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I recently spoke with two former Long Branch residents, Jim Bray and his daughter Sandy Bray, who have filled me in on details, that I was not aware of, related to the barns at the Colonel Samuel Smith homestead site. Jim Bray has also shared some comments at a couple of recent blog posts related […]
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 […]
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 […]
Following message is from Michael Harrison: Good Morning: At its meeting of October 3, 2013 the Toronto Preservation Board adopted an amended recommendation (to delete the interior space from the list of historical attributes) from planning staff on the intent to designate the Wesley Mimico United Church under the Ontario Heritage Act. The adopted report […]
With regard to the Small Arms Doors Open, I was delighted to learn recently that Eric Walters has written several books for young readers dealing with Canada’s role in the Second World War. I’ve known of Eric Walters for some time. He made one or more presentations at Munden Park Public School in Mississauga during […]
The blurb (I’ve broken the text into shorter paragraphs) for Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2013) at the Toronto Public Library website reads: “The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, ‘a sideshow to a sideshow.’ As a […]
I’ve posted an update to a previous post entitled What conceptual framework drove the British to establish themselves in Long Branch? The update at the latter post is in under the heading of Geographical imagination and reads: A Sept. 26, 2013 New York Times article reviews a book entitled The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (2013). Blurb […]
The map of Mimico that accompanies the great CBC Metro Morning segment is of interest. The document indicates – incorrectly, I would argue – that Mimico extends extends east to the Park Lawn Road. City of Toronto documents, in contrast, indicate that Mimico extends east to the Humber River. That is what I take to […]
We owe thanks to David Juliusson for letting us know of this article. [Click on link in previous sentence to access the article.] The May 13, 2013 article by Cynthia Reason begins as follows: In an exercise merging past and present, old and new, Islington Junior Middle School – the second oldest elementary school in […]