February 27th, 2009
Event Guide: Toronto’s 175th Birthday — First Post Office benefit & other activities
By Shawn Micallef // 1 Comment
WHAT: 5th annual birthday benefit for Toronto's First Post Office
WHERE: St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King Street East
WHEN: Friday, March 6, 2009, 7:30PM
HOW: Tickets $25 & available at door. Reservations should be made @ 416-865-1833
No, not a knicker and fancy fan fashion show, but a fundraiser for Toronto's First Post Office, tucked in behind George Brown College on Adelaide Street. It's still a functional post office and one of the few museums that keep Canada's (and, of course, Toronto's) postal history alive. More on the event:
With Bruce Bell, Richard Fiennes-Clinton, the Fort York Regency Dancers, the Culinary Historians of Ontario, soprano Aleksandra Balaburska and pianist Irene Wong-Montgomery.
The Culinary Historians of Ontario and students of Applied Food History at George Brown College will be serving "175 Years of Cakes" during the intermission.
Other events
Beginning next week, the City of Toronto museums are hosting a variety of events and are free to enter from March 6-8th. Full details and event listings can be found here. As well, on March 6th City Hall will be hosting a variety of events all day long. Full listings can be found here, but do poke through them as there is an impressive range of films on Toronto being shown as well as readings, including the launch of Toronto's Visual Legacy: Official City Photography from 1856 to the Present. Many of our historical posts on Spacing use photos from the City Archives. Now we have a book that collects some of the best.
To mark Toronto's 175th Anniversary on March 6, 2009, City Hall will open its doors and invite residents in to celebrate the heritage, unity and diversity of our city through music, literature and art.
City Hall will be transformed into an exhibition hall featuring art installations, spoken word, dance and music. Special programming will also commemorate the City's early history.
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We have a Similar Trestle Out here beyond Brampton from back in the days of this article with Empty Abutments that might be used for a Single Rail addition
vs a Bloor Via Duct for Cars as Well as the area in the winter has No Level Roadway to get Out or In
for a $ 30 Million track but Georgetown history mostly allowed to disappear to fire as records
haven't surfaced as the other location in an unused school are going moldy after a pipe break
near Acton where other historic Public Buildings are also mostly gone
so hard to find out details like where the Electric Railway stone Trestle went when
development behind the hospital was allowed unlike the wooden trestle like your picture which
was replaced & were used to build a house on Queen Street near the Georgetown lake
back then where the timbers that disappeared when Highway # 7 was widened & the Pier timbers
Dominion Seed House was torn down
http://www.topix.net/forum/ca/halton-hills-on-georgetown/TAT9JQJ56LCC0BP85
Comment by Nice article today in the Star
March 1, 2009 | 8:38 am