While shopping at the new Longo’s on Laird, it’s hard not to notice that you’re in a restored heritage building. The store, in fact, used to be an old locomotive shop for the former Canadian …more
Deadline to submit listings for April; March 11 SECOND CUP, 1595 Bayview, free concert Friday night, March 1, by guitarist Phillip Brown. LEASIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 670 Eglinton East, March Break Kid’s Club Tuesday-Thursday March 12-4, 9 a.m.– …more
Nice photo but… That’s an interesting photograph last month of the first airmail delivery in Canada to the Leaside aerodrome. But there’s something about it that doesn’t ring right. The date in the paper is June …more
Rotary, the world’s first volunteer service organization, began in Chicago in 1905. The Toronto-Leaside Club was formed in 1940. In its heyday, there were close to 100 members from the local community who met for …more
What would you do with 57,000 pennies? Until Feb. 5 that’s how many Eric Rosen, of Bennington Heights Dr., had stashed away. He’d been collecting them since 1986, just under seven a day for 27 …more
Michael Bell has lived happily at the corner of Bayview and Moore for the past 10 years, but recently has needed to get to Sunnybrook Hospital for frequent treatments. He has tried for five months …more
Canada’s first airmail flight The noise complaints resulting from recent changes to aircraft flight paths for Pearson International Airport have reminded me that one of Canada’s first airfields was located right here in Leaside. Edith …more
From MP John Carmichael, to North Leaside residents who attended a meeting in his office last year: “… I am disappointed but I cannot say I am surprised that there is nothing in the… letter …more
Do you know the right date? I always wait for a quiet time to enjoy Leaside Life, therefore it has taken me ages to read the December issue. The article on our growing flock of food …more
Leaside resident Rick Hutchings recently won a photo contest from Toronto Balcony Blooms, a group that inspires Toronto residents to create balcony gardens. After volunteering at Thorncliffe Park School, Hutchings received two trays of vegetable …more
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