21Long Branch community rallies as construction threatens to destroy 160-year-old tree – March 9, 2021 CBC articleMarch 10, 2021/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
22West Long Branch residents fight to save historic 160-year-old Black Barn Maple tree – March 6, 2021: South Etobicoke NewsMarch 9, 2021/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
2377 Thirty Fifth Street TLAB decision warrants a close read: ‘From a planning perspective, it is not desirable nor appropriate to allow a development at the expense of damage (if not removal) of two mature trees that are not on the Subject Property’September 13, 2020/0 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
24Which way the wind is blowing: Overview of David Godley’s comments regarding revision of Toronto’s Official PlanDecember 24, 2019/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
25How to set up a local history website; some notes about starting neighbourhood associations; value of letter-writing efforts; plus notes on committee of adjustment meetingsSeptember 18, 2019/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto, Uncategorized/by Jaan Pill
26In worldwide colonial history Indigenous peoples succumbed to disease arriving with settler society, were pushed aside to marginal lands, or were killed; many resistedAugust 25, 2019/1 Comment/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
27Dictionary of Canadian Biography speaks of Colonel Samuel Smith in his retirement years – as the first settler landowner in Long Branch, following his years of service in War of the American RevolutionAugust 23, 2019/0 Comments/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
28My interest in colonial and military history began with a study of local history in TorontoAugust 18, 2019/2 Comments/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
29World history of land use helps explain many things, including why African-American families are losing their landAugust 17, 2019/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
30I have learned much of value since 2012, when after a long planning process, I launched the Preserved Stories websiteOctober 18, 2018/2 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill