0002.jpg

Note, the bridge is well over 100' in the air, and I don't see any fall arrest harness or tie off for that matter on this guy. This photo was taken in the late 60's when the bridge was widened.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...38flooding.jpg

I love that bridge, second only to the Prince Edward Viaduct.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/84c742b7.jpg

Commerce Court Toronto?

Yes! (an easy one)

Game on!

(by the way, I love those old photos)

Thanks for the neat vintage photos of the Leaside, JTK. How did you get them?

Also, I like that in the Commerce Court photo, it appears that we're not supposed to notice the elephant making a dash across the background. :lol:

The elephant is the best part!

I agree, great pictures of the bridge. This is a bridge thet I use almost daily. It is quite impressive, and the repair work seems tohave completed. I noticed that the handrail has a new design on it now.

The photos came to me by way of my work in rehabilitating the bridge. I have a few more if you want to see them.

What amazes me is that it was built in 10 MONTHS, under budget.

And trust me, the repair work is not done. In fact, it's about ready to start up again next week. Look out for more concrete barriers for at least another year. The parapet walls and railings were designed to match the originals.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...k64/bridge.jpg


Ok, keeping with my bridge theme, here's another somewhat famous one.

Give me the name of the bridge and the location.

PS, this one is not in Toronto

Is that the Quebec Bridge?

Near Quebec City?

The bridge across the Bow River in Stoney Plain, Alberta?

Actually, you're right, when I looked closely today, while the bridge appears to have re-opened to all of it's lanes, the pavement doesn't look like it's been given that smooth, permanent finish. So one more year? What exactly has been done/ is going to be done to the bridge to re-habilitate it?

By the way, looking at the fourth black and white pic that you posted, is that the Brick Works? It looks like the whole area is flooded!


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Just poking around for information of this particular bridge, I found some interesting things.

This from sombody's recent blog:

http://tpg1.com/blog/index.php/rob/c...idge_overpass/

Leaside bridge overpass
Early this mornging, the Leaside bridge was closed. There’s no way to know for sure why (at least via the internet), but it’s a sure bet that it was due to a jumper over night.

This returns us back to the old arguments against the luminous veil, the fence that has ruined the Prince Edward Viaduct. It is by most accounts ugly, morbid, and extremely expensive. The main argument against spending all that money was that people would just go to another major bridge. It appears to be happening.

So now what? Spend more money and cage up another city landmark? It appears headed that way.

Nope.

QC is much bigger.

Guess again.

Nope, Charlatan was "closer"

I have crossed this bridge many times, it's a beaut.

With regards to Leaside, I can tell you that it will be at least another year, if not more.

The job is however going well.

A great deal of steel is being replaced, as is the entire deck, and the piers are being repaired. The deck may be done in a year, but the piers and the deck will not be.

Leaside is actually higher than the viaduct and yes, people are jumping off. Leaside was not closed for a jumper as per that blog however, it was closed for 15 minutes to allow the bridge to be jacked up 1/4" and the old bearings to be changed out.

The logic behind the fence on the viaduct is that suicide is sometimes impulsive and it will prevent that kind of suicide. The well planned out suicide can not be stopped by a fence. Personally, I think what they did to the viaduct is quite ugly. It cost around 7 million bucks too by the way.

Has it worked on the viaduct? Absolutely.

Has it reduced the number of suicides, I don't know.

The viaduct veil is ugly as sin.

I loved that bridge. I still do but it have been damaged with the addition of the veil.

There is one like that in B.C. but its falling apart and its way higher then that one!

Nope, not BC

I recall driving across a similar bridge in Quebec, just across the Ontario border on the way to Salaberry de Valleyfield. Or am I imagining things?

You're imagining things.

He he, finally got one that didn't get answered in two minutes.

As you can see from the photo, it's a significant bridge and a land mark in the area.

Do you guys need a clue?

Lion's Gate Bridge? It looks similar.

Nope, not even close.

Ok,

Clue No. 1

It's in a Maritime province

Campbellton bridge, New Brunswick

You win.

It's called the J.C. Van Horne Bridge actually. But you are correct.

Next...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...k/where12a.jpg

that's the Gabriola ferry dock no?

Thats the name I was trying to remember. But the Lions Gate only has 3 lanes.

no, not Gabriola

Around Sicamous?

Galiano?........

No, not Sicamous.

It's not a Gulf Island.

pentiction area?

Nope, not there, but you're about the same distance away as Sicamous.

for fuck sakes........

Glade ferry?

I don't have any pics, anyone feel like posting one up?

i think you're right skier.

http://www.kootenaylake.bc.ca/Images...idenVoyage.jpg

yeah, skier got it. I used to take that ferry often when I worked in the Kootenay's.

Gotta try a bit harder there fly...;)

yeah,yeah.........


watch it buddy....or i won't finish your roof.


:D

looks like I edited instead of quoted :P

i don't see skier's answer in the posts above... but I would be happy to post a pic to keep the thread going.

By the way, where is Glade?

here's a pic:


http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0/4c78daba.jpg

yeah I sorta edited out the answer- it's the kootenay lake ferry.

Thanks for postin up a pic Leto

If I remember right, that building is on Toronto St. and started as Toronto's main Post Office, evenutally becoming the home of Hollinger Inc., Conrad Black's company.

I think you are right fresnelly...

http://www.brucebelltours.com/assets...to-St-1867.jpg

Excellent.

Not my photo but:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/interior.jpg

The atrium at BCE Place in Toronto. It's one of the prettier places in Toronto. It's also the home of Astral Media (TMN, Family Channel, etc.).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/19fb8dc5.jpg

That's the new monument to Alexander Wood, at the corner of Alexander and Church St. Look him up and tell me Canada has a dull history. ;)

This one should be easy:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/exterior.jpg

Hockey Hall of Fame! Right outside the last place you posted...

Part of the Alexander Wood statue: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...01/scandal.jpg

no problemo! Looking at the old pic posted by Charlatan, it looks like they removed the embossed "Post Office" that was on the front. There's a place around the back side of this building where I get my hair cut (Ivan's on Victoria). I took this pic on the way there.

This one might be a tough one for some. Let me know if you need a clue.

Googled.

http://www.interlog.com/~jkeswick/indian.html


Plaque Inscriptions
Ongwe Oweh
The Real People
Iroquois Indian Mound
ONONTAHARA KE? TIIOHTKO
ON THE TOP OF THE HILL ALWAYS, FOREVER

TABOR HILL MEMORIAL GROUNDS

TABOR HILL

SITE OF AN ANCIENT INDIAN OSSUARY
OF THE IROQUOIS NATION,
BURIALS WERE MADE ABOUT 1250 A. D.
THIS OSSUARY WAS UNCOVERED WHEN FARM LANDS
WERE DEVELOPED INTO
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES IN 1956.

THIS COMMON GRAVE CONTAINS
REMAINS OF APPROXIMATELY 472 PERSONS.

DEDICATED AS A HISTORICAL SITE BY
THE TOWNSHIP OF SCARBOROUGH
OCTOBER 21, 1961.

IROQUOIS PRAYER

O GREAT SPIRIT, WHOSE VOICE I HEAR IN THE WINDS
AND WHOSE BREATH GIVES LIFE TO ALL THE WORLD,
HEAR ME,
I AM A MAN BEFORE YOU ONE OF YOUR MANY CHILDREN,
I AM SMALL AND WEAK, I NEED YOUR STREGTH AND
WISDOM, LET ME WALK IN BEAUTY AND MAKE MY EYES
EVER BEHOLD THE RED AND PURPLE SUNSETS.
MAKE MY HANDS RESPECT THE THINGS YOU HAVE MADE,
MY EARS SHARP TO HEAR YOUR VOICE,
MAKE ME WISE SO THAT I MAY KNOW THE THINGS YOU
HAVE TAUGHT MY PEOPLE, THE LESSONS YOU HAVE
HIDDEN IN EVERY LEAF AND ROCK, I SEEK STRENGTH
O CREATOR, NOT TO BE SUPERIOR TO MY BROTHERS,
BUT TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT MY GREATEST ENEMY, MYSELF.
MAKE ME EVER READY TO COME TO YOU WITH CLEAN
HANDS AND STRAIGHT EYE SO THAT WHEN LIFE
FADES AS THE SETTING SUNSET, MY SPIRIT
MAY COME TO YOU WITHOUT SHAME.

WHITE CLOUD

APPROVED BY IROQUOIS COUNCIL 8-2-60

Tabor Hill Park is in Scarborough. When clearing some farm land to build a subdivision, they came across a native burial ground. They reinterned the remains in an ossuary and build a mound over it.

It is sacred ground, in the middle of Scarborough.


My grandfather worked the job site where it happened.

Game on Bossnass.

Ucuelet B.C.?

This is part of the "Bossnass-only-has-digital-pics-of-his-trip-down-east-last-summer" series.

I want to say, Halifax Harbour.

I want to say yes, but I would be incorrect to do so.

Will you say no to Mahone Bay, NS?

:lol:

I quite enjoyed that

More east than halifax.

Hint: That isn't salt water.
Hint: That isn't really fresh water either.

P.E.I. would be my guess!

Pt. Louise in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.

I was going to post this picture:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...oneresized.jpg

But I thought that it was too easy and since it was raining, the picture was too dismal.
Although, I would have been able to say yes to mahone bay.

I was also going to post this picture

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...oreresized.jpg

But I thought that the reddish sand was too obvious and that the digital camera didn't do very well on the default setting. And if I had, then PEI would have been the guess I was looking for.

To clarify previous hints: the water is closer to salt water than fresh water, but is still somewhere in between.

Edit - I don't have a pic of Sault Ste Marie, but I think I mentioned it was east of Halifax.

that pic is beautiful. a great shot of a beautiful location... dismal is good atmosphere.

i found mine from June/2000 but it was an slr camera, and had to be scanned. definitely not as nice as yours:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0/569cf205.jpg

Thanks. That was the least dismal picture of that day (which included Peggy's Cove and our first day in Lunenburg). I was pretty dissaponted when the first dozen or so photos were so... grey. Took me most of the trip to figure out how to use the new digital camera properly.

And your Crabby's picture is way clearer, brighter, no fence, and actually has someone in it, which is a better picture and memory.

is it in Nova Scotia?

Yes, it falls within the boundries of Nova Scotia.

Northwest Arm, Nova Scotia

This photo was taken on Cape Breton.

that was the name of the island I was trying to think of!

Baddeck harbour, NS

Game on Lucifer.

Sorry it has to be an orbital shot, but as it's about 70 km across, at ground level it doesn't look like anything. But the object itself is in Canada.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...o/f77ecbde.jpg

That's the Manicouagan Crater in Quebec.

right on, as you knew very well, game on!

OK. I am looking for the location and the name of the Tower.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/b2bc2426.jpg

hint?...is this in mississauga?

This is not in Mississauga but it is in Ontario. That's water just beyond the cyclist. It isn't a river or a lake.

Dunton Tower along the Rideau Canal at Carleton?

damn you Charley..............damn you.

That is exactly right! Game on, Cellophanedeity!

Yay! I finally got one! My powers of deduction mixed with google image search are amazing! (Thought Process = Not a lake or river? Canal? Rideau Canal? Carleton! Charlatan went to Carleton!)

Here's mine!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...y/IMG_1321.jpg

Brampton City Hall!

yay Fresnelly! You got it!

Howdja guess? ;)

Divine Inspiration, I guess. I was staring at it and zoning out, thinking: "That doesn't look like anywhere in Toronto that I know.", when it hit me. Cello's from Brampton! A quick google image search showed me the way. :D


I made a small detour this morning, and took this on the way to work:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...Picture040.jpg

That's the Toronto Sun building...

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoSun/wall.html

Game on :thumbsup:

That's Hans Island up in the Arctic, though I suppose whether it's actually in Canada, and not Denmark, is up for debate. :b