George Leslie and the Toronto Nurseries

Featured Chapter from Joanne Doucette’s book, Leslieville, published 2016.

George Leslie Sr John McPherson Ross Painting

Skye Crofters

Old Photograph Crofters Highlands Scotland

Clearances Scotsindepentorg

Clearances in the Snow

Retreat from Corunna column

Croft on fire Countess of Sutherland

Highland Regiments at Waterloo

(c) The Highlanders' Museum; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation — 79th Highlanders at the River Alma

79thwaterloo-copy — 79th Highlanders at Waterloo

XKH141034 The Highland Shepherd, 1859 (oil on canvas); by Bonheur, Rosa (1822-99); 49×63 cm; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; French, out of copyright

King Sheep2

Lord Anchorfield

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ship

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Leslie Log House 1826

Burning Trees in a Girdled Clearing Archives and Libraries Canada — Burning Trees in a Girdled Clearing, Libraries and Archives Canada

John George Howard Parliament Bldgs 1834 TPL

York (now Toronto) had virtually no trees when George Leslie arrived.

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William Lyon MacKenzie

William Lyon MacKenzie

James Lesslie

James Lesslie

Sorting and packing apples

Then

Then

Now: The Leslie General Store and Post Office still stands, but the front is much altered. It now has a mural on the side celebrating George Leslie and Leslieville. “Pigs, flowers and bricks appeared to be the staple industries of the early Leslieville,” Robert Adams, “Pupils Record Leslieville Story” Toronto Star, June 25, 1957

Now: The Leslie General Store and Post Office still stands, but the front is much altered. It now has a mural on the side celebrating George Leslie and Leslieville. “Pigs, flowers and bricks appeared to be the staple industries of the early Leslieville,” Robert Adams, “Pupils Record Leslieville Story” Toronto Star, June 25, 1957

Ellwanger_&_Barry_nursery_advertisement — Ellwanger & Barry, Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits (Rochester, 1860)

Leslieville