I really enjoyed the following story, especially the photos and hope you do to.
The Toronto Camera Club, founded the same year as the first roll of film was introduced, celebrates 125 years
"The building that time forgot sits on Mount Pleasant Road south of Eglinton Avenue, between Alexandre Antique Prints and Vanessa’s Nails and Spa. The façade features persimmon-coloured bricks with brown vertical vinyl siding above, an architectural style that brings to mind the song Disco Inferno. White letters read: The Toronto Camera Club.
"The 1970s décor belies a much older club. The Toronto Amateur Photographic Association came together 125 years ago in 1888, the same year George Eastman introduced the first roll film camera. Club founders who gathered in the Gents Parlour at the Queen’s Hotel (now site of the Royal York Hotel) included W.B. McMurrich, a former mayor.
"In 1891 the group became the Toronto Camera Club. Applicants needed a sponsor. A note from 1923 reads, “Dear Sir, Your application for membership passed with flying colours! Hope to see you any Monday evening meeting, when you may get a key to the club.”
Read the entire article by Peter Kuitenbrouwer at the National Post here…
