Our first local “big business”, the industrialization of Leslieville, and more. This is one of the earliest ads for George Leslie’s nurseries. He had just moved his business from King and Yonge Streets out to Ashport, as it was then called. The downtown was getting too crowded for a plant nursery! He put his houseContinue reading “Leslieville History this week”
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March 1 in Leslieville’s past: Greenwood Park Shelter under construction, March 1, 1928
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”
Brooklyn Avenue: Stories by the number: 1 Brooklyn Apts #4
By Joanne Doucette (liatris52@sympatico.ca) A Ghostly Voice From his military records:Name: Reginald Chester Pelham Medhurst Rank: Flying OfficerDeath Age: 27Birth Year: abt 1917Death Date: 13 Apr 1944Military Base: Lissett, Yorkshire, EnglandService Number: J23727Unit: 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit, attached from 158 SquadronCommand: Bomber CommandShip [Airplane]: Handley Page Halifax VOccupation: Air BomberCasualty: Killed whilst flyingResidence Place: Toronto,Continue reading “Brooklyn Avenue: Stories by the number: 1 Brooklyn Apts #4”
November 8, Leslieville
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”
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