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Store Window Display
Lux toilet soap display in window of the Superior Store, Yonge Street, Aurora, about 1935. A degree of sophistication in shop window dressing was reaching even small-town Canada by the 1930s. Here a whole window is devoted to one product.. - 994.33.1 |
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Automobile on Yonge Street
An automobile outside Grimshaw’s bakery, Yonge Street, Aurora, in the second decade of the twentieth century. The first purchase of an automobile by an Aurora resident was recorded in 1911, followed by reports of several other purchases that year, until such events ceased to be noteworthy.
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War Memorial Construction
Aurora’s war memorial under construction in 1925. This monument was largely financed by Sir William Mulock, who had Aurora connections but never lived here. Funds also came from a carefully organized campaign for public subscriptions, the records of which are also in the museum.
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Railway Bridge
Subway under railway track crossing Yonge Street at south end of Aurora, 1930s. From the time of the arrival of the railway in 1853 until 1922 this was a level crossing, made more complex in 1899 by the construction of the radial, or electric railway. The building of the subway must have at first caused more problems than it solved, as the discovery of sinking sand at the site resulted in a construction period of well over a year. - 990.13.11 |
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