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The following message is from Geoff Kettel: Hi Attached is information on Community Heritage Ontario’s Workshop on Heritage Conservation Districts to be held on October 3 in Ajax. The flyer and a location map are attached: If you wish to attend please send your cheque to Rick Schofield, Community Heritage Ontario, 24 Conlins Rd., Scarborough […]
Colleen O’Marra writes (regarding Colonel Samuel Smith’s artifacts): The Town of York, 1815-1834 (edited by Edith Firth) makes just a few references to the disappointing “half-pay” officer slogging it out forty miles west of York.( his farm at 41st Street and Lakeshore Bvld.)Massive oak and pine,access by boat only and difficult even on horseback,a visit […]
I’m pleased to share with you the following comment from C. O’Marra: The Museum For Human Rights in Manitoba now sits on top of a treasure trove of ancient native artifacts.Construction went ahead in spite of these early finds.Thousands of items have been located around the site and photographed for the public. One can only […]
The Lakeshore Planning Council has shared the following message from David Switzer of Long Branch: I will be going to the City Planning Department “Outreach” at Sherway on Friday, September 6, 11am to 3pm. I feel that the most important overall and long term change City Planning can do is adapt Paul Ainslie’s proposal for […]
It’s great to have a Twitter account and a blog, because they offer a person a way to organize her or his thinking and learn from other people. My topic concerns the nature of reality. How do we make sense of reality? We have available to us a wide range of academic, corporate, and political […]
The following text is by David Switzer of Long Branch: The LWC is a Peel project to create a wetland/meadow peninsula around the water treatment plant. To protect it from erosion the suggested plan would have angled the shore line using a cobbled beach. This would eliminate the existing sandy beach west of the channelized […]
You can access information about Advance Polls for the Etobicoke-Lakeshore byelection here. You can access information about election procedures from the Elections Ontario website. The Assembly Hall is among the Advance Polls from July 20 to 25. The building, which is an exemplary illustration of the adaptive reuse of a century-old heritage building, is located […]
I subscribe to the e-newsletter of 8-80 Cities, a great non-profit organization that I learned about from David Switzer of Long Branch. You can access the latest issue of the newsletter here. [Click on link in previous sentence to access the newsletter.] In this post I will highlight an excerpt from one of the many great […]
What is worth preserving? Our attitudes toward ruins and historically significant buildings and cultural landscapes have a relationship to a wider conversation about what matters. After the Second World War, destruction of heritage properties and landscapes was the norm in much of the world, a practice which in some cases continues today. Jane Jacobs among […]
The following text is from Pamela Gough’s Office: Sent on behalf of Trustee Pamela Gough: Ward 3 Trustee Pamela Gough’s Canada Day Update June 28, 2013 Happy Canada Day! This will be my final newsletter for the academic year. I wish all readers a wonderful Canada Day and a safe and happy summer! Schools will […]