Photos by Brian Condron.

More than half a century after they were captured on the streets of Toronto, photographer Brian Condron’s remarkable black-and-white photographs, most of them previously unpublished, are collected in a new book, Toronto in the Seventies: Photographs by Brian Condron .

Condron’s photography offers an intimate portrait of a city at a moment when its meatpacking and smoke-belching identity was quietly giving way to the hyper-diverse global metropolis it would become.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Condron roamed “Toronto the Good” with a Leica camera, documenting everyday moments that most people rushed past. With curiosity, wit, and empathy, he snapped office workers, children, subway commuters, people having lunch, and total strangers experiencing fleeting moments of connection.

Thousands of Condron’s negatives languished for decades, surviving moves in Toronto from house to house, two dusty home renovations, and a six-week overseas voyage in a shipping container to Australia.…