See Toronto in another dimension
When you’re out and about in a city, do you ever wonder what it looked like forty, fifty, a hundred years ago? Zeitag TO pinpoints where you are on an interactive city map of Toronto and displays historical photographs nearby. In the downtown core, where photographs exist close together, you can create your own walking tour of the past. Farther afield, on the Toronto Islands or out beyond the first subway line, images show a way of life now completely gone.
The first in a planned series of apps for sites around the world, Zeitag TO includes more than five hundred photographs of the city dating from the nineteenth century to the 1980s. Each is shown with the date and street. Tap the screen and the text bars disappear to show the image full screen. Tap the Info icon to reveal archival information, geographical coordinates, and any original caption. Some locations have photographs from several eras, allowing you to scroll forward or backward through the decades. Touch the Map button to go back to the map when you’re done.
If you’re a visitor, a teacher or student, a researcher, or simply curious about your own backyard, Zeitag TO (literally time + tag) brings together time and place to take you into Toronto's past, here and now.
