Toronto City Council with biographies of the Mayor, Aldermen (including John Knox Leslie, son of George Leslie, Toronto Nurseries, Blong of Blong Avenue, etc.) and leading City Officials (including John Jones of Jones Avenue and Richard T. Coady of Coady Avenue)
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Irish Leslieville
By Joanne Doucette In 1845 Toronto had only 21,000 residents. In 1846 there was crop failure through Ireland. A blight, caused by an oocyte, destroyed the potato crop. “The Great Hunger” or An Gorta Mor, killed over a million people: another million left Ireland. By the end of the winter of 1847-48, 38,560 immigrants hadContinue reading “Irish Leslieville”
Transplanting, George Leslie, The Farmer and Mechanic, Vol 1, no 7, April 1849
Planting, Spring, 1888, The Canadian Horticulturist, Vol 11, no 4, April 1888
George Leslie, The Canadian Horticulturist Vol 8 no 4 April 1885
A New System of Fruit Growing, The Canadian Agriculturalist, Vol. 8, No. 4, April 1857
George Leslie, The Canadian Agriculturalist, Vol. 8, No. 4, April 1856
How Dunlop miracle’s miracle recovery became a nightmare, Toronto Star, April 11, 1970
Doel Avenue, April 7, 1953
Leslieville history from the first week of April
They only had to wait another 35 years! Some photos from Gerrard Street East, April 3, 1984
Leslieville Historical Society 