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How to set up a website dealing with local history; some notes about starting up and running neighbourhood associations

May 8, 2017/0 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

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Approaches to local history

March 30, 2016/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Mississauga, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill

Some years ago I became interested in gathering information about the local history of Long Branch, the neighbourhood in southern Etobicoke in the City of Toronto where I live. The Draft version that I have put together is the story about the history of Long Branch that I have assembled to date. I have prepared […]

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Interviews a great way to learn about local history

December 1, 2013/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

Before I began doing such interviews in Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey), I would never have imagined how much can be learned through extensive interviews, extending over several years, with local residents. The interviews, especially as I’ve been doing more of them and have a sense of the territory that I seek to cover, […]

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David Webster, who grew up in Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey), has a great recollection of local history dating back to the 1940s

December 1, 2013/18 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

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. […]

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