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Wesley Mimico update – a second submission for the rezoning application

I’ve been following with interest the Wesley Mimico United Church redevelopment story since February 2012. From what I can gather, the heritage attributes of the Wesley Mimico United Church building, as identified by City of Toronto heritage preservation staff, will determine the narrative arc of the redevelopment. I learned about the project when I was […]

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Weston’s mayoral chain of office goes missing – 46 years after it was last worn (Metro News, Dec. 26, 2013)

The opening paragraphs of the article read: Though it hasn’t graced the chest of a chief magistrate in close to half a century, history buffs in Weston are aghast that their former town’s mayoral chain of office is missing. The alarm was raised on Dec. 4, when staff at the neighbourhood’s library – historic in […]

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The Technique of Film Editing (1968) is a classic text for film students

The following text is based upon a previous post entitled Drug Wars (2013) updates. It focuses and enlarges upon themes related to editing, contextualization, and management of attention and emotional response in accordance with principles of instrumental reason in a machine in the garden era. Film history We are dealing with history, and its conceptualization. Heritage […]

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Doors Open event at Small Arms on Sept. 28, 2013 will feature an estimated 3,000 attendees

On Aug. 17, 2013, I spoke with Bob Cutmore, a key organizer of the Sept. 28, 2013 Doors Open event at the historic Small Arms Ltd.building in Mississauga. Mississauga Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey has described the Doors Open event at an earlier blog post. Among other things, I’m looking forward to this year’s Doors Open because […]

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What is worth preserving?

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 […]

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Here’s the church and there’s the congregation – Church and sect in Canada (1948)

What space can be used for is a question that concerns the geographical imagination, in the sense that James A. Tyner (2012) speaks of a person’s imagination. Although Tyner has, in the above-noted study, applied the concept of the geographical imagination specifically to the study of genocide, his conceptualization is equally applicable to other discussions – that […]

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Next steps for Main Street Unionville, Ontario

I have an interest in Unionville following a visit to the town a year of two ago. I was interested to learn of its history, and what has been done to preserve heritage buildings. After that visit, I subscribed to an email newsletter from the Unionville BIA. The following information is from the newsletter. I […]

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Schedule of Lost River Walks in Toronto

You can find the schedule here. Below is information from the Lost River web page that you can access at the link in the previous sentence. You can access the live links by going to the above-noted web page, which is part of the Toronto Green Community website. Sunday, May 19, 2013, 2 pm – Daylighting […]