Photographing Fort York for Canada’s 150th Anniversary

60th anniversary is diamond, 150th is digital

CyArk Fort York (2017-10) by Kieran Kesner for CyArkCyArk

In 2017, CyArk and Iron Mountain partnered to digitally document the military fortifications of Fort York in Toronto. The project was started to commemorate and preserve this historic landmark. 

Drone fort York (2017-10) by Kieran Kesner for CyArkCyArk

CyArk, a not-for-profit that aims to conserve, recover, and discover historic places, used advanced technology on eight buildings and their surrounding areas. Using photogrammetry and LiDAR they were able to measure the buildings while aerial drones captured the visual details.

laser scanning Fort York (2017-10) by Kieran Kesner for CyArkCyArk

LiDAR laser measuring was used to document exact measurements of both the outside of the buildings and inside spaces as well.

Photogrammetry at Fort York (2017-10) by Kieran Kesner for CyArkCyArk

The historic site was captured on camera from above and close up shots of the buildings’ surfaces were done with DSLR cameras.


Take a 360-degree panoramic tour of one of the rooms inside Toronto’s historic Fort York.  

A digital reconstruction of the Brick Magazine showing the inside of the structure at Fort York by CyArkCyArk

This is an example of the inside of The Brick Magazine at Fort York, a place that once stored gunpowder. The image is a textured 3D reconstruction.

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