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Public events at the Gardener’s Cottage in Kew Gardens are on hold – indefinitely. The circa-1902, heritage-designated building, also known as Kew Williams House, does not

have two exists therefore does not meet the requirements of the Ontario Fire Code. “All public buildings require two exits,” said Toronto Fire Services District Chief Rocco Delle Save during a recent interview. “If there’s a fire and smoke,

that (main) exit would be contaminated. The fire code is not (intended) to close people down but to get people out safely in the event of an emergency.” Staff from the Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Department, which owns and manages the Gardener’s

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Jeffrey Baldwin fundraiser set for Saturday ‘Man of Steel’ event at Distillery Historic District A gala event aimed at raising funds for the Jeffrey Baldwin Memorial Statue in Greenwood Park takes place Saturday in the Distillery Historic District. The “Man of Steel” evening of hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and entertainment, will be held at The Stirling Room, 14 Trinity St., starting at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $30 in advance or $35 at the door. Baldwin led a mostly anonymous existence in his short five years of life in Toronto’s east end. The five-year-old boy was locked in a cold, dark bedroom with his six-year-old sister without food, left to drink water from the toilet. He died Nov. 30, 2002 – just two months shy of his sixth birthday. He weighed one pound less than he had as a one-year-old. He suffered severe abuse and neglect at the hands of his grandparents before dying of starvation, pneumonia, and septic shock. Todd Boyce, a father of three, is raising the funds for the memorial to immortalize Jeffrey with a bronze statue of the boy dressed in a Superman costume. To read more about Boyce’s idea, visit http://bit.ly/1jxwbzS

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Electrically powered e-bikes will now be able to share bike lanes with pedal-powered bicycles, council decided. The decision, which came Thursday, Feb. 20, reverses a recommendation from the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, and puts Toronto at the forefront of the debate over where

the electrically powered twowheelers fit in the taxonomy of vehicles. Currently, the provincial government is silent on the status of the vehicles because they have pedals to propel them, making them similar to bicycles. But e-bikes are considerably heavier than human-

powered bicycles, and they also can travel more quickly. Until Thursday, they weren’t permitted to use the city’s network of bike lanes, forcing them into regular traffic.

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Little India-area mom celebrates her Muffin Top JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com East-end comic Erin Keaney is calling on women, especially fellow moms, to love their muffin tops. A married mother of two who has lived in the Little India area for 12 years, Keaney wrote and stars in a whimsical rap music video called Muffin Top. Filmed two weeks ago and posted on YouTube shortly thereafter, Muffin Top has gone viral with more than 74,000 hits. As of Tuesday, the 2:25-long clip has been screened on The Today Show, was mentioned on Redbook. com and was featured in the U.K.’s Daily Mail newspaper among other things. Keaney’s tongue-in-cheek take on the pressures women contend with to have the perfect body was inspired by a song/skit she originally wrote about four years ago for PUSH…One Mother of a Show, a break-the-mold comedy about modern motherhood. Keaney, 43, starred in PUSH… One Mother of a Show alongside fellow east-enders Sarah and Fiona Carver and Precious Chong. “The audience just loved it so much,” she said during a recent interview, adding making the song into a music video was something she and her filmmaker husband

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Erin Keaney, with her daughters Annabel, 10, and Poppy, 7, was created a rap video called Muffin Top, which challenges women to embrace their bodies. The video has gone viral.

Brett Heard always wanted to do. “Finally we just said: ‘let’s do it’.” Muffin Top was shot at several locations in the city’s east end including in the Gerrard Street East living room of Keaney’s good friend, Lori Sears-Malik, the Beaches Dance and Music Studio on Kingston Road,

The Bandit Coffee Shop in Beach Hill and Milestone Casting Studios in Leslieville. Several east-end women, including Keaney’s good friends Nancy Botelho and Sarah Mavrou, appear in the video. Heard, who has his own production company, Fresh Baked Entertainment, directed and co-

produced the video, while Gerrard East resident, Neil Exall, reworked and pumped up the music. “It’s a real east-end effort. It takes a village to make a muffin top,” Keaney said. Jokes aside, she said Muffin Top aims to get people thinking about the pressures women, especially young girls, face to have the perfect body. The song opens up with Keaney’s challenges with her post-pregnancy body. “For two pregnancies I grew to be huge then the baby weight I chose to lose./ One day in the morning something made me stop/ Naked in the mirror was my muffin top.” Thirty seconds in, she pronounces that it’s time to embrace muffin top, a symbol of the 18 months she devoted to growing her two precious daughters. “Here is my muffin top now watch it bounce./ Bounce carbohydrate bounce. My muffin top/ Bounce carbohydrate Bounce.” The rap song encourages moms to wave their hands in the air and not be shy. It also calls on people to teach their children to be confident in their bodies, turn down the voice of peer pressure and accept we come in different sizes. “I love the fact (Muffin Top) is

funny and goofy, but it also sends a message,” said Keaney, who is fivefeet nine-inches tall, 140 pounds and size medium. With her daughters Annabel, 10, and Poppy, 7, at an age where social media pressures to look a certain way are greater than ever, Keaney said she feels it’s her responsibility, her motherload as she calls it, to be a good role model for her girls. Keaney’s next video project, still in the works, is a song for teens called “Where are the rest of your shorts?” Down the line, she’d like to do a video about how much she hates making school lunches. A seasoned comedienne, actor and stage performer, Keaney grew up with a love of music, dance and being on the stage and went on to graduate from Sheridan College’s musical theatre program. Since then, she’s starred in several music theatre productions as well as appeared in dozens of film and TV roles including Remedy, Grossology and Due South. She has performed in Rent, My Fair Lady, Crazy for You, Oklahoma and Hello Dolly. She is the creator/star of the hit web series, MotherloadTV.com and also hosts a monthly parent-themed comedy event called Motherload, at Lazy Daisy’s Café. Visit www.youtube.com/ watch?v=8JuJHGeuaf4 for the Muffin Top video.

Wit, deception and great actors bring Nude with Violin to life MARIA TZAVARAS bsrm@insidetoronto.com When some people die, they don’t always take their secrets to the grave with them. In East Side Players Nude with Violin by Noel Coward, famous French painter Paul Sorodin shocks his family with some revelations after his death, causing an unravelling of truths and consequences for his family and friends. However, not everyone is left in the dark and those who are privy to the truth find some relief – and benefit – from revealing what they

know. In this case, Sorodin’s valet Sebastien (Daryn DeWalt), received a letter from his employer a few months before his death, which he reads with enjoyment to Sorodin’s estranged wife Isobel (Barbara Salsberg), his grown children Jane (Sarah St-Onge-Richards) and Colin (Edward Karek), his wife, Pamela (Lindsay Bryan) and art critic, Jacob (Damien Howard). While Paul and Isobel have been separated for decades, they never divorced and the Isobel and the children live in England while the painter lived in Paris, where the story

is set. Yet, Sorodin’s family all show up at his funeral for appearance and expect to close his estate quickly since he left no will. This is why Sebastien’s revelation of the contents of the letter is a welcome twist and a final stab from the painter whose family’s absence and greed did not escape him. The letter brings into question the real genius behind his work, and with impeccable timing, people from the painter’s past appear making claims, and demands, of their own. This includes the fiery Russian vixen, Anya, played amazingly by Renee Cullen and the Southern-

turned-European belle, Cherry May, played hilariously by Esther Boles. As people arrive, the funnier and more intense the plot gets and the more frantic the Sorodins become, but not Sebastien. Even when reporter Clinton Preminger Jr. (Youness Tahiri) shows up, it doesn’t phase him and he’s always composed, like he has something up his sleeve. But with all the uncertainty and betrayal, it begs the question of what is the truth? This show isn’t a fastpaced one, but rather a dialoguefilled show with a particular, witty and cheeky type of humour.

DeWalt gives an amazing performance as Sebastien, playing him equal parts humourous and deceptive. Much of the laughter comes from his character’s mannerisms, delivery and many languages and accents he conjures up at a moment’s notice. This show is a unique game of wits and deception, beautifully executed by the actors who bring this funny and strange tale to life. Tickets are $22. Call the box office at 416-425-0917.

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ext week Toronto marks its 180th year since a government was formed with our first mayor William Lyon Mackenzie at the helm. We’ve come a long way since the days of provincially appointed magistrates and the city’s transformation has seen its share of growing pains, while spawning new townships, building tiered governing structures, and juggling the challenges of a developing metropolis. We offer the highlights of that journey in a special feature on Page 12 on the city’s milestone anniversary. As detailed by two of the city’s top historians, sorting out jurisdictional responsibilities and forging cooperative relationships with townships were major challenges prior to amalgamation. It’s remarkable, however, that over time certain governing issues persist. Dr. Gary Miedema, chief our view historian at Heritage Toronto, describes Toronto’s municipal of the mid-20th More things landscape century as this: “you’ve got a change, the number of different municipalities in the same region who more it stays share the same concerns, but it’s difficult for them to all work the same together.” Things improved with the formation of a regional governing body in the 1950s (Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto) and then amalgamation of 1998. Our politicians were able to finally engage in “healthy debates” about the city’s future according to Wayne Reeves, chief curator for the city, and that helped propel the municipality forward. The history of our city is still being written and we have to wonder what will be said, 100 years from now, about this era of government at city hall? There’s much to celebrate, but there’s still room for improvement. On a macro-level our three tiers of government, as well as our neighbouring municipalities, need to improve upon areas of shared concern – such as mass transit, for instance. And on a micro-level, members of city council struggle daily to work productively as a collective. Divisiveness, in these cases, only serves to hold us back. On the occasion of Toronto’s birthday and to mark how far the city’s come, it’s time our politicians took a page from history and learn that the only way forward is on a road travelled together.

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Crowded right could open door for Chow to win In the space of a few hours Monday morning, the Toronto’s mayor’s race went from a bare cupboard to an embarrassment of riches, as first John Tory and then Karen Stintz joined Rob Ford and David Soknacki to fill out the rightward side of the ballot. Each of these identifies themselves as “fiscal conservatives.” And as it is early in the race, it is difficult – with the notable exception of incumbent Ford – to tell them apart. This is problematic for voters who also identify themselves as “fiscal conservatives,” and very problematic for the growing army of campaign strategists working on all of the campaigns. If everybody is calling for controls on spending, and also feeling ambitious about transit construction, where does the like-minded vote go? Soknacki’s pitch is a fiscally sensible but politically

david nickle the city dubious one: just forget about that subway council decided to build – and tax for – in Scarborough and build light rail there instead, concentrating subway dollars on the downtown relief line. That has the advantage of reining in spending and improving transit, along with the disadvantage of re-opening a debate that Torontonians are sick of. The other three all want to build more subways – Ford, on Sheppard and downtown, and Tory and Stintz, downtown. How will they pay for those subways? Ford will use public private partnerships. Stintz will go to the federal and provincial government. Tory has a plan but isn’t saying yet. The only bit of information right-of-centre voters know for sure is that with

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drug abuse and truancy and – whatever he might claim to the contrary – legislative failure, the incumbent mayor’s been a disaster. Otherwise, those voters will have to pick. If they’re not careful, it’ll be their poison they’re picking. That’s because one other likely candidate of note is still on the horizon. Olivia Chow, the New Democrat MP, former city councillor and widow to the beloved and revered late NDP leader Jack Layton. If she runs, she is surely the only major candidate from left of centre, and if polls over the past year are any indication, she is wellpositioned to take the elec-

tion against even a single candidate from the right. Now, a strong right-ofcentre candidate could certainly erode that advantage, and the crew that’s here now can do that too. If Soknacki continues to play it as he has, supporting the former mayor David Miller-era light rail and tweaking Miller-era tax policy, he can probably siphon off a considerable amount of support that Chow could otherwise take for granted. Tory and Stintz can appeal to elements of soft Chow support. And while Ford’s victory might seem unlikely, by remaining in the race he’ll keep a significant chunk of the conservative vote from anyone but himself. So as matters stand today, it looks as though Chow will have to fall a long way before she’s lost the lead in this very crowded race.

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Climate Action Group East Toronto Climate Action Group are citizens who are concerned about smog, climate change and other environmental issues as they impact the city and particularly east Toronto. Meetings are held monthly, new members welcome. Visit www. etcag.org St. John’s Catholic Church Choir St. John’s Catholic Church Choir welcomes new members. The group practises Thursdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and perform Sundays at 11 a.m. at 794 Kingston Rd. Call Paul Williams at 416-699-2518 Breakfast meeting Rotary Club of Toronto Beach holds a breakfast meeting Tuesdays at 7 a.m. at the Balmy Beach Club. Visit www. torontobeachrotary.org or call Roger Cecchetto 416-415-5000 ext. 6078 Senior Lunch Bunch Senior Lunch Bunch meets at Beach

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hosts Irish film wTheTIFF festival best in Irish cinema will be on display when the Toronto Irish Film Festival (TIRFF) comes to the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The festival seeks to connect people with Irish culture through films created by Irish filmmakers. TIRFF will run from Friday, Feb. 28 to Sunday, March 2. Visit www.torontoirishfilmfest.com Join historic walk with wHistorian Gene Domagala and longtime Beach resident Gene Domagala will lead a walk on the history of the Village of East Toronto. The free event is set to take place Saturday at 1 p.m. Meet outside MP Matthew Kellway’s office at 155 Main St. Refreshments will be served after the walk at the same location. People are reminded to dress for the weather and wear comfortable footwear. Music at Beach United wBeach Church Saturday United Church welcomes the tenor saxophonist Emily Steinwall and guitarist Luan Phung to the next installment of

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its Jazz and Reflection series. Themed “gratitude”, the event takes place Saturday at 4:30 p.m. at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. A freewill offering will be collected. Call 416-691-8082 for details. cricket program at wSpecial Jimmie Simpson Rec Olympics Ontario is inviting individuals, under the age of 21 with an intellectual disability, to take part in a new Learn to Play Cricket program at Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre. The pilot program will launch on Sunday, March 2 and will run every other Sunday from 5 to 6 p.m. Cost is $5 per athlete and no experience is required. Participants of all abilities and skill levels are encouraged to take part. Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre is at 870 Queen St. E., just west of Logan Avenue. For more details, email youth@ specialolympicsontario.com or call 416-447-8326, ext. 236. Toronto east-end paint and wine Friday nights Rebellion Gallery and Art

Ac a d e m y, a n e w art space at 914 Eastern Ave., invites creative types to bring their paint, brushes and wine for a series of destressing evenings of art. Called Friday Night Painting & Wine, the course aims to give students a basic knowledge of the materials and methods used to create oil paintings through weekly demonstration. Friday Night Painting & Wine runs March 7 to April 14 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Visit www.rebelliongallery. com

for Live Green wTheApply grant city’s environment and energy division is now accepting applications for the 2014 Live Green Toronto Community Grants. Resident associations, community groups, not-for-profit organizations and Business Improvement Areas can apply for grants up to $25,000 for environmentally beneficial projects that address community needs. The deadline to submit an expression of interest is April 7. Visit www.livegreentoronto.ca

Life at Downton Abbey Help plant new trees in wFans w at Spadina Museum city parks of the hit BBC series Help replace trees in city parks Downton Abbey can take in costumes worn in the show alongside actual items of clothing worn in Toronto during the same era at the Spadina Museum. The Dressing for Downton exhibit will compare and contrast life in Downton Abbey with life in Toronto. It will run March 11 through April 13.

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Beach Mirror, he said that until Monday, the time wasn’t right. Tory, 59, said he needed the break after the Progressive Conservative party turned the leadership over to Tim Hudak, and Tory left politics. And he used the time, he said, to learn about the city both through the CivicAction post, where he led advocacy efforts on public transit and municipal finance, and on the radio, where he heard from Torontonians across the spectrum both politically and geographically. Now, he says, he’s ready. “I just feel confident that my track record in that regard in terms of being able to produce a livable, functional government – in terms of being able to get things done – will stand me in good stead,” he said. For now, Tory’s resume is his biggest draw as a candidate in

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the race to replace Ford. A selfidentified fiscal conservative, Tory said the key to managing the city government is to work with all councillors. “I am a fiscal conservative, and I believe that everybody at their heart is a fiscal conservative,” he said. “I am very careful with money – I am upset by the notion

that money should be taken from taxpayers and wasted, spent in an inefficient manner. That to me is not something that should be subject to a great divide. I believe that people on the left themselves believe these things.” Tory said his approach would be one of attempting to build consensus, but from a core sense of those values. It’s a model he’d take from past mayors – with a few notable exceptions. “Mayors that I’ve known would say, ‘I never lost a vote at council,’ because they carefully discussed with councillors what it was they wanted to achieve, and achieved a consensus on what they wanted to get through,” he said. “And if I can’t convince 23 people to support what it is I’m doing, it doesn’t mean I give up, it means I have to keep working at it until I do get 23 people and find out why they’re

opposed to it.” Tory at this point is reluctant to refer directly to Ford and the various problems Ford’s had through the term. He’s also not willing to discuss details of how he might finance his plan to build a downtown relief subway line at the same time as a Scarborough subway. “(I won’t say) only because until I have it completely fleshed out to my own comfort level... I will when I’m ready but (I don’t want to) sketch it out,” he said. But Tory said Toronto needs to become more ambitious when it comes to building transit. “What have we built: five subway stops in 30 years?” he said. “Other communities have achieved things that were a lot more ambitious.

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Enjoy pancakes Tuesday Several churches host pancake dinners to mark Shrove Tuesday, the beginning of the Christian season of Lent, Tuesday, March 4. • St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, 70 Silver Birch Ave., 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $6 for adults, $3 for kids under 12. Funds raised will be directed to the church’s outreach programs. • St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, 43 Kimberley Ave. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Freewill offerings, which will be used for the church’s Food for Friends

voucher program. • Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $5 for adults, $2 for kids under 12 or $12 for families. • St. John the Baptist Norway Anglican Church, 470 Woodbine Ave., 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $6 for adults, $3 for children under 12. • St. John’s Catholic Church, 794 Kingston Rd., 5:30 to 7 p.m. Cost $5 for seniors and students, $7 for adults or $10 for families.

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McMahon connects leaders in Ward 32 JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com With upwards of 60 community groups in Ward 32, Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon wants to ensure they’re working together and sharing knowledge on local issues. Last fall, the Beaches-East York representative hosted her first Community Leaders event at the Balmy Beach Club. With wedding-style seating and guests wearing name tags, the two-hour long event aimed to introduce Ward 32 residents to like-minded community members they may have never met. “I call it Lavalife for a better cause,” chuckled McMahon, who is working to establish a “Friends of” group for every park in her ward. “I just like to connect groups and people who have common interests. … I’m big

on groups.” During that initial gathering, McMahon invited attendees to put a sticker on a map indicating where they’re from in the ward and to talk about the projects they’re working on. The outcome of the evening was plethora of ideas for bettering Ward 32, supported by a comprehensive wish list. The second Ward 32 Community Leaders event took place Feb. 12. This time around, community members weren’t assigned seating as many in attendance now knew each other. At this gathering, three “case studies” were presented. The first was by Kate Tennier, chair of the flourishing Beach Hill Neighbourhood Association, a community group focused on supporting the continued revitalization of the Gerrard Street East commercial district by emphasizing a shop local attitude to sustain a walkable and thriving neighbourhood. The second was by Katya

Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon is hosting several Community Leaders events this year.

Nosko, of Great Escape Bookstore, who spoke about the successful efforts by the Kingston Road Village Business Community to obtain improved streetscaping as a result of construction along Kingston Road. The third presenter was Andrew MacDonald, of the dynamic Friends of Orchard Park group, which runs a yearround, monthly campfire, an outdoor skating rink during the winter months and other fun, community-oriented events throughout the year.

The evening concluded with a keynote speech titled ‘Community Catalyst’ by renowned urbanist, Dave Meslin. “It was such a feel-good night. There was positivity to spare,” said McMahon, whose motion to reassess the onerous permit system community groups face to hold events in parks was recently passed by the city’s Parks and Environment Committee. Sometime this spring, McMahon will host a community fair. Various like-minded groups will also be invited to attend smaller brainstorming sessions in the months to come. A Community Leaders awards night is also in the works for later on this year. McMahon would also like to see the City of Toronto establish an “Office of Neighbourhoods”, a concept similar to what exists for supporting BIAs.

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Cost to fix the Gardiner’s Cottage too high: city >>>from page 1 explained James Dann, the city’s manager of waterfront parks. He said the process was further complicated by the fact renovations required to bring the Queen Anne Revival-style building up to code reached $180,000 at the “bare minimum.” Further, the City of Toronto is also aiming to make all its public buildings wheelchairaccessible by 2025. The twostorey Gardener’s Cottage lacks an accessible main floor washroom. “That (figure) wasn’t well received,” said Dann, adding

there wasn’t any significant benefit to be had from the expensive redesign. “At this point, we’re exploring further options. We will not operate this facility without it being up to code.” The space is currently being used as a parks supervisor’s office. Dann said the goal is to work with the community, the Gardener’s Cottage advisory council and the local councillor to find a feasible solution to get the building reactivated as soon as possible. Ward 32 Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon said every effort was made to

keep the Gardener’s Cottage open to the public but in the end more time is needed to determine the best plan of action. “We’ve had umpteen meetings over the past year,” she said. “The challenge is that it’s a historical building.” McMahon said several options were explored about how to create a fire escape and a wheelchair-accessible washroom on the main floor but in the end they were all deemed too expensive and too evasive to move forward. “It’s so complicated,” McMahon said, vowing to

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Spot the early signs Ever wondered if your memory lapse is normal, or a sign of early-onset dementia? According to dementia experts there are early signs that can help identify when we might need to take memory lapses or behavioural changes more seriously, and maybe see a doctor. A proper diagnosis can help identify a number of conditions that could be causing these symptoms, and could help get you needed treatment earlier. Here are a few of the early signs of dementia*: Misplacing things: Anyone can temporarily misplace a wallet or keys, however, a person with dementia may put things in inappropriate places, for example, an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl. Difficulty performing familiar tasks: Busy people can be so distracted from time to time that they may forget to serve part of a meal and only remember later. A person with dementia may have trouble completing tasks that have been familiar to them all their lives, such as meal preparation or playing a game. Disorientation in time and space: It’s normal to forget the day of the week or your destination - for a moment. But a person with dementia can become lost on their own street, not knowing how they got there or how to get home. Changes in mood, behaviour and personality: Someone

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Marking Toronto’s 180th birthday The city found its stride with amalgamation

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n March 5, 1834, a growing community known as the Town of York went to sleep as a British colonial outpost, and awoke as the newly incorporated City of Toronto. “It’s really only significant because of that shift in government...where we suddenly took on this mantle of becoming something different than what we were (the day before),” explained Wayne Reeves, chief curator for the City of Toronto. “It wasn’t really cataclysmic but it did show a little bit of growing autonomy, at least in nomenclature.” The system of governance of York, with its provincially appointed magistrates, was proving inadequate to meet the needs of the community. A new government was formed and took effect on March 6, with elected officials and Toronto’s first mayor, William Lyon Mackenzie. Mackenzie’s reign was short lived; he declined a second term in office and went on to cause what Reeves describes as “huge turmoil” for the city in leading the Upper Canada rebellion of 1837. Despite this, the city grew incrementally into the early 1900s, mostly through the annexation of surrounding villages. Eventually neighboring communities broke off with their own governments, forming townships such as Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, and eventually Weston and Leaside. POPULATION JUMP As Toronto grew, so did its challenges. The city was experiencing an unprecedented jump in population after the Second World War, and the province again needed a way to meet rising regional demands, especially as it looked to replace farmlands with industrialization and housing. In April 1953, the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was created to address those issues shared by the city and the surrounding communities of Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York, as well as the smaller East York, Forest Hill, Leaside, Long Branch, Mimico, New Toronto, Swansea and Weston. “The big picture is you’ve got a number of different municipalities in the same region who share the same concerns, but it’s difficult for them

step closer to amalgamation as the 13 municipalities were merged to produce seven governments: the City of Toronto, Metro Council and the five boroughs of Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York and East York. Finally, in 1998 the Conservative provincial government amalgamated municipalities into a mega city with Toronto. According to Reeves, this got people talking in all the right ways. “Healthy debates about how we want to run our city, and what we should invest in, came to the forefront,” said Reeves, who believes these discussions help push our city forward. He points to the addition of new city hall and the Toronto-Dominion Centre in the 1960s, which attracted global attention but also caused many to question what to do with old city hall. The end result was a city that began to embrace preservation as a key element to future growth. “We are continually re-imagining the city and I think that’s really what makes it one of the most interesting places in North America,” said Reeves. “The city continues to change dramatically. Not a lot of population growth but a lot of population change and increasing diversity in terms of our ethnic makeup.”

Yonge Street Slip, looking north, 1926: William James’ photograph reminds us of how industrial Toronto’s lakeshore used to be in the early 20th century.

King Street East, south side looking west, 1856: One of the earliest photographs taken of Toronto, this image shows Toronto’s main commercial thoroughfare at that time.

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to all work together,” said Dr. Gary Miedema, associate director and chief historian at Heritage Toronto. The two-tiered system of government did not replace Toronto’s own government, which still looked after aspects of city life such as public health, but Metro did take lead on issues such as arterial roads, sewer, and protection of parks and valley lands. “I think it was hugely successful and really was the recipe for growth in what we now call the City of Toronto,” said Reeves. “As a result we’ve got one of the greatest park systems in the world... a very durable legacy.” Still, the new system was not with-

out controversy. Despite success with the Gardiner Expressway, plans for the Spadina Expressway stopped short due to opposition, leaving the Allen Expressway with an endpoint at Eglinton Avenue West. There was also a lost battle with the City of Toronto to turn Toronto Island into parklands. The year 1967 brought the city one

The city may be constantly changing, but Reeves also points to our general upward momentum since 1834, unlike other North American cities, such as Detroit, that have had “huge downturns.” “We’ve sustained prosperity and as a result we’ve been able to grow in many different ways,” Reeves said. Both historians agree that the diversity of the city’s population is a unique aspect of Toronto’s history and current culture. There have been times when discrimination reared its ugly head, and the community has faced the consequences. The riot at Christie Pits in 1933, given as example, which was incited by Pit Gang members who hung a large sheet with a swastika on it during a local baseball game. “It’s been a long struggle that continues today, although we’ve made great strides in diversity in our city,” Miedema said. “Our ability to develop in a way that has created a relatively open and accepting environment for people to settle, and build families, and contribute to the city – I think that’s something that’s remarkable.”

While we’re celebrating Toronto’s 180th birthday, what memories or photos do you have of our city’s past? Email letters@insidetoronto.com

History of East Toronto Riverdale, Leslieville and the Beach – the three main Toronto neighbourhoods east of the Don River and south of Danforth Avenue – are now popular, built-up areas but around the time the city was founded on March 6, 1834, they weren’t much more than dense forest and farm land. Riverdale and Leslieville to the east and Lake Shore Boulevard East to the south, didn’t officially become a part of the City of Toronto until 1884. Established in the mid1880s, Riverdale was a low-income and somewhat lawless community before it was annexed by the city 130 years ago. By the end of the 19th century, the community was one of Toronto’s most important east-west crossings as it had one the few bridges across the Don River. It wasn’t until the early 1850s that a small village that became Leslieville started to form in the vicinity of the Toronto Nurseries, which were owned by George Leslie and his sons. Many of the area’s early residents worked as gardeners or at one of the numerous brick factories. Part of the broader south Riverdale neighbourhood, Leslieville is roughly bounded by the Don River, the railway line, Gerrard Street to the north, Empire Avenue to the west, Eastern Avenue to the south and Coxwell Avenue to the east. Eastward, a large portion of the Beach, specifically south of Queen Street East to McLean Avenue, has been part of the City of Toronto since it was founded. Despite not being fully developed until about 50 years later when working families started populating the former Village of East Toronto, the Beach proper was still considered a part of Toronto. While the City of Toronto was largely built up east of the Don River, the advent of the railway and the jobs and infrastructure that came with it led to scores of young families settling in the area.

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