first World War - Preserved Stories

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A Township at War (2018) describes daily life inside of (and also far, far away from) the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough during the First World War

January 19, 2024/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

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Cornelius (Neil) van Nostrand and fellow flying cadets received training during the First World War at the Long Branch Aerodrome in what is now Lakeview, Mississauga

November 11, 2023/2 Comments/in Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

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First World War talk at Toronto Archives, August 5, 2015: Little-know realities faced by returning veterans

July 27, 2015/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

We owe thanks to David Juliusson for passing along these details about the talk on August 5, 2015. History lecture at Toronto Archives This year’s Toronto History Lecture at the Toronto Archives will focus on the little-known realities faced by veterans returning from the First World War. The illustrated presentation by historian Jonathan Scotland will […]

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On the day the First World War was declared, Robert Home Smith opened the Old Mill Tea Room

October 13, 2014/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

A July 27, 2014 Etobicoke Guardian article notes that on Aug. 4, 1914 Britain declared war on Germany, automatically bringing Canada into the First World War. That was now over 100 years ago. On the same day, Robert Home Smith opened the Old Mill Tea Room in Toronto. The Tea Room is located at Old Mill […]

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Dear Sadie: Love, Lives and Remembrance from Ontario’s First World War: Sept. 23, 2014 – New Toronto Historical Society

September 22, 2014/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

The following message, which I’m pleased to share, is from Michael Harrison: Dear Sadie: Love, Lives and Remembrance from Ontario’s First World War Please join us on Tuesday September 23, 2014 at LAMP, 185 Fifth Street at 7PM to hear a presentation by Stewart Boden of the Archives of Ontario of the story of Sadie […]

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Town of New Toronto: Soldiers of The First World War (website mentioned by Colleen O’Marra)

April 10, 2014/2 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

Colleen O’Marra writes: There’s a fascinating site called Town of New Toronto:Soldiers of The First World War.So many young men from 6th to 9th Street signed up.Young men who worked as gardeners at the old Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital, tailors, apprentices, mill workers…all killed overseas. There is also a site for the men of Mimico complete […]

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