An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.
In a previous blog post I described what Steve Roud (2006) has characterized as a traditional English event occurring in the first Saturday in May. That is a day that corresponds with Saturday, May 4, 2013. In the context of the Sunday, May 5, 2013 Jane’s Walk in South Long Branch, we turn next to what […]
Update: This topic is also discussed in another blog post. It’s also discussed at this blog post highlighting comments from David Switzer of Long Branch. I didn’t have the opportunity to attend the recent consultation about the Lakeview Waterfront Connection Project Environmental Assessment in Mississauga. It’s my understanding, however, that one of the options would involve […]
It’s my understanding that the latest proposal is for an 8 storey apartment with 201 units and commercial at grade, a single storey retail/commercial building, and 300 townhouses. Community Consultation: Thursday April, 2013 at 6.30 p.m. in the East Community Room at the Assembly Hall, 1 Col. Sam Smith Park Drive (Kipling and Lakeshore) The […]
C. O’Marra writes: Did you ever find out what happened to the Colonel Smith homestead artifacts found almost thirty years ago? I read an incredibly detailed description of the dig. The only maddening thing. Not ONE blessed word of artifacts found, not one. Why all the secrecy? Was this a private company project ? (C. […]
I strongly urge you to write an email in support of the designation discussed below. The following message of March 27, 2013 is from the City Clerk’s Office: On April 9, 2013, starting at 9:30 a.m.The Etobicoke York Community Council will meet in The Council Chamber, Main Floor, Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 The West Mall. The […]
Following message is from Trustee Gough’s Office: Good Afternoon, There are Parent Engagement Workshops being held at various locations during April, May and June of 2013. If you are able to attend any of these workshops, could you please advise Trustee Gough’s office at Debbie.Wagdin@tdsb.on.ca. We would be interested in hearing your feedback on the […]
Message from Matthew Premru: Hello to All, just a quick reminder that the link to City Planning staff’s Final Report for the Mimico-by-the-Lake Secondary Plan is available on the April 9, 2013 Etobicoke York Community Council agenda page (scroll down to Background Information): http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2013.EY23.6 Thank you.
As Eric Hobsbawm has remarked in a classic study, The invention of tradition (1983), traditions don’t spring out of nowhere. They have to be invented. The same can be said of nation states, which Benedict Arnold famously spoke of as imagined communities. As a March 28, 2013 Globe and Mail article indicates, sometimes these imagined communities have a limited impact on […]
Following message is from Harry Oussoren: The Wesley Mimico United Church Faith & Hope Team invites you to attend the 7th Community Forum to be held on Monday, April 8th, 7:30 p.m. in Wesley Mimico United Church, foyer area (enter by main doors). The purpose of the Community Forum is to continue the dialogue between the […]