An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.
Following message is from Mimico Residents Association website: Judson Street and ML Ready Mix public meeting Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Location: Trident Banquet Hall and Conference Centre, 145 Evans Avenue Etobicoke M8Z 5X8 NOTE: Room Changed **Now Salon B meeting room Residents concerned with the ML Ready Mix […]
The next meeting of the Long Branch Historical Society will take place at the Long Branch Library, 3500 Lake Shore Blvd. West, on Tues., Feb. 19, 2013 at 6:30 pm. At this event some of the artifacts from the Long Branch Historical Society archives will be on display. Next steps A General Meeting will follow chaired […]
The Built Heritage Newsletter for Jan. 22, 2013 can be found here. Among the many interesting items is this one: 3. Toronto: City-Wide Tall Building Design Guidelines include Heritage Geoff Kettel Chair North York Community Preservation Panel The city is close to finalizing draft updated City-Wide Tall Building Design Guidelines. The updated Guidelines will be […]
If you’d like to speak at the Feb. 14, 2013 meeting, please contact Janette Gerrard of the City Clerk’s Department by phone or email as indicated below. The opportunity for 28 Daisy Avenue to be designated under the Ontario Heritage Act is now approaching. If you have not yet sent an email to the Toronto Preservation Board, please […]
Panel discusses Bill 115: The Jan. 30, 2013 article by Cynthia Reason in The Etobicoke Guardian begins with this opening sentence: Etobicoke trustees helped frustrated parents put into context a situation that continues to “cast a long shadow” over their children’s school year – teachers’ continued withdrawal from extracurricular activities – at a joint forum […]
If you know of an email from the Councillor’s Office for last week, please contact me. I didn’t, to my recollection, receive an update last week. The following text is from Councillor Mark Grimes’ Office: Please see the attached pdf for the latest edition of Councillor Grimes eNews February 1, 2013 The City of Toronto […]
Peter Hall focuses, in Cities of tomorrow: An intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century, third edition (2002), on the power of ideas. Hall is also author of London voices, London lives: Tales from a working capital (2007), in which Londoners speaks of their lives in their own voices. In his […]
The Committee of Adjustment meeting regarding 11 Lake Promenade will be held on Feb. 14, 2013 at 3:00 pm. The PDF file regarding the 11 Lake Promenade application to the Committee of Adjustment can be found at this link: Committee of Adjustment February 14th A neighbour who lives in Long Branch has shared with me […]
Following text is from Matthew Premru: Hello to All, and I hope everyone’s new year is off to a good start. Work on the Mimico-by-the-Lake Secondary Plan is progressing and the Community Services Gap Analysis Study prepared by Urban Strategies is now available online under the Sub-Consultant Reports section of our homepage. As work continues, […]
Gordon Freeland of Brampton has shared the following information in an email to Denise Harris, Heritage Officer, Etobicoke Heritage Society: “Now at 82 I must accept I am part of LB history. Born Aug 11, 1930 on 9th St New Toronto, and first school was J.S. Bell til June 1939. “My father, James Freeland, immigrated […]