I wish to thank Councillor Mark Grimes’ office for sharing the following notice with us: Construction Notice #1 Lake Shore Streetcar Line Platform Reconstruction Start Date: October 13, 2013* End Date: December 8, 2013* *Timelines are subject to change, content is accurate at time of printing Work Description TTC will be constructing (and modifying) streetcar […]
I’ve recently put together a text about Jane’s Walk for a book at blurb.ca that the Jane’s Walk organization is putting together, and which I look forward to publicizing in the weeks ahead. Here’s the text (see below). It will serve as a reminder to mark the date in your 2014 schedule book! Name of […]
I am currently editing a memoir that Bernice Law wrote in the course of a project that she initiated with a letter to the Toronto Star over twenty years ago. We owe thanks to Bernice Law for organizing this great local history project. First-person accounts of life along the Lakeshore in earlier times are of […]
As noted in a previous post, on one occasion I mistook a photo of the Eastwood Park Hotel for the Long Branch Hotel. I recently came across a copy of Villages of Etobicoke (1985), which features an image of the hotel. It’s an interesting book but when it comes to dates and details, I wouldn’t […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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. […]