How many people do you know about to celebrate their 95th birthday with a nice hike in Killarney Provincial Park? Well, you need to meet Nina Burgess, who turns 95 on November 1. Nina has …more
Peter Love is not a Leasider, but he certainly has Leaside connections! The co-founder of Summerhill Group, one of Canada’s leaders in delivering energy efficiency programs, has worked for a number of years in the …more
If you’re reading the print version of this issue of Leaside Life, it might not occur to you that for reasons such as blindness, low vision, mobility or learning disabilities, others are missing out. But …more
Marie Bates was working as a trained teacher at a Montessori school in Toronto, but as she says, “I thought I could do it better – I was in my 20s.” So, in 1986, off …more
The knitters at the Leaside Library are a faithful bunch. (Full disclosure: I’m one of the faithful.) We even managed to stay together, thanks to Zoom, during the various Covid lockdowns. There have long been …more
What does it take to run a successful second-hand book business in Toronto? And where? According to Leasider Peter Sellers, College Street in Little Italy has the same feel as Bayview did when he was …more
“If I’d known better, I’d have changed the name.” “The two great women in my life are my mom, who died last August at age 95, and my wife”. “I’m not a spring chicken.” “As …more
Suomi-Koti, or “Finnish Home” in English, on Eglinton just west of Laird Drive, has been a fixture in the Leaside neighbourhood for more than three decades. In 1982, five Finnish churches of different denominations started …more
Marjorie Tuck will celebrate her 100th on April 23rd. This long-time Leasider has enjoyed an interesting and varied life. After graduating from Humberside Collegiate, she did office work at Manulife before marrying Jim Tuck, the …more
Diane Gray’s maternal grandfather, W.T. Oliver, was a housebuilder in Leaside and East York. He would purchase a lot or two, build houses on them, move into one, buy another few lots… rinse and repeat. …more
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