Handsome Toronto Man

 This is part of a batch of films I just had developed. It was on TMAX 100 35mm film and by far it was the one that still had good image quality after 30 years of latency. I think this might be from around 1994. The E-6 slide films were mostly without any image left at all, the C-41 Ilford XP2 were badly faded, the Japanese Konica Infrared black and white were bad and the Ilford HP5+ were a bit better, but the TMAX 100, both 35mm and 120, were still worth developing even after 30 plus years at room temperature!

I can't remember who the man in the photos is - I think he must have asked me to take portrait photos of him since I'm with him in more than one location in Toronto. He probably was someone from my Toronto Japanese Language School class that was held on Saturdays at Orde Street Public School. I'm hoping that they'll get to him! 

By CN Tower

Iconic Toronto - GO Train, 

Canada Trust Tower, now the TD Canada Trust Tower at 161 Bay.

Douglas Coupland balances on can

Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland balancing on can at night on the street outside a barber shop in Guelph. He had just spoken at the Bookshelf Cafe. He said he liked walking around cities he was in and asked whether the water he was drinking when he was speaking at the Cafe came from anywhere near the Fibreglass Canada plant near the river. Sometime in the 1990s.

 

Kids on dam in Speed River, Guelph, early 1990s

 I think this is Royal City Park, Guelph, but I really can't be sure. These are from a box of films I found and had developed - I was all over southwest Ontario, west of Toronto. I used black and white until I had to use colour negatives for the Star, so I just forgot about these films. 

Durham, 1990s, Mural being painted, 105 Garafraxa Road North, Durham, Ontario

105 Garafraxa Road North, Durham, Ontario, sometime in the 1990s, probably 1994. There is a mural still there, I don't know if it's the same one.

 

Durham, 1990s, Hastie's Tobacco

Hastie's Tobacco Shop and Billiards, 144 Garafraxa Road North, Durham, Ontario. Owned and operated by Graham Hastie for 46 years! I took the picture because it looked like it was a local 'hub', a place where people hung out and exchanged gossip. Stedmans V&S is a chain of small discount department stores. Neither place is still there, but the Hastie's is still a billiards hall, The Harvest Table, and the Stedmans is Goodchilds, a used goods store.

 

Whirlpool by weir, Grand River, Fergus, Ontario

I *think* this is Fergus. This is from film that I just got developed that was taken some time in the 1990s. Ilford XP2, Mamiya c220.

 

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

The former Duke of York in 2008

By World Economic Forum - originally posted to Flickr as Duke of York - World Economic Forum on the Middle East 2008, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4486062

The former Prince Andrew went to Lakefield College private school in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. Some places (streets and a lake) in Canada were named after him, which the local authorities are trying to change. I had a friend who was a year behind him and he said he was a 'nice guy' but wasn't friends with him. 

  My mom went to school in Bangor, Wales in the 1930s and 40s, with some children of the royals who were born from women who were maids at a nearby stately home the royals visited - I think it was Penrhyn Castle, but I'm not sure. The other kids called them 'Prince of Wales' as a joke.  

   This kind of abuse has been going on for centuries. I'm glad it's coming to light.