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Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.
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A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Leaside: Part 3 – Bayview Institutional Lands 

August 7, 2020 Geoff Kettel

 A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Leaside Part 3 – Bayview Institutional Lands  Preface  The Kilgour Estate  In the early 1900’s it became fashionable for Toronto’s wealthy elite to have a country estate on the northern edge …more

The exterior of Holland Bloorview.
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A self-guided walking tour of Leaside Part 3 – Bayview Institutional Lands

July 1, 2020 Geoff Kettel

The third guided walking tour of Leaside deals with the institutional lands accessed from Kilgour Rd. This is north of Glenvale and south of Burke Brook. But is this Leaside? The historical boundary of the …more

Northlea United. Staff Photo.
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A self-guided walking tour. 
Part 2: North Leaside

June 1, 2020 Geoff Kettel

The second self-guided walking tour of Leaside takes us to North Leaside. Where does North Leaside in fact start? Typically, we think of North Leaside as that part north of Eglinton. If you look at …more

Trace Manes image.
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You can still go for a (solo guided) Jane’s Walk

May 1, 2020 Geoff Kettel

Yes, it’s May. For many of us, the first weekend of May is Jane’s Walk time – a chance to explore our own or a new neighbourhood, led by a knowledgeable guide. Leaside has been …more

A view inside Garden Court.
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A self-guided walking tour. 
Part 1: Central Leaside

May 1, 2020 Geoff Kettel

Background I remind you of what I believe to be an essential background context to all the walks: Leaside as a designed cultural heritage landscape – features that make Leaside Leaside – the Todd town …more

The first air mail delivery, Leaside Aerodrome.
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It’s a crime – in Leaside!

July 1, 2019 Susan Scandiffio

People often harken past to the innocence of the old days in their neighbourhood when everything was pure and ne’er a law was broken. Yet while Leaside has definitely seen its recent share of traffic …more

Frederick Gage Todd. Wm. Notman & Son [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Two more Leaside streets bear CNR names

July 1, 2019 Jeanne Hopkins

Randolph and McRae – two wonderful and important streets in Leaside. And likely named in honour of a railway executive in true Leaside fashion. When the Canadian Northern Railway built a line around the top …more

Photos: The Farmer’s Advocate and Home Magazine, December 15, 1899.
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Did you know? Thorncliffe once boasted a fine farm

June 1, 2019 Staff

The following excerpt is taken from: “Agriculture, Stock, Dairy, Poultry, Horticulture, Veterinary, Home Circle” London, Ont. and Winnipeg, Man Vol XXX1V 
No. 492.  “Prominent among the principal pure-bred stock breeding establishments of the Dominion is …more

Photo by Geoff Kettel.
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The infamous Boyd Gang had a blast in Leaside

May 1, 2019 Geoff Kettel

Post Second World War Leaside was a “small town in Toronto” (to quote a former prime minister who grew up here around that time), a mature community, with good jobs, and modest but well cared …more

Gordon Champion standing with the compressors manufactured by Bellis and Morcom Ltd. of Birmingham, UK (still in business!)
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North Toronto Sewage Treatment Plant – below the radar, yet a vital utility

April 1, 2019 Geoff Kettel

The last time Leasider Gordon Champion visited North Toronto Treatment Plant (NTTP) was after Hurricane Hazel in 1954. He went there as a service engineer with the Montreal engineering firm that was the agent for …more

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