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June 2013 Humber Arboretum newsletter
I have attended field trips at Colonel Samuel Smith Park for Grade 4 students organized by Humber Arboretum in 2012 and 2013. I am very highly impressed with, and inspired by, the work that Humber Arboretum is doing. The field … Continue reading
What conceptual framework drove the British to establish themselves in Long Branch?
As I’ve explained in previous blog posts, I like the fact that relatively little is known about Colonel Samuel Smith of Long Branch (in Toronto not New Jersey) as a historical personality. There hasn’t been much of a mythology built … Continue reading
Second Long Branch Jane’s Walk, on May 5, explored the Mississauga-Toronto border south of Lake Shore Blvd. West
The weather was perfect for the second Long Branch Jane’s Walk, held on May 5, 2013, which took us from Marie Curtis Park to Colonel Samuel Smith’s homestead site, and from there to the Fair Grounds Organic Cafe and Roastery … Continue reading
The first engineered alteration of Etobicoke Creek began in 1929 to allow for the westward extension of Lake Promenade
The Physiography of Southern Ontario (1984) by Lyman John Chapman and Donald F. Putnam is a classic geological study expressed in clear and authoritative language. A voice of authority does not in itself establish that a writer’s rhetoric is congruent with … Continue reading
Whatever happened to the Colonel Smith homestead artifacts found in 1984?
C. O’Marra writes: Did you ever find out what happened to the Colonel Smith homestead artifacts found almost thirty years ago? I read an incredibly detailed description of the dig. The only maddening thing. Not ONE blessed word of artifacts … Continue reading
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
A Long Branch resident passed along to Barry Kemp this photo of the Eastwood Park Hotel
This is a photo that Barry Kemp, past president of the Long Branch Historical Society, received some time ago from a resident of Long Branch. Update (June 3, 2013): Along with the photo that I received from Barry Kemp … Continue reading
Networking drives community self-organizing
The development of the Preserved Stories website is a result of networking and information serendipity. Serendipity refers to situations in which happy and unexpected discoveries are made by accident. I speak of information serendipity because interesting information often finds its … Continue reading
Linda Colley (2002) speaks of the life of the common British soldier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
In Captives (2002; listed as 2003 at the Toronto Public Library website), Linda Colley discusses the use of the whip as a means to maintain discipline in British soldiery at the height of Britain’s colonial expansion. Sometimes flogging resulted in … Continue reading
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Manliness and militarism: Educating young boys in Ontario for war (2001)
In Manliness and militarism: Educating young boys in Ontario for war (2001), Mark Moss speaks of a tradition of comparing hunting to warfare. Since antiquity, according to Moss, hunting has been viewed as a war game which served the purpose of preparing young … Continue reading
