ok, i am out of decent pictures but have a go at this one. I'm looking for city plus camera location.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0/f0cb2872.jpg

Vancouver as seen from North Vancouver.

Maybe near Canyon Boulevard?

A little too high up, but close enough. Game on Charlatan:

It was on East Balmoral Rd, just off of Lonsdale..

Osgoode Hall on Queen West - behind that fence on page 1

i just wanted to remind everyone that in fact it is......all about the ass.



carry on





*and be fuckin' thankful that i didn't ruin' this thread with a picture of my ass*

It really is just a matter of time isn't it?



By the way... Fresnelly, game on.

Another pic from our road trip out west this summer. I photoshopped my son and I out of it. For a sense of scale, I'm as tall as the dinosaur's knees.

This is not in Drumheller.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/121_2116.jpg

Milk River, Alberta
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/88f61a51.jpg

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


*must head east more often.*

I'm with flyman on this one, it's a toughie!

Pffft. That's an easy one. ;)

Byward Market in Ottawa. Corner of George St. and Byward.

This one is in Toronto, but not at the ROM.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/134_3489.jpg

is that at your guys airport?

Nope.........

in a building at U of T?

no wait.... it's inside the building at College Park... the addition which goes along College across the street from Police HQ, and used to house the race car museum...

is it????

Maclean Hunter Building next to College Park (if it's right, Leto has it).

ya, that's the one (i've got to start working downtown again...)

:thumbsup:

Game on Leto!

I actually went in there to photograph the old fashioned wooden escalator, but stupid DeBoer's has hidden it behind a furniture display. :|

I remember that escalator. There must have been some renovations there in the past 3 - 4 yrs, as I recall it was still visible in the late 90's. On the other hand, I think that the Eaton's theatre, at the same location, has been refurbished and is operation again.

Okay, here's a sacred picture:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0/72074113.jpg

Maple leaf Gardens.

View from Carleton Street I belive.

Built by Con Smythe in 10 months. Old Con ran out of money and paid his workers in shares in MLG. If they held on to those shares, they were millionaires.

Game on Tiberius!

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...4/DSCF0531.jpg

One of my favourite bridges.

I love the detailing of the steel.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...4/DSCF0535.jpg

Another view of the same bridge.

I'll be impressed if you get it without clues....

it looks awfully familiar. Fairly flat terrain, and looks like limestone at the riverbanks...

the rails are shiny, so the bridge isn't abandoned...

** steps back to ponder.

Kind of looks like the St. Lawrence, near Valleyfield, QC

Track is not abandoned, no, nor is it main line anymore.

Getting warmer, close, but wrong river....

Ottawa river, near the st lawrence??

Give us a hint, JTK!!

ditto... I need my fix!

Right River.

Not near the St. Lawrence though.

Ok, the track is owned by the Ottawa Central Railway.

That makes it easy.

Smith Falls, ON

The bridge west of Chats Falls, ON

The only other place I can find is "Portage du fort"

Portage du fort is close.

Portage Du fort is mile 60.10 of the Beachburg Subdivision.

This bridge is Mile 37.80 of the Beachburg, so closer to Ottawa since railway mileages always increase from East to West.

This bridge is located just outside Fitzroy Harbour.

It is crossing the Ottawa River, so you were all very close.

The line runs from Ottawa to Pembroke Ontario. It was originally built by the "Canadian Northern Ontario Railway", which was somehow related to the "Canadian Northern Railway". Eventually, when the government formed CNR out of several failed railways (Grand Trunk, Canadian Northern, Intercolonial to name a few). So, the track shown used to be owned by CNR, and ran from Ottawa to North Bay. It was used to ferry freight traffic from Montreal to North Bay where it could hook up with CN's main line track and go all the way to Vancouver.

It effectively bypassed Toronto and saved about 1 day for the freight train.

When CN was privatized in 96, they did a lot of rationalizing.

Essentially you had two tracks doing the same thing. The beachburg sub was the northern route, and although it was quicker, it didn't have a lot of stops along the way to pick up freight.

The Kingston sub which is CN's southern track runs from Montreal to Toronto basically paralleling Lake Ontario. When the track gets to Pickering, it branches northward across the 401 (where that big Truss bridge that is squared off on the ends is) then goes north to MacMillan Yard located at Keele Street and Highway No. 7. From there, it goes north along the Bala sub to Capreole outside of sudbury I believe. Or for that matter just about anywhere in Toronto along CN's lines since MacMillan yard is a hub.

Anyway, CN had two tracks doing the same thing essentially, so they closed the Beachburg sub from Pembroke that ran westward through Algonquin Park to North Bay. (The track bed is still in the northern part of Algonquin, but the track has been pulled up.)

Then the line from Ottawa to Pembroke was sold to the Ottawa Central Railway.

The bridge in the photo was built in 1914 by the Canadian Foundry Corporation I believe and is about 1/4 of a mile long. She's a beauty.

Thanks for the info, JTK. This is an aspect of this thread that I really enjoy. :thumbsup:

no doubt.........great little read there.......thanks kirk........



:thumbsup:

oh yeah.........so.......who's up?

i have a feeling that Skier is up next... based on JTK's response...

edit: this is taking too long, just to get the ball rolling, perhaps this pic can fill in the interim until Skier can post something...

so here it is:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0/fb8e28f9.jpg

It's been over 12 hours since Leto posted, so I'll take it.

That's the south side of Front St. looking westward towards Church St. It's the building that used to house Mountain Equipment Co-op store.

Here's a Toronto Two-fer. The first was taken last week. The second is a view of the building from about the same spot, as it stood in 1838.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/134_3488.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...osts/20022.jpg

that's a gallows in the second picture eh?

Two gallows in fact. This is a clue.

You are at the corner of King and Toronto streets (I believe that is the courthouse but it could be mistaken - the Court House is on Adelaide though...).

I think the picture of the two hangings makes reference to the Rebellion of Upper Canada...


EDIT: I just consulted a map and you are likely standing in Court Square or Court Street.

Right. That's the back side of the Adelaide Courthouse. There's a neat covered walkway up from King St. to access it.

The sketch is a depiction of the double hanging of Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews, for their part in the 1837 MacKenzie Rebellion.

Game on...

That's the Gibralter Point Lighthouse on Toronto Island, first built in 1808.


Beware the Lost Stairway to Nowhere:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...Picture032.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...Picture036.jpg

You are right about the Gibraltar Point Light House: It is also know for being haunted by its first lighthouse keeper, J.P. Radan Muller. Muller, legend tells, was murdered by a couple of soldiers from nearby Fort York, who came over to procure some of Muller's home brew. When he refused to sell any, they killed him.


As for the stairs, they look familiar. I am sure I've driven or walked past them before. I will take a guess: Strachan and the Gardiner area.

The stairs are in the East end.

Logan and Gerrard or Woodbine and the CN tracks.

That's it. They run from Logan up to the Train tracks just south of Gerrard, bur are fenced off at both the top the bottom.

I wonder if there was ever a stop on the line there?

Game on...

That's a couple blocks from my house... I knew it looked familiar. I do in fact, drive and walk by it on a regular basis.

I've often thought there should be a stop up there. I'd love to be able to catch the GO train there.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/7f415f5f.jpg

eheheh so yeah skier went skiing instead of posting. Don't mind me. :o :D

Go ahead, skier... if you want to post, I can post my last one the next time I get one right.

no, really don't worry about it. I'm not concerned at all and my guess was off anyway. Was just fun looking for the place.

Charlatan, is that the Ashbridge House (Sarah Ashbridge)?

Nope... Here is another shot of the place.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/2d011931.jpg

It is not in Toronto but it is on Ontario.

HINT #3: Golf, accomodations, high tea and weddings can all be had here...

Hint #4: It is located on a sizable lake.

I love this thread. i wish i was here from the begining. i was kind of out for a while - trip to vancouver over christmas, and being generally busy...

is that Deerhurst? ( a real guess as I have not been there, ever...)

Welcome back Janey... I missed you.

Nope. Not Deerhurst. That's too far north.

Found it! The Manor House on the Briars' Estate in Jackson's Point on the South shore of Lake Simcoe.

Have you ever stayed there? It looks incredible!

Game on Fresnelly!

The Briar's is a very neat place. I've been to weddings there and I've had tea in the tower but I've never stayed there. The stable where my wife used to work summers was just south of there in Egypt.

There's an Egypt, Ontario?!? What other existing city and country names haven't we borrowed for our own?

OK, here's the first in my series of houses in Toronto, owned by the insane:

(I'll take a street name)

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/134_3485.jpg

there's a town called Manila in Ontario, north of Whitby...

That street looks similar to the Jones Ave house that always had the Grinch display at Christmas...

In the neighbourhood... This house is decorated like this, every day of the year!

I've thought I could get close on the last couple. Well, that staircase was pretty specific. But I have no illusions that I'll ever be able to get 'crazy person's house in Toronto'. I'm all for a challenge, but if even google can't help me, than I'm out of luck.

Westerner whining, I know. But I wanted to play and I thought I'd get it one of these times.

don't give up... there's some pretty decent coverage from the country going on. Even those of us local to toronto can't get some of these fairly specific pics...

:thumbsup:

I know I've driven by this house and I know which neighbourhood it is in. Now I just have to remember the street name... Coady Ave?

Bossnass... keep trying. Most correct answers come from Google rather than actually knowing the answer.

My Dad used to live just south of Manilla in Cresswell.

Imagine living beside that nut.

Time for a bon fire.

here ya' go fellas........toss 'em in.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/flyman/burn.jpg

My original guess of Coady Ave. was exactly one street east of the correct answer: Bertmount Avenue (I forgot to check the address as I was driving by it just now... 35 maybe?).

Here it is at night:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/attachm...id=13591&stc=1


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/d3d37b79.jpg

i almost said Mel Lastman Sqr, except.. it doesn't look anything like it

Nope. Not the shrine that Mel built to his ego.

This is in another city and it is apropriate give what is about to happen in about two weeks.

Olympic Plaza with old City Hall, Calgary, Alberta

Damn. Here I was whining about not being able to guess, and here is a place I've actually been. I'm 100% sure you're correct lucifer.

Game on Lucifer!

The Olympics in Turin start in less than two weeks.

Ok, then:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...o/lighttfp.jpg

That's in Goderich, Ontario.

goddamnit, charlatan...where haven't you been?

Game ON!

hehehe...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/f1d2faaa.jpg

Point Edward Ontario?

No. Not Point Edward, Ontario

Entrance to the Sault Ste. Marie locks

I figured you would get this one...

Game on Lucy...

That's the old Goderich post office... now the town hall.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/3759ebfe.jpg

Fort York, ON

you're getting lazy, straight off the first page google kicks up. Let's see if I can getcha on my next one. Gimme a minute

Game On!
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ichoo/bost.jpg

Fort York was a gimmie...

Yours is a tough one. I'll have to think on it a bit.

Yahooooo!!! Stumped Charlatan!! (lucifer gets up a dances a jig!)

need a clue?

Hi Lucifer, is that river in Ontario? is it the Green River?

It is in Ontario, but it's not Green River.

The man dressed in white in the center of the picture is a minister giving a sermon, and the green box in the back is the cover for the organ.

nope. This is hard.

Ok, then more of a hint....this is close by:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...hoo/nearby.jpg