Some years ago I became interested in the history of police services in the Village of Long Branch. Long-time residents that I’ve interviewed have filled me in on this topic. I enjoy hearing and sharing stories about long-ago police officers who lived and worked in our local neighbourhoods – including one who had a blacksmith shop on […]
I can only guess what the photo on the right is about. Something to do with a sound system. Maybe at a dance? If anybody knows, we look forward to your comments. The “I have a little surprise for you” caption refers to Mr. Louis. Graeme Decarie has shared his recollection of Mr. Hill at […]
I will be attempting to add one or two photos per day to the MCHS ’60s Reunion Facebook Group. I will try to keep track of the uploads through blog posts such as this one. On this page are two photos that I posted at the latter Group recently. Comments I don’t remember many high […]
Bretheren, I say to you! Regarding the photo on the right, Graeme Decarie wrote on December 28, 2014: I’ve been going through the MCHS yearbook once a day to dredge up memories that connect names to faces. With some, like Peter McAllister and Gordon Flowers and Dianne Fagg and you, I made the connection immediately. […]
I’m currently catching up on still photo and video projects, related to the MCHS 2015 Reunion. One of the projects concerns a recent photo of Graeme Decarie, and a photo from the MCHS 1962-63 yearbook that I had spoken about with Graeme some time ago. I will include the photo from the yearbook in a […]
I recently came across a book, The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs (2012), that positions Jane Jacobs as among the most influential thinkers who contributed to the intellectual currents of the 1960s and 1970s – “along,” as the book notes (p.2), “with Thomas Kuhn, Ian McHarg, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, John Rawls, to name a […]
To access May 24, 2015 CBC podcast, A prescription for better public health, click here > I’m a keen fan of following the evidence, wherever it may lead as in the case of what research indicates about sugar. A typical post that I’ve uploaded previously is: Free sugars cause more inflammation at a cellular level, […]
In recent years I’ve written several blog posts about the history dating back to the 1940s, that is connected with the Small Arms Building, located at 1352 Lakeshore Road East at the foot of Dixie Road. Click here to access Heritage Mississauga overview of Small Arms Ltd. story > Originally dedicated to the inspection of […]
In a previous post I said I will follow up with a whole “high school essay” on the topic Dana Michaels has introduced. I’ve composed the essay in longhand, using pencil and paper. Thereupon, I’ve translated it into text using voice-to-text software. It took me a while to find the WAV file that I had […]
I am pleased to have the opportunity to share with you the information, which I have heard listening to CBC Radio in recent weeks, that the early afternoons are high-frequency times for break-ins at neighbourhoods across the City of Toronto. The warning that has been shared by Toronto Police Services is: Don’t leave your back […]