Trash to Treasure
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Century old trash to treasure uncovered in Toronto

Like the mythical City of Brigadoon (which only appears once every hundred years) the 1870s Toronto shoreline enjoys the sunlight again today.
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The docks are visible now,

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This spot in history is first represented on an 1859 map,
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The O.S.&H.R. Railway Depot was here - today the site is rich with antique bottles that were just trash 130 years ago, swept off the steamers and into the lake.

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Here is the site manager holding an aqua blob top soda,

ALEX BURNS / TORONTO
BELFAST GINGER ALE


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This is detailed alongside more maps and pictures on Dumpdiggers blog.

Forward Condo Excavator Finds Century Old Soda Bottles at Fort York Blvd and Queen's Wharf

This picture of Toronto Harbour also dates from the 1850s; see the old
fort, the T-shaped Queens Wharf (now underneath
Bathurst St.) and right beside it, the busy O.S.and H.R. railway wharf
is on the bottom right hand corner of the first plate (in the middle of
the picture).




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