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The Spirit of Kitchissippi
April 25, 2013
West Wellington’s Andrew King (also known as chief architect in the fictional Leighton Group of Architects responsible for The Wellboron) presents all 48 stories of District 15. King hopes he can help his neighbourhood’s rich history be remembered. Photo by Justin Van Leeuwen
King of the ’hood
RIDER GIRL
KNITTING GURU
Show features CFL love & a tailgate party
Drafting patterns and picking up stitches
Sketches of our past meets the digestive district By Kathleen Wilker
“Did you know there used to be four movie theatres on Wellington?” Andrew King, painter and historian, asks me when we meet for an interview the day before he launches his District 15 art show, an artistic comment on contemporary
Kitchissippi, or Ward 15. “The Holland Brothers – who were friends with Thomas Edison – showed the first movie in Canada at the Fisher Park fairgrounds,” King continues. He shows me his sketch of what the park – with its outdoor amphitheatre, orchestra pit and forest – at the end of the streetcar line
used to look like before the streetcar was extended to Britannia Park and a new fairground at Britannia put Fisher Park’s out of business. This is a conversation that’s all the more poignant given that current discussions around proposed Western LRT routes are such a hot Continued on page 8
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