Category Archives: Sports

January 29 in Leslieville

MISS WESTON IS CHAMPION Won All Three Ladies’ Events at Motordrome Rink Races. A wonderfully fast and graceful lady skater has been developed at the Motordrome Rink. She is Miss Ruby Weston. last night Miss Weston won the quarter-mile from 12 skaters, the half from 15, and the mile from 19. In the mile sheContinue reading “January 29 in Leslieville”

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 24 in Leslieville

Sometime before 1866 Leslieville grocer, James Morin (c. 1835-1882), went into the brick business. In 1869 he bought a brick machine and began advertising that his Leslieville bricks were machine-made pressed bricks: BRICK! BRICKS!  THE LESLIEVILLE BRICK COMPANY ARE MAKING EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MACHINE MADE PRESSED BRICKS, And are now open toContinue reading “January 24 in Leslieville”

January 23 in Leslieville

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