Toronto City Council with biographies of the Mayor, Aldermen (including John Knox Leslie, son of George Leslie, Toronto Nurseries, Blong of Blong Avenue, etc.) and leading City Officials (including John Jones of Jones Avenue and Richard T. Coady of Coady Avenue)
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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 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”
Looking for the Ghost of Leslie Creek
a creek … also started near the sandpit and ran through the gardens of Cooper’s, Bests and Hunters, crossed the road by the Leslie Postoffice. Here it joined a small creek that drained the nursery, and both crossed Leslie street under a bridge that has since been filled up by intersecting sewers. The Globe, JanuaryContinue reading “Looking for the Ghost of Leslie Creek”
A little lost street, Doel Avenue
Part One: the Doels of Doel Avenue Part Two: The Lost Doel Avenue
Leslie Creek, Globe, April 26, 1918
Leslie Creek started on the hill north of Blake Street, crossed the track, and ran down west of Leslie Street to cross Jones Avenue where this unfortunate woman’s house was. The creek was slow, muddy and a breeding ground for mosquitos which is why Lesliegrove Park was called “Mosquito Park.” 1899 Map showing Leslieville’s LostContinue reading “Leslie Creek, Globe, April 26, 1918”
Goodbye to a local land mark
By Joanne Doucette
October 6: I hear the train a-coming…about 20 feet above me!
This series of photographs will take you on a trip from downtown Toronto to Main Street on the new Toronto Viaduct, a raised railbed that lifted the train high above the city streets, eliminating several of the most dangerous level crossings such as the one at Queen near DeGrassi Street.
The Blake Street Subdivision Lot 11, Concession One from the Bay, Subdivision Plan 154
Someone graciously shared a digital copy of this original subdivision plan which I have adjusted to make it a little straighter and easier to read.
Leslieville Historical Society 