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Long Branch Jane’s Walk takes place May 4 and May 5, 2013 starting 10:30 am Marie Curtis Park each day
We’ve posted information at the Jane’s Walk website regarding two Long Branch Jane’s Walks that Mike James and Jaan Pill will lead on the first weekend of May 2013: Saturday, May 4, 2013 Sunday, May 5, 2013 The first walk, … Continue reading
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Asbury and West United Church 1958 sanctuary was designated following July 2010 City Planning Division report
The story of the Asbury and West United Church redevelopment appears very straightforward to me. I can readily follow the story because I lived on Saranac Blvd. from 1983 until 1991 and know the area well. The church is at … Continue reading
The Tyburn Walk is a traditional English event occurring on the first Sunday in May
In a previous blog post I described what Steve Roud (2006) has characterized as a traditional English event occurring in the first Saturday in May. That is a day that corresponds with Saturday, May 4, 2013. In the context of the … Continue reading
Gawthorpe Celebrations is a traditional English holiday event occurring on the first Saturday in May
As Eric Hobsbawm has remarked in a classic study, The invention of tradition (1983), traditions don’t spring out of nowhere. They have to be invented. The same can be said of nation states, which Benedict Arnold famously spoke of as imagined communities. As a … Continue reading
Great Lakes experiencing ‘new stresses’ – CBC News, March 15, 2013
I have a particular interest in the Great Lakes in the preparations for the May 4 and May 5, 2013 Jane’s Walks in Long Branch that Mike James and I will be leading near the shoreline of Lake Ontario. The … Continue reading
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Article by Lindsay Howe in Lakeshore Villages Community Newspaper highlights Jane’s Walk: May 4th and 5th in Long Branch
The following article by Lindsay Howe concerning two Long Branch Jane’s Walks in May 2013 appears in the March / April 2013 edition of The Lakeshore Villages Community Newspaper: Exploring the History of Long Branch Jane’s Walk 2013: May 4th … Continue reading
Jane Jacobs was not an academic
I heard Jane Jacobs speak in Toronto around the early 1980s when I lived on Toronto Island. In those years the Toronto Island community on Ward Island and Algonquin Island was facing eviction at the hands of the Metropolitan Toronto … Continue reading
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Long Branch Jane’s Walks will take place on May 4 and May 5, 2013
We’ve posted information at the Jane’s Walk website regarding two Long Branch Jane’s Walks that Mike James and Jaan Pill will lead on the first weekend of May 2013: Saturday, May 4, 2013 Sunday, May 5, 2013 The first walk, … Continue reading
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What is worth preserving?
The purpose of the essay, in keeping with Jane’s Walk, is to encourage conversation. Mike James and Jaan Pill led a Jane’s Walk in South Long Branch on May 6, 2012 and look forward to leading walks on May 4 … Continue reading
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Government and Community Services Fair – Feb. 23, 2013 – Cloverdale Mall
This year’s Government and Community Services Fair will take place on Feb. 23, 2013 at Cloverdale Mall. We’ll have a Jane’s Walk table at the Fair this year. The South Long Branch Jane’s Walks that Mike James and Jaan Pill will … Continue reading
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