The following message of July 26, 2013 is from Michael Charendoff, Coordinator, Watershed Projects, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority: [It’s taken me until July 30 to post it as I am on a Summer Schedule in my volunteer work at the Preserved Stories website.] Message from Michael Charendoff: Good afternoon, The Region of Peel and […]
The following text is by David Switzer of Long Branch: The LWC is a Peel project to create a wetland/meadow peninsula around the water treatment plant. To protect it from erosion the suggested plan would have angled the shore line using a cobbled beach. This would eliminate the existing sandy beach west of the channelized […]
From a reliable source I have received the following information: Credit Valley Conservation Authority are doing some more consultation. It is not known what notification has been done so please circulate! Begin forwarded message: From: Kate Date: July 23, 2013 9:32:38 am Subject: RE: Marie Curtis It is tomorrow and yes for public and aimed […]
The headline and subhead for a July 19, 2013 Toronto Star excerpt from Along the Shore (2013) reads as follows: Along the Shore: Book Excerpt In Along the Shore, Rediscovering Toronto’s Waterfront Heritage, M. Jane Fairburn explores the area’s history. The following is an edited excerpt. You can access the excerpt here. This is an […]
This post is related to a similar post on June 24, 2013. The latter post has had many page views, on average quite lengthy ones relatively speaking. Average visits to the above-noted post have averaged over five minutes in duration, whereas the average current duration of visits to the site as a whole is about […]
I’ve recently received a message: FYI – The house at 11 Lake Promenade has recently been torn down.
I’ve been following with interest recent online discussions regarding extreme weather and climate change. A July 11, 2013 CBC article suggests that “soft engineering” including urban parks and porous pavement might help, although costly sewers would nonetheless still need to be replaced. The article quotes Jane Wolff, an associate professor of landscape architecture and design at the […]
Update: A Feb. 21, 2014 New Yorker article is entitled: “Why is academic writing so academic?” [End of update] We can speak of rhetoric from a variety of perspectives. Rhetoric is a great topic for academic study. By way of example, early in his career Marshall McLuhan developed expertise in rhetoric as a field of […]
Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey) has many characteristics. The characterization depends upon the observer. I much appreciate a recent message from Colleen O’Marra (see below), which has given rise to this blog post. My friend Sid Olvet of Oakville has remarked that each person who encounters Long Branch encounters it according to the era, […]
Ann Gates posted the following comment on June 24, 2013 at an earlier blog post regarding the sand beach at Marie Curtis Park: I also walk the beaches almost every day. The idea that we would pay money to cover up a sandy beach with cobble stones is just hard to understand. People take vacations to […]