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(Above) Judging horses at the Claireville Agricultural Fair in 1933; (Below) The students of School Section No. 6 in Highfield, Etobicoke, located on east side of Hwy. 27, south of Rexdale Boulevard, in 1939. Nelson Moody is in the front row, fifth from the right. Teacher Dorothy Moody at rear left is Nelson’s aunt.

CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com “Newspaper fyles are the most authentic history of the community available. They tell the story of the community’s life as it happens.”

As the Etobicoke Guardian celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, it is that quote – taken from a May 15, 1941 editorial printed in its predecessor, the Lakeshore Advertiser – that perhaps best sums up the enduring role community newspapers play in recording for posterity the hyper-local happenings of any given community.

“But it’s beyond just the newspaper itself; it’s the distillation of the whole community and the way that people perceived what was going on in their town and what it represented – the highs, the lows, all that kind of stuff,” said Randy Boswell, a journalism professor at Carleton University

and former history beat reporter at the Ottawa Citizen.

“That was all captured in your community newspaper, with a weekly reflection of the celebrations, the challenges and the controversies of the community.”

From the “harrowing tale of the terror-filled night” Hurricane Hazel rolled through Long Branch in its Oct. 21, 1954 edition, to the call-out for volunteer woman workers to help with the war efforts in Mimico on Sept. 14, 1939 – the pages of the Lakeshore Advertiser from decades past are filled with just such historical records of events of local, national and even international note.

Boswell, who was shortlisted for the Pierre Berton media award for popularizing Canadian history, said community newspapers like the Advertiser/Guardian were – and continue to be – integral to capturing “in-depth portraits of life” throughout history in the neighbourhoods they cover.

“I think in a lot of ways, that role hasn’t changed much over the years. If you want to know what’s going on in your own

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Taking our readers back through time About this special commemorative edition These past few months as the Guardian news team prepared to mark our 100th year of news service, we literally brought the past into our newsroom.

After a research trip to the Toronto Reference Library and its microfilm room, we saved and printed dozens of old Lakeshore Advertiser pages and hung them up around our desks. It began as a logistical move, to better absorb the old newspapers and see what stories once made press.

But the pages soon became a subject of fascination for our journalists and sales staff, to see how differently they were designed, to imagine the process involved in producing them and to read the intriguing little bits of life from the 1920s and onwards. Even the advertisements are a window into a very different lifestyle.

So we took inspiration from those pages for this commemorative edition, treating the entire

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Metroland Media Toronto multimedia consultant Lisa Roberts (left) and Etobicoke Guardian news editor Norm Nelson pore over vintage pages of the Advertiser in the Metroland newsroom; (Right) Front page of the Lakeshore Advertiser on Oct. 21, 1954 featuring coverage of the Hurricane Hazel aftermath. newspaper with a look that hearkens back to those early production days. This week’s Guardian features stories about life in the black and white news era, the people, places and events that helped

define a growing Etobicoke. It also includes ‘flashback’ news clips: stories reproduced as they were presented in the Advertiser all those years ago, so that you too can take a peek into Etobicoke’s

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past. Each flashback references the date that story first appeared in print.

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Horse-drawn carriages and farmland dominated the landscape

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DENISE HARRIS denise.harris@sympatico.ca What was life like in Etobicoke in 1917? Although residents were far from any battleground, the First World War had an indelible impact on those at home. By 1917, everyone was fully aware of the dreadful impact this war was having on Canada’s young soldiers. Citizens scanned newspapers daily to read the list of Canadian casualties, praying that they wouldn’t know anyone on it. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial lists 47 men from Etobicoke who had died by the end of 1917, and many more had been wounded or imprisoned. The war dominated every action, every conversation, every prayer. Civilians at home wrote to their loved ones overseas, raised money for the war effort, and worked with organizations like the Red Cross to send soldiers needed supplies.

In 1917, the population of the area was 5,822. 80 per cent of Etobicoke’s residents and virtually all bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and lawyers were of British descent. Three quarters of adults were Protestant and 15 per cent were Roman Catholic. Roughly 75 per cent of the land was being used for agriculture, and only 25 per cent was urbanized. Most of the industry was located in the south part of the township; however, Mimico and New Toronto had become independent villages in 1910 and 1913, respectively, with a corresponding loss in tax revenue for Etobicoke. (Long Branch would also become a village in 1930.)

Personal transportation was still primarily by horse-drawn carriage. Islington resident

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(Clockwise from top left) Viola May Piercey visiting her grandfather, George Dixon. His farm was located between Hwy. 27 and Martin Grove Road, 1.2 km north of Dixon Road; Soldiers on a training exercise in 1916, marching north on Lambton Avenue (now Prince Edward Drive South) just north of Berry Road. Note the gun carriage in the centre of the entourage; Dundas Street West, west of Kipling Avenue, being paved with asphalt in August 1917; Residents of Islington Village wrap bandages and knit socks for soldiers in Jubilee Hall, located on the south side of Dundas Street West, opposite Burnhamthorpe Crescent, ca. 1917.

Frank Shaver bought the first car in Etobicoke circa 1909 — a Studebaker-Flanders — but cars did not predominate in rural areas until after the depression.

Dundas Street and Lakeshore Road were both paved in 1917, but other roads were gravel or even mud. There was good access to other towns by train — the CNR along the Lakeshore or through Weston, and the CPR though Islington. In 1917, the Toronto Suburban Electric Rail-

way opened passenger service from Keele Street to Guelph, passing through central Etobicoke.

In 1917, there were no high schools in Etobicoke; any young people wishing to continue their education had to travel to high schools in Toronto or Weston. There were no local police stations as policing was the responsibility of the York County Police. There were no fire services — not even a volun-

teer brigade. There were also no social services available. Alcohol could not be purchased except by doctor’s prescription because prohibition had been enacted in Ontario in 1916. On the bright side, electricity and telephone service were available, and all women in Ontario were given the right to vote in 1917.

Clothing was changing, partly as a result of the war. By 1917, skirts had risen well above the ankle. Corsets were replaced by

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For men, blazers, spats, straw boaters, and Panama hats were popular, as was short hair and wide, curled moustaches. And, of course, all of this clothing could be ordered through Eaton’s and Simpson’s catalogues!

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Congratulations to the Etobicoke Guardian, celebrating its 100th year of news service in 2017!

Looking back at my own Etobicoke history, we have shared some milestones along the way. I grew up in Mimico and am a lifelong resident of Etobicoke.

My deep roots in the community include attending local schools St.Leo, David Hornell, Islington, ECI, and Mimico High. My architecture thesis at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture was for an Arts Centre on the Lakeshore Hospital Grounds... a project I was able to realize as an Etobicoke City Councillor less than a decade later. I served as a councillor in the former City of Etobicoke in 1994, and continued to represent Etobicoke on Toronto City Council for fourteen years. In 2014 I was elected to the Ontario legislature as the MPP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore. The Etobicoke Guardian has covered local politics throughout the years – here’s wishing them many more years of news service to our community!

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Community news is the ‘most authentic history’

The Etobicoke Guardian, published every Thursday, is a division of the Metroland Media Group Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. The Metroland family of newspapers is comprised of more than 100 community publications across Ontario.

The Etobicoke Guardian is a member of the National NewsMedia Council. Complainants are urged to bring their concerns to the attention of the newspaper and, if not satisfied, write The National NewsMedia Council, Suite 200, 890 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M4W 2H2. Phone: 416-340-1981 Web: www.mediacouncil.ca

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nce, the community newspaper was “the only contemporary history” of one’s local area and became more valuable the older each edition got, as a historic document.

This point was noted in a May 15, 1941 Advertiser editorial. And though things have changed, news and information are everywhere, we certainly understood the paper as a critical historic reference as we planned for this 100th commemorative edition. We couldn’t just Google the news from decades long gone.

The only place to find old editions of the Advertiser was the Toronto library’s microfilm collection — and there, only back until 1925. Will we be able to find today’s edition of the Guardian with a simple search command in 100 years?

What hasn’t changed is the value we feel exists in our work, and the service we hope to provide our readers. As an ode to the community newsroom of days gone by, here’s more from that 1941 editorial: “The newspaper fyles (sic) are the most authentic history of the community available. They tell the story of the community’s life as it happens ... Those of us who live in the modern surroundings are sometimes apt to forget the sacrifices of those who made the community what it is today. It is not so very long ago when the territory served by the weekly newspapers was virgin forest or prairie ... (T)oday we have every modern convenience, churches, schools, libraries, theatres, electric lights, sewers, sidewalks, paved streets and a hundred and one other conveniences our forefathers never dreamed of. These things did not come about by chance or by natural evolution. They came about because men toiled ceaselessly to leave behind them a better work than that into which they came.

Their devotion, their struggles, their ideals, their initiative and determination should be an inspiration to succeeding generations. And the record of their achievements appears in the fyles (sic) of the local newspapers, and that is why they are such valuable records of the triumphs of the pioneers.

“Few people who contribute to the news columns of the newspaper are aware that they are contemporary historians. They are chronicling the events of community life for posterity, and generations hence will read the story they have told, and from the struggles of their day ...(T)hose who contribute to the news columns of their local newspaper are therefore doing a valuable service for ‘those who follow in their wake.’”

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Etobicoke embraces shattered families Etobicoke.

It is defined by its sense of community, and support for one another, especially in times of tragedy.

The sun shone brightly on April 24, 2003 betraying a horror that would rock numerous families and the community when a devastating natural gas explosion at Six Points Plaza killed seven people and injured four others.

A year later, dozens of mourners - families, friends and neighbours - gathered on a similarly sunny morning at 3885-3887 Bloor St. W. to remember.

Later, a stone memorial would be built on the site to honour those who lost their lives: Dora Carambelas, 60, Tina Kirkimtzis (nee Carambelas), 32,

TAMARA SHEPHARD Columnist longtime resident Robert Fairley, 50, esthetician Irene Miyama, 52, who owned a vacant store in the plaza, and hair salon clients Adele Brown, 73, Elizabeth Roy, 74, and Lillian Guglietti, also known as Lillian Goulet, 73.

Then mayor David Miller spoke of the families’ enduring love, and pain.

“I know that the pain from this kind of loss never completely abates.

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when a suitcase explosive destroyed it over the Atlantic Ocean beyond the shores of Ireland on June 23, 1985.

Most of the 329 people aboard the flight were from the Toronto area.

“This memorial will be a place, not just for the families of the Air India tragedy, but for all Canadians to reflect and remember victims of terrorism,” Jayashree Thampi, head of the Air India Victims’ Families Association, had said.

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Pain comes from love.

And we never stop loving the people we’ve lost.

Because that love never goes away, neither does the pain,” Miller had said.

Four years later, another constituency of grieving, wounded families would be embraced

by Etobicoke and its people, and offered a place to rest and remember.

It was another sunny Saturday morning on June 23, 2007 when the families of victims of Air India Flight 182 gathered on a quiet inlet in Humber Bay Park East with the heads of three levels of government to dedicate the Air India Memorial.

The Air India Boeing 747 had been on a flight from Canada to India

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After 25 years, real estate broker Tina Klein will continue to keep her Halloween tradition alive by offering donations to local schools to purchase pumpkins themselves this fall. In the past, Tina provided pumpkins to the local schools in Rexdale, but she has decided to take a different route by allowing the teachers and students to buy their own pumpkins.

In addition to donating money for the pumpkins, Klein also contributes by giving back to her community. She actively supports the local legion, church and has worked with the Toronto Police to provide fraud protection seminars for seniors.

“I believe Rexdale has helped me become a success and it is my pleasure to return the favour by giving back to the community. “If you’re successful, you give back.”

Klein has been helping people in Rexdale sell their homes for years. She has worked through recessions, 21 per cent interest rates, real estate booms and a declining market, like today. She knows what to do and what not to do from her years of experience.

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Key events in Etobicokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s storied past DENISE HARRIS denise.harris@sympatico.ca

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As Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most westerly community, Etobicokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had its share of major events since 1917, probably too many to mention them all here. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll offer up some highlights in Etobicokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey from a burgeoning township to member of an amalgamated metropolis.

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1918 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Etobicokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents rejoice as word is received early on Nov. 11 that the armistice has been signed, ending the First World War. 1918 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Etobicoke Townshipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first volunteer fire brigade is established in Islington.

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1922 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Etobicoke Townshipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first police department is formed, consisting of one chief and three constables.

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1927 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The TTC assumes ownership of the Toronto and Mimico Electric Railway which operates along Lake Shore Boulevard West from the Humber River to Long Branch.

1953 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Etobicoke becomes part of the newly-formed Metropolitan Toronto.

1928 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Etobicoke High School, the first in Etobicoke, opens on Montgomery Road in Islington.

1929 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Great Depression begins and, by 1936, 2,168 unemployed men in Etobicoke are collecting relief benefits.

1930 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Following the leads of Mimico and New Toronto pre1917, Long Branch becomes an independent village.

1930 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gus Ryder establishes the Lakeshore Swim Club in New Toronto and over 200,000 children learn to swim during his 56-year tenure.

1939 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Queen Elizabeth Way officially opens through Etobicoke.

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1939 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Second World War starts.

1946 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Baby Boomâ&#x20AC;? arrives as Etobicoke records an unprecedented $2 million in building starts. From a population of 18,973 in 1941, the population will increase 15-fold to 282,686 by 1971.

1947 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Etobicoke becomes the first municipality in Ontario to file an official plan with the Ontario Municipal Board, using the motto â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First

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1949 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Etobicoke Board of Education is established.

1951 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rex Heslop starts to develop â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rexdale,â&#x20AC;? the first of many postwar residential subdivisions in northern Etobicoke.

In an arrangement with the township, he is required to bring industry to the area to provide a tax base to service his new homes. This becomes the standard process in Etobicoke.

1953 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Etobicoke converts from a volunteer fire department to a larger, permanent force of 90.

1954 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hurricane Hazel strikes, causing unprecedented death and destruction.

1955 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority is formed to administer low-rent housing projects. Despite Etobicokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objections, extensive low rent public housing is built in northern Etobicoke.

1958 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Etobicokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Municipal Centre at 399 The West Mall officially opens.

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COMMUNITY O Continued from page 12 unusual and exciting Centennial Projects” in the Toronto area.

1967 — The Borough of Etobicoke is formed, with Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch now part of Etobicoke again.

1968 — The Bloor Street subway line is extended from Keele Street to Islington Avenue (and then to Kipling in 1980).

1970 — Tom Riley is appointed commissioner of parks & recreation for Etobicoke and over his 28-year tenure creates a park system that experts call “the best in the country.”

1983 — Etobicoke is incorporated as a city.

1998 — Despite citizen protests, Etobicoke, along with Scarborough, North York, York and East York are incorporated into the City of Toronto.

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(Clockwise from top left) Lake Shore Boulevard West looking east toward bridge over Humber River in 1929, two years after streetcar line taken over by TTC. Workers are changing the line from a single track on the north side of the road to a double track up the middle; Looking west at the eastern end of the Queen Elizabeth Way in Etobicoke, just west of Humber River, ca. 1950; Official opening of the Bloor Subway extension from Keele to Islington on May 10, 1958. Dignitaries gather at the Islington station, beside a smash-through sign.

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Congratulations! Happy 100th Etobicoke Guardian.

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David Lyle Streight: Islington community builder Born in 1842 near Kemptville, David Lyle Streight would go on to become one of the Village of Islington’s most influential businessmen, known for bringing a CPR stop to the area.

Streight was a teen when he first arrived in Islington in 1856 to work alongside his uncle, who operated a contracting business in the village.

Following his five-year carpentry apprenticeship, he struggled to find work as a journeyman in Etobicoke and moved to several different cities in the U.S. and Canada, before ultimately returning to Islington and starting up his own highly successful contracting business in 1868.

A decade later, with the Credit Valley Railway (CVR) set to open a new line across Etobicoke, Streight began to consider starting up a retail lumber and coal business to augment his contractor work. In order

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David Streight and his wife, Elizabeth, standing in front of the lumber yard office on the west side of Canning Avenue (now Cordova Avenue) just north of the CPR tracks. Their house can be seen on the right, on the east side of Canning Avenue. to do so, however, he had to convince CVR to build a stop in Islington – a request the railway agreed to after Streight approached CVR management directly to present his case.

At Streight’s suggestion, Etobicoke’s council agreed that the arrival of the CVR presented an opportune time to open a new northsouth street connecting

Dundas and Bloor streets – today’s Cordova Avenue.

When the new road was laid out, 1.5 acres of land was severed and sold to Streight at auction, and it was there that he built his family home in 1880.

The Canadian Pacific Railway, meanwhile, purchased the financially-troubled CVR – as well as its Islington siding – in 1884.

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Former publisher vowed to help Long Branch O Continued from front role hasn’t changed much over the years. If you want to know what’s going on in your own neighbourhood, with the places that you have easy access to, then community newspapers have continued to play a pretty important role,” he said.

“What amazes me is what an incredible historical record (the Advertiser/Guardian) will be for so many communities across that whole southwest Toronto area.”

In his research into the Guardian’s century-old history, Boswell dug up a Toronto Daily Star clipping from Nov. 18, 1966 covering the final Long Branch civic awards ceremony before the tiny community was absorbed into the “new borough” of Etobicoke on Jan. 1, 1967.

During that ceremony, thenAdvertiser publisher B.J. MacMillan and his newspaper staff were named Long Branch’s Citizens of the Year.

In his acceptance speech, MacMillan promised: “As long as I

(Clockwise from right) The Kingsway Theatre showing That Midnight Kiss in 1949,; A police constable monitors traffic along Malton Road in Etobicoke back in 1952; Loblaw Groceterias in New Toronto was located on the south side of Lakeshore Road, between Fifth and Sixth streets and unveiled a new concept of shopping - requiring customers to fetch their own groceries.

publish a paper, what happens in Long Branch will continue to happen in Long Branch. We will help Long Branch maintain a separate identity!”

Boswell touted MacMillan’s vow that the Advertiser would help the tiny community – which at that point measured just ninetenths of a square mile – maintain its singularity despite its amalgamation into the larger borough of Etobicoke as “especially poignant.”

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“It speaks to...the importance of community newspapers to community cohesion,” he said.

“People can figure out what’s going on in international news from various sources around the world...but nobody else is going to cover what’s happening in Mimico, Long Branch and those kinds of communities that don’t, in a way, exist as municipal entities anymore – but that still do exist as places in people’s lives in a very real way.”

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A brief history of community newspapers in Etobicoke The Etobicoke Guardian celebrates its 100th year of news service in 2017, and a history of coverage that began with The Lakeshore/Mimico Advertiser in 1917 and publisher Edwin Ealand.

In a Guardian article published in 1992, his daughter Florence Lanchberry recalled her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early publishing days: â&#x20AC;&#x153;He set up a room in the house and that became the newspaper office... the labour was all done by hand. The handwriting of all the news and the ads.â&#x20AC;?

Ealand immigrated from England in 1902 and went on to become a local councillor and a school board member. With no printer in south Etobicoke at the time, the paper was shipped to Parkdale to be printed, with a press run of about 100 in the first year.

When asked what Advertiser readers liked to read, Lanchberry told the Guardian in 1992 that â&#x20AC;&#x153;they were interested in any activity where their name could possibly be included.â&#x20AC;? She recalled a fond memory when she was a teenager, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had brand new high brown boots and my father asked if I would go to Holbendys and get a report of the wedding of one of the daughters.â&#x20AC;?

Ealand reportedly sold the Advertiser in 1919 to Charters Publishing Co. under the stipulation that they retained the original name. By 1925, according to the microfilmed copies at the Toronto Reference Library, The Advertiser was published every Thursday, featured news from Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch and was sold for 3 cents per copy.

The south Etobicoke newspaper was purchased by media baron Roy Thomson in 1949 but then sold off quickly in 1950 to Vince MacMillan. He bought up several other local papers including the

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MacMillanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s empire sold to Metrospan in 1972 O Continued from page 18 Weston Times, the Woodbridge Times and in 1961, the Etobicoke Guardian from E.R. Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Islington Publisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ltd. He renamed it the Etobicoke Advertiser-Guardian and circulated it north of The Queensway while the Lakeshore Advertiser continued in the south. MacMillan also scooped up the Etobicoke Press before selling the whole empire in 1972 to the Toronto Starâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weekly newspaper division, then called Metrospan Community Newspapers.

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Built on 90 acres of farmland near Kipling and Finch West avenues in 1927, the three-storey, T-shaped satellite hospital was custom designed by the renowned Toronto architectural firm of Sproatt & Rolph to provide a “holistic de-institutionalized approach” to the treatment of child patients recovering from rheumatic fever, tuberculosis and polio, among other conditions.

The 112-bed building was perhaps best known for its 200-foot long, southfacing patient wing, whose rooms opened directly onto a boardwalk and upper balcony so that beds could be moved outdoors for “helio-therapy.”

According to Denise Harris, chief historian for the Etobicoke Historical Society, the SickKids Country Hospital Branch officially opened on Oct. 24, 1928 – when members of the Toronto Automobile Club picked up 44 children at the Toronto Islands ferry dock and transported them to the new building in a celebratory “parade” – and closed its doors 26 years later, following a major power failure during Hurricane Hazel.

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“Addressing issues of long-term recovery, tuberculosis, polio and autism specifically, the practical care and research embraced a variety of concepts and methods which were increasingly focused on a holistic de-institutionalized approach that consistently encompassed the benefits of a natural landscape setting.”

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Rex Wesley Heslop: The Father of Rexdale Born in 1905 on a farm just north of the subdivision that would be named after him, Rex Wesley Heslop would go on to become known as “The Father of Rexdale.”

Heslop was in his 30s when he established Rex Heslop Homes Ltd. in the late 1940s, following stints as a successful car salesman in Michigan, and a not-so-successful miner in northern Ontario.

Rex Heslop Homes Ltd. got its start building 400 homes on cheap land south of Evans Avenue and west of Brown’s Line in Alderwood that the township had acquired for non-payment of taxes.

Next, Heslop purchased the 100-acre Wilbert Wardlaw farm on the east side of Islington Avenue, north of Hwy. 401 in 1951. By April the following year, he’d sold his first 40 homes in Rexdale to workers from nearby Malton’s fast-growing air-

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Rex Heslop Homes Ltd. was known as “The Father of Rexdale” for developing more than 3,600 homes and 70 businesses on 1,200 acres of land in the area. craft industry.

Heslop also built Rexdale Plaza in 1956, most of the areas now referred to as New Rexdale and Sunnydale, and the even larger Delrex subdivision in Georgetown.

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more than 3,600 homes and 70 businesses on 1,200 acres of land in the area – a feat for which Etobicoke’s thenReeve Bev Lewis described him as “the salvation of Etobicoke.”.

Heslop died a millionaire in 1973.

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Applewood more than just a popular wedding backdrop CYNTHIA REASON reason@insidetoronto.com While most Etobians recognize Applewood for the picturesque porch upon which many a wedding photo has been snapped, too many remain unaware of the homestead’s position in history as the birthplace of an important pioneer of Canadian social policy.

James Shaver Woodsworth, who was born at Applewood, the Shaver Homestead, on July 29, 1874, went on to become the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) — the democratic socialist party that preceded the New Democratic Party (NDP).

The oldest of six children born to the daughter of Applewood’s original owner, Peter Shaver, Woodsworth was just a boy when his family moved from Etobicoke to Brandon, Man., in 1885. There, his father was named Western Canada’s superintendent of Methodist missions — Woodsworth would ultimately follow in his footsteps with his own ordainment as a Methodist minister in

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Applewood’s original owner Peter Shaver – the grandfather of James Shaver Woodsworth - is pictured here in this late-1880s photograph in front of his circa-1852 home, built by architect William Tyrrell of Weston.

1896.

After settling in Winnipeg following studies at Victoria College in the University of Toronto and at Oxford University in England, Woodsworth began working with

that city’s immigrant slum dwellers.

Shaped by that experience, Woodsworth became an ardent democratic socialist whose ideals made him a popular figure

in Winnipeg politics, which led to his election as the member of Parliament for Winnipeg North Centre in 1921 — a riding he held until his death in 1942.

As an MP — first for the Inde-

pendent Labour Party, then, in 1932, as the founding leader of the newly formed CCF — Woodsworth fought for labour rights, improved social welfare measures and democratic socialism.

Today, the circa-1852, red-andyellow brick homestead Woodsworth was born in still stands in central Etobicoke — albeit in a new location at 450 The West Mall.

After the land upon which it sat on the northeast corner of Burnhamthorpe and The West Mall was sold in 1980, the 465ton building was relocated to in Broadacres Park, suffering severe cracks in the process.

The James Shaver Woodsworth Homestead Foundation — a not-for-profit organization formed to head up Applewood’s rescue — raised the funds necessary to repair and restore the Georgian-style homestead to its original beauty.

The foundation still operates Applewood today, renting the house out for weddings, parties and meetings as a source of income to keep the historic house open and in a state of good repair.

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Great Alderwood location has two garages with hydro. 135ft depth. Hardwood floors thru-out. Eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances and walkout to back porch/yard. Open concept living/dining room. 3 bedrooms. Finished basement with bath.

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Gerald Lee and Georgette LeBlanc Lee celebrated not only their wedding anniversary on July 20, 2017 but also Georgetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 90th birthday on March 5, 2017.

The Etobicoke couple met in 1956 in Toronto and were married the year after at Holy Family Church on King Street West. Gerald was a technical producer for CBC for 35 years and retired in 1987. They have three children and seven grandchildren and still live in the Rexdale home they purchased the year they were married.

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Lawn bowling club marks 100 years

The James Garden Lawn Bowling Club celebrated 100 years this August with a special centennial tournament, dignitary remarks and plaque presentation. City councillor John Campbell and MPP Yvan Baker were in attendance and participated in a ceremonial bowl to kick off the tourney.

The club actually began as the Old Mill Lawn Bowling Club in 1917 where it thrived for almost 50 years before moving to James Gardens when the city appropriated the Old Mill lands for the expanding TTC subway line.

James Gardens was purchased in 1955 from the James family as part of the Humber River flood plain acquisition program.

After members petitioned council, part of the new park was set aside for lawn bowling. The James Gardens Lawn Bowling Club officially opened on June 14, 1969.

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David Ernest Hornell: Victoria Cross recipient Born in Toronto on Jan. 26, 1910, Mimico’s David Ernest Hornell would go on to become the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) first ever Victoria Cross (VC) recipient for his Second World War heroics.

After enlisting in the RCAF in 1941, Hornell quickly earned his flight wings and was commissioned by the following year – completing 60 operational missions and 600 hours flying during his time as a flight lieutenant.

It was for his brave actions during his final mission on June 24, 1944 that Hornell was recognized with the United Kingdom’s highest award for “gallantry in the face of the enemy.”

Hornell was flying a Canso amphibian aircraft over the North Atlantic when a German submarine U-1225 was spotted 120 miles north of the Shetland Islands in Scotland.

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Newspaper staff rallied to cover Hurricane Hazel Edition following the disaster full of tragic, heroic stories NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com Hurricane Hazel hit Toronto hardest in the overnight hours of Oct. 15-16, 1954.

And on Oct. 21, the Advertiser (the forerunner to the Etobicoke Guardian) put out its regular Thursday edition.

Needless to say, coverage was extensive, including the entire front page.

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ACTIVE ROLE: The Advertiser staff did more than just document the tragedy, and the heroism is evidenced by the first paragraph of this front page story: “In this time of great need the Advertiser together with the Lakeshore councils and almost every business firm and service organization has contributed to the Hurricane Relief Fund and will assist in the collection of funds.”

SCOUTS AND ROVERS ASSISTED: That was an actual subhead in the paper which recounted, “A total of more than 900 hours duty was chalked up by Lakeshore Scouts and Rovers in the devastated areas of Long Branch and Lakeview over the weekend.” Their volunteer contribution culminated when “Twenty Rovers were sworn in Monday night for service in Etobicoke as police deputies.

They served eight hours each.”

The paper quoted E.F. Brennan, assistant district commissioner of Lakeshore Rover Scouts, as saying, “Rover crews will continue to serve as long as they are required.”

THE GRIM SEARCHERS: That was the headline over a photo showing rescue workers, with this quote from one of them: “The aftermath is worse than the flood. I will continue searching for bodies but I am terrified that I shall find one.”

RESIDENT IGNORED WARNING: That’s the actual subhead in the paper, and here’s the story recap: “Although he had been asked to vacate his home, Robert Bulmer of 43rd Street,

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(Clockwise from top) Thirty-eight residents of Raymore Drive were killed when raging flood waters of Hurricane Hazel swept away 14 homes; Safe, but homeless, this family finds shelter in Long Branch high school. Roads were impassable in Etobicoke and motorists, unable to tell where road was, ran their cars into water-filled ditches. Hundreds of families are homeless; Lifting a huge log in cleaning debris from the Humber flood basin are three members of the 48th Highlanders. Photo caption at the time noted: “Armed with flame throwers, bulldozers and an amphibious “alligator,” more than 800 soldiers are in the midst of an all-out, and perhaps final search for the bodies still missing since the area was devastated by Hurricane Hazel.

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Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aid scrambled to track down wards O Continued from page 38 having survived other floods, failed to realize the danger of his position until their house left its mooring and carried him and his wife down 43rd Street.â&#x20AC;?

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remains the most severe flood in recorded history. In total, 81 lives were lost and thousands of people were left homeless.â&#x20AC;? Visit the TRCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dedicated website on the weather event at http://www. hurricanehazel.ca.

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(Top) A motorist gets stranded during Hurricane Hazelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downpour. 1954; (Middle) circa Oct. 19, 1954: Truck loaded with refugees is pulled out of a ďŹ&#x201A;ooded area at Long Branch by a tractor. Bungalows were shifted and tossed like building blocks. A gaping, water-ďŹ lled hole on Lake Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waterfront marks the spot where one house and an auto stood. The destructive forces also doomed two small communities whose residents had long deďŹ ed the threat of ďŹ&#x201A;oods to live alongside the creek. Today â&#x20AC;&#x153;condemnedâ&#x20AC;? signs are posted on front doors of homes.

(Bottom) The Humber River spilled over its banks during Hurricane Hazel in 1954 - a rain storm that forced many people out of their homes and left thousands in southern Ontario homeless. This year is the 10th anniversary of the riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heritage designation.

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Remembering the teen who swam Lake Ontario Local newspapers not only covered the historic first crossing of Lake Ontario on Sept. 9, 1954 by 16-year-old teenager Marilyn Bell and her coach Gus Ryder â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both from Etobicoke â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they also chipped in support.

As noted in the article below, first to chip in with â&#x20AC;&#x153;a small fund

for herâ&#x20AC;? was the local Advertiser. The big city newspaper â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Toronto Daily Star (now apart of our present day company) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; then became an important major sponsor.

All that was necessary because of the big controversy of the day when the Canadian National Exhi-

bition (CNE) offered famed American distance swimmer Florence Chadwick $10,000 upon completion of the first lake crossing.

Bell, already an acclaimed marathon swimmer (who had just become the first woman to finish the well known 26-mile Atlantic City Marathon), decided to under-

take a simultaneous swim.

To make a long story short, Chadwick had to drop out and it was Bell who completed the crossing in just under 21 hours, welcomed by literally thousands of fans at Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunnyside Beach.

The CNE, in a classy move, ended up giving Bell the $10,000.

If you want a quick recap of either Bell or Ryder (who was also renowned in his own rite as a coach of both elite and grassroots athletes), check out their profiles in the Etobicoke and Canadian sports hall of fame. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both there!

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the story from back in the day.

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(Top) An ad for a Rogers radio and cabinet

by Stannah - The Radio Man at 1335 Lakeshore Rd. Published in the Advertiser on Sept. 14, 1939; (Above) This ad by Toronto Bargain Stores Ltd. at 813 Lakeshore Rd. was published in the Advertiser on Sept. 28, 1939. rent throughout the 1920s.

In 1920, a pound of sirloin steak cost $0.39 a pound; a dozen eggs cost $0.70, milk was $0.15 a quart, butter cost $0.63 a pound, plain white bread was $0.09 a pound.

A weekly food budget fell from $15.99 in 1920 to $11.34 by 1929, Statistics Canada reported.

In 1920, a month’s rent

cost $24.80 and rose to $27.92 by decade’s end.

The T. Eaton Co. Limited Fall and Winter Catalogue 1920-21 prominently advertised the retailer would pay the shipping to an Ontario or Quebec customer’s nearest post office or railroad station on all orders of $5 or more.

“Did it ever occur to you — the many wonderful facilities this Eaton Shopping Book affords,” the 612-page catalogue begins.

“You — who may live far from any big city, or far from the opportunity of having displayed for your selection an extensive assortment of merchandise to suit your whims or purse — did it ever occur to you how close this book really brings such an opportunity?”

The catalogue advertised myriad items of women’s clothing, including 35 pages of full-length dress coats.

Phonographs started at $75 with a page of Victor Records starting at $1 each.

Eaton even sold its name-brand house paint for $6.30 a gallon in the catalogue: “Fall atmosphere will allow the paint to adhere slowly and thoroughly,” the ad read.

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Denise Harris, chief historian for the Etobicoke Historical Society, (left) and Jaan Pill, amateur historian and Long Branch resident who runs the Preserved Stories website, sit inside Montgomery’s Inn on Tuesday, Sept. 12.

Local historians preserve Etobicoke’s past for future generations CYNTHIA REASON reason@insidetoronto.com

in New Toronto, my parents grew up here and I grew up here. And I just want people to know that New Toronto has a history we can be proud of,” said Gamble, the founding president of the New Toronto Historical Society (NTHS).

“Our mission, as a society, is to preserve and publicize the town, because it’s a wonderful place.”

To those ends, the 25-member NTHS just recently published the third printing of its selfdirected – and highly popular – walking tour of New Toronto.

But for Gamble, Pill and Harris, bringing stories about Etobicoke’s past back into the day-to-day lives of local residents is about more than a walk down memory lane.

The history of Etobicoke, Harris said, reveals as much about its present as it does its past.

“When you really start learning about what it was like back then and how far we’ve come, it helps to place where we are today,” she said.

“It also makes you think about what our legacy is going to be, and what people in the next 50 years are going to think looking back at what we’re doing now. It’s fascinating.”

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When it comes to the important business of preserving Etobicoke’s history, one of the biggest challenges faced by the subject’s most prolific local chroniclers is, ironically enough, time.

Be it the questions that flood her inbox following the bi-weekly publication of her History Corner column here in the Etobicoke Guardian, or the requestfor-information calls she fields as heritage officer for the Etobicoke Historical Society, Denise Harris’ research often elicits more enthusiastic feedback than she has hours in the day to respond to.

“I get a lot of calls and emails from people asking everything under the sun – from my help finding out about long lost relatives, to questions about the name of a hotel they vaguely remember on such-andsuch street,” the life-long Etobian laughed.

“It’s great fun. The research is what really appeals to me, and most of the time I can dig up something for them. Other times, people just call me up to talk about their memories of the places I’ve written about.”

Recording such oral histories down in Long Branch is a project recently taken on by Harris’ fellow amateur historian, Jaan Pill.

“These are the kinds of stories which are ephemeral – they simply come and go. Often in families, there are all kinds of memories there, but unless they’re recorded and preserved, they disappear,” said Pill, who runs the website PreservedStories.com “In recent years, I’ve made a point of speaking to people in their 80s and 90s in Long Branch and elsewhere and recording them, with the intention of one day putting together a book.”

A retired school teacher, Pill’s interest in local history was first piqued back in 2011, when he got involved in a successful letter-writing campaign protesting the potential sale to a developer of the former Parkview Public School – located on the site of the archeological remains of Col. Samuel Smith’s homestead on Forty First Street.

While Pill is a relatively new Etobicoke history enthusiast, for third-generation New Torontonian Wendy Gamble, it’s been a life-long passion.

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Edmund Peachey: West Deane Park and Valhalla Inn developer After falling into the home building business having acquiring two vacant lots in North York from a friend in 1929, Edmund Peachey would go to become one of Etobicoke’s most noted housing and hotel developers.

After selling a home he’d built on that original piece of land — a house he’d initially intended for his mother and sister — for a modest profit, the Canadian National Railway telegrapher used the proceeds to build and sell another.

By 1944, Peachey had quit his job at CN to make a go of home building full time. His first major development was Etobicoke’s Chestnut Hills community at Dundas Street West and Islington Avenue.

He went on to build more than 1,500 homes in westend Toronto.

Peachey’s last major housing development — West Deane Park — was

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Edmund Peachey built more than 1,500 homes in west-end Toronto. built in the early 1960s and named after his wife, Deane.

Shortly thereafter, several of Edmund Peachey Homes Ltd.’s airport-area land holdings were rezoned,

compelling him to delve into the hotel business.

Considered the crown jewel of his career, the Viking-themed Valhalla Inn opened to much fanfare in 1963.

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The City of Toronto holds public consultations as one way to engage residents in the life of their city.Toronto thrives on your great ideas and actions. We invite you to get involved.

Baby Point Wastewater Pumping Station Forcemain Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Study Notice of Study Comencement and Public Drop-in Event Study Overview The City ofToronto has initiated a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Study to explore opportunities to improve reliability of an aging forcemain that serves the Baby Point Wastewater Pumping Station.

The existing forcemain is located within Étienne Brûlé Park along the route indicated on the map within the Baby Point area, City ofToronto (see map).

team will be present to answer questions and discuss the next steps in the process.The second PIE will present the results of the evaluation and the selected preferred alternative. Notification of the PIEs will be advertised in the local community newspaper and notices will be mailed to residents within the study area.

The Process The study follows Schedule “B” of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) process. The MCEA process provides members of the public and interested parties with opportunities to provide input at key stages of the study.The study will define the existing problem, consider and evaluate alternative solutions, assess impacts of the preferred solution, and identify measures to lessen any adverse impacts.

The City invites you to learn more about the EA study and speak with the project team at our first Public Drop-in Event. Details are as follows: Date: Thursday, October 12, 2017 Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Early discussions with the community will be critical to identify ways to reduce the impacts of this project on adjacent property owners, park users and pedestrians, while evaluating options and selecting the preferred solution.Two Public Drop-in Events (PIEs) are planned for this Class EA study. PIE 1 will present the problem opportunity statement, alternatives under examination, and the criteria used to evaluate alternatives.The project

We want to hear from you Public consultation is an important part of this study. Visit the project website for more information or contact us if you want to be placed on our mailing list for updates.

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