Step back into a Toronto of horse‑drawn carts, gas lamps, and bustling streetcars. This richly illustrated volume collects photographs, maps, and eyewitness accounts that bring the city’s formative decades to life. From the grand public buildings and elegant neighbourhoods to the everyday scenes of market stalls, factories, and waterfront labour, Yesterday’s Toronto, 1870–1910 captures the people and places that shaped a modern metropolis. Edited by Linda Shapiro, the book pairs archival images with concise historical commentary to reveal how immigration, industry, and civic ambition transformed Toronto into a city of contrasts and possibility. For historians, local readers, and anyone who loves urban stories, this is a vivid portrait of a city on the move.