Upcoming talks about Toronto’s waterfront by Jane Fairburn (Along the Shore, 2013)
Click here to access the schedule. More information about Along the Shore (2013) can be accessed here and here.
Author Archive for: Jaan Pill
Entries by Jaan Pill
Setting a Fine Table: Historical Desserts & Drinks from the Officers’ Kitchens at Fort York.
This book is coming out soon, as I understand. I look forward to getting a copy. I’m hoping it will be available through the Toronto Public Library. It’s my belief that recipes are a great way to connect with history. It’s gives a person a connection with the past.
City of Toronto Heritage Conservation Districts Blog
You can access it here. This a topic that interests me, as I’ve discussed at this post and an earlier one. A 1981 report is of interest, with regard to past efforts to set up a Heritage Conservation District in Long Branch.
1955 Villa Road photo includes a 1954 GMC pick-up in the driveway
I’m very pleased to share a photo from Sandy Bray, which I have posted with permission. That’s Sandy Bray at age 2 along with her father, Jim Bray, 22 years old in the photo. They lived on the south side of Villa Road from 1955 to 1963. You can click on the photo to enlarge […]
Construction proceeds along Lake Shore Blvd. West
For any of the photos below, you can enlarge them by clicking on them. Click again to enlarge them further. Use ‘Back’ button on your browser to return to the page you are now reading. The photos are a companion piece to a previous blog. From a conversation overheard at about 9:45 pm on Oct. […]
8-80 Cities October 2013 newsletter
You can access it here.
We’ve shared recent stories about Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey) in the 1930s
I send out a message about once a week to an email distribution list, which I set up around November 2010 at the start of the Parkview School project, which I became involved in by happenstance. Email distribution list Sometimes the message is sent out once a week, sometimes more, and sometimes less. Contact me […]
Drug wars and the power of rhetoric
An Oct. 18, 2013 Toronto Star article is entitled: “Mental illness: is ‘chemical imbalance’ theory a myth?” Chemical balance theory has fallen in status The subhead reads: “The chemical imbalance theory has fallen in status from bedrock scientific principle to mere marketing device in the minds of many researchers.” The assumption is questioned that brain […]
Interview with Bernice Law (nee Butterfield), who grew up in Long Branch in the 1930s
As I’ve explained at a Comment in another post, I did an interview on Oct. 18, 2013 with Bernice Law (nee Butterfield), who was born in 1924 and lived at 86 Forty First Street, at a house that her father built. I’ve done several previous interviews with her. Now that I’m getting up to speed […]
During construction along Lake Shore Blvd. West, be wary of turns onto, or off of, Lake Shore (2 collisions observed in Long Branch)
During the past two days I’ve observed two car collisions – at least one of them involving personal injury – on Lake Shore Blvd. West east of Brown’s Line. The situation is as follows 1. Traffic is constricted along the construction route. Less space is available than otherwise to handle the usual flow of traffic. […]