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Natural gas, odourless and invisible, seeped into pockets in the shale and overlying gravel in Leslieville.  Joseph Russell Junior’s brickyard stretched between Leslie Street and Greenwood Avenue, south of Gerrard to what is now Dundas Street. In 1908 workers were digging clay in the bottom of a 50-foot-deep pit. One worker swung his pick down and struck a pocket ofContinue reading “March 2 in Leslieville’s past”