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I’ve been reading books about the 1950s and 1960s. 1959 Among them is: 1959: The Year that Changed Everything (2009). Chapter 20, “Seeing the Invisible,” concerns the work of the photographer Robert Frank, with a focus on the latter’s The Americans (2008). Frank Kaplan, the author of 1959, has a Ph.D. from MIT in political […]
Update: Ward 1 Mississauga Councillor Jim Tovey has informed us: “We will be moving the Mural to the building facade in the spring.” [End of update] I enjoy visiting the military history mural at Dixie Road and Lakeshore Road East in Lakeview in Mississauga next to the starting point for the Hanlan Water Project. The […]
A major project currently underway in Mississauga is the Hanlan Water Project. Below are links for each of the three contracts associated with this project. Contract 1 involves the tunnelling that is taking place along Lakeshore Rd and up Dixie Road to Golden Orchard Drive Contract 2 involves the open cut work taking place on […]
Old Mill Toronto has a close connection with military history. By way of example, I recently learned, on a CBC The Current broadcast, that Veronica Foster – also known as Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl during the Second World War – performed as a musician at Old Mill Toronto during the postwar years. Despite the […]
The Autumn 2014 issue of Arms2Arts, the newsletter of the Small Arms Society in Lakeview (Mississauga) can be accessed here: Arms2Arts Fall 2014 Newsletter The newsletter shares the following text – to which I’ve added headings – regarding the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry 100th anniversary events, which take place Sept. 7, 2014 in Mississauga: […]
The Autumn 2014 issue of Arms2Arts, the newsletter of the Small Arms Society in Lakeview (Mississauga) can be accessed here: Arms2Arts Fall 2014 Newsletter A personal invitation from Bob Cutmore, Small Arms Society Chair, to join the Society for Two Special Events The following text by Bob Cutmore, to which I’ve added a heading, is […]
The following text, which I’m pleased to share with you, was forwarded to me by David Juliusson: PPCLI Memorial Baton Relay September 7, 2014, 10 am Trinity Church, 26 Stavebank Road N., Mississauga Canada’s famous Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry [that is, the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Regiment] (PPCLI) is celebrating 100 years of service. […]