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As I’ve noted elsewhere, we know little about the personality of Colonel Samuel Smith. Because he built a cabin in 1797, after the American Revolutionary War, on what is now the school grounds of Parkview School at 85 Forty First Street in Long Branch, in the southwest corner of the City of Toronto, his story is […]
Museums have a relationship to history, a relationship that’s been explored in some depth. In Theorizing Museums (1996), there’s a reference to Timothy Mitchell’s observation that in nineteenth-century Europe, the museum exhibit was constructed as a simulation of external reality, with a clear sense of separation between the reality and the representation. A European museum-goer […]
Natalie Zemon Davis has recently been named a Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition of her “distinguished contributions to the field of history, notably her pioneering approach to previously unexamined aspects of social history.” Among her books are Trickster travels: a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds, Women on the margins: Three seventeenth-century lives, and […]
The following message, was sent by Harry Oussoren to Matthew Premru of the City of Toronto. Date: June 28, 2012 Subject: MLN Response Dear Matthew: On behalf of the MLN Steering Group, I forward to you and your colleagues in the City of Toronto Planning Department the considered response to various questions posed by the Planning […]
Jeremy Black is author of many books, three of which I’ll discuss in this blog post: (1) Beyond the military revolution: War in the seventeenth-century world (2011). (2) War and the new disorder in the 21st century (2004) and (3) War and the cultural turn (2012). In Beyond the military revolution (2011), Jeremy Black demonstrates cogency, […]
JOIN your neighbours. In keeping with RASL’s desire to maintain and/or enhance the character of our South Long Branch neighbourhood we are committed to supporting residents who are facing adverse development applications. The following request has been submitted to RASL members on behalf of the neighbours of 168 Lake Promenade. As always, support of RASL […]
Presented by Friends of Centennial Park Conservatory “Heritage Tree – Preserving Our Natural Roots” Guest Speaker: Edith George Edith George is an advisor to the Ontario Urban Forest Council and is a past director of the board of the Weston Historical Society. What is a heritage tree? “As more people learn about the importance of […]