travel – Leslieville Historical Society

February 2 in Leslieville

The Kingston Road was an Indigenous Trail, a “Moccasin Highway”, surveyed by the British military and minimally improved. It’s chief purpose was to allow troops to move quickly as an alternative to sailing on Lake Ontario. From 1815 to 1817 local settlers built the Kingston or Front Road on a new alignment, closer to theContinue reading “February 2 in Leslieville”

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”