Then. Price's Lane (again). Aug 23, 1914. Looking north this time. The small girl at far right poses for this photographer again that day — the picture can be found online at the Toronto Archives [search "Price's Lane"] —and she is still barefoot.

Now. April 2012. If our barefoot young girl is still alive she would be about 100.

It's almost certain this kind of housing had no toilet or bathing facilities; one wonders if they even had drains.

As late as the 1960s, a group of Chinese "bachelors" in their 60s and older lived on Foster Place (behind New City Hall), in a series of rooms in a Chinese benevolent society building (demolished). There were no bathing facilities either. They had to go to the bath house on Stephanie, which is still there. I still remember the smell inside in the heat of summer.