Wooden sidewalks are gradually disappearing from the streets, but in some neighborhoods they still exist for a few decades. At the time this photo was taken, around 1900, sidewalk paving was especially visible on King and Wellington streets, on the Marquette Plateau and in the Old North. (Mist)
Mr. Hist, the icy weather of the last few weeks made me fall (!) right on a question: since when does our beautiful city have sidewalks? What was there before? – Emile
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