February 28 in Leslieville’s Past: featuring the Greenwood Park field house

Greenwood field house, Toronto Star, February 28, 1920
Plan of new Greenwood Park, Toronto Star, May 6, 1920
Greenwood Park Shelter under construction, March 1, 1928
Greenwood Park Shelter, April 17, 1928
Greenwood Park 1947 aerial photo
Greenwood Park, looking west 1986 Toronto Public Library

February 27 in Leslieville’s past: Skating, pleasures and perils

Skater rescued Ashbridge’s Bay, Toronto Star, February 27, 1928
Skating, Illustration, ca 1870
Skating, The Woman Skater about 1870, from The Picture Gallery of Canadian History
Skating, Christmas card, 1873-1878
Cupid on the ice, The Canadian Illustrated News, February 3, 1883
Skating, The Canadian Illustrated News, January 6, 1883
Skating, illustration by Henry Sandham, ca 1885
Hockey, Logan Avenue, Toronto Star, February 18, 1895
Maple Leaf Rink, Toronto Star, January 21, 1907
Runway, workers with ice hooks (skates), conveyor, Ice house Ashbridge’s Bay (1907-09). These men are harvesting ice. The ice house behind them was at Leslie Street and Eastern Avenue.
Maple Leaf Skating Rink, Toronto Star, December 11, 1909
Places to skate, Toronto Star, January 7, 1910 (Maple Leaf Rink)
Skater drowns Ashbridge’s Bay, The Berlin News Record, December 30, 1913
Hockey, Ashbridge’s Bay, November 24, 1914
Group skating on a vacant lot. – [1912?]
Group skating on a vacant lot. – [1912?]
Group skating on a vacant lot. – [1912?]
Hockey, Lesliegrove, Globe, December 9, 1913
Skating, Christmas card, 1917
Shinny in the Devil’s Hollow, Gerrard Street East & Hastings Avenue, December 22, 1919
Morse Street children in skating carnival, Toronto World, January 31, 1920
Maple Leaf Skating Club, Globe, December 13, 1923
Skating East Riverdale Globe, January 16, 1926
East Toronto skaters, Globe, January 13, 1930
East Riverdale Playground Juvenile Hockey Team — Playground and Toronto Outdoor Rink Champions 1939, March 5, 1939
Pape Recreation Centre Minor Bantam Hockey Team — Playground and Toronto Out door Rink Champions 1939 (film negs.) – March 5, 1939
East Riverdale Playground Juniors — Playground and T.O.H.A. Hockey Champions March 28, 1943, City of Toronto Archives
East Riverdale Playground Minor Bantams Playground and T.O.H.A. Hockey Champions March 28, 1943 City of Toronto Archives
East Riverdale Playground Minor Midget Playground and T.O.H.A. Hockey Champions March 28, 1943 City of Toronto Archives
Hockey Rhodes Ave Globe and Mail, January 1, 1948
Hockey Rhodes Ave Globe and Mail, January 1, 1948
Hockey Rhodes Ave Globe and Mail, January 1, 1948
Skating to music, Globe and Mail, February 14, 1953
Skating Greenwood Park, Globe and Mail, February 14, 1953

February 22 in Leslieville’s past

Rolph Clark Stone, Feb. 22, 1949

Combination Sheet, Rolph Clark Stone Feb 22, 1949
Combination Sheet, Rolph Clark Stone Feb 22, 1949
Combination Sheet, Rolph Clark Stone Feb 22, 1949
Combination Sheet, Rolph Clark Stone Feb 22, 1949
Rolph Clark Stone Factory, Contract Record, October 29, 1913
Rolph-Clark-Stone advertisement, 1933

February 21 in Leslieville’s past

Canadian Factory of William Wrigley, Jr., The American Architect, February 21, 1917

Architect’s drawing, The American Architect, Vol. CXI, No., 2148, Feb. 21, 1917
Canadian Factory of William Wrigley, Jr., The American Architect, February 21, 1917
The Entrance
North Wrigley Building, Nov. 29, 1916. Library and Archives Canada.
A painted wall advertisement on the side of a building located on the south side of Queen Street East, west of Broadview Avenue, 1920
Wrigley Factory, Carlaw Ave., photo 2010 by J. Doucette

February 20th in Leslieville’s past

This week I had other things on my mind, but needed a deep distraction so I burrowed into the history of a little known builder who had a huge impact on Toronto from east to west and north to south. Meet Howard Addison Johnston and the Leslie Gardens Subdivision!

February 20th along the coast
Leslie Gardens School, 1923 and Bruce Public School, 2014