Wellington Street, Topley 1891

This April 1891 photo by William James Topley is titled "Home for Friendless Women, 412 Wellington Street, west of Bay Street" — note the late-season snow. #412 is the 2½-storey building with the quoining, two dormers and a light brick finish in the right foreground. 

A "Home for Friendless Women" referred to 19th-century charitable institutions for marginalized women. These historical homes provided shelter to "fallen" women, unwed mothers, and widows, often enforcing strict religious, reformative work, frequently in industrial laundries. 

The sequence of buildings appears on Goad's 188 sheet 43 (detail with updates applied) under the word "Wellington. Topley's position is indicated with a yellow "T" — he faced east. Goad indicates a laundry directly east of 412 where the "friendless" women would have worked. We clearly see the entrance of a passage leading to the rear courtyard just to the right of the utility pole. It appears as "P" on the plan.

Topley's approximate PoV is recreated in the Street View capture. The strip of land is now the NE corner of the Garden of the Provinces at Wellington and Bay.