In spite of many, many hours spent at the City of Toronto Archives and the local branch of the public library, very few photographs of the Hallam/Dovercourt area surfaced. An invitation sent to the parents of students at the local public school to bring in family album snapshots showing the neighbourhood in the past turned up nothing. The relative absence of documentation of this once thriving working-class neighbourhood surprised me and remains somewhat inexplicable.

In addition to the meager range of “official” photographs of the Hallam/Dovercourt neighbourhood presented on this website, I was very lucky to obtain a small number of family photographs from two former residents whose families had run businesses near the Hallam and Dovercourt intersection – Yvonne and Doug Baines. They generously provided me with not only some of the snapshots taken on Hallam St. in the early 1960s seen in this section but also the 8mm film footage that now can be seen on the entry page of this website. The footage was shot at the then busy intersection of Hallam and Dovercourt, near a fruit store owned by Yvonne’s family in the late 1950s/early 1960s and one can see in the background a long-lost Dovercourt streetcar cross Hallam St. heading south.

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