- City of Toronto Archives
- Former City of Toronto fonds
- Dept. of Public Works photographs
- Victoria Park Filtration Plant photographs
Victoria Park Filtration Plant photographs
subseries1932-1933Fonds 200 > Series 372 > Subseries 76
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106 images · showing 1–48 · displayed from City of Toronto Archives's own server
Area for reservoir — looking west
Area for reservoir — looking west
Area for reservoir — looking northeast
Area for reservoir
Temporary road south from Queen Street
View from southeast corner of reservoir
View from southeast corner of reservoir
Sloughing at clay line — northeast corner of reservoir
Stripping pile east of site
Steel piling around access shaft and tunnel
Excavation for lower roadway
View from northwest corner of site
Panorama: part 1
Panorama: combined
Panorama: part 2
Panorama: part 1
Panorama: combined
Panorama: part 2
Panorama
Access shaft and tunnel
West 84 inch effluent conduit
Temporary road looking north
Settling basin — excavation for steel piling
Side of 2394 Queen Street East
West 84 inch effluent conduit
Outlet southwest corner of reservoir
Driving special steel piling in northwest corner of settling basin
Concreting 84 inch effluent conduit
Outlet southwest of reservoir
Form for outlet at southwest corner
Excavation for main drain and plant
Access tunnel shaft
Trench outside special steel piling to drain site
2 Nursewood Road
2362 Queen Street East
Sheeting for main drain
Main drain — looking north
Excavation for east 84 inch effluent conduit
Backfilling west 84 inch effluent conduit
Panorama
Panorama
Panorama
Panorama
Laying 42" concrete drain in reservoir
Timbering for main drain
Forms for monolithic sections in main drain
84" effluent conduit
Main Drain junctions
Where
Not on the map yet.
- Held by
- City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
- Dates
- 1932-1933 (indexed as 1932–1933)
- Level
- subseries
- Extent
- ca. 103 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm and smaller; ca. 144 photographs : b&w negatives ; 13 x 18 cm and smaller
- Scope & content
- Subseries consists of images of the Victoria Park (later R.C. Harris) water filtration plant. Arranged chronologically, these images document the early development of the site and the construction of the filtration galleries.
- Location
No place found in this description yet.
- Subjects
- Toronto (Ont.). Dept. of Works; R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant (Toronto, Ont.); FILTRATION PLANTS; CONSTRUCTION
- Harvested
- 2026-10-21T22:24:00Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto