c.1905; looking south from the intersection with Sandwich Street (Riverside Drive); the photograph dates to before 1909 (when the Dominion Bank was built on the southwest corner of Ouellette Avenue and Sandwich Street); in the right foreground is the International Hotel (9 Ouellette Avenue; Edwin Wigle, proprietor), then Howell Bros, Jewellers, Laing's Drug Store, then Pitt Street, the Post Office, and across Chatham Street in the background is the Victoria Block; in the left foreground, is the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and then across Pitt Street is the Manning Block.