The TerraMar Project is dedicated to the well being of the world’s oceans. [Click on link in previous sentence to access its home page.] Here’s a recent message from TerraMar: Hang out with TerraMar for Earth Day! Who loves the ocean? We all love the ocean, which actually covers 71% of our earth! Let’s celebrate […]
Following message is from The Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project: The Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project invites you to join us for a Spring Visit and Clean-Up Saturday May 11th, 2013 Rain or Shine 2:00pm To remember and honour in a dignified and respectful way the lives of the 1511 people buried in the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital […]
The following message is from Walk for Change: Subject: Spring Visit to the Lakeshore Cemetery and “Walk for Change” You are invited to the Spring Visit to the Lakeshore Cemetery and to support the first Local fundraiser “Walk for Change” earlier in the day, of which the Project will be a beneficiary. Please see the attached […]
I want to thank David Juliusson for letting me know about an April 18, 2013 Globe and Mail article touching upon the Toronto casino debate. The headline and opening sentence reads: Councillor Grimes says taxpayer-funded Vegas trip was not for casino meetings Councillor Mark Grimes says the taxpayer-funded trip he took to Las Vegas last […]
Following message is from Councillor Grimes’ Office: Please find the complete eNewsletter attached as a .pdf: April 19, 2013 Community Clean Up Days Here are some ways you can participate this weekend: Join Mayor Rob Ford’s Community Clean-up – Everyone is invited! Join Mayor Rob Ford and Clean Toronto Together on Saturday, April 20 at […]
You can access the newsletter here.
Nathan Ng has shared with me the following information: Date: Sunday, 14 April, 2013 To: Jaan Pill Subject: Fort York and Garrison Common Maps Hello! I’m sending this note because you had previously referenced a mapping project of mine, Historical Maps of Toronto, on your Preserved Stories blog. I’d like to draw your attention to another online historical […]
I’m pleased to share with you the following information from the Toronto Native Community History Project: FIRST STORY is an interactive multimedia map of Toronto’s Aboriginal history, empowering the Indigenous community of Toronto to reveal and explore our geography and culture. Users will have access, via a smartphone, to stories, photographs, archival documents, audio and video clips that illuminate Aboriginal presence and history in […]
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 the southwest corner of Saranac Blvd. and Bathurst Street. A Google Map of the area […]
I was born in Sweden in 1946 after my parents and brother and additional members of our extended family fled Estonia in 1944 before the Soviet occupying forces sealed the borders of the Baltic states. I grew up in Montreal. A memory from the first five years of my life, in Sweden in the late […]