Tag Archives: Gerrard Street East

Leslieville history from the first week of April

They only had to wait another 35 years! Some photos from Gerrard Street East, April 3, 1984

Weekly History Round-up

March 15th in Leslieville: articles and images

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

February 15th in Leslieville’s past: Featuring Boston Avenue

This is a short street, broken into two sections one south of Dundas Street East and the other a shorter section running south off Gerrard Street. It has an interesting history as it was the focus of a long-running law suite brought by John Russell against the City of Toronto which had seized the propertyContinue reading “February 15th in Leslieville’s past: Featuring Boston Avenue”

February 4 in Leslieville: Heward/Holly Creek

By Joanne Doucette I hope you enjoy this short photo essay. For scholars, students and the curious, a detailed time line of Heward/Holly Creek showing the development of Carlaw Avenue follows. It is from original sources which are credited. Time Line 1874 Motion that “the new street running from King-street southward to the lake, westContinue reading “February 4 in Leslieville: Heward/Holly Creek”

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”

Riverdale Collegiate

by Joanne Doucette There is an urban legend that Myrtle, Ivy and Harriet Streets were named after local women (true) who argued so much that they could never meet so the streets don’t meet (not true). The deep ravine called “the Devil’s Hollow” had more to do with keeping the streets from meeting. The womenContinue reading “Riverdale Collegiate”