Culture Days update — Everyone can participate

Subject: Culture Days update — Everyone can participate Culture Days – be involved — September 28, 29 and 30, 2012 Pass this along to everyone and anyone who might want to be part of the Lakeshore Culture Crawl! And remember to upload your events onto the Culture Days website –- If we all use Lakeshore […]

Call for Opposition – 168 Lake Promenade, June 28, 2012: Message from Ratepayers’ Association of South Long Branch

JOIN your neighbours. In keeping with RASL’s desire to maintain and/or enhance the character of our South Long Branch neighbourhood we are committed to supporting residents who are facing adverse development applications. The following request has been submitted to RASL members on behalf of the neighbours of 168 Lake Promenade. As always, support of RASL […]

Tonight Newspaper (June 15-17, 2012: Vol. 03, Issue 190) highlights Long Branch in its ‘cottage country’ days

An article in the weekend edition (June 15-17 , 2012: Vol. 03, Isue 190) of The Tonight Newspaper provides a good overview of the early history of Long Branch as an early ‘cottage country’ resort. Click on the link, “The Tonight Newspaper,” in the paragraph above. That will take you to the edition of the […]

Further comments from Richard McQuade concerning Long Branch archives

Richard McQuade, whose earlier comments are included in a recent blog post about the Long Branch archives, has shared the following comments. For ease of online reading, I’ve subdivided longer paragraphs into shorter ones. Richard McQuade comments: “I find some of the comments interesting and am not entirely in agreement with some of them. For […]

Message from LEAF — Please sign up online to become an volunteer EAB (Emerald Ash Borer) Ambassador.

Dear LEAF Volunteers, We are calling on every single LEAF volunteer to help rewrite the story of how Emerald Ash Borer will affect our city. This invasive insect is threatening 860,000 ash trees and we’re asking people to spend an hour or more of their time to become an EAB Ambassadors and help educate your […]

Michael Harrison will talk about The Estates of Mimico Beach on Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Estates of Mimico Beach: June 19, 2012 A news update from the Long Branch Historical Society is available elsewhere on this site. Our next meeting is at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at the Long Branch Library at 3500 Lake Shore Blvd. West. The meetings are open to the public and there […]

What are the next steps for the archives of the Long Branch Historical Society? (post of June 9, 2012)

You’re invited to a presentation on June 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm – “Heritage Tree – Preserving Our Natural Roots”

Presented by Friends of Centennial Park Conservatory “Heritage Tree – Preserving Our Natural Roots” Guest Speaker: Edith George Edith George is an advisor to the Ontario Urban Forest Council and is a past director of the board of the Weston Historical Society. What is a heritage tree? “As more people learn about the importance of […]

Frontier as metaphor