Leaside Life Issue 19 July 2013

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No. 19 • July 2013

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CYNDA FLEMING

1913-2013

THE THREE GIRLS, from left, Joan Mills, Pat Cole and Arlene Acheson, at 99 Rumsey Rd., where Pat Cole and her family have lived since the early 1930s.

The three little girlfriends who grew up with Leaside

By BETH PARKER They met playing in Trace Manes Park, three little girls from Leaside all born in the 1930s.

It was Trace Manes because that was a special meeting place in the 1940s.

A teacher from Bessborough was assigned to supervise kids there after school as well as organize activities like baseball and crafts.

Ever since then, through a lifetime of marriage, kids and careers, Arlene (Gracie) Acheson, Pat (Sayliss) Cole and Joan (Saul) Mills have kept in touch every week for almost 70 years.

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We’re taking a summer break in August.

Our next issue will be out after Labour Day.

Sports hall of fame for Leaside

By ALLAN WILLIAMS Leaside has such a long and storied sporting heritage that it’s time we had a sports hall of fame to celebrate it.

That’s the premise behind a suggestion made to Councillor John Parker last year in the context of the upcoming 2013 centennial of the Town of Leaside. And he immediately lent his support to the idea.

Now a committee with representatives from all the major sports organizations based in Leaside – including boys’ hockey, girls’ hockey, soccer, skating, curling, baseball, tennis and lawn bowling, along with someone familiar with high school athletics, and the chair HALL, Page 3

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Instead, she and her dad filled their SUV with the empties and took them to The Beer Store at Bayview and Eglinton on May 25 for the Returns for Leukemia bottle drive, organized annually by The Beer Store in partnership with its union, United Food & Commercial Workers.

Mary Kate decided others had more need for the money than she did, so she donated the lot to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada, which funds research and provides support for leukemia patients.

Volunteer Tracey Langmuir said that most customers happily relinquished their returns, including a

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Mary Kate Puopolo “bottle collector,” a man who regularly visits the store to cash in scavenged empties, who generously donated some of his finds.

In 2012, the province-wide initiative raised $1.67 million. The Returns for Leukemia drive takes place each year on the Saturday and Sunday following the May long weekend at Beer Store locations across Ontario. I

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of the East York Foundation – is working to make it a reality.

One inspiration was the realization that the expanded arena would provide some new “community space,” and what could be more appropriate than to use it to recognize and highlight Leaside’s sports tradition and the important role of sport in building community.

Exactly what form that recognition will take is still being worked out. But the current thought is that the Hall of Fame could be formally launched as early as this fall with an initial small group of inductees, including both athletes and builders.

After that, with an open and public selection process, new inductees could be added every year or every second year.

In the meantime, if you have someone in mind that you believe should be recognised in a Leaside Sports Hall of Fame, please speak with the president of the sports association you’re involved with or email your comments and suggestions to leasidesportshalloffame@gmail.com.

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WAIT! IT’S STILL CONCRETE, but the Leaside Arena second ice rink passed a major milestone when the concrete floor was poured last month. Expansion committee chair Paul Mercer says he expects an opening in the early fall. Meanwhile, because it’s not possible to ensure safe access to the Leaside pool, it won’t open until sometime in September.

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Talbot tenants advised to fight Fight the landlord, Talbot apartment tenants were advised at a recent meeting to discuss eviction notices for the end of August.

“Don’t believe the landlord, believe the law,” Geordie Dent, executive director of the Federation of Metro Tenants Association, told about 50 people.

Tenants “can make the landlord go to the Landlord and Tenant Board, which is a provincial court, and prove why they have to evict you,” Dent said.

The landlords, Kelvingrove Investment Corp., plan to renovate and update the apartments on Bayview in the three buildings which have been designated as heritage.

Tenant Patti Fife said that when she moved in 18 months ago she was promised she would be relocated within the complex during renovations.

Luc Corneli, president of HPI Realty, which manages the property, says that’s not possible because of the way the complex was built, with everything connected through a central source. I

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Traffic study will aim for our protection Vice-president, LPOA

avoid directly transferring throughtraffic to adjacent streets; – to reduce through-traffic from the entire residential area (of Leaside north and south); – to enhance our residential environment for residents making neighbourhood trips; and – to protect public transit routes, and give priority to public transit.

We are not interested in what transportation engineers call “optimizing our existing infrastructure,” aka moving flow-through traffic “efficiently” through Leaside. We are interested in reducing existing problems and preventing future ones.

We are also interested in working in cooperation with city staff, to share information and statistics. This cooperation will be particularly important if the city decides to proceed with a much more major traffic study, which has been proposed by

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Councillor John Parker. That proposal includes not just Leaside but also Leslie St. and Overlea Blvd.

Our effort will include questionnaires to residents, with several public meetings to address concerns and hear your comments. Final recommendations will be shaped by you, the people most affected by and concerned with the safety of our streets.

As soon as we receive the settlement funds (which should be by the autumn) we will begin our process of consultation and statistic-gathering.

A noted traffic consultant is on board and sympathetic to residents’ input (stay tuned for LPOA’s announcement on who he is)! We look forward to working with you on this important project. It is not too late to make a difference – for the better.

In closing, I am saddened to report that a former president of the LPOA, architect Denny Maniates, died in early June. Denny worked hard for LPOA in the 1990s, and had in recent months been a keen supporter of LPOA/Leaside Unite concerns, especially traffic-related. He was a valued member of our community, and we will miss him. I

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How’s the traffic on your street?

Do drivers stop at stop signs? What about speeding? Have you noticed other – and increased - traffic-related problems in the neighbourhood?

Other than development issues, traffic complaints top the list of matters brought to the LPOA’s attention.

Whether they live near one of the busy arterials or on what used to be a quiet street, more Leasiders report concerns about speeding and increased traffic.

Once upon a time these were primarily rush-hour matters, on Monday to Friday only, which was bad enough. Now, these are day- and evening-long problems, every day as drivers from across the city head to shopping areas, particularly on Laird.

This is why, when we reached a settlement with SmartCentre North, $50,000 was earmarked for a traffic study throughout Leaside. The key aspect is that it should be neighbourhood-led, with maximum input from Leasiders to identify traffic problems and to advise on counter-measures acceptable to residents.

Here are the terms of reference we intend to apply: – to protect all residential streets, and

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That’s what those spray-painted symbols on the black patches along Bayview are about. It’s not graffiti.

The paint indicates underground utilities in preparation for tree planting this summer.

You may remember the stone planters that used to hold small trees and plants on Bayview. The roots outgrew the planters and in the heat of the summer the soil became too dry.

“So we went for the idea of planting right in the ground surrounded by this new ground cover material so the trees will thrive,” says Councillor John Parker. “The material is an excellent green solution for the management of storm water because it captures it and uses it for the trees.”

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All this also helps cool the environment.

A variety of maple trees, apparently “the most mature trees that can be obtained from the city,” were ordered by Parker. I

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TALENTED LEASIDERS! Congratulations to Robin Pond, long time North Leaside resident from Divadale Dr. Pond may be an investment consultant by day, but in his spare time he write plays. His second full-length one, The Retirement Plan, is being performed at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, which turns 25 this year and features 148 shows in 35 venues. Pond’s play is described as a comedic cautionary tale examining one family’s priorities and the trade-offs they make trying to control their future. It runs July 3 through July 14 at St. Vlad’s Theatre, 620 Spadina Ave. Another North Leaside author, Nathaniel G. Moore, is being published this fall by Anvil Press. His book, Savage 1986-2011, is a “dark comedy” based on Moore’s years growing up here. Described as a ‘fictional memoire” it contains both factual and fictional elements, including a sister that neighbours will recognize as “added”. Moore grew up on Glenvale and attended

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Big shout out to Leaside Rotary for its first Bits & Bites event on Bayview held this June. Launched as a fundraiser to support the new Rotary-Leaside Community Caring Fund, Bits and Bites gave neighbours and visitors to Leaside an additional incentive to stroll the south Bayview stretch and indulge in the area’s wide variety of food items from the many fine restaurants and food purveyors.

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During a recent Toronto charity run, Leasiders wondered why the parking lot above the TD bank at Millwood and Bayview overflowed with Cars2Go. Turns out the drivers were all participants in the May Half Marathon and, coincidentally, all rented a car to get to the marathon (but not to drive home).

Residents may have noticed in June (kind of hard not to miss), a steady stream of male and female runners wearing pink dresses and various outfits including lingerie, making their way through the neighbourhood starting at Sunnybrook Park. The June 8 event was as a fundraiser for breast cancer, organized by the Toronto Buccaneers Rugby Club and the Yeomen Lions RFC. The run was followed by three rugby games, then festivities at the Fox & Fiddle at Laird and McRae (a sponsor for the club.) I

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Saving old Leaside daughter of Horace Brockington, and niece of George Brockington, became aware of the Leaside 100 archival exhibit and wanted us to know the story of her builder family.

In 1906 her grandfather, Arthur William Brockington, immigrated to Canada from London, England.

His train ticket got him as far as Kearney, just north of Huntsville, where he married, built houses, and maintained the sawmill. In the late 1920s he moved his family to Toronto, building homes and living on Merton St. His sons, George and Horace, once they graduated from high school, worked full-time for their father, buying lots and building homes in Leaside.

Eventually George and Horace married and

struck out on their own, designing and building homes in Leaside.

In 1938, Horace Brockington was building homes on Donegall, and their first family home at 73 Fleming Cr., overlooking Walmsley Brook, a swamp at the time (which later became Howard Talbot Park).

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We have said that the character of Leaside was established by the houses constructed in the building boom of the late 1930s through the 1940s.

And we tend to think mostly of Henry Howard Talbot, the iconic developer and mayor of Leaside who was responsible for the Talbot apartments on Bayview (Kelvingrove, Glenleven and Strathavon) and the row of 10 quadraplexes on Bayview south of Eglinton, as well as many single family homes in the area.

All his homes were designed in the popular Georgian and Tudor Revival styles.

However that period is also associated with several other Leaside builders, including the Brockingtons (Arthur William and his sons, George and Horace), A.B. Cairns, and Ron Balsdon, who did not all use the same styles as H. H. Talbot.

We are fortunate that Linda Brockington McCarthy, the granddaughter of A. W. Brockington,

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until after they had sold the house and moved to 4 Donlea Dr.! Wonder if they are really there?

In 1948 Linda’s parents purchased the lots along the north side of Donlea from Eglinton to Hanna Rd. That year they completed 4 Donlea, which became their long term family home, and where her parents lived for the rest of their lives.

Like 73 Fleming, 4 Donlea also has some Art Moderne influences (low slung and the curving windows).

Horace and Phyllis Brockington built three homes a year and sold them for approximately $5,000 each, using that money to build three more. They also purchased lots 297 to 309 Bessborough Dr. north of Divadale in North Leaside, and designed and built a number of homes there.

Altogether, she believes her parents designed and built 42 homes in Leaside.

Linda’s grandfather, A. W. Brockington, continued building houses, including the ones on Parkhurst Blvd. near Fleming in the Tudor style, with leaded glass windows and a lot of wood panelling inside. He built his own house at the corner of Parkhurst and Fleming, where he lived for the rest of

his life.

A.W. never drove, but when his wife got her driver’s licence and purchased a pale green 1946 Studebaker coupe, he added a garage wing on the east side of the house.

A.W. and his sons also purchased the lots at 878, 876 and 874 Millwood Rd. Arthur and George Brockington built low-rise apartment buildings.

Linda’s father rented his lot to a billboard company for many years and eventually built a small apartment building on the site.

George’s sons Raymond and Glen continued in the family business. Although Horace’s sons chose different careers, his daughter Linda carries on the tradition acting as a Committee of Adjustment Consultant to the City of Toronto.

Layers with a video: The Layers of Leaside archival exhibit will be on display at the Todmorden Mills Heritage Site July 3-14 during Museum open hours.

The opening reception on Thursday, July 4, 5.30-7.30 p.m., 67 Pottery Rd.,will be the first public screening of a video slide show, Leaside - Then and Now, by Anna-Louise Richardson, Tree of Life Video. I

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SUMMER KID'S CLUB, JK to grade 7, Leaside Presbyterian Church, 670 Eglinton East, Aug. 2729, 9-4. Crafts, music, fun activities, snacks and lunch. $30/day, $75/3 days per child or $50/day, $125/3 days per family. Subsidies available. Volunteer hours available for youth. 416-422-0510.

LEASIDE LIBRARY,165 McRae Dr. – Nordic Poling, Thurs., July 11, 3 p.m., with Greg Bellamy of Nordixx.com. Drop in.

– TD Summer Reading Club, to Fri. August 30.

Travel the world, sign up and receive your passport and booklet. http://tdsummerreadingclub.ca. Visit the library to report on your books.

– Summer Storytime. Tuesdays, July 9-August 27, 2 p.m. Stories and movies! Drop in. Daycares

Two tenant associations formed Tenants at the Garden Court and the Talbot apartments, both on Bayview, have both formed tenant associations to fight the owners’ plans. The Garden court owners are asking the city for permission to turn the rentals into condos. The Talbot owners want to evict the apartment tenants for renovations.

Both plans could reduce the amount of low-rental apartments in the city. I

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and day camps welcome.

– Movie Matinees, Thursdays, July 11- August 29, 2 p.m. Drop in. Daycares and day camps welcome.

– Movie Night – Pride & Prejudice, Wed. July 24, 6 p.m. 127 minutes. PG. Jane Austen’s tale of the classic love story of five sisters, with Keira Knightley.

– Book Box Art: Turn this into that, Wed., July 10, 5 p.m. Recycle old books into keepsake boxes!

Books provided. Teens 13+ only, advanced activity.

– Art Exhibit: The Most Dangerous Animal: Man, compares warriors from around the world to animals who share similar attack and defence mechanisms. Paintings and drawings By Alexandra Bayliss, July 1-31, ongoing, Community Room.

– Art Exhibit: The Most Dangerous Animal: Textasy Revisited by Guinevere Pura, examines the relationship between semiotics and language.

Fragmented romantic sentences and inflorescence imprints are collaged on textiles in this art exhibit. August 1-31, ongoing, Community Room.

– Chess in the Library, every Wednesday, July 3-31, 3–4 p.m. For children, teens and adults. Drop in. Registration for summer session now open. I

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And when they get together these days of the Leaside centenary the talk is often of the old days.

“We were very fortunate to grow up in this community and meet each other,” says Arlene.

Pat, whose parents came to the neighbourhood from Montreal and bought a home on Rumsey Rd., says, “There were families all over Leaside with children, all the same age. Because our houses were small, we were all sent outside to play all the time.

“And our mothers all sat on their front porches, smoking and keeping an eye on us!”

Even the local policemen felt responsible for the kids, especially the teenagers.

When she became one, says Pat, “He’d follow me if it got too late in the evening, and call out to me, ‘Hey Patsy, don’t you think it’s time for you to go home?’ “ “It was the kind of neighbourhood that kept us busy, without much television, and certainly no twitters,” says Arlene.

Arlene’s family lived at 222 Airdre, then 158 McRae, right across from the tennis courts, where she became an avid tennis player.

On Saturday nights in the 1950s the three teenage girls attended the Sateen Club (Saturday-teen) at the high school where the musical quartet, The Four Lads, often performed.

Remembered for their chart topping hits like Standin’ on the Corner and Moments to Remember, all the “lads” were Toronto boys and members of St. Michael’s Choir school.

“Afterwards, we’d go to the popular Garden View Restaurant on Bayview for coffee,” says Joan, who remembers they wore poodle skirts and bobby socks. She even had a Bonnie Jacket.

Joan worked part time at Freys Pharmacy where there was a soda fountain at the front of the store.

“My friends loved to come and visit. We made sundaes and sodas and ice cream cones. We did this until I think we ate most of the stuff, and they went out of business!” she jokes.

Other favourite Bayview Ave. spots included the bowling alley, hat shop, wool shop, and on Friday nights, the movie theatre.

Pat grew up in the Rumsey house with her two brothers, George and Bob, before marrying and moving to Parkhurst. She later returned to the

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PAT COLE with a photo of her father, Matt Sayliss, who started the Leaside Tennis Club

The Leaside Tennis Club started with gopher holes

By TIM DUTTON When the Leaside Tennis Club started 65 years ago it had a couple of players bouncing balls off gopher holes inside lines painted on earth that sometimes became mud.

Today it has 1,058 registered members (some who have around for 50 years) playing on six Deco Turf floodlight courts, and a membership waiting list surpassing 650 people.

The difference can largely be attributed to the efforts of one man: Matt Sayliss, a Leasider who had the determination and wits to charm the town into constructing the Leaside Tennis Club and then seeing that it became an essential part of the community.

Born in Sheffield, England, Sayliss moved from Montreal to South Leaside during WW II and worked as a commercial artist. When he arrived here he obviously noticed the lack of his hobby—tennis.

In 1944 he began to teach the game to a group of local youngsters. They would play on Millwood Park (now Trace Manes), which was not only coated with weeds and rocks, but also torn up from the night gatherings of dogs and cyclists.

Once the club started to grow, lights that were used in the winter to illuminate the hockey rinks were transferred to the dirt courts for night games and a tattered snow-fence was put up to stop stray balls from ending up a couple blocks away.

With help from neighbours Norm Lamport, Al Ogg, and Norm Ramsey, Sayliss founded the Leaside Tennis Club in 1948 and acted as its first president.

Rules and regulations were established and tennis officially started here.

The newly formed club, however, still faced the reality that there were only two courts sketched into the earth. So, with charm that swayed many and persistence that impressed the rest, Sayliss met the mayor, councils, and every department of municipal government that could help.

The town agreed to build, at a cost of $10,000 (approximately $94,000 today), four double tennis courts of championship length. The devoted tennis members would repay, over a period of time, the entire cost.

Before long, by-laws were written, a constitution drawn up, and directors of the club named. Membership soon soared when the new courts were constructed.

But just as the club started to become a prominent destination in Leaside, Sayliss was struck with a heart attack.

The man who became to mean so much to tennis in Leaside passed away in the fall of 1952 in the prime of his years. In his name, a trophy used to be awarded annually for the “most promising” junior player, in keeping with the club’s ideals to “foster and promote the game of tennis in the community”. I

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TANG finding lots of support for petition Members of Toronto Aviation Noise Group (TANG) are finding “high levels of support” going door to door in Leaside with a petition seeking a fall meeting with local MPs and Nav Canada, says TANG chair Margaret Evans.

Local MP John Carmichael, St. Paul’s MP Carolyn Bennett, Nav Can and the Greater Toronto Transport Authority will be invited.

No date had been set at our deadline. Canvassing continues into the early fall.

The petition is available at www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/nav-canada-noise-overtoronto/.

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“My mom went to a oneroom schoolhouse,” says Joan, “I guess it must have been that school.”

Joan’s father worked at another original factory in Leaside, Durant Motors. He eventually opened Leaside Auto Body on Laird Dr. Joan’s family was once “the envy of the neighbourhood” when it became one of the first in Leaside to purchase a television.

“It was World Series Baseball time. We had most of my brothers' friends and whoever could squeeze into our living room to watch the games.”

Over the years there’ve been changes in the women’s lives. In their 70s, all three were alone, two widowed and one divorced.

Pat is the only one who still lives in the neighbourhood but the three continue to get together to eat out, even travel together.

Pat loves to remind her friend that she’s the youngest (turning 79 this year, while the other two turn 80).

“We were always friends and still are today. We often remember the wonderful way we grew up, in this community,” she says. “I’m a Torontonian first, but I’ve always loved Leaside.” I

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house on Rumsey to care for her mother (now deceased). She still lives there.

Joan was born in the upstairs bedroom of the house she grew up in at 86 Hanna Rd. “It was July 30, 1933, the hottest day of the year,” she says. “My brother always reminded me how he had to sit outside while mother gave birth!”

Joan’s roots in the community go back the furthest. Her grandmother married Walter Holmwood, who worked for Canada Wire and Cable, the first factory in the Leaside industrial area that became a munitions plant during World War I .

During the 1920s, says Joan, “Grandpa Holmwood was determined to find work. He showed up at the employment office, every day, and I mean every day, until they hired him. He was there until he retired.”

The Holmwoods, with five children, lived at 232 Airdrie Rd., one of the first 60 houses built by Canada Wire on Airdrie, Rumsey and Sutherland for its workers after the war.

Canada Wire also set up the first Leaside Public School in 1920, a one-room schoolhouse at the corner of McRae and Laird, used until Bessborough Public School was built in 1923.

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I read in the weekly local paper that John Parker, our rep on Metro council, is trying to have a traffic study done in Leaside to see what can be done about the excessive traffic (and air pollution – but that somehow never gets mentioned). Didn’t anyone let him know the barn door is open and the horse is long gone?

I love your publication and look forward to receiving it every month!

It’s written by our residents for our residents about our community.

Pat Norton, Sutherland Dr. I am on Councillor John Parker's business distribution list which, like Leaside Life, keeps me in tune with what is happening in our community.

I was shocked to receive this week's email. (Ed. Note: The cartoon of an overweight Rob Ford falling down on Prime Minister Harper and Senator Duffy, with the PM saying, “…we need something really big to take the focus off you…”.)

In a time when we are trying to convey to our children that making fun of people because of what they look like is bullying and wrong, Mr. Parker, a public person representing our community, sends out this email.

Shame on him.

Kimberly Lexovsky, Glenvale Blvd.

Leaside Life business columnist Will Ashworth should be commended for his ethical concerns as to where Dollarama sources its goods. However, his suggestion that Dollarama goods are not sourced from "lowwage countries" merits much more thought.

In doubting that Dollarama vendors source from "low-wage countries," Mr. Ashworth effectively suggests that cheap goods can be profitably produced by workers who expect wages and benefits in line with those of Western workers. This presents a radical break from decades of mainstream economic thought, since globalization itself has been predicated on reducing labour expenses by outsourcing production to low-wage countries.

Challenging this principle certainly demands more evidence than "I didn't get that impression," particularly given Mr. Ashworth's own ob-

lol at the government I noticed that you wrote Stephen Harper said in the speech he gave at the centennial Leaside gala that he lived in 324 Bessborough Dr. As I live there now I was very interested to see if that was true. I listened to his speech online, and he actually says he lived at 332 Bessborough Dr. I thought you would want to know!

Geeta Thomas (LL) Thanks. The copy of the speech was sent to us by his office and (we) never thought of checking the number to the audio. (We'll) check and see what happened.

(GT) No worries! I looked up the copy of his speech as well on the government site (http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=5454), and they had 324 Besmer Dr., so there was obviously some miscommunication! I just didn't want you to publish anything inaccurately nor take away anything from 332 Bessborough Dr. :-) (LL) … guess the lesson is never trust the government!

We have his speech on our website too. www.leasidelifenews.com.

And we will defend to the last drop of blood 332 Bessborough (or Besmer if need be).

Thanks. We'll get a correction into the next issue of the paper.

(GT) lol! I learned that lesson a while ago! :-) servation how Dollarama profits by depressing the wages and benefits of people who work right here, in Leaside.

Leasiders should recognize that cheap goods always come at a price, though not always one paid at the cash register. Whether these goods come from Bangladesh or elsewhere, our communities and environment at home and abroad suffer for the bigbox, small-wage model. We owe it to ourselves to consider whether this model is really a good match for our community's values.

Owen Sheppard, Heather Rd.

typical bitterness of a Liberal/NDP loser who still just can’t get over the fact that the Conservatives won the May 2011 election.

Prime Minister Harper’s comments were low-key, non-political, very personal and reflective, and completely appropriate to this very enjoyable event. Mr. McDonald noted that he was glad he didn’t attend (choosing to stay home and drink wine and eat pizza).

Believe me, I’m sure I speak on behalf of a lot of the people who were there when I say that I’m (also) glad he didn’t attend!

(Maj.-ret.) Mike Minnich, Airdrie Rd.

In perusing the Letters department in the June 2013 issue of Leaside Life, I had the unpleasant experience of reading Tim McDonald’s venomous partisan rant regarding the fact that the Prime Minister of our nation – and a Leaside native – had attended the April 27 dinner-dance celebrating the 100th anniversary of Leaside.

His ludicrous assertion that Stephen Harper’s attendance was inappropriate and only motivated by political grandstanding reflects the

First off, I want to thank you for the great service you are providing our community. Even though we live here, there is no other way we can learn about all the things that are going on in Leaside.

The better informed we are, the stronger our community becomes.

For me, Leaside Life is a must read, and should be read by everyone that resides in Leaside.

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Can someone explain why we still have two blocks of street parking on Laird when we have gone through the trouble of upgrading the road to four lanes?

We have a lot of traffic on Laird and we need the use of all four lanes from Millwood to Eglinton. It just doesn't seem to make any sense to cut it down to two lanes for two blocks and then open it up again.

It seems to me that the restaurants all have parking in back and so do most of the businesses. Any other parking should be on the side streets.

And the corner at Laird and Eglinton continues to be a pedestrian hazard. I walk to this corner every day and it seems that it's becoming a â&#x20AC;&#x153;chicken raceâ&#x20AC;? to cross on the west side of Laird trying to go either north or south.

Can we get city traffic control to please look at the traffic flow on this corner and come up with a solution?

Someone is going to be hit by cars short cutting the corner in order to get onto Eglinton westbound or onto Laird southbound. There are many close calls every day.

It wouldn't hurt police traffic patrol to sit on this corner for a long while to nab the offenders. Also the corner of Donlea and Laird is becoming a pedestrian no-walk zone from 4 to 5:30 when there is a lot of cut through traffic.

Patti Knight, Donlea Dr. (Ed. Note: The traffic on Laird was on the agenda of the North York Community Council meeting late in June, but past our deadline.)

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I didn't think the letter from Tim McDonald was appropriate or fitting to a community publication like Leaside Life. It is nice that Mr. McDonald's wife double dated with Margaret Atwood but his rants about Stephen Harper, a former resident of Leaside and our Prime Minister, had no place in your publication.

If Mr. McDonald wants to spout, there is a nice park on Cameron Cres. and lots of room for a soapbox.

Ken Inglis Cameron Cres.

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nificant, to be trivialized with the phrases “get with the program” and “get over yourselves”.

There are numerous examples of sensitive urban development that accommodate population growth without high rises, and that respect both the historical and environmental character of established neighbourhoods. We should all be highly sceptical of advocates of “growth” and its benefits, especially when those alleged benefits encompass very large physical and social transformations.

Growth per se is neither inherently good nor bad, nor should opponents of specific development projects be characterized as “resisting change” or “looking backward”. We have travelled in Europe where examples of urban development and renewal that do not involve tearing down existing structures are the norm rather than the exception.

Finally, it is simply not the case that urban development invariably leads to economic improvement (for individuals or neighbourhoods). If such development occurs in defiance of community input, and without due regard for the environment, the economic benefit is negative. Sadly, Leaside now has too many examples where this is the case.

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Thank you, Leaside, for the great life and memories that continue to this day.

I was born in 1939 and brought home to a new house at 212 Sutherland Dr. Eventually I moved to Donegall Dr. near Bayview. By the age of eight I was living at Rumsey Rd. and McRae and began realizing the good life that my family was experiencing.

Rumsey Rd. was not yet paved and I have many memories of the breadman delivering his goods by horse and buggy. He would give me stale bread that I would squeeze and roll until it softened, then sell for five cents per loaf.

The Silverwood milkman also used a horse and buggy and in the cold winters the glass bottles had cream on top and milk in the bottom. I remember like it was yesterday the horse knowing exactly which

house to stop at.

Good times were had playing ball hockey and attending the spring circus and fair at Trace Manes Park. At the top end of the park they decided to build a library, but we as kids wanted a swimming pool, so we created some havoc by placing stickers on windows of the construction

equipment saying, “We want a swimming pool not a stupid library.”

We had neighbours such as Jocko Thomas, the Toronto Star police reporter who later broadcast police reports for CFRB radio. Mr. Miller, who owned the original Miller Paving company, lived behind us. Ron Lamport’s uncle was mayor of Toronto and a good friend of our family. Teddy Robinson and I were inseparable buddies. He lived five doors down on McRae. The Lowrey family are good friends and their son still operates Robert Lowrey Piano Experts at Brentcliffe and Eglinton.

I always accompanied my mother to the big Loblaws at Eglinton and Laird, where nowadays the Great Canadian Bagel resides. It had at least 30 parking spots.

I hung out with Bobby Hamill, who’s father Red Hamill played

Two sisters remember life in the old Leaside A creek at the bottom of Cameron Cres.

A factory whistle announced noon

By MARJORIE SHEPHERD

By NORAH BIRD SHEPPARD

I was born in 1930. We went to Bessborough public school up to grade 8 and then to Rolph Road school where we had two years of high school. It was a regular grade 1-8 school but the top floor was used for high school then.

The Birds, my grandparents Cora and William, lived on Sutherland Dr. and I can remember walking down to see them through very green and open spaces.

At the time Canada Wire and Cable encouraged young families to live in Leaside and we all felt a great sense of community because of this.

My father, Gilbert Bird, was very involved with the town – he was the first fire chief and also Leaside United Church was first held in our home on Cameron Cres., where hopeful parents got together and with lots of enthusiasm started a place of worship.

I can remember Bell’s hill at the foot of Cameron Cres. The old Bell’s house was at the bottom of our toboggan and sleigh hill and there was a creek at the bottom. We used to say that the old Bell’s house was haunted.

During the war we grew vegetables at a Victory Garden at the very end of Bayview, past Poque’s Riding School.

Leaside was and still is one of the best places to live and I feel very happy that I was so fortunate to live there. I

A sense of place: that was in essence the feeling we all felt living in Leaside.

Walking from the closest TTC bus stop, at Manor Rd. and Cleveland Dr., I remember that there was a decided difference when I crossed Bayview Ave. This was our town.

In the spring, we would often walk up Bayview north of Eglinton, then a secluded dirt road, to Sunnybrook Park, a wonderful place for picnics.

Bayview was the main shopping place, but sometimes our family would go "over to the Danforth" (no viaduct then) or "down to Eaton’s".

Daily activities in the town were punctuated by the noon-time factory whistle from Canada Wire and Cable, but the streets were usually much quieter then with fewer cars. Even horse-drawn bread and milk wagons were used in the ‘30s and early ‘40s.

However, when the fire alarm sounded, that meant action! The volunteer brigade was made up of enthusiastic and dedicated local residents. Their job, though usually tedious, at times required great courage and much hard work.

Our Dad wore his white fire chief hat proudly.

Those were long ago days, more than 75 years ago, almost too long to remember exact details clearly, but close family ties and many neighbourhood friends gave us all a Iasting understanding of what "community" really meant. I

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hockey for the Chicago Black Hawks, and Blair Coles, who lived on Thursfield Cres. Together we swung over the Don River on ropes hanging from trees and explored caves. I re-met Blair years later and we have been friends ever since.

I had a buddy whose father was an officer of the law and drove a police motorcycle with a sidecar. We would sit in it while it was parked in his garage and smoke cigarettes. It was surprising that we did not burn the garage down.

I was a student who did very poorly at Bessborough. Before vocational education they offered an opportunity class for dummies or those that disrupted the flow of a classroom. I was ridiculed and bullied but I did enjoy the time spent away from the normal class.

My brother Bill and I sold The Star and Telegram newspapers to the employees leaving their daily jobs at Sangamo Electric and Canada Wire and Cable. We made big bucks even though the papers sold for only 3 cents each. I spent my money buying Jawbreakers and candy at the famous Clair’s Cigar Store on Bayview.

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Bayview was the high-end shopping area in Toronto back in the day.

Leonards Family Restaurant on Laird is an eatery that I frequent.

It used to be called The Rock Bar, a true ‘50s restaurant that existed well before such restaurants were considered fashionable. Rock ‘n’ roll and hard rock were not even heard of yet.

We often played around the Rogers-Majestic radio and TV manufacturing plant at Brentcliffe and Eglinton, where there are now Marshalls and Staples stores. I now know that the Rogers in Rogers-Majestic was the original Rogers Cable grandfather. Eglinton Ave. ended at Brentcliffe and did not go over the Don River.

As kids we would head over to Thorncliffe, which was Toronto’s horse racetrack. We would sneak under the fence.

My father, who owned hotels and restaurants, packed us all up one day and moved us to the Patty House Hotel in Coboconk. Americans in those days would come to fish for pickerel.

As kids we would put old bedsprings into the rushing water to snag the colourful lures that weren’t

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My father operated the hotel in the late ‘40s. He and his brother also owned the famous Rockcliffe Hotel in Minden, Ontario. It’s interesting that at the age of 10, I would get a flashlight and go into the beverage room on a Sunday morning and find up to $10 in change on the floor. In those days a family lived on approximately $20 a week.

After a few years we moved back to Leaside and then we were off again to a hotel in the town of Haliburton. As a teenager I went to Haliburton High School, married and then moved to Thorncliffe Park, a new and excellent location.

While living at Thorncliffe I was a teacher at Castle Frank High School. Later, I travelled the world working for the Dow Chemical company. But I always returned to Leaside not only to live but to operate my cleaning supply business which I have successfully run for many years.

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Ever since my April article appeared in Leaside Life about the proposed mixed-use development at Brentcliffe and Eglinton and the subsequent deluge of negative comments, I've made it a priority to understand how the city and province view development in Toronto generally and Leaside specifically.

Councillor John Parker is on record suggesting the city and province see eye to eye when it comes to the size of buildings along Eglinton between Bayview and Brentcliffe; both envision mid-rise structures between 4 to 11 storeys.

However, chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat recently discussed the issue in the North Toronto Post and seemed to indicate that Bayview and Eglinton could handle density similar to that at Yonge and Eglinton, which calls for residential buildings of 40-plus storeys.

Certainly all involved in the planning process have a desire to remain flexible as Metrolinx executes its grand plan for transportation in the GTA. Chief among those plans is the 19-kilometre Crosstown Eglinton LRT. Wanting to know more about the future of Eglinton, I went straight to the source. Lorna Day is project manager for the city's Eglinton Connects study examining the street's future growth, scheduled to be released in March.

Day and the rest of her colleagues in the planning department are conducting ongoing consultations with the people of Toronto to find out what they would like to see in terms of future development, taking into consideration the province is investing almost $7 billion to build the line and needs to see some sort of return in terms of commercial development, growing tax base, etc.

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stander, yielded a lot of good feedback according to Day. They're obviously constructive or the city wouldn't continue to offer these consultative meetings.

The seniors present who stated their case for restrained development at Bayview and Eglinton were impressive. In the past I've been critical of long-time residents and their fear of change, but the people present on this night were rightly concerned that whatever development happens, it be architecturally suitable to the area (read not chintzy) and that the residential footprint remain as it is today.

It was refreshing to see residents willing to compromise on the future of Eglinton.

Initially, when I decided to write about development along Eglinton, I was going to go right to the chief planner herself. However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized it would be better to seek out Lorna Day, not only project manager for Eglinton Connects, but also the city planner for the area.

Ms. Day was kind enough to answer some questions. I've distilled her answers below. In the future I hope to gain further insight from Ms. Day, who's clearly committed to doing what's right for all of Toronto, including Leaside.

First of all, let me assure residents of Leaside that the Official Plan designates a majority of Leaside-Bennington as neighbourhoods, which protect and reinforce the character of the area. Except for Bayview/Eglinton and Laird/Eglinton, the city doesn't anticipate much growth beyond the 17,000 residents that currently live here.

As for the five-acre development property at Brentcliffe and Eglinton, the city doesn't have a standard density guideline based on acreage, etc.

Instead, it looks at each development on a contextual basis, using many different design guidelines to assess appropriateness.

Residents who oppose the grand scale of this development should consider that any reduction in the size of the proposal could very well lead to more development at Bayview, or at other properties around Laird. However, the odds of this appear low.

As it stands right now, the city appears to favour low- to mid-rise developments at both Bayview and Laird. However, Day did suggest that both levels of government are acutely aware of the need for growth and intensification along Eglinton given the considerable expense of the LRT.

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While the city is intent on managing this growth in a manner that respects the existing characteristics of the various neighbourhoods along the route, it recognizes that the official plan, which is currently under review, could be changed from mixed-use around Bayview, but isn't likely to be.

From everything Day told me residents have nothing to fear but fear itself. Over the next seven years there will be a sea of change as we get closer to the opening of the LRT, which will be one of Toronto's busiest transportation arteries.

Change is coming to Leaside; from what I've seen and heard we have reason for optimism, not despair. I

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Changing the Official Plan can save us Before there was a Town of Leaside, there was a Canada Wire and Cable (CWC). In November 1912 the CWC purchased 16 acres of land where the SmartCentres’ big box stores stand today. The Town of Leaside was not incorporated until May 7, 1913.

Although CWC purchased the land in 1912, it didn’t have an operating factory on the site until 1916 when its subsidiary, Leaside Munitions Company, started manufacturing artillery shells for WW I. Rumour has it that there is an ammunition dump still buried somewhere in the industrial area.

By the end of the war the company had 4,000 employees. To accommodate at least part of their work force CWC built 100 homes on Randolph, Sutherland, Airdrie and Rumsey.

After WW I, CWC manufactured wire and cable at the Leaside factory.

Like all businesses the company suffered during the 1930s but it continued to buy more land and expand its facilities. By the end of the World War II it had become one of the largest

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manufacturing companies in Canada with 2,700 employees.

Five years ago I visited a WW II battlefield museum at Casinina in northern Italy where the Canadian army broke through the “Gothic Line” in 1944. There I was amazed to see a large coil of communication wire labelled Canada Wire and Cable, Leaside.

CWC was a huge industrial plant extending from Laird to the east end of the present Home Depot. Former CWC employees have told me that inside the plant they had to ride a bicycle or use roller skates to get from one end to the other.

I told another CWC employee who rented an apartment over the Leaside Restaurant (now the Fox and Fiddle) how lucky he was to be able to just walk across the street to work.

“Heck,” he replied, “I drive my car to work because I work at the far-east end of the plant.”

In 1990 CWC sold to its monstrous French competitor Alcatel.

Before the sale CWC sold its products around the world. After the sale Alcatel restricted CWC to selling only where Alcatel wasn’t already doing business. CWC couldn’t make a profit that way. So Alcatel shut it down, moving its jobs, unique technology and tax revenue to France.

Former CWC employees believe that after selling the land and special equipment Alcatel actually made a profit on its purchase of CWC. Now with this huge plant empty, the East York borough council panicked and, by amending the long standing Official Plan and zoning bylaw separating the Leaside industrial area from the residential area, allowed the SmartCentres to get its toe in the door. Once it was, SmartCentres moved in completely.

The intensive traffic generated by commercial and residential development is incompatible with industry. It drastically interferes with its deliveries and shipments.

Industry by its very nature is noisy and smelly. Before long nearby residents and retail customers start complaining. Municipal inspectors then begin to harass the industries and inevitably industry looks for new locations where they will be welcomed, not interfered with.

If we wish to see our remaining industry leave Leaside taking their jobs and their tax dollars with them to Mississauga or Markham, the way to do it is to approve more commercial and residential developments in our industrial area.

If we don’t want that to happen we need to encourage our councillor to pursue another Official Plan amendment to stop this in its tracks. I

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regular review and be updated accordingly. Although the exercise is not taken lightly, the fact that it is written in general terms means that it is not an insurmountable challenge. So Official Plans get updated.

On the other hand, updating a set of bylaws - with all their complexity - is time consuming and expensive. So bylaws tend not to keep pace with Official Plans.

The result: a city in which the Official Plan peers far into the future and anticipates the needs of a community that is growing and is expected to evolve, but also with a set of bylaws that reflect a past that has long since disappeared into history.

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One of the mysteries of municipal government â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and one of its most misunderstood functions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is the role of the municipality in land development matters.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see if I can shed some light on the issue in the 500 words I am invited to contribute to this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leaside Life.

Begin with understanding that the entire matter is subject to provincial policy and statute law, just as Ontario municipalities themselves are creatures of the provincial government. The operative statute in land development matters is the Planning Act, and ultimate provincial control is manifested in the right of appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), an appeal tribunal established under that act.

The Planning Act requires each municipality to maintain an Official Plan (OP) and a set of zoning bylaws.

The OP sets out the broad vision for planning and development in general terms; the zoning bylaws backfill with the details.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where it gets complicated.

The OP is required to undergo

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to take on the cost of making it happen. What sort of property owner would do this? A property owner that wants to build something that the Official Plan invites it to, but which the zoning bylaw prohibits. We call these property owners developers.

A Toronto planner who moved here from New York expressed Toronto’s situation to me quite simply by explaining that Toronto, in effect, is unzoned. What he meant by that was that to a property developer Toronto’s bylaws are effectively irrelevant; it is the Official Plan that matters. Where the two are out of step with one another, it is the Official Plan that prevails and it is the zoning bylaw that gives way.

What if the municipality pushes back and refuses to grant the rezoning that the developer demands? The developer invokes the protection of the Planning Act provisions and takes its case to the OMB. I

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Unless you’re the person who was asked to only mouth the words during classroom or concert choral efforts when you were young, you may well wish to join a local choir. So, what’s available to you in Leaside?

If you like hymn music or classical choral works, then you have a choice of a number of church choirs.

Most rehearse for a couple of hours during the week – for some reason, Thursday nights seem to be the popular choice, with a service on Sunday morning.

There isn’t a formal audition process for any of the choirs, unless you are trying to be a paid section lead, but you are expected to be able to sing as a soprano, alto, tenor or bass. With the help of the leads, if you can listen carefully, you can pick up the notes that you maybe can’t find on your own. You also don’t have to belong to any of the churches, but you do need to be there regularly for the complete service.

Maybe you could make your choice based on gown colour? At Leaside United, it’s burgundy with a white collar. At St. Augustine, it’s beige. At St. Cuthbert’s it’s a black

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cassock with a white surplice (think any photo of an angelic choirboy), Leaside Presbyterian it’s blue gowns and at Northlea United when it’s hot, street clothes are the uniform. At St. Anselm, the colours are black and white.

If church music isn’t your forte, then you might get lucky and find something similar to John Piper’s choir. It meets every two weeks in members’ homes and gives a concert once a year, with an accompanying trio. They sing classical, oldies, spirituals, foreign language pieces, uptempo….

Close to Leaside is the VOCA Chorus of Toronto, formerly The East York Choir. A number of Leasiders sing in it. It is an auditioned choir of nearly 100 voices, singing an eclectic mix of classical and contemporary music, rehearsing Mondays at Eastminster United Church.

Another in-the-vicinity-choir with Leaside members, for which you

don’t have to audition, is the Upper Canada Choristers. They also rehearse on Monday evenings for their two main concerts a year. In addition, they perform regularly in retirement homes, sometimes joined by students from nearby elementary school choirs.

If none of these suit, maybe start up singing when you’re next at a local pub and see who joins in.

--At the end of May, an announcement was made that the Town Crier chain of newspapers and their parent company were out of business. Why are we writing about this?

It’s personal: the original Town Crier newspapers were owned and operated by Harry and Ruth Goldhar, who are now at the heart of Leaside Life. In fact, when they first started in Crescent Town in East York, their two young daughters were the distribution team, along with their mother, Ruth, delivering the papers throughout the complex. Different reactions in the Goldhar family to this news: for Harry, it’s just something that happened. For Ruth, Kathleen and Caroline, there is sadness that an era is over. I

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