Category Archives: General History

February 9th in Leslieville: Disaster on Eastern Avenue

AT LEAST FIVE OF TEN GAS VICTIMS DIED IN ATTEMPT TO RESCUE COMRADES SURVIVORS KNOW LITTLE OF HOW THE BLOW FELL Louis Peters Was at Work – Then He Awoke in Hospital. JUST OVER THE FLU Thomas Wilson Had Just Returned From Three Week’s Illness. Gas which filled the valve house of the Consumers GasContinue reading “February 9th in Leslieville: Disaster on Eastern Avenue”

January 26 in Leslieville

By Joanne Doucette What we have now, a small body of very polluted water at the base of Coxwell Avenue, is not what Ashbridge’s Bay once was or could be again–with imagination, investment and time. And time is what today’s post is all about. It is a very detailed timeline of Ashbridge’s Bay. Take yourContinue reading “January 26 in Leslieville”

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