As you may know, the Preserved Stories website has a good number of posts devoted to the most recent draft – published in February 2017 – of the Long Branch Urban Design Guidelines project. The latter project involves input from a broad range of people, expressing a wide range of viewpoints, developed in an environment where […]
Click here for previous posts about the Aboriginal Movie Cafe > The following details are from the Humber College (Lakeshore Campus) Aboriginal Resource Centre: This month’s Aboriginal Movie Café will feature the film Two Spirits. The film is on June 15, 2017 at 1:30 – 3:30 pm. The screening will take place on the second floor […]
Update The house has been sold.
The following message is from Brian Liberty of Long Branch: Greetings from Long Branch! You are invited to a community meeting regarding the Long Branch Neighbourhood Association. Please see the attached meeting notice. June5 flyer7 Details: Date: June 5, 2017 Time: 7pm Location: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 101 (downstairs in ‘The Clubhouse’), 3850 Lake Shore […]
A May 26, 2017 tweet from the Rockwood Homeowners’ Association (RHA), founded in 1997 and located in Ward 3 at the City of Mississauga, reads: Rockwood_RHA @rockwood_rha Concerned about increased air traffic in Rockwood Village? Voice your concerns this Saturday. #Mississauga [End] The tweet included the following notice: GTAA Click here for previous […]
May 23, 2917 Port Credit – Hazel McCallion: “We have preserved the waterfront” At a May 23, 2017 Port Credit Official Plan Amendment (OPA) meeting, Hazel McCallion lauded the ongoing redevelopment of Mississauga’s waterfront. The former mayor of the City of Mississauga also shared apt words of praise for Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey, a […]
A May 25, 2017 CBC article is entitled: “Government accused of hoarding Canadian history in ‘secret’ archives: ‘You’re hiding the historical record from the Canadian people,’ historian says.” The opening paragraphs read: Some of Canada’s leading historians say the federal government is putting the country’s historical record at risk by hoarding piles of documents inside secret […]
Click on images to enlarge them; click again to enlarge them further The following message was posted at a local Neighbourhood Watch Facebook page; the introduction to the text reads: Good read. This car was spotted by a few local residents in the Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch neighbourhoods and reported. Video related to […]
I much value the support that has been expressed from time to time by local residents, for the work that I do in sharing a few stories, when I have time, at the Preserved Stories website. The ‘four sisters’ story (I think there were four towers, but could be wrong) in Lakeview appears to be […]
I’ve been involved with local history as it relates especially to Long Branch for a short time, about 10 years. It’s been a most interesting form of education, for me. I have lived in Long Branch for 20 years. One of the underlying themes that has emerged, during the few years that I have observed […]