Featuring the calendars of Rolph Clark Stone
Author Archives: Leslieville Historical Society
January 21 in Leslieville featuring Riverdale Collegiate Institute
In 1909 the City of Toronto annexed Midway, the area south of the Danforth between Greenwood Ave. & the Beach. In the boom that followed developers rapidly subdivided Midway. It became a working class suburb, a Little Britain. The City built schools: the Roden School (1907), Duke of Connaught School (1909), Bruce Junior School (1923),Continue reading “January 21 in Leslieville featuring Riverdale Collegiate Institute”
Another Leslie Street Spit gallery
There is no date given for these lovely images. Under construction, undated. More undated photos from the Spit’s early days. A paradise for birds especially cormorants and ring-billed gulls, but also the many songbirds and ducks that nest there or pass through on migration. For more info: http://www.ofo.ca/ofo-docs/Leslie.pdf
January 20th in Leslieville
January 19 in Leslieville
By Joanne Doucette For more about the history of St. Joseph’s Parish and Leslieville read my book, Leslieville, Pigs, Flowers and Bricks, available at the Toronto Public Library and free on line to read and/or download at: https://archive.org/details/PigsFlowersAndBricksFeb32017
January 18 in Leslieville
The level crossings in Leslieville, as elsewhere, were very dangerous. There were many crashes at Queen and McGee in particular.
The Story of a Marsh — Now a Harbor
The Windsor Star, May 12, 1928
Toronto in the Good Ole Days, Toronto Sunday World, May 10, 1914
How the bones of Leslieville residents ended up in a schoolyard in Corktown
They arrive here to the extent of about 300 to 600 by any steamer. The sick are immediately sent to the hospital which has been given up to them entirely and the healthy are fed and allowed to occupy the Immigrant Sheds for 24 hours; at the expiration of this time, they are obliged to keep moving, their rations are stopped and if they are found begging are imprisoned at once. Means of conveyance are provided by the Corporation to take them off sat once to the country, and they are accordingly carried off “willy-nilly” some 16 or 20 miles, North, South, East and West and quickly put down, leaving the country to support them by giving them employment
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