You are right.
Photos are just photos.
As old ways disappear, those that know what is happening in the photos are also disappearing.
Same with locations shown, after 100 years of change.
I look on Google and ' Travel ' to places I once knew well, and Surprise! I can no longer identify some of the location at all. Was at Eglington and Yonge on Google, once the end of steel for the Yonge line ex Union Station and a major hub for buses and trolley coaches with several stalls aboveground for all the routes with stairs descending to a Concourse underground with small shops lining the walls where one could purchase newspapers ( Remember Them?? ) coffee and tea and confections to sip and munch on the way downtown.
All Gone!!!! The trolley bus garage to the South now the Terminal.
Can't see the sky for the buildings.
Looks like changes coming here??
This ditz is now getting her Minute of Fame = news these days?
The Old Views you post showing the Harbour and the Ferry Docks are much nicer, and have a View, in all directions
Anyway, about thirty years ago I was at the Local Museum talking with the Archivist and noticed a series of photos on his desk.
No Internet, Yet.
All but one were local well known images and he had put Accession Numbers on their backs for the Archives.
One Image was alone.
I said ' Nice photo of Victoria Bridge in Montreal showing the M&SC crossing to the South Shore.'
He said ' What!! '
He had spent DAYS digging thru books and other Archival Material trying to find the Location and the Subject presuming the scene was at the BC Coast, BC Electric?
I then added ' Looking Upstream towards the Lachine Rapids. '
My Father traveled Overseas just before the War and came home with hundreds of photos. Castles, Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Scotland and so on.
But, a few views showed the initial runs of ' The Coronation Scot ' including the as-built Observation Car.
A BIG DEAL to some, as the War changed everything, for ever.
There are other views of he and other passengers on a Coastal Ferry off Scotland, wearing Gas Masks as War was Nigh.
The train photos went to a Museum.
I do not know why the OTC Cars were at Brittania Loop. Maybe no room at the the Barns, they could be scrapped at the Loop just as well and it really did not matter what the kids did, worse was in store for them?? Maybe they could be BURNT there more safely than wherever the Car Barns were, re Political Correctness?
Taxpayers' Money Going Up in Flames, and all that Rot.
The Hurt was until a few weeks before the cars had been on their Routes serving the Citizens and providing Service. Faithful.
Streetcars, Locomotives and such sure AGE fast when no longer needed.
Just like People.
Its as if they KNOW?
With the Internet daily uncovering answers, and posing more questions, the Truth may Out.
Photos surfaced of the steam engines @ Ste Rosalie Jct. 60 years later.
I don't like Ottawa. That whole Civil Service ennui and Taxpayers' Dollars and Privilege worse than anything E B Eddy could cause over in Hull.
WHY they moved the station is crazy.
The new place, now Fifty Years Old, is a disgrace, and of no value re Weather.
Change.
No fun to go back, unless it was the way it was.
Thank You.
The Kat wants some ' Quality Time ' alone. There are eight 8 inches of new snow. He says He does not getting His feet wet, so I am going to Starbucks, Alone.
Its really that His tummy drags and makes a Ugly Trench. Looks Declasse.