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Sunlight shining – Biidaasige – and Lookout too.

Posted: September 6, 2025 in construction, locations, nature, waterfront
Tags: beach, Biidaasige, bike path, bridges, DOn River, hearn generating station, Leslie Lookout Park, park, playground, Port Lands, redevelpopment, river, Ship Channel, trees, Unwin Ave., Villiers, water, water lilies, waterfront

A new park in the Port Lands has opened. Biidaasige Park. Biidaasige translates to “sunlight shining towards us”.

It is centered around the new mouth of the Don River, with lots of walking and cycling paths that wind along the shores and through the newly planted shrubs, trees, and other native plants.

There is also a large playground where plenty of adventures await!

How many animals can you spot?

A black wasp has found a swamp milkweed flower.

below: The washroom facilities are still temporary (I hope!) but at least they exist….

… But there is more. Biidaasige is not the only new park in the area. Just to the east is the new Leslie Lookout Park that features this 10m tower that references the areas industrial history. It echos the silos of the past and provides an elevated viewing area.

below: The park is at the east end of the Ship Channel

Both parks are just part of the redevelopment of the Port Lands. The area has always been industrial, and many industries remain. Construction continues on other areas

below: Unwin Avenue

below: The old Hearn Generating Station still sits empty. It was built in the 1950s as a coal powered generating station but it was decommissioned in 1983. It has been used as a movie set location or as a backdrop for art installations but because of the huge costs involved (especially with cleaning up the interior to present day safety standards) this heritage site is vastly underused.

below: But now there is a development notice sign on the fence. Its present owner, Studios of America, has applied to redevelop the 30 acre site to include condos as well as other mixed uses.

When we tried to walk the Betty Sutherland trail

Posted: October 31, 2024 in general Toronto
Tags: construction, DOn River, East Don River, George S. Henry, Henry Mulholland, hwy 401, Lady of the Lake, Leslie Street, North York, path, ravine, redevelopment, Sheppard, trail

The best laid plans….

Tucked away on a dead end suburban street is a little park with a monument in it. A monument to a couple, Henry Mulholland and Jane Armstrong.

stone pillar about 6 feet high, with plaque, memorial for Henry Mulholland

Dedicated to the memory of Henry Mulholland and his wife Jane Armstrong. Pioneers of this district who emigrated from Ulster in 1806 and took out the original grant of four hundred acres from the crown. He fought in the War of 1812 and later returned to Ireland to induce further emigration. While returning was drowned in the wreck of the Lady of the Lake in the Straits of Belle Isle in 1833. Erected by the eight branches of their descendents, 1937.

The ‘Lady of the Lake’ sailed from Belfast on 8 April 1833. She was bound for Quebec with 233 passengers aboard – mostly immigrants. On the morning of 11th May, off the coast of Newfoundland, the ship struck an iceberg. Only a few people survived.

Jane was not with her husband on that trip, instead she was at home with her 10 surviving children, the youngest of whom, Henry Jr. was born in 1829. Two more children later died of smallpox.

Jane and Henry were married in Co. Monaghan Ireland in 1806 so they must have emigrated as newlyweds. Their first child, Mary Ann, was born in 1807.

The 400 acres that the couple were granted were Lots 14 and 15, Con 3 in East York (south of what is now Sheppard and east of what is now Leslie). They built a log house on an island in the East Don River. Fast forward a number of years, after a number of changes of ownership and many changes in the neighbourhood, Henry and Jane’s great grandson, George Stewart Henry bought the farmhouse and property at Lot 14 Con 3 (for $14,500) to bring it back into the family.

The name George S. Henry may be more familiar to some of you. There is a high school named after him, and a whole neighbourhood, Henry Farms.

The reason that I found the Mulholland cairn? It is located close to one of the entrances to the Betty Sutherland Trail, just north of the 401 highway. A few years ago I walked the south end of this trail (you can read about it here: Paths to ruin and a course, 2021). Now I wanted to walk the northern section as well.

below: An ominous sign, construction on the trail!

below: It wasn’t long before the trail ended. There were six signs to warn us. The end was at the 401 highway.

Rather than retracing our steps, we went down to the river’s edge.

The East Don River flows under the 401

We headed back north instead of south. …Over a piece of the path that had washed out in the August flooding.

below: stag horn sumac

below: pear tree

below: swamp bush sumac

below: North York General Hospital in the background.

below: The East Don River flows diagonally under the Leslie Sheppard intersection. The black and white highrise in the distance is farther north up Leslie Street.

below: Looking west along Sheppard towards railway bridge

below: Seen just outside of Leslie subway station (at Sheppard). We didn’t see any wildlife, just a lot of traffic.

Apples on the sidewalk, north side of Sheppard…. Seems to suggest that once upon a time someone lived here and planted apples.

below: Looking east

below: Teasels

below: Chinese Crab Apple tree

Now on the East Don Trail (north of Sheppard) where there is more construction. Also, a large number of new trees have been planted.

below: Strange artwork outside Canadian Tire, just west of Leslie

Getting back to “Best laid plans”….. You may have noticed that these aren’t the most recent pictures (wrong season!)…. This post was written back in early September and I thought that I had uploaded it. Ooops. Forgot.

a bridge to nowhere

Posted: June 2, 2024 in construction, locations, nature
Tags: Bermondsey, bridges, DOn River, East Don Trail, electricity, flowers, paths, railway tracks, the Meadoway, transmission towers

Another gorgeous May morning, another coffee shop. This time it was Circles and Squares Bakery on Bartley Drive where the butter tarts are amazing (well, what isn’t amazing there?).

Most of you are now asking, “Where is Bartley Drive?” Answer – close to the Bermondsey Transfer Station as pictured below. That’s where the garbage trucks go. It is also where you can drop off your hazardous waste or renovation waste, things that aren’t allowed in the trash you leave at the front of your house (or throw down the chute in your building). That large grey building is for yard waste. And yes, there is a lingering odor.

It is also close to the Bermondsey Hydro One Transmission Station.

below: Warning sign. “Property and copper marked for police identification.”

below: The transmission station is on the Hydro Corridor that cuts a swath through Toronto. There is a plan to turn most of it into “The Meadoway”, a bike and walking path that runs through a restored meadow. The paths are more developed in Scarborough, see blog post “the Meadoway” from November 2021.

At the moment this section of meadow has limited access. There is a dirt road that runs through the Hydro Corridor, west towards the Don River.

… but the bridge over the river is not quite complete. Once it is finished, it will connect The Meadoway and the East Don Trail.

Crossing the tracks anyhow.

below: Immediately after the newest bridge over the railway tracks, there is another bridge. This one crosses the Don River. This is now part of the East Don Trail. There is a section of the East Don Trail north of Eglinton (by the Rainbow Tunnel) but at the present time, they don’t connect. It’s an ongoing project. The large poles beside the path are the makings of a large net.

below: The nets are because Flemingdon Golf Club is right here. I suspect no one wants to get hit by a flying golf ball.

below: Looking back towards the newest bridge

below: White flowers on a Cranberry Viburnum plant.

below: Don River

It’s a quiet spot. But obviously some people make use of the space! Stonr’s hot box clubhouse.

Google maps shows the East Don Trail continuing south at least as far as where the Don River passes under the Don Valley Parkway. Unfortunately, the next time the path encounters the tracks, it ends. I forgot to take a picture but the tracks form a wall at the end of the road. There is a dirt path that runs uphill through the woods (away from the tracks) that probably leads to the Spanbridge Road neighbourhood. Instead of exploring further we retraced our steps back to Circles and Squares.

With thanks to the Wednesday morning walking group!

Along the Riverbank

Posted: January 25, 2024 in general Toronto
Tags: Along the River Bank, beaver, bullrushes, catfih, coyote, damselfly, DOn River, egret, fox, frog, Luv, mink, Moises Frank, mural, Nick Sweetman, painted turtle, rabbit, raccoon, tensoe2, toad, white-tailed deer

There is a new mural (2022) in Toronto by Nick Sweetman featuring animals and plant life commonly found along Ontario’s rivers, especially the Don River that flows nearby. It adorns a wall/fence that runs the length of a new park, Riverside Square, which is southeast of Queen and the Don Valley Parkway.

below: The east end of the mural

part of mural by Nick Sweetman, Along the Riverbank

below: A blue-fronted dancer damselfly (A very long name for a very small creature!)

below: Mink, toad, and a water insect called a water strider.

below: Catfish

below: A raccoon eyes the fish swimming past

below: A happy dog among friends, a raccoon and a cotton tail rabbit. If you look closely, there is a bridge in the background by the fox – Torontonians might recognize this bridge as one of the many that cross the Don River.

below: Red fox, coyote

below: In the middle

below: Egret diving for fish

below: White-tailed Deer

below: North American beaver

below: Painted turtle

below: Northern Leopard Frog

Tensoe2 and Moises (Luvs) also contributed to ‘Along the Riverbank’

This post also appears in Eyes on the Streets

Hands, Florests, and Minds

Posted: October 8, 2021 in graffiti and street art, locations
Tags: #monicaonthemoon, Boradview Hotel, DOn River, Don Valley, map, maps, Monica on the moon, Monica Wickeler, paste up, Water is Life, wheatpaste, Women Paint Riverside

The crest has been altered to read “Department of Hands, Florests, and Minds”. It comes from an old map that has been used to create a street art installation on the back alley side of the Broadview Hotel at Broadview and Queen Street East. The artist is monicaonthemoon aka Monica Wickeler.

Most of the people were printed on the maps such that the Don River was somewhere on the body. The photos of the people are interesting but so is the history that the maps tell us. The map dates from before the creation of the Port Lands at the mouth of the river. If you look at the body on the right, you can probably find the intersection of Queen Street and King Street just before they cross the river (look for the word ‘Don’). There are no streets south of King Street at the time. Front Street ends at Church. I suspect that all the red dots on the map mean swampy wetlands.

below: This woman stands more to the west. Roncesvalles on one leg and Dufferin on the other.

below: The woman on the right has one foot in Ashbridge’s Bay.

The wall is part of the recent Women Paint Riverside project that was the subject of my last blog post – Water is Life.

Commissioners to the Gardiner

Posted: September 24, 2021 in construction, locations
Tags: bridge, Commissioners Road, construction, cranes, DOn River, fence, Gardiner, Gardiner Expressway, Port Lands, skyline, trucks

more changes, more demolition

From Leslie to Cherry, Commissioners Street runs through the middle of the Port Lands, or at least it used to. The re-making of the mouth of the Don River involves a new waterway that cuts Commissioners into two sections. This blog post is a quick look at the east side.

below: TTC streetcar leaving Leslie Barns at Leslie and Commissioners- celebrating 100 years.

below: There are a lot of cement mixers in the area!

below: Canada Post has a large presence in the area too. A series of images of stamps featuring Canadian birds, such as this black-capped chickadee, decorate the exterior wall of one of their buildings.

below: Portlands Energy Center on the other side of the Shipping Channel. This is natural gas powered electricity generating facility. It also has a steam turbine generator that allows it to make electricity using steam from waste heat.

below: Commissioners Street now ends at Saulter

below: The new bridge has been delivered and sits at the western end of Commissioners, on the other side of the gap. Soon(?) that gap will be part of the new route of the Don River.

below: Looking north on Saulter Street towards Villiers Street. Metal beams from the Gardiner are being lowered to the ground.

below: New utility poles on Saulter, with another view of the Gardiner demolition.

below: Saturday traffic on Villiers. The Lakeshore is closed on the weekends to facilitate the dismantling of the Gardiner. Yes, it does cause traffic issues and confusion!

below: Looking north on Don Roadway from Villiers

below: Some of the concrete bents from the Gardiner still stand as does the curved elevated ramp from the Gardiner to the DVP.

below: An abrupt end

below: Crane demolishing a concrete bent beside the Keating Channel.

below: An older photo from 2015 showing the Gardiner Expressway on the north shore of the Keating Channel with the Lakeshore below. The yellow crane in the image above is close to where the blue barge is in this picture (but on the shore side!). The supports for the Gardiner over the mouth of the Don River are metal (the greenish coloured two on the right side of this photo), not concrete like the others. These metal supports is at the right edge of the photo above.

from 2015, photo of Gardiner along the north shore of the Keating channel

photo taken in 2015

below: When the steel beams are removed, they are first trimmed and cut in half.

below: They are then hauled away to another site where they are cut down even more.

below: Standing in the middle of Lakeshore Blvd and looking west. Remains of the Gardiner.

below: Side view, Lakeshore with remnants of the Gardiner rising up beside. Soon to be gone.

paths to ruin and a course

Posted: April 18, 2021 in locations, nature
Tags: Betty Sutherland trail, DOn River, Duncan Mills, fungus, graffiti, mallard, mask, Moatfield, path, pussy willows, ravine, ruins, trail, water

As you probably know, Toronto is full of creeks, ravines, and trails. Most of the creeks are tributaries of the Humber, Don, or Rouge River. This week’s adventure was along the Don River starting at the south end of the Betty Sutherland Trail. The north part of this trail begins at Leslie and Sheppard, just behind North York General Hospital (where parking is difficult). Even though early April is still brown and grey, there is always something to see.

below: Don River

below: Pussy willows – One of the first signs of spring

below: As I walked along the trail, I encountered this guy. He started getting agitated as I got close to the the river, but there was a photo that I was after…..

below: I had spotted colours through the browns and greys of the trees… graffiti covered ruins on the other side of the river.

Of course I found my way across the river to explore them in more detail!

below: When I went looking online for information about this structure, I came across a blog post in Scenes from a City from 2013. It’s hard to see, but some of the graffiti remains unchanged 8 years later.

below: And right behind me I discovered a tunnel entrance built into the hillside

below: It was very dark inside so the quality of these photos is questionable, but I thought that the old rusty control boxes looked fascinating. How long have they been here?

The Betty Sutherland trail ends at Duncan Mill Road. I was trying to get as far south as possible, so rather than go up to street level, I went under Duncan Mill Road where my map showed that there was more green space.

below: Wishes were written on pieces of paper, folded, and tied to a tree with pink yarn.

below: The tangled roots of a dead tree lie beside the Don River just south of Duncan Mill Road.

below: Blue and yellow rocks

below: It wouldn’t be a walk without a (or several!) used mask lying around but this one is cuter than most.

below: Oh Oh

below: Bracket, or shelf, fungi on a dead tree trunk

below: Playing fields alongside Moatfield

below: Looking east towards Graydon Hall

below: Now we are off the beaten track. That’s Don Mills Road with some graffiti on a pillar that beckons me forward. A few trees have been planted here but maintenance may be sporadic.

below: under the bridge

below: There was no problem getting under the bridge, but around the corner was an unexpected surprise – This appears to be the end of the line. Yes, it was green space but my map didn’t warn me that it was private! I didn’t have golf clubs with me so I wasn’t sure if I could sneak or bluff my way through – plus my car was behind me so it wasn’t worth the trouble to try.

“Betty Sutherland served thirteen years as an elected representative on North York Council until her retirement from politics in 1985. From 1979 to 1985, Mrs. Sutherland was a member of Metropolitan Toronto Council and the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. Devoted to the improvement of recreational opportunities for citizens and visitors, Mrs. Sutherland was Chairman of Metropolitan Toronto Parks, Recreation, and Property Committee from 1982 to 1985 and a member of the Authority’s Don Valley Advisory Board from 1981 to 1984. The naming of this trail is a symbol of the significant contribution she made to Metropolitan Toronto’s regional parks.

Bayview & Lawrence, Glendon College

Posted: January 21, 2021 in history, locations, nature, public art
Tags: Bayview Ave., Chedington, DOn River, E.R. Wood, Glendon College, Glendon Hall, Lionel Thomas, Ray Spiers, sculpture, snow, snowman, trails, trees, Watson's bridge, winter, woods

The main entrance to Glendon College is via Lawrence Avenue on the west side of Bayview; here Lawrence becomes the driveway for the college. The first building that you see is glass with the word welcome in several languages etched into it. On the left is “boozhoo” which is Ojibwe, “she:kon” is Mohawk, and “tansi” is a greeting in Cree.

In 1924, Edward Rogers Wood (1866-1941) and Agnes Euphemia Smart (1868-1950) moved into the house that they had built on 84 acres of ravine land at the north end of Bayview Avenue, in what was then suburban Toronto.

below: Glendon Hall now, on a grey winter day.

When Agnes Eupemia (Phemie) died in 1950, she left the estate to the University of Toronto to be used for a university botanical garden. Ten years later U of T gave the site to the newly formed York University to use as their main campus.

below: Another of the older buildings at Glendon

below: Residence building being renovated. They were built in the late 1960s. Glendon College has just under 3000 students but the campus was very quiet (on a Sunday in January 2021).

below: Lionel Thomas (Canadian,1915-2005), The Whole Person, 1961 metal mounted on the exterior of one of the buildings on the College campus.

below: Metal sculpture by Ray Spiers (b. Canada 1934), Untitled 1, 1975

below: Sculpture of a more temporary nature.

The main part of the campus is up high, above the ravine formed by the west branch of the Don River. At the bottom of the hill is the pool and tennis courts as well as access to trails along the river.

below: Athletic Center and bridge over the Don River

below: The end of Lawrence Avenue on the east side of Bayview.

below: Under the Bayview bridge which was originally built in 1929 with financing help from E.R. Wood, and expanded in the early 1960s.

below: Before 1929 this is where traffic crossed the Don River. The bridge, Watson’s Bridge, was built in 1895. In the distance, you can see the Chedington condos; they sit where a house for Muriel Wood once stood. E.R. Wood built the house (also called Chedington) for his daughter in 1927-28 but it was destroyed by fire in 2009.

below: Watson bridge, built 1895

below: Beyond Bayview the paths were very icy so we didn’t venture much farther that day.

More details about the history of the Bayview bridge can be found on a City of Toronto website. They have lots of pictures!

Port Lands update

Posted: September 6, 2019 in construction, landmarks, locations, old buildings
Tags: abandoned buildings, cement trucks, Cherry Street, Commissioners Street, construction, demolition, DOn River, Don ROadway, flood protection, Keating channel, Lake Ontario, Port Lands, skyline, T and T, Toronto Harbour, Villiers Street

Work on the Port Land redevelopment continues. The area is changing fast enough that I thought another visit would be a good idea.

below: Cherry Lifeguard Station, calm and peaceful in the early morning. On a weekday in September all is quiet here.

below: A new red lifeguard chair sits on a freshly raked beach. In the distance, a tug pushes a barge out of the harbour and onto Lake Ontario.

below: A family of Canada geese rest on the embankment of the Keating Channel. The white concrete supports of the Gardiner Expressway are reflected in the water.

below: Looking west along the Keating Channel. The Don River empties to the bottom right, just out of the picture. At the moment, the Keating Channel is the only route to Lake Ontario but this is about to change.

below: The Cherry Street bridge, a lift bridge, was broken in the open position for about a month at the end of the summer. It was fixed in time for Labour Day weekend so it is down now (can it go back up? It will soon be demolished so maybe that doesn’t matter)

below: From above, the Keating Channel is in the foreground and it is here that construction on a new Cherry Street bridge is just beginning. This is west of the present bridge because Cherry Street is going to be straightened as it passes under the Gardiner. There is another small channel behind the Keating Channel but it ends at the T&T store… for now. Cherry Beach and Lake Ontario are in the background.

below: Reflections of the T&T sign. Soon this store will be gone. The path of one of the new waterways for the Don River goes right through the middle of their property to join with the channel that is already there (picture above).

below: Villiers Street, looking west from the Don Roadway. The new path of the Don River is going to make an island of this part of the Port Lands as it runs parallel to, and immediately west of, the Don Roadway.

below: Villiers Street is actually two streets running parallel, both of which have two-way traffic. This is left over from the days when the railway ran down the middle of the street.

below: Remaining fragments of railway track can be found all over the Port Lands. This is Villiers Street at the Don Roadway. The Gardiner Expressway is in the background.

below: Old gas pump on Villiers.

below: The northwest corner of Commissioners and the Don Roadway. The green mound is the beginnings of the flood protection work there. Flood protection means work on the re-routing of the mouth of the Don River.

below: Looking west on Commissioners Street from east of the Don Roadway (at the traffic lights). This is one of several large hydro structures that run from the Portlands Energy Centre (a natural gas burning electrical plant). Hydro infrastructure changes are part of the Port Lands redevelopment.

below: Work on the south side of Commissioners.

Soon Commissioners Street will be closed between the Don Roadway and Cherry Street. All of the buildings there will be demolished. At the moment, most of them are empty.

below: Old abandoned buildings on Commissioners

below: United Rentals on Commissioners Street, now empty. Soon gone.

below: Chained and locked.

below: North side of Commissioners, east of the Don Roadway. You can see the Gardiner Expressway and the old Lever Brothers factory.

below: South end of the Don Roadway.

below: Looking west towards downtown from the Don Roadway

below: Back in July the demolition of the GFL (Green For life) buildings was well underway.

below: This is the GFL recycling transfer station during the demolition process. At the same time, the shoreline was being reconfigured and “naturalized”. The trees in the water in the foreground have since died but this is part of the plan – they are to become part of a new fish and wildlife habitat.

below: Access to the northwestern part of the Port Lands has been very limited. Cherry Street and the T&T parking lot are as far as you can go … if you obey all the signs. (photo from July)

below: September

below: The sea gulls have the parking lot to themselves, between Lafarge and the lake at the west end of the Port Lands. There are no plans (that I can find) to remove or relocate Lafarge.

below: If you stand looking at the view above, and then turn around, you get the image below. Polson Pier view of the Toronto skyline.

below: Map of the area. As you can see, I have only covered a small part of the Port Lands. There is so much more to explore!

Dundas, Jones and a bit of Gerrard

Posted: April 19, 2019 in general Toronto
Tags: #ShootForPeace, bike, DOn River, doors, Dundas Street, family, Filmores Hotel, garage, graffiti, house, photos, porch, Regent Park, row houses, St. Batholomew, stained glass, street art, True Love Cafe, window, Yasin Osman

This blog post is a result of a walk from last week, from Dundas and Jarvis to Jones and Gerrard – from downtown into Leslieville/Riverdale on a beautiful day for a walk. As usual, I strayed onto a few alleys along the way. The pictures below may or may not be in sequential order but it doesn’t matter, does it?

below: Although many of the buildings around it have been demolished, Filmores Hotel remains. I’m not sure if that’s a comment on the ownership of the building, or its use.

Once upon a time, e.g. in 1916, Dundas Street only existed westward from Ossington. There was no Dundas Street downtown or in the eastern part of the city. After WW1, a collection of smaller streets were widened and joined together to form Dundas Street as far as Broadview. That is why there are these curves in the street between George and Sherbourne.

below: Maybe it was once someone’s large house? Now it’s looking a little run down but it’s still home to George’s Pizza and George’s BBQ. The one on the corner is Piassa Injera and Takeout which is Ethiopian.

below: Looking back towards downtown and the wall of glass and steel that has been erected.

below: The True Love Cafe at the corner of Sherbourne and Dundas. It’s had a fresh coat of paint and the hearts on the exterior wall have been fixed up. Only the sign needs a little TLC.

below: The redevelopment of Regent Park continues.

below: New buildings in Regent Park.

below: I stopped for a drink at Daniels Spectrum where I came across an interesting exhibit…. A sample of some of the photographs on display at Daniels Spectrum. They are part of a project, #ShootForPeace, by Yasin Osman. Each features youth from Regent Park with the theme of the exhibit being family and how family can be defined.

below: One of the stained glass windows from St. Bartholomews church, in memory of Sister Theresa, 1891-1988. I’ve walked past this church many times but this was the first time that I went inside. It is a small, quiet church with some nice stained glass.

below: Graffiti on a wall.

below: Walking her dog on the Don River trail.

below: Looking north towards the Gerrard Street bridge.

below: Looking south along the Bayview Extension to the new development in the East Don Lands.

below: Just east of the DVP a truck was offloading new cars including this black Rolls Royce.

below: Same car, looking east towards Dons Milk store

below: Waiting for summer

In the early 1950s, the City of Toronto began a new road project to extend Dundas eastwards from Broadview to Kingston Road to serve as a new four-lane traffic arterial, intended as an alternative to Gerrard and Queen. Nine streets were widened to form the new Dundas street and in some cases, alleyways were used to connect these streets, and this is clearly visible as garages and backyards continue to front on to Dundas near Jones Avenue.

Dundas Street is a major thoroughfare in the city – there aren’t many family homes that front onto it. Jones, other hand, is a residential street. The houses are an eclectic mix, most of which are fairly modest – or less.

below: Flat roofs on small, narrow rowhouses with tiny front yards.

below: Half white and half yellow.

below: Once upon a time, Toronto street signs were these blue and white metal signs that were attached to the buildings on the corners. They are hard to read from the street! Beginning in the 1950’s they were replaced with the signs that we are more accustomed to seeing. There are still quite a few of these old ones spread out around the city in older neighbourhoods. It is rare to find a house with two signs.

below: An ad for W.N. McEachern & Sons Ltd. that appeared in the Toronto Star on 26 April 1912 (online source). They developed a few areas in the east part of Toronto including Eastmount Park which was between Danforth and Gerrard on the east side of Jones.

below: Near the corner of Jones and Gerrard, surprise, surprise, a hole in the ground.

below: Before I end this post, one last cute little white house tucked in between two larger brick residences.

Safe walking everyone!

below: Sometimes I love fences!

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