George Leslie and the Toronto Nurseries

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

Skye Crofters

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

79thwaterloo-copy — 79th Highlanders at Waterloo

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

Lord Anchorfield

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

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

William Lyon MacKenzie

William Lyon MacKenzie

James Lesslie

James Lesslie

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)

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