Colleen O’Marra found the Small Arms Doors Open very crowded (great turnout!)
Recent message from Colleen O’Marra (I’ve corrected my spelling of her name in previous blogs): Thanks for the corrections on my name. I enlarged that wonderful 1949 aerial photo of Long Branch by the way. It really gives you a better perspective of the Colonel’s farm especially and I can pinpoint our home above LakeProm […]
The presence of two seasoned detectives in the City of Toronto video case is of interest
Like many people I enjoy a good story. Project Traveller An Oct. 2, 2013 Globe and Mail article is entitled: “Arrest of Mayor Ford’s friend linked to larger Project Traveller investigation.” A key point, in my reading of the article, is that homicide detectives are characterized as being particularly experienced and capable. They are currently […]
Oct. 15, 2013 – 39th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards & William Kilbourn Memorial Lecture
Find information abou the Heritage Toronto Awards here. For details about upcoming events, visit the Heritage Toronto website, where you can also sign up for the Heritage Toronto e-newsletter.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (2012)
The book is highlighted in an Oct. 1, 2013 Globe and Mail article entitled: “Political dysfunction puts America on the path to poverty.” The blurb for the book at the Toronto Public Library website is a bit longer than the usual blurb. An excerpt from it reads: Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that […]
M4 Sherman Tank draws crowds at Sept. 28, 2013 Small Arms Doors Open event in Mississauga
Updates An update to this post can be found here: Colleen O’Mara found the Small Arms Doors Open very crowded (great turnout!) Some time after the event I learned that the popular children’s author Eric Walters has written several novels related to history – some dealing with the Second World War – of interest to […]
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2013)
The blurb (I’ve broken the text into shorter paragraphs) for Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2013) at the Toronto Public Library website reads: “The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, ‘a sideshow to a sideshow.’ As a […]
Blood Telegram (2013): U.S. ’embrace of military dictatorship in Islamabad would affect geopolitics for decades’
I’ve posted an update to a previous post entitled What conceptual framework drove the British to establish themselves in Long Branch? The update at the latter post is in under the heading of Geographical imagination and reads: A Sept. 26, 2013 New York Times article reviews a book entitled The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (2013). Blurb […]
Map of Mimico that accompanies CBC Metro Morning incorrectly indicates that Mimico ends at Park Lawn Road
The map of Mimico that accompanies the great CBC Metro Morning segment is of interest. The document indicates – incorrectly, I would argue – that Mimico extends extends east to the Park Lawn Road. City of Toronto documents, in contrast, indicate that Mimico extends east to the Humber River. That is what I take to […]
Islington Junior school students use technology to secure their school’s history – May 13, 2013 Etobicoke Guardian
We owe thanks to David Juliusson for letting us know of this article. [Click on link in previous sentence to access the article.] The May 13, 2013 article by Cynthia Reason begins as follows: In an exercise merging past and present, old and new, Islington Junior Middle School – the second oldest elementary school in […]
Toronto Preservation Board meeting – Oct. 3, 2013 – Intent to designate Wesley Mimico United Church under Ontario Heritage Act
The following message is from Michael Harrison: Good Morning: A report declaring the intent of the City of Toronto to designate Wesley Mimico United Church under the Ontario Heritage Act will be considered by the Toronto Preservation Board on October 3, 2013. I will be supporting the intent to designate this important Mimico landmark and […]