Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, was the last day of service for the Toronto “red rocket” CLRV streetcars that have been in service for 40 years. So I decided to look through my files for some memorable photographs of the iconic streetcars.
The First World War began one hundred years ago tonight; a war that eventually killed 16 million people, including 10 million serving in various armed forces. This is just one story of a young Canadian flyer in the Royal Navy Air Service who died not in combat, but from an aircraft accident in 1917. H. […]
The late New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton listens to the concerns of locked out CBC employees at the picket line at Simcoe Park, Toronto, August 26, 2005. NDP leader Jack Layton lost his battle with cancer this morning August 22, 2011. In this photo, taken August 26, 2005, Layton passes the CBC Broadcast Centre […]
Wyett Danes, one year old, drums in the arms of his mother, Mary Danes, both members of the Hartley Bay Dancers, as their procession enters the recreation centre at Kitamaat Village, BC, May 29, 2010. Traditional dancing followed a day long “Solidarity Gathering of Nations” sponsored by the Haisla and Gita’at First Nations, called to […]
There’s a huge controversy in my Toronto neighborhood at the moment over plans by the Toronto Transit Commission to build second exits at a number of the subway stations on the Danforth line. As the engineers explained at a stifling and noisy public meeting last night (July 12, 2010) in this security conscious era, second […]
In the last blog, I mentioned that a friend and I went to have a relaxing day at Humber Bay West park in the west end of Toronto. The most interesting moments were late in the afternoon. Sitting quietly at a picnic table, I noticed a groundhog stick a nose out of the long grass. […]