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In previous posts, I have shared reflections regarding the distinction between rhetoric and reality, as it relates to community participation in decisions affecting residents of Ward 6 in Etobicoke. The rhetoric is impressive, the reality less so; this is presumably the outcome of a political economy whose foundations were established many decades ago: Beware the […]
Hurricane Hazel Night At Lambton House 4066 Old Dundas Street Here’s the poster: Oct. 8th 2015[2] [See the jpeg version of the file at the end of this message.] Thursday October 8th, 2015 Dan Sandink of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction At 7:30 PM Mr. Sandink will speak about Hurricane Hazel and Weather Now […]
In recent years I’ve written several blog posts about the history dating back to the 1940s, that is connected with the Small Arms Building, located at 1352 Lakeshore Road East at the foot of Dixie Road. Click here to access Heritage Mississauga overview of Small Arms Ltd. story > Originally dedicated to the inspection of […]
As I have noted in previous posts, I have much enjoyed previous Doors Open events at the Small Arms building at Dixie Road and Lakeshore Road East. In my experience, the quality of communications associated with each year’s event, and the quality of programming, is exemplary and warrants celebration. Click here to access Heritage Mississauga overview […]
I have an interest in military history including the history of the British empire. My interest in the latter empire stems from the fact that Colonel Samuel Smith, who fought on the British side in the American Revolutionary War, in 1797 built a log cabin a one-minute walk from where I live in Long Branch (Toronto […]
I much enjoy viewing the mural, related to military history, located at Dixie Road and Lakeshore Road East in Mississauga. This is an impressive and engaging work of art, presented in what I like to characterize as an open-air art gallery. This post focuses on some of the details featured in the mural. You can click […]
I am currently editing a memoir that Bernice Law wrote in the course of a project that she initiated with a letter to the Toronto Star over twenty years ago. We owe thanks to Bernice Law for organizing this great local history project. First-person accounts of life along the Lakeshore in earlier times are of […]
Recent message from Colleen O’Marra (I’ve corrected my spelling of her name in previous blogs): Thanks for the corrections on my name. I enlarged that wonderful 1949 aerial photo of Long Branch by the way. It really gives you a better perspective of the Colonel’s farm especially and I can pinpoint our home above LakeProm […]
Updates An update to this post can be found here: Colleen O’Mara found the Small Arms Doors Open very crowded (great turnout!) Some time after the event I learned that the popular children’s author Eric Walters has written several novels related to history – some dealing with the Second World War – of interest to […]