An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.
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 […]
To print the article mentioned in this post, you need to go to the print tab located at the end of the text. If you try to print out from within Safari or perhaps another browser, you may end up with a frozen browser, which is what happened to me. To get to the article, […]
To find out, click here. I learned of Placemaking from the Fort York Foundation at @fyfoundation My Twitter handle is @jaanpill I also follow @KBlackMuseums @TOhistoricsites and @fortyork I enjoy reading visiting and reading about Fort York: What can we learn about evidence-based practice when we read about Tecumseh? Another Pacemaking post can be found […]
You can access the page here. [Click on link in previous sentence to access the Objections and Response page.] Comment Background about the story, as it has been unfolding, can be accessed at the Wesley Mimico United Church category at the Preserved Stories website. The one blog post that sums up my own understanding 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 […]
Following information is from Lakeshore Planning Council: Lakeshore Planning Council General Meeting Guest Speaker – Lauren Archer, Preservation Officer, City of Toronto Heritage Preservation Services Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 At: LAMP, 185 Fifth St., Etobicoke- 7 TO 9 pm See attached flyer: Lakeshore Planning Council Guest Speaker Oct. 29, 2013 All are welcome!
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 […]
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