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Below is the agenda: John English SAC Meeting Thursday, May 16, 2013, 7 – 8:30 pm AGENDA Welcome 7 – 7:05 Introductions Additional agenda items/other business Principal/Vice Principal’s Report 7:05 – 7:30 Board Business 7:30 – 8:30 Org chart Treasurer’s Report – year to date Fundraising Movie Night Dance-a-thon Year to date results Programs Schoolyard […]
It’s taken me some years – decades, or more precisely over half a century – to learn to finish every project that I start. I’ve become better at this task with the passage of the years and as a retired teacher I have the opportunity to finish many unfinished projects. I now try to work […]
I have an interest in learning about multimedia applications as they relate to Jane’s Walks and to my website. Because I know that much of what I can learn about such topics can be acquired by speaking to people fifty years younger than I am, I’ve been reading about media arts resources in my local […]
I’m very pleased to share with you the following message from Terry Smith of Friends of Sam Smith Park: April 12, 2013 Hi Jaan http://fourthstreetlakewindow.blogspot.ca/ Here’s a link to a blog/website I have been working on for a couple of years. It originally started with the unassumed public road allowance at the bottom of Fourth, […]
Nathan Ng has shared with me the following information: Date: Sunday, 14 April, 2013 To: Jaan Pill Subject: Fort York and Garrison Common Maps Hello! I’m sending this note because you had previously referenced a mapping project of mine, Historical Maps of Toronto, on your Preserved Stories blog. I’d like to draw your attention to another online historical […]
In a previous blog post, I referred to information we’ve acquired from Jim Carr and C.M. O’Marra regarding the motorcycle in the photo (above) taken at about 1927 at Etobicoke Creek. It’s one of the photos we are using to publicize the May 4 and 5, 2013 Jane’s Walks in Long Branch. The illustration below […]
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 […]
In a previous blog post I’ve mentioned we’re seeking details about a photo from about 1927 at Etobicoke Creek. This is the photo we are using to publicize one of the 2013 Jane’s Walks in Long Branch. Jim Carr of Toronto sent me an email on March 24, 2013 in which he mentioned: “I googled […]
I have a particular interest in the Great Lakes in the preparations for the May 4 and May 5, 2013 Jane’s Walks in Long Branch that Mike James and I will be leading near the shoreline of Lake Ontario. The following headline, photo, and opening sentences are from a March 15, 2013 CBC News report […]