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Comments from Colleen O’Marra regarding next steps for the Preserved Stories website
/2 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe photo on the right of a small sample of artifacts from the 1984 dig at the Colonel Samuel Smith homestead site at 85 Forty First Street in Long Branch is from a blog post dated June 23, 2012. A previous post is entitled: Heads-up regarding next steps for the Preserved Stories website At that […]
The burning question about Scarborough’s sewage: Toronto Environmental Alliance
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’m pleased to share with you the following message from the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA): The burning question about Scarborough’s sewage What you flush down the drain at home travels to the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant, which handles 3/4 of Toronto’s biosolids. This waste is a renewable resource that gets recycled into beneficial uses like […]
The solution is located within the problem; the solution gives rise to another great problem
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA July 25, 2015 article at the Canadian Stuttering Association website is entitled: Community Involvement and Stuttering. The text, based upon a draft that I wrote on the morning of July 24, 2015 while on vacation in Prince Edward Island, reads as follows: It all began with a problem. The problem was that, fifty years […]
The 2011 Parkview School story remains a source of inspiration and celebration for local residents in South Etobicoke
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe Parkview School story remains a source of inspiration and celebration for local residents in South Etobicoke. The school in question, as we learned in October 2010, was being sold by the Toronto District School Board as the property was surplus to its needs. In the end, it was sold to the French public school […]
Archival aerial photo of Raimbault Creek (now a lost creek) in Cartierville – Many thanks to Peter Halliday
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillI was delighted to view an archival aerial photo that Peter Halliday has let us know about, in a comment at a previous post about Raimbault Creek in Cartierville. One of the delightful features of the creek was that, at least in some sections, it was left free to meander, as contrasted to being channelized. […]
Join a Jane’s Walk this weekend in South Etobicoke – April 30, 2014 Etobicoke Guardian
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAn April 30, 2014 Etobicoke Guardian article highlights the great Jane’s Walks that are taking place – rain of shine – across South Etobicoke this weekend: http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/4491684-join-a-jane-s-walk-this-weekend-in-etobicoke/ A minor correction: The log cabin at the Colonel Samuel Smith homestead site, which was built in 1797, was demolished in 1955. It ceased to be a family […]
David Webster, who grew up in Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey), has a great recollection of local history dating back to the 1940s
/18 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdates: 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. […]