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This post is concerned with the current project, initiated by the Ontario government, to reform the Ontario Municipal Board. The deputation to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing from City of Mississauga Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey (please see text below), has the following back story, which Councillor Tovey has shared with me: “The […]
On Sept. 11, 2015 I met with Walter Psotka, of Walter Psotka Photography, to review our plans for photography at the Oct. 17, 2015 MCHS ’60s Reunion at Old Mill Toronto. Walter will set up a printer in the foyer outside the Humber Room on Oct. 17. Each attendee will be able to purchase framed photos, […]
A feature of the Jane’s Walk phenomenon, or movement, or whatever you wish to call it, is that not everyone knows what a Jane’s Walk is. I’m in that category. I don’t know precisely what a Jane’s Walk is. That’s something that I enjoy about the Jane’s Walk experience. This is my fourth year of […]
You can find details about the walk at the Jane’s Walk website, at the Mississauga Jane’s Walks category: Small Arms Building – Saved from Destruction in 2009 From Small Arms to Lake Ontario and back, with stops at Hanlan Water Project and Long Branch Rifle Ranges Updates 1) Please note that there are no washroom […]
I’ve recently posted a blog item for the Toronto Walks Blog of the Jane’s Walk website. I’ve enjoyed writing this item, because it enables a person to consider the broader issues of interest to anybody who lives close to the Lake Ontario shoreline – in Mississauga, Toronto, or anywhere else along this or any other […]
I recently visited Bill Rawson, who has shared a lot of great stories with us in the past about the history of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey), and I was delighted to see his used furniture store, on the south side of Lake Shore Blvd. West across from the Long Branch Library, is now […]
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 […]
I recently spoke with two former Long Branch residents, Jim Bray and his daughter Sandy Bray, who have filled me in on details, that I was not aware of, related to the barns at the Colonel Samuel Smith homestead site. Jim Bray has also shared some comments at a couple of recent blog posts related […]
Previous posts have discussed 28 Daisy Avenue. You can find them by clicking on the link at the previous sentence, or through a Google search for “28 Daisy Avenue Preserved Stories.” I especially like the information that there was a time in the 1910s and later where you could see clear to Lake Ontario from […]