Category Archives: General History
March 10th
March 9th
Stanley Minstrels, The Globe, March 9, 1855
March 8th in Leslieville’s past
March 6 in Leslieville’s past
A selection of articles from March 6 through the years.
March 5 in Leslieville’s past: the Grand Trunk Railway Crossing
March 4 in Leslieville’s past
March 2 in Leslieville’s past
Natural gas, odourless and invisible, seeped into pockets in the shale and overlying gravel in Leslieville. Joseph Russell Junior’s brickyard stretched between Leslie Street and Greenwood Avenue, south of Gerrard to what is now Dundas Street. In 1908 workers were digging clay in the bottom of a 50-foot-deep pit. One worker swung his pick down and struck a pocket ofContinue reading “March 2 in Leslieville’s past”