Message from Matthew Premru: Hello to All, just a quick reminder that the link to City Planning staff’s Final Report for the Mimico-by-the-Lake Secondary Plan is available on the April 9, 2013 Etobicoke York Community Council agenda page (scroll down to Background Information): http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2013.EY23.6 Thank you.
As Eric Hobsbawm has remarked in a classic study, The invention of tradition (1983), traditions don’t spring out of nowhere. They have to be invented. The same can be said of nation states, which Benedict Arnold famously spoke of as imagined communities. As a March 28, 2013 Globe and Mail article indicates, sometimes these imagined communities have a limited impact on […]
RALLY AGAINST U OF T BACK CAMPUS PROPOSAL Campus Common or Field Hockey Pitches April 2, 12:00, meet at Soldier’s Tower, next to Hart House The headline, subhead, and opening paragraphs of a Feb. 25, 2013 article by Theodore Yan in The Varsity reads as follows: Turf war over fate of U of T Back […]
Following message is from Harry Oussoren: The Wesley Mimico United Church Faith & Hope Team invites you to attend the 7th Community Forum to be held on Monday, April 8th, 7:30 p.m. in Wesley Mimico United Church, foyer area (enter by main doors). The purpose of the Community Forum is to continue the dialogue between the […]
Following text is from Inspiration Lakeview: Join us at the Public Information Centre meeting for the Lakeview Waterfront Connection Project Environmental Assessment April 03, 2013: 4:30 – 9:00 p. Mississauga Senior Centre on Cawthra Road The Region of Peel and Credit Valley Conservation with support from Toronto and Region Conservation and the City of Mississauga […]
Aviation in Canada: The Pioneer Decades (2008) by Larry Milberry is described as “the first general interest book dedicated to Canada’s beginnings in flight.” I became interested in the book as a result of receiving a JPEG file of a photo (see below) by Bob Lansdale of a photo of the “Y” Squadron air crew, Long Branch. […]
Effectively Conserving and Managing Heritage Places of Worship The following text is from p. 24 of Heritage Places of Worship – A Guide to Conserving Heritage Places of Worship in Ontario Communities. A related website of interest is Ontario Heritage Trust – Ontario’s Places of Worship. The introductory text (p. 24) in the section of […]
This post concerns the relationship between places of worship and the faith communities that are associated with them. According to an Ontario Heritage Toolkit document, “place of worship” is an inclusive term that encompasses: churches mosques synagogues temples chapels such as within convents or seminaries shrines, meeting houses, or other places of assembly for religious […]
Stories related to what to do with historic church buildings appear frequently, given a variety of converging factors, as the Wesley Mimico redevelopment story illustrates. For your interest, the following headline and opening paragraphs are from a March 29, 2013 Globe and Mail article about the adaptive-reuse of a convent in Montreal: Concordia University’s new […]