February 27 in Leslieville’s past: Skating, pleasures and perils

Skater rescued Ashbridge’s Bay, Toronto Star, February 27, 1928
Skating, Illustration, ca 1870
Skating, The Woman Skater about 1870, from The Picture Gallery of Canadian History
Skating, Christmas card, 1873-1878
Cupid on the ice, The Canadian Illustrated News, February 3, 1883
Skating, The Canadian Illustrated News, January 6, 1883
Skating, illustration by Henry Sandham, ca 1885
Hockey, Logan Avenue, Toronto Star, February 18, 1895
Maple Leaf Rink, Toronto Star, January 21, 1907
Runway, workers with ice hooks (skates), conveyor, Ice house Ashbridge’s Bay (1907-09). These men are harvesting ice. The ice house behind them was at Leslie Street and Eastern Avenue.
Maple Leaf Skating Rink, Toronto Star, December 11, 1909
Places to skate, Toronto Star, January 7, 1910 (Maple Leaf Rink)
Skater drowns Ashbridge’s Bay, The Berlin News Record, December 30, 1913
Hockey, Ashbridge’s Bay, November 24, 1914
Hockey, Lesliegrove, Globe, December 9, 1913
Skating, Christmas card, 1917
Shinny in the Devil’s Hollow, Gerrard Street East & Hastings Avenue, December 22, 1919
Morse Street children in skating carnival, Toronto World, January 31, 1920
Maple Leaf Skating Club, Globe, December 13, 1923
Skating East Riverdale Globe, January 16, 1926
East Toronto skaters, Globe, January 13, 1930
East Riverdale Playground Juvenile Hockey Team — Playground and Toronto Outdoor Rink Champions 1939, March 5, 1939
Pape Recreation Centre Minor Bantam Hockey Team — Playground and Toronto Out door Rink Champions 1939 (film negs.) – March 5, 1939
East Riverdale Playground Juniors — Playground and T.O.H.A. Hockey Champions March 28, 1943, City of Toronto Archives
East Riverdale Playground Minor Bantams Playground and T.O.H.A. Hockey Champions March 28, 1943 City of Toronto Archives
East Riverdale Playground Minor Midget Playground and T.O.H.A. Hockey Champions March 28, 1943 City of Toronto Archives
Skating to music, Globe and Mail, February 14, 1953
Skating Greenwood Park, Globe and Mail, February 14, 1953

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Welcome to the Leslieville Historical Society's website. Please feel free to join us, to ask questions, to attend walking tours and other events, and to celebrate Leslieville's past while creating our future. Guy Anderson, President, Leslieville Historical Society and Joanne Doucette, local historian and webmaster.

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