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20170605. Capturing the elevated leaf of a double-leafed bascule railway bridge as a cargo ship prepares to leave Welland Canal’s lock 4 below.
20170604. Watching the 222 m Algoma Spirit cargo bulk carrier passing through Welland Canal’s Lock 7 in Thorold, Ontario.
20170306. Happy birthday 183 Toronto – from above!
20160815. Opened 1971 and closed 2011, Ontario Place continues to feel contemporary.
20160808. U.S. Steel sits quietly in Hamilton Harbour.
20160731. Ontario’s drought has reduced Hastings County’s Moira River to its lowest level in decades.
20160730. Port Hope’s Walton Street is acclaimed as the best preserved main street in Ontario.
20160724. The silos of St. Marys Cement at dusk.
Bowmanville, Ontario.
20160711. The 1960, recently restored, modernist Hamilton City Hall looks like it was built yesterday.
20160113. A quintuplet of chapels at Guelph’s Church of our Lady Immaculate.
20160102. Staring down a cathedral in a frontier suburb.
20151128. A Green GO Bus pulls into Oshawa’s grey concrete bus terminal.
20151108. Brutalist stairwell enclosure. Veteren residence, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto.
20151107. Blocks of Brutalism in perspective at Oshawa’s Ontario Ministry of Finance Building.
20151102. The symmetrical postmodern pyramids of the Promenade Village Shoppes in Thornhill.
20151001. A LEED Platinum Inverted Constitution Square. Ottawa Ontario.
20150929. Metrolinx has expropriated this old Oshawa Knob Hill Farms for a future GO station.
20150903. Do not enter the Pickering Nuclear Exclusion Zone.
20150411. Below the 1965 Skylon Tower and its yellow bug elevator. Niagara Falls, Ontario.
20150404. Mixed-use modernism on Main Street in Milton (Ontario).
20150327. Markham’s concrete and coloured glass Unionville High School.
20150320. Frontier living in Georgian style in the upper reaches of Markham.
20150315. The Cathedral of the Transfiguration sits empty in the middle of the barren Cathedraltown in Markham, Ontario.
20150225. The Toronto skyline and Canadian National Exhibition Grounds from 2000 feet.
From this point of view you can see how many more tall buildings we have – evidence that Toronto has more towers going up than any other city in North America. In the foreground, notice how large the Canadian National Exhibition grounds are and particularly how massive the Direct Energy conference centre is. It is the biggest squat square building in between the expressway and the lakeshore boulevard. And to the far right is the permanently sleepy Ontario Place. And finally I love how you can see the 32-year-deceased Hearn power plant on the other side of town in the barren port lands (reddish building with huge smokestack near water).