{"id":494,"date":"2014-02-28T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=494"},"modified":"2014-02-25T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:41:37","slug":"torontos-old-union-station-in-canadian-architect-and-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/torontos-old-union-station-in-canadian-architect-and-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto’s Old Union Station in Canadian Architect and Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2003 the McGill library completed an ambitious digitization project that brought the full text 22-volume journal Canadian Architect and Builder <\/em><\/a>online with a fully searchable index<\/a> including all of the\u00a0illustrations and advertisements.<\/p>\n

A quick search for Toronto Union Station brought up over 689 records including these early imaginings from architects\u00a0Strickland & Symons of the original Union Station<\/a>\u00a0that used to be\u00a0just west of the current location.\u00a0
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Plan of Main Floor. Union Station, Toronto by by architects Strickland & Symons. From The Canadian Architect and Builder, Volume 7 (1894), Issue 9, Plate 1<\/p><\/div>\n

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Architectural sketch Union Station, Toronto by architects Strickland & Symons. From The Canadian Architect and Builder, Volume 7 (1894), Issue 9, Plates 2a and 2b<\/p><\/div>\n

If you are not familiar the\u00a0Canadian Architect and Builder<\/em>\u00a0(CAB) was published between 1888 and 1908 and is the only professional architectural journal published in Canada before World War I. These journals are a part of the Blackader-Lauterman Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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