Price of extra-fine all-wool men’s suits advertised in The Evening Star, April 1894: $7.40

Price of lightweight wool women’s suit advertised online, September 2017: $364

Price of The Evening Star, 1892: 1 cent per copy; 25 cents per month.

Price of the Toronto Star, 2017: Sunday-Friday $2 (single copy); Saturday $3.50 (single copy); 7-day subscription $3.93/week

Price of a set of false teeth on rubber or celluloid (no charge for extraction) advertised in a January 1894 Evening Star: $6

Price for one dental implant (surgery and crown included) in the Ontario Dental Association 2016 Fee Guide: $3,051.12

Price of Guatemalan coffee per 100 gms, as advertised in the Simpsons catalogue, 1899: 7 cents

Price of Tim Hortons coffee per 100 gms, as advertised on the Loblaws website, 2017: $1.93

Value of building permits issued in Toronto in 1901: $3.5 million

Value of building permits issued in Toronto in 2011: $6.9 billion

Approximate cost of building City Hall, 1899: $2.5 million

Approximate cost of building New City Hall, 1965: $31 million

Total floor space of City Hall in 1899: 5.4 acres

Area of Nathan Phillips Square, public space outside New City Hall, 2017: 12 acres

Number of City of Toronto council members, 1899: 24 (all men)

Number of City of Toronto council members, 2017: 44 (30 men, 13 women, one vacant)

In 1895, the fire brigade consisted of: 132 officers and 36 horses

In 2016, Toronto Fire Services consisted of: 3,168 employees and 83 engines

Number of horse-drawn cab operators in Toronto in 1892: 45

Number of licensed taxicab owners in Toronto in 2017: 4,550

Hotel rates per day in Toronto, 1899: $1-$2

Average hotel rate per night in Toronto, 2016: $167

Price of a one-horse cab ride in central Toronto in 1892: 20 cents; 25 cents for two-horse

Price of a 4 km cab ride in downtown Toronto in 2017: approx. $19

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Number of people who fell after slipping on melt-off from a butter sculpture at the CNE in 1899: 3

Number of butter sculpture artists who worked inside a cold and slippery sculpting fridge at the CNE in 2017: 11 (no slip-and-falls as far as we know!)

Toronto’s death rate in 1896: 15.18 per 1,000

Toronto’s death rate in 2010: 4.36 per 1,000

Toronto’s population in 1901: 208,040

Toronto’s population in 2016: 2.7 million

Toronto’s population as a percentage of Ontario’s: 8.6

Toronto’s population as a percentage of Ontario’s, 2016: 20.3

Number of people employed in manufacturing in Toronto in 1901: 42,515

Number of people employed in manufacturing in Toronto in 2011: 109,465

Number of manufacturing firms in Toronto in 1901: 847

Number of manufacturing establishments in Toronto in 2017: approx. 5,000

Price of bottle of Dr. T.A. Slocum’s Cod Liver Oil advertised the first edition of The Evening Star, 1892: 35 cents

Price of bottle of multivitamins (100 tablets) advertised online, 2017: $14.99

Cost of ticket to Moore’s Musee-Theater to view among other acts Prof. Matthew’s Performing Goats, November 1892: 10 cents

Cost of ticket (least expensive) to Cirque du Soleil VOLTA, September 2017: $58

Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund raised $1025.50 in 1901

Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund raised $650,000+ in 2017

Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund had a goal of $1,460 in its first year, 1906

Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund has a goal of $1.7 million in 2017

The United Way Community Fund of Greater Toronto had a goal of $7.5 million in its first year, 1956

The United Way of Toronto-York has a goal of $103 million in 2017

— Star staff