The document can be accessed at a website which outlines its key features. The website notes that The Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada is the first-ever pan-Canadian benchmark for heritage conservation practice in this country. It offers results-oriented guidance for sound decision-making when planning for, intervening on and using historic […]
Because Laurel Broten, among her many other contributions to the well being of our communities, played a key role in keeping Parkview School in public hands, as explained at this website, I served as a volunteer in her previous campaign and am serving as a volunteer in Peter Milczyn’s campaign. I’ve also discussed Laurel Broten’s […]
I much enjoy reading news from or about Fort York. Below is a link to the June 2013 Fife and Drum newsletter, published by Friends of Fort York: fife-and-drum-june-2013 The lead article features Laura Secord. I much enjoyed a heritage walk some time ago, organized in association with Fort York, where participants traced the path […]
A previous post is devoted to Table 1 from a paper by Hackworth and Gullikson (2013) about church conversions in Toronto. Table 2 from the paper (see below) presents 33 church conversions in terms of three categories. A fourth category involves no change. That is, the site of a church remains religious in form and […]
Update A June 4, 2018 CBC article is entitled: “This pastor closed his church: Graham Singh is saving a Montreal church by first closing the doors, then opening them wider than ever.” [End] In a previous post, I have summarized a paper by Hackworth and Gullikson (2013) regarding church conversions in Toronto. Below is […]
What is worth preserving? Our attitudes toward ruins and historically significant buildings and cultural landscapes have a relationship to a wider conversation about what matters. After the Second World War, destruction of heritage properties and landscapes was the norm in much of the world, a practice which in some cases continues today. Jane Jacobs among […]
Previous posts have discussed 28 Daisy Avenue. You can find them by clicking on the link at the previous sentence, or through a Google search for “28 Daisy Avenue Preserved Stories.” I especially like the information that there was a time in the 1910s and later where you could see clear to Lake Ontario from […]
[Update: Highland Creek was highlighted in a CBC Radio Metro Morning broadcast in the fall of 2013. The CBC link (see previous sentence) introduces Highland Creek as follows: Highland Creek is in the south-east corner of Scarborough bordered … It has roots in the 1800s, and it’s been described as still having that “small village” […]
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The article can be found here. I owe thanks to Abbe Edelson for letting me know about this editorial, which begins with the following opening line: “It may be counterintuitive, but the suggestion that both developers and residents dislike Mimico’s proposed revitalization plan may actually be good for the sleepy lakeside community.”