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A June 23, 2014 Torontoist article – by former Globe and Mail writer John Barber – is entitled: “Speaking Lies for Power.” The subtitle reads: “How Toronto’s dailies are failing their readers, and failing to hold politicians to account.” This, in my view, is an interesting article about changes that have been occurring in the […]
The following post is dedicated to a range of topics. The links are also posted at the Long Branch Historical Facebook page. When I drink coffee, sometimes a question comes to mind. Sense making The question is: How do we make sense of the world? What are the means that we use to make sense of […]
We know a fair amount is know about human memory – what it is, how it works, and how sometimes it fails us. Among other things as Daniel L. Schacter (2001) notes, memory is subject to blocking, misattribution, bias, persistence, and suggestibility. Two good sources, among others, about what research has revealed about memory are […]
I like from time to time to share reports, articles, and viewpoints from a wide range of visitors to the Preserved stories website. Such items do not necessarily represent my own views, and do not serve as my endorsement of particular viewpoints. The following text and photos – which you can enlarge by clicking on each […]
I’m pleased to share with you information about some great free events related to Jane’s Walk that you can access at andthecity.eventbrite.ca Connect, share, and learn The purpose of these informal, interactive workshops is to develop Jane’s Walks on eight themes that matter in Toronto. I learned about these events just recently, when I attended […]
This post is a follow-up to an earlier post about Cartierville School. A useful reference, regarding topics in the post, is A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998 (2004). You can access the study online at Google Books. You can do a search for “Cartierville” at the link in the previous sentence. […]
The story of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey) began about 10,000 years ago when Palaeo-Indian nomadic hunters first arrived in Southern Ontario at the end of the last Ice Age. I enjoy imagining those times, and reading about the experiences of hunter-gatherers. Imagination is at play when we picture the past, as it is […]
As a follow-up to a recent post about Tecumseh, I’ve borrowed Tecumseh: A Life (1997) from the Toronto Public Library. Given that it came out in 1997, it’s understandable that John Sugden’s book is dated in one aspect of terminology. He uses the term Indians as contrasted to terms, such as First Nations, that are […]
This post is related to a similar post on June 24, 2013. The latter post has had many page views, on average quite lengthy ones relatively speaking. Average visits to the above-noted post have averaged over five minutes in duration, whereas the average current duration of visits to the site as a whole is about […]