Monthly Archives: October 2016

Featured Chapter from Joanne Doucette’s book, Leslieville, published 2016.     The Highland Shepherd, 1859 (oil on canvas); by Bonheur, Rosa (1822-99); 49×63 cm; Hamburger Kuns… Source: George Leslie and the Toronto Nurseries

These pictures do not fit neatly into any category but they are neat. Major Carlaw is listed as “capitalist”. In those days that was considered a very good thing indeed…at least by the “better half”. The magnificent facial hair that men of the era loved fell out of favour during the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19.Continue reading “Photos of Carlaw the Man and Street”

From George B. King, Fond Memory and the Light of Other Days: The Old Leslie Street School and a Last Century Tragedy “over the Don”. Privately published and printed. No date. This book is in the Toronto Reference Library