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The Canada Wire Water Tower
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Whatever happened to the Canada Wire Water Tower?

May 1, 2022 Guest Contributor

If you’re like many Leasiders, you may not know about the Canada Wire and Cable company’s water tower. Like other bygone Leaside landmarks – from the Bayview Ghost apartment building and the old CP train …more

Toronto Star, August 15, 1951.
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The amazing adventures of Butterball the groundhog

April 1, 2022 Guest Contributor

Thanks to our proximity to Toronto’s ravine system and the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Leasiders have grown accustomed to sharing their habitat with a variety of wildlife – everything from hawks, raccoons and foxes to deer, …more

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Broadway tower not North Leaside’s 
first community protest

March 1, 2022 Geoff Kettel

The application for a 25-storey tower at Bayview and Broadway I wrote about in last month’s Leaside Life is not in fact the first development proposal on the block between Craig and Broadway to meet …more

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A Leaside beauty queen from a bygone era

March 1, 2022 Guest Contributor

Beauty pageants may seem outdated now. But they were a big deal in the previous century, especially in the years immediately before and after World War II. In Ontario alone, dozens of contests took place …more

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World’s first video game built in Leaside

February 1, 2022 Guest Contributor

Computerized video games are common today. Just ask any parent. But they were unknown back in 1950. That was the year the world’s first publicly displayed electronic video game was created. And it happened right …more

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Memories of Leaside from the early 1940s

January 1, 2022 Guest Contributor

In 1963, to help commemorate Leaside’s 50th anniversary, Arthur Donahue, founder and editor of The Leaside Advertiser, wrote an article for the newspaper’s September 12th issue describing what Leaside was like when he and his …more

The Sangamo plant on Laird, 1955.
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Remembering the Sangamo company

December 1, 2021 Guest Contributor

Long-time Leaside residents may remember the Sangamo Company Ltd. at 215 Laird Drive near Eglinton – a site now occupied by Canadian Tire and other retail establishments. Sangamo specialized in the production of electric motors …more

Richard Outram’s graduating class – Leaside HS,1949. Photo courtesy of Susan Parr.
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A poet’s moving tribute to his father’s war experience

November 1, 2021 Guest Contributor

Few people know that one of Canada’s most respected poets, Richard Outram (1930-2005), lived in Leaside as an adolescent and young man.  Fewer still know about his father, Alfred. Alfred Outram, an engineer by profession, …more

Picture of Leaside Fire Prevention Week parade, 1955. Photo taken by Toronto Public Library.
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Leasiders always liked a good party

October 1, 2021 Guest Contributor

Communal events were always popular in Leaside, but never more so than 60 to 80 years ago. Here’s how Leasiders back in the day liked to party on: Parades: From approximately 1940-1960, Leaside held a …more

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Leaside played a big role in colossal 1950s electricity project

September 1, 2021 Guest Contributor

Few people today know of Ontario’s frequency standardization project. But in the 1950s, it was one of the largest, most expensive and ambitious energy projects ever undertaken.  The 10-year, $400 million project was launched in …more

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