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On Aug. 17, 2013, I spoke with Bob Cutmore, a key organizer of the Sept. 28, 2013 Doors Open event at the historic Small Arms Ltd.building in Mississauga. Mississauga Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey has described the Doors Open event at an earlier blog post. Among other things, I’m looking forward to this year’s Doors Open because […]
The following blurb at the Toronto Public Library website highlights a study by James Dawes – presented in a fractured structuring of transcripts and commentary – entitled Evil Men: Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for […]
You can access the Burra Charter here. The full text of the document is of relevance. The following excerpts offer selected highlights. Preamble The document notes (p.1): Places of cultural significance enrich people’s lives, often providing a deep and inspirational sense of connection to community and landscape, to the past and to lived experiences. It […]
In their article about church reconversions in Toronto, Jason Hackwork and Erin Gullikson (2013) describe the Bethel Green Seniors Residence as a church conversion involving mixed function and form. In such a form of church redevelopment, a building is constructed around all of part of a congregation’s initial place of worship, and a new church, or […]
This is the second year in which I’ve spoken with a Grade 4 class at École Sir Adam Beck Junior School in Toronto. My topic on May 27, 2013, as was the case last year, was one that I’m very familiar with, having spent a lifetime addressing it. I began with a question: What is […]
Updates: The following July 8, 2013 post focuses upon the Wesley Mimico redevelopment, which features a church/congregation in the role of developer of a heritage-listed property: The outcome of the Wesley Mimico redevelopment story will depend upon negotiations related to the Ontario Heritage Act Two more recent posts discuss details of the Hackworth and Gullikson […]
Updates An August 16, 2013 Globe and Mail article describes the discovery of an ancient city in Cambodia. A Jan. 3, 2014 National Geographic article is entitled: “‘Lost’ New England Revealed by High-Tech Archaeology.” The article notes: “New England’s woody hills and dales hide a secret—they weren’t always forested. Instead, many were once covered with […]
Below is a letter from David Godley of Long Branch to Lynda Tanaka, executive director of the Ontario Municipal Board, as well as a letter to the Official Plan Review team. David Godley has requested that people send an email to Lynda Tanaka at ontario.municipal.board@ontario.ca asking for a copy of her reply to this letter. […]