An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Donna Magee informs us: On Friday October 4th there is an Education Day. and on Saturday October 5th, the re-enactment of the Battle of the Thames in which the great warrior Tecumseh was killed. Chatham ON. I believe there is a new Tecemseh Centre there as well. Suggest you take a look at the website. […]
The Technique of Film Editing, Second Edition (1968) is a classic text by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar that is read even now by film students. It’s a useful resource for anybody interested in how stories are put together, and how life is viewed and experienced, then and now. Because I’m currently taking a film editing […]
I am pleased to pass along the following message, in the hope that we can offer assistance: I have a friend, Andrew Price of London, who is trying to find a contact for his late mother’s Elizabeth Violet Wheal’s brother, by name of Ian Wheal of Toronto. I came across this Ian Wheal and was […]