This five-part panorama is from the City of Toronto Archives. <Osgoode Hall is in the upper left corner>.
<Photogaphers – Armstrong, Beere and Hime.>
It’s possible that these pictures were intended to accompany Toronto’s submission to the Colonial Office to promote its selection as capital of the Province of Canada. In the end, Queen Victoria chose OTTAWA to be Canada’s capital.
<ABOVE – The developing city from York Street to Bay Street along King Street West.>