Aquaview Construction
Jaan Pill is making a documentary about the building of Aquaview Condominiums on Lake Shore Blvd. West between Forty First and Forty Seconds Streets – and about the history of the surrounding neighbourhood.
The Aquaview Condominiums are across the street from the Parkview School property at 85 Forty First Street, on whose grounds are located the archaeological remains of the Colonel Samuel Smith homestead.
Parkview School was purchased in August 2011 for $5.2-million by the French public school board Conseil scolaire Viamonde with funding provided by the Government of Ontario.
We owe thanks to many public officials including Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP (and Education Minister) Laurel Broten and Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore Trustee Pamela Gough – and area residents who took part in a letter-writing campaign – for ensuring that Parkview School remains in public hands.
A video about the Colonel Samuel Smith homestead site, narrated by Jaan Pill and edited by Steven Toepell, has been posted to Vimeo.
Aquaview is also close the Long Branch Street Car Loop and Canada’s first Aerodrome, west of Etobicoke Creek in Mississauga, where the American writer William Faulkner took flying lessons during the First World War.
In letters that he wrote home about his flying lessons at the Aerodrome, Faulkner made his exploits as a student pilot seem larger and greater than they really were. In subsequent years he became one of the great fiction writers of his era.
The shelter at the Long Branch Street Car Loop was built in 1928. In the same year, 1928, Mickey Mouse made his first appearance as a cinematic character.
