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The 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 […]
My previous comments, regarding an earlier, February 2017 version of the Long Branch Character Guidelines draft, are at a post entitled: Input from Jaan Pill of Preserved Stories regarding Feb. 7, 2017 Long Branch Guidelines Draft My current comments address the more recent, August 2017 version of the Guidelines draft. The latter draft, on which my […]
You can access details at Lakeshore Connecting Communities. Previous posts about Mississauga Click here to access previous posts about Mississauga > Commentary My anecdotal evidence suggests to me that civic engagement in Mississauga is qualitatively different from civic engagement in Toronto. At the risk of generalizing (by which I mean there may be exceptions), civic […]
A previous post is entitled: Route 501: New art exhibit launching Aug 30, 2017 at Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre I attended the opening, on Aug. 30, 2017, of the above-noted exhibit, and I was very highly impressed. I very much like the idea of pen and wash paintings to highlight features of South Etobicoke history. This […]
The image is from a late August 2017 tweet from Paul Seesequasis @paulseesequa who writes: ‘Ready Made Farms..On Virgin Soil..For British Farmers’ I have posted the image because one of my current projects, related to local history, involves learning about Canadian (including Canadian Indigenous) history, and about the history of the British empire, from a […]
Note concerning photo on the right The calligraphic pen on the right is from Staples. The blue notebook is from Curry’s Artists’ Materials. These are my favourite writing instruments. Some of my best writing, including the introduction to A History of Long Branch, has been done using them. The coffee cup is courtesy of Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Peter Milczyn’s Office. […]
The following update is from David Godley of Long Branch: Long Branch is desperately hoping for sunny ways with the beginning of the Toronto Local Appeal Board 1) Application Status 2) Long Branch Neighbourhood Association 3) Willowdale Urban Desogn Guidelines 4) Long Branch Plaza 5) Inspiration Lakeview David’s message includes the following attached file: […]
Click on images to enlarge them; click again to enlarge them further The following message was posted at a local Neighbourhood Watch Facebook page; the introduction to the text reads: Good read. This car was spotted by a few local residents in the Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch neighbourhoods and reported. Video related to […]
I’ve had an inquiry about who James S. Bell was. I’ve tried to answer as best I can; it’s a topic that students at Lakeshore Collegiate have recently been asking about, as many of them went to James S. Bell Junior Middle School during their elementary school years. If you can add to what I […]
I have an interest in learning about the First Nations history of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey). The human story of the area, where I have lived for 20 years, began about 10,000 years ago when Palaeo-Indian nomadic hunters first arrived in Southern Ontario at the end of the last Ice Age. After the arrival […]