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In Situ event at Small Arms Inspection Building takes place on Nov. 8, 9, & 10, 2018. Buy your tickets now!
/0 Comments/in Mississauga, Newsletter/by Jaan PillClick here for previous posts about the Small Arms Inspection Building > I have been following the Small Arms story for many years. The story – featuring a successful, community-driven project to preserve and repurpose a Second World War heritage building – is highlighted at a recent post entitled: Enthusiasm for local history is not […]
Albert McFadden seeks information about families living at Long Branch Army Camp in 1950s
/3 Comments/in Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAlbert McFadden has given me permission to share the following message, from him: I believe my family (mother and 4 children) lived in the barracks in 1954 when Hurricane Hazel hit the area. The following day a bunch of us may have explored the aftermath of the storm and I remember seeing houses either floating on […]
Seeking information about the Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park in Mississauga
/3 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve recently received a message from a Wilfred Laurier student who is doing research about the history of the Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park in Mississauga. Please contact me, in the event you have information that would be helpful, with regard to the above-noted research project. I recently sent out an email to a list […]
Anna writes: The entire Brown’s Line at Lake Shore intersection “needs a redesign”
/2 Comments/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA previous post is entitled: Update regarding Dead Man’s Curve at Brown’s Line and Lake Shore Blvd. West. Commentary: An EARLIER warning would work much better A local resident, Anna, has offered the following comment, and has given me permission to post it: I appreciated hearing your thoughts on dead man’s curve. I have often […]
A retrospective look by Bert Eccles (MCHS 1968) at what was going on outside the walls of Morison School during the seven years he was there
/11 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI am very pleased that at a previous post about Morison School in Montreal, which I attended in the 1950s, we now have forty comments. I am pleased about the forty comments because I see such tremendous value in the sharing of a wide range of viewpoints and reminiscences at the Preserved Stories website. In […]
Pages 2 & 3 of Guidelines Draft: Exmoor Drive above TTC Loop is now included in Long Branch Guidelines project
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdate: A more complete and highly informative overview of the contents of the Feb. 7, 2017 Long Branch Urban Design Guidelines Draft Document is available at the website of Ward 6 Councillor Mark Grimes. We owe thanks to Councillor Grimes for the role that he and his office have played in the initiation and development […]
Where will the people go: Toronto’s Emergency Housing Program and the Limits of Canadian Social Housing Policy, 1944-1957
/15 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA subsequent post is entitled: Toronto’s 1950s emergency housing: An informative, comprehensive overview by Kevin Brushett (2007) A previous post is entitled: Seeking information: Wartime and postwar housing at Small Arms Ltd. in Lakeview and elsewhere I have recently learned of a March 1, 2007 paper, in the Journal of Urban History, entitled “Where will […]