This shows the well-developed main street of the prosperous pre-railway city, with ample if not large stores, lots of walking space for "doing King", and handsome classically-derived church towers (The larger, that of the Anglican cathedral of St. James would, however, be destroyed in a great fire in 1849). There was room, the street was not yet jammed with traffic, and it had a certain ordered, yet human proportion about it, a proportion sometimes still found in the main streets of the better built small towns.
Courtesy: John Ross Robertson Collection, Metropolitan Toronto Public Library Board
