No Mean Business: a Hundred Years of Real Estate From the 1880s to the 1980s
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Don Mills: Toronto Real Estate Board BOOK: Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: It was around the year 3000 B.C. when the King of Babylon declared that a real estate contract had to be entered into freely by both parties for a legal transaction. In the Mesopotamian City of Nineveh, about 2100 B.C., mortgage terms were set out on tables of baked clay. In Roman times, private property ownership was well established - including mortgages, deeds, real estate laws and records. U.S. land policy was based on rectangular surveys in 1785. The development of real estate in the United States was related to the growth of financial institutions. The Bank of North America was established in 1782. Cities expanded in the 19th century. Real estate brokerage became a recognized business by the 1850s. In 1851, Toronto's population was 30,775, but by 1881 it was over 180,000. John Stark and Co. Ltd., earlier a stock broker, was in real estate practice in 1887. F. J. Smith and Co. was established in 1885. Earl T. Brownridge had joined that firm in 1912. Later, Mr. Brownridge succeeded F. J. Smith as the owner. His son Douglas Brownridge was Past President and a life member. Grandson Donald E. Brownridge would perpetuate this firm in its second century. In 1887 the business community was considering the possibility of "commercial union" with the United States or what we would call today free trade - and how much of a change will there be in the future? Real estate men in 1887 weren't involved in this argument, but they knew that the Americans had business ideas. For decades there had been "real estate exchanges" in various U.S. cities, and by 1887 it seemed appropriate to organize such a body in Toronto. In January, 1887, the Toronto World had a front page report on the first meeting of the Toronto Real Estate Exchange. Toronto Mayor John Shaw officially opened the Toronto City Hall with a gold key in 1899. Shaw and his Council had a sense of mission - mainly commercial. The mayor saw the territory between Toronto and James Bay as an area of special responsibility. The Council and others were keen to capture trade and not let it slip to Montreal and U.S. cities. It was decided to have a study of land between the CPR main line and James Bay. Consulting engineer W. T. Jennings was assigned the task, and a surveyor went along on his holidays. Jennings did not toss taxpayers' money around. A Yonge Street store had frying pans at 15 cents. Two tents cost $16 and the customer paid $3.40 for fishing equipment. Mayor Shaw decided to see some of the territory a rail line would open up. With 25-cent meals and 50-cent steamer berths, the city's treasury did not suffer greatly from the junketing the mayor engaged in with a party of civic officials. The manager of the Matabanik Hotel in Haileybury submitted a bill to the "Lord Mayor of Toronto." The amount was $10.30 for 29 meals and a flask of rye. Who said there weren't any good old days? As the Toronto Real Estate Board approaches a seventieth birthday, it is appropriate to set forth in historical form a resume of these years. The history of the Toronto Real Estate Board is a part of the history of Toronto during the 20th century. When the Toronto Real Estate Board was founded, the First Great War had just ended. Automobiles had open touring bodies. Balloon tires had not been invented, and many of the roads in the city were unpaved. Inter-city transport was made by the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk Railway. There was no airport, save for a few private flying fields on Dufferin Street north of the city. Airplanes were a rarity. At the central part of the city were the Eaton and Simpson stores, which were the commercial focus of the city. The financial centre stretched from King Street and Bay Street to King and Yonge, where the bank building erected in 1912-1913 was the tallest building in the British Empire . . .. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Toronto: Toronto Real Estate Board, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Clean tightly bound copy. Unmarked text. tiny bump to front cover and tiny nick to the dj. A very nice clean copy. Discussion of Toronto's real estate from the 1880's to the 1980'S. 541 pgs. k4.

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