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Following message is from Michael Harrison regarding the Mimico Estates: Good Afternoon: Today, Toronto City Council adopted the recommendation from Etoicoke-York Community Council to designate the “Mimico Estates” – Ormsby/Franceschini Estate under the Ontario Heritage Act. The recommendation is that the city declare its intent to designate the property under the Act. The next step […]
I much enjoy reading news from or about Fort York. Below is a link to the June 2013 Fife and Drum newsletter, published by Friends of Fort York: fife-and-drum-june-2013 The lead article features Laura Secord. I much enjoyed a heritage walk some time ago, organized in association with Fort York, where participants traced the path […]
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 […]
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 […]
[Update: Highland Creek was highlighted in a CBC Radio Metro Morning broadcast in the fall of 2013. The CBC link (see previous sentence) introduces Highland Creek as follows: Highland Creek is in the south-east corner of Scarborough bordered … It has roots in the 1800s, and it’s been described as still having that “small village” […]
Below are some of my recent Twitter posts or retweets at @jaanpill related to Long Branch and Mimco: Wesley Mimico June 24, 2013 community update June 24, 2013, 7:30 pm community update re: Wesley Mimico United Church http://shar.es/xKNCh via @sharethis Laurel Broten resigns as Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP as of July 2, 2013 Resignation announcement: Laurel Broten MPP […]
The following Twitter message is from Councillor Mark Grimes: Mimico-By-the-Lake Secondary Plan gets approved unanimously@ Community Council today. Big thank you 2 the Community & Planning Staff #Mimico The following message is from Michael Harrison: Today at Etobicoke-York Community Council (EYCC) the intent to designate report recommending designation of the Ormsby/Franceschini Estate buildings and landscaping […]
The most recent Wesley Mimico United Church community forum took place on April 8, 2013. The next one is on June 24, 2013. Background about the Wesley Mimico redevelopment project – and related topics, of which there are many – can be found at the Wesley Mimico United Church Category. The April 8 report is […]
Update: A June 12, 2013 Toronto Star article updates the following report. [End of update] A June 10, 2013 Globe and Mail article provides an update concerning the plan for artificial turf at the University of Toronto back campus. The opening paragraphs read: The University of Toronto is promising to send the city a bill […]
What space can be used for is a question that concerns the geographical imagination, in the sense that James A. Tyner (2012) speaks of a person’s imagination. Although Tyner has, in the above-noted study, applied the concept of the geographical imagination specifically to the study of genocide, his conceptualization is equally applicable to other discussions – that […]