WARREN PARK SPORTS ASSOCIATION
“It cost them $3 to join"
Baseball, hockey, parades, and awards nights with celebrities. This little neighbourhood found a way to give the kids...
4051 OLD DUNDAS ST.
Warren ParkThe Melville family moved into a peaceful valley. Three years later, they were in the eye of the storm.
As told by Garry Melville to...
223 WINDERMERE AVE.
Swansea Public Schoolby Bill McKinlay - an excerpt from “BRICK by BRICK: Swansea Public School, 1890 to 2020” by Chris Higgins.
Spend nine...
21 WINDERMERE AVE.
Swansea Mews and Swansea Public SchoolA new start in Metro Housing: While a few kids made inappropriate remarks at school and the neighbour used to help...
WARREN PARK
A little village right here in the outskirts of Toronto
Memories of living in the Warren Park the neighbourhood since 1955.
By Doris...
1637 QUEEN ST.
The love story of Ruth Frocks
As the owners of the Roncesvalles landmark Ruth Frocks clothing store, Adam Eckhardt and his stylish wife Phyllis...
355 RONCESVALLES AVE.
The Old Country Shop
Helga Schuliakewich describes how famous retailer Sam the Record Man helped her, a young German immigrant, in the 1950s.
41 RONCESVALLES AVE.
Sunnyview Restaurant: The Great Blackout
When the lights went out in 1965, residents naturally gathered at Steve and Helena Sromek’s popular...
CRESTFALLEN LANE
A doctor, a horse and a vaccine
Toronto writer James Fitzgerald explains why a laneway got named after a horse
One of the “diptheria”...
24 FENNINGS St. AND 60 QUEEN St. W. (Old City Hall)
William Moore: Stonemason and entrepreneur
Shirley Eglite, born in 1927, describes her entrepreneurial grandfather, an Irish immigrant who...