Toronto's Historic Waterfront - Harbourfront Centre
This view shows the current 4 ha Harbourfront Centre site as it appeared in April, 1929. At the top of the photo is what was then the largest single unit warehouse in North America, the Toronto Terminal Warehouse, with its attached Power Plant and Ice House units at the west end of the 8-floor L-shaped building. Seven years later the Direct Winters Transport building would be added (the original use of the current York Quay Centre). Note the large Canada Steamship freighters docked along some of the 610 m of dock wall which the Warehouse provided. The Pier 4 building, originally known as Transit Shed #4 would be constructed along the east side of John Quay the following year in 1930. The two prominent structures in the view today, the Metro Police Marine Unit Station and the Radisson Admiral Hotel both opened in 1985, the same year the Direct Winters Transport building was renovated to become York Quay Centre.
Plaque via Alan L. Brown's site Toronto Plaques. Full page here.