Sewer History: Photos and Graphics


For Reference	For an unusual view into Canada's sewer history, see The Vanishing Point, a website featuring numerous photos of underground structures taken by urban explorer Michael Cook. Of particular note for sewer history: Les Egouts de Montreal shows parts of Montreal's combined sewer system, modeled on Bazalgette's London. The Skin of a Lion shows the accomplished brick work of the Rosedale Creek combined sewer in Toronto Drainsploration links a number of combined sewers and drains across Canada Toronto Power Tailrace shows the Tailrace confluence in a 1906 construction photo and the same location today. Niagara Falls sewer system features a rainbow of red brick work
	Workers in the Garrison Creek storm sewer tunneling operation, Toronto, 1912. Source: Unknown.
	Workers in the Coxwell Avenue sanitary trunk sewer, Toronto, Canada, 1958. Source: City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 12, Series 4, Subseries 1, Item 18. All rights reserved.
	North Toronto Sewage Treatment Plant, Toronto, Canada, 1958. Source: City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 12, Series 161, File 93. All rights reserved.
	Main Wastewater Treatment Plant, Toronto, Canada, 1965. Source: City of Toronto Archives, Series 35, File 95. Copyright by Northway Map Technology Limited. All rights reserved.
	Methane gas sphere and anaerobic digesters at the Main Wastewater Treatment Plant, Toronto, Canada, 1995. All rights reserved. Source: City of Toronto Archives, File 4314-009-001. Commissioned photograph for Pipe Dreams Exhibit (Photographer: Peter MacCallum).