1952 - Preserved Stories

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Work in progress: We have learned new details, regarding house at 535 Lake Promenade in Long Branch, battered off its foundations by enormous storms on Lake Ontario on March 13, 1952 – Part 1.0

September 22, 2019/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

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Waves wiped out a house at the Lake Ontario shoreline and swept out a family, at 535 Lake Promenade in Long Branch, on March 13, 1952; can you help a family member recover details?

September 11, 2019/2 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

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Aldous Huxley concludes The Devils of Loudun (1952) with bibliography of previous accounts of “diabolic drama” at which Loudun pastor was burned at stake

December 11, 2018/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill

In the last few pages of The Devils of Loudun (1952), Aldous Huxley shares thoughts regarding optimal ways to work toward advancement of human consciousness, within the context of spiritual pursuits. He also lists the sources he used in writing his overview of the “diabolic drama,” as Huxley terms it, in which a pastor of […]

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The Colonel Samuel Smith house was demolished in 1955 not 1952

September 12, 2013/6 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

Occasionally a statement can be found on the Internet erroneously indicating that the house of Colonel Samuel Smith at Forty First Street and Lake Shore Blvd. West in South Etobicoke was torn down in 1952. In fact, as Denise Harris of the Etobicoke Historical Society has recently pointed out, the Toronto Star of Feb. 19, 1955, […]

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