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Important Follow-up Information Regarding Last Week’s Storm – Councillor Milczyn’s Office
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFollowing information is from Councillor Peter Milczyn’s Office: TORONTO’S SPECIAL GARBAGE COLLECTION COMPLETED The City of Toronto has completed the special garbage collection for materials damaged by flooding following the intense rainfall on July 8. Solid Waste Management Services collected approximately 4,100 tonnes of flood-damaged material across the city. Regularly scheduled garbage, Blue Bin […]
Reverse-slope driveways create ideal conditions for water damage. Links related to water damage also featured here.
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve been following with interest recent online discussions regarding extreme weather and climate change. A July 11, 2013 CBC article suggests that “soft engineering” including urban parks and porous pavement might help, although costly sewers would nonetheless still need to be replaced. The article quotes Jane Wolff, an associate professor of landscape architecture and design at the […]
E-News update from Heritage Toronto
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillBelow is a text-only version of a recent E-News update from Heritage Toronto. [You can subscribe to the newsletter at the Heritage Toronto website.] HERITAGE TORONTO E- NEWS July 11, 2013 Hello there. We hope everyone survived the storm on Monday relatively unscathed. There are reports that this was as much, if not more rain […]
The outcome of the Wesley Mimico redevelopment story will depend upon negotiations related to the Ontario Heritage Act
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillUpdate A June 4, 2018 CBC article is entitled: “This pastor closed his church: Graham Singh is saving a Montreal church by first closing the doors, then opening them wider than ever.” [End] The outcome of the Wesley Mimico redevelopment story will depend upon negotiations and discussions related to the Ontario Heritage Act and […]
Fife and Drum newsletter from Friends of Fort York – June 2013
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI 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 […]
Table 2 from Hackworth and Gullikson (2013) describes three Toronto church conversion categories
/2 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA previous post is devoted to Table 1 from a paper by Hackworth and Gullikson (2013) about church conversions in Toronto. Table 2 from the paper (see below) presents 33 church conversions in terms of three categories. A fourth category involves no change. That is, the site of a church remains religious in form and […]
Thirty three church conversions in Toronto – Table 1 from Hackworth and Gullikson (2013)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdate A June 4, 2018 CBC article is entitled: “This pastor closed his church: Graham Singh is saving a Montreal church by first closing the doors, then opening them wider than ever.” [End] In a previous post, I have summarized a paper by Hackworth and Gullikson (2013) regarding church conversions in Toronto. Below is […]
What is worth preserving?
/2 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWhat 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 […]