08/30/2019
Get ready, Bricktowne Fest 2019 is this Sat. Sept. 7, 5-11 pm at Greenwood Park! The most fun you’ll have for FREE that day anywhere in T.O. INFO: https://bit.ly/2Z3PjUs
Leslieville Historical Society
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A CELEBRATION OF THE HISTORY OF OUR COMMUNITY Nonprofit Organization
08/30/2019
08/25/2019
Family Friendly Party - Greenwood Park - Sept 7/5-11pm - Music, Craft Beer, Food Vendors & more INFO: https://bit.ly/2Z3PjUs
06/14/2019
Leslieville makes history again, this time last night hosting the inductees to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame at Left Field brewery.
Exciting things coming from the LHS! Joanne and I are meeting with the Toronto Golf Club to celebrate our common history. Last month we established a subcommittee to identify and preserve places with historical significance. tree festival coming up and we're still hoping to host a 150th event this summer!
01/10/2017
Old Photographs of Ruins from the Toronto Fire that Destroyed Downtown On the night of April 19th, 1904 and the morning of April 20th, 1904, a Toronto fire decimated downtown Toronto and took with it over 100 buildings
very cool map tool... allows to search old maps by last name to see who lived there +/-100 years ago
http://utoronto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=8cc6be34f6b54992b27da17467492d2f
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HISTORY OF AN EAST END NEIGHBOURHOOD TORONTO
LESLIEVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Sometime before 1866 Leslieville grocer, James Morin (c.1835-1882), went into the brick business. In 1869 he bought a brick machine and began advertising that his Leslieville bricks were machine-made pressed bricks.
Morin's ad text read as follows:
BRICK! BRICKS! THE LESLIEVILLE BRICK COMPANY ARE MAKING EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MACHINE MADE PRESSED BRICKS, And are now open to receive orders for 5,600,000 of red brick@ at $8 50 PER THOUSAND! June or July delivery. And can fill orders for large quantities during the season. Address, James Morin, Leslieville. (Globe, May 6, 1869)
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