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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. I like to post such reports because I like the Preserved Stories to feature […]
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 […]
I often drive by 198 New Toronto St. in south Etobicoke where Lantic Sugar is located. The first link in the sentence above gives you a Google Street view of the location. The second link gives you an overview describing how sugar is refined. Whenever I drive by the Lantic Sugar plant, I think of […]
Updates: Colleen O’Marra – see Comments at the end of this post – has added details about Police Chief Smythe that I read with much interest. For additional comments about Toronto-area postwar emergency housing, click here > [End] I had the good fortune to spend a couple of hours on the morning of Dec. […]
Updates: Regarding the switching of lanes on Lake Shore Blvd. West at Fortieth Street, I’m pleased to share with you the following Nov. 27, 2013 message from Councillor Mark Grimes’ office: Staff have reviewed the collision history Eastbound on Lake Shore Boulevard West between Brown’s Line off ramp and Fortieth Street, for a five year […]
Reminder concerning a notice posted earlier at this website: Third Open House & Public Meeting for Lakeview Waterfront Connection Project Environmental Assessment Wednesday, November 20, 2013 from 4:30 – 7:45 p.m. Oasis Convention Centre, Mississauga 036 Lakeshore Rd E Mississauga, ON L5E 1E4 The location is at the intersection of Odgen Avenue and Lakeshore […]
Updates: A Feb. 1, 2014 Toronto Star article is entitled: “Crazy Town: The Rob Ford story, exclusive excerpt of Robyn Doolittle’s book.” A Feb. 2, 2014 CBC interview with Robyn Doolittle on The National can be accessed here. A Feb. 13, 2014 Globe and Mail article is entitled: “Police seek more answers from residents of […]
Recent message from Colleen O’Marra (I’ve corrected my spelling of her name in previous blogs): Thanks for the corrections on my name. I enlarged that wonderful 1949 aerial photo of Long Branch by the way. It really gives you a better perspective of the Colonel’s farm especially and I can pinpoint our home above LakeProm […]
I was interested to read an Aug. 4, 2013 Globe and Mail article about Driving while Drowsy. The opening paragraphs of the article read: “Nearly a third of respondents in a recent Insurance Corporation of B.C. survey admitted to having nodded off at the wheel at some point in their lives – an alarming statistic […]
In their article about church reconversions in Toronto, Jason Hackwork and Erin Gullikson (2013) describe the Bethel Green Seniors Residence as a church conversion involving mixed function and form. In such a form of church redevelopment, a building is constructed around all of part of a congregation’s initial place of worship, and a new church, or […]