Tag Archives: abandoned
20160102. Staring down a cathedral in a frontier suburb.
20151126. Pointy pipes push their fictitious monochromatic fumes skyward.
20151116. Contrary to the sign, Lower Bay Station has been closed 49 years.
20151115. Lower Bay station. Open 6 months, closed 49 years.
20151031. Sometimes large scale industrial facilities remind me of a Borg Cube.
20151030. Sometimes it is better not to take the stairs.
20151027. A boarded up block of Toronto’s Yonge Street will be home to the two tower Teahouse Condominiums.
20150929. Metrolinx has expropriated this old Oshawa Knob Hill Farms for a future GO station.
20150726. A Krider’s red-tailed hawk looks for prey on an abandoned rusty 53 year old pedestrian overpass in Thornhill.
20150624. Unsound Toronto revelers wander the massive defunct Hearn Generating Station June 20th.
20150315. The Cathedral of the Transfiguration sits empty in the middle of the barren Cathedraltown in Markham, Ontario.
20150310. The art deco details of Leslieville’s closed-to-become-condo Weston Bakery in Toronto.
20150203. Toronto’s 1933 derelict art deco former incinerator and waste transfer station at 150 Symes in the Stockyards district.
20140118. The abandoned open pit mine in Marmora, Ontario is so vast and deep that it is classified as a lake.
In the two years since my last visit, the water level in the open pit has filled in noticeably (probably at 400 ft deep now). All the ore processing equipment, tanks and ancient excavator have been removed. The hole covers 85 acres, is 1700 feet long, 1100 feet wide and 600 feet deep.