Photographer A. A. GLEASON

Downtown London (NW view)

Datec. 1962

MediumPHOTOGRAPHY

DimensionsOverall: 25.5 x 20.3 cm

Object number2004.020.182

Label TextWellington Square Mall Around 1962 Northwest View (or Looking Northwest), Wellington Square Mall (bottom), Canada’s first enclosed mall, opened in 1960. Its site was once the home of a McClary Manufacturing Company factory. Today the location, and much of the block to the north, is Citi Plaza. Other well-known buildings in this photograph include the tall, art deco Dominion Public Building (back, left), the Huron & Erie building (back, right), and Novack’s (middle, left).

NamePHOTOGRAPH