By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

We’re not sure why the Open Library (the Internet Archive’s book collection) picked this volume, but we’re intrigued. The eBook, Robertson’s Landmarks of Toronto, has sketches of the town of York from 1792-1833 and Toronto from 1834-1898. A stamp from the inside of the book shows that it’s actually from the collection of the Toronto Public Library.
Many of these landmarks, churches, buildings and streets are obviously unrecognizable now but the more things change the more they stay the same. Even back then it seems that Torontonians loved to talk about their city. Quoting from the introduction:

“Perhaps no city in the world, Old London excepted, has had eighteen hundred pages of reading matter devoted to its history.”

Right. If you get bored of looking at woodcuts of old Toronto check out the Open Library’s other scanned volumes. Sadly, minus that old book smell.
Link from pragmatic radical.