By Joanne Doucette I hope you enjoy this short photo essay. For scholars, students and the curious, a detailed time line of Heward/Holly Creek showing the development of Carlaw Avenue follows. It is from original sources which are credited. Time Line 1874 Motion that “the new street running from King-street southward to the lake, westContinue reading “February 4 in Leslieville: Heward/Holly Creek”
Category Archives: Bridges, Underpasses and Overpasses
February 3 in Leslieville: Featuring Carlaw Avenue
February 1 in Leslieville: level crossings
And some views of level crossings at other times of the year
Six Laner to Soar, Globe and Mail, May 4, 1954
Looking for the Ghost of Leslie Creek
a creek … also started near the sandpit and ran through the gardens of Cooper’s, Bests and Hunters, crossed the road by the Leslie Postoffice. Here it joined a small creek that drained the nursery, and both crossed Leslie street under a bridge that has since been filled up by intersecting sewers. The Globe, JanuaryContinue reading “Looking for the Ghost of Leslie Creek”
Ashbridge’s Creek: twins: one captured, one free
Morley Avenue and Gerrard Street fill operations, April 28, 1912 Looking east across Woodfield Road (then called Morley Avenue) towards Coxwell. Ashbridges Creek is in the deep ravine. A culvert has been installed under Gerrard Street to carry the creek south. Workers will install a cement artificial creek about 18-30 metres below the surface. TheyContinue reading “Ashbridge’s Creek: twins: one captured, one free”
Leslieville Historical Society 