Swansea, Toronto

Last updated

Swansea
Neighbourhood
Windermere United Church.JPG
Windermere United Church in Swansea
Swansea map.png
Swansea neighbourhood map
Toronto map.png
Red pog.svg
Location within Toronto
Coordinates: 43°38′38″N79°28′40″W / 43.64389°N 79.47778°W / 43.64389; -79.47778
CountryFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
ProvinceFlag of Ontario.svg  Ontario
City Toronto
Established1889 (Subdivision) 'Windermere'
Incorporated1926 (Village)
Joined1953 Metro Toronto
Government
 •  MP Arif Virani (Parkdale—High Park)
 •  MPP Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale—High Park)
 •  Councillor Gord Perks (Ward 4 Parkdale—High Park)
Population
 (2006) [1]
 • Total11,133
 Source:Statistics Canada

Swansea is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, bounded on the west by the Humber River, on the north by Bloor Street, on the east by High Park and on the south by Lake Ontario. The neighbourhood was originally a separate municipality, the Village of Swansea, which became part of Metropolitan Toronto in 1953.

Contents

Character

Swansea is primarily residential in nature, consisting of a mix of various housing types. Swansea's high-end homes are located either at the western edge of High Park overlooking Grenadier Pond, or on Riverside Drive and the Brule Gardens enclave bordering the Humber River. Swansea also contains a large number of semi-detached houses and bungalows located mostly in the centre of the neighbourhood. The typical house of the area was built between 1905 and 1935.

The area of the former Swansea Works area is considerably newer, except for some of the original workers' homes. The Queensway was built in the 1950s through the Swansea Works lands. The area to the south was retained for industry and the area to the north was redeveloped with apartment buildings and townhome developments. The area of the actual factory site has been redeveloped since 2000 into townhomes and condominium apartments.

Swansea has several main streets. Along the northern boundary, Bloor Street is a four-lane arterial road with businesses lining both sides. Along the southern boundary, The Queensway is a four-lane arterial road with a streetcar right-of-way. The Queensway has primarily residences on both sides. North-south, Swansea has two major roads, South Kingsway and Windermere Avenue. Along the southern boundary is the Gardiner Expressway which has an interchange with South Kingsway and the CNR railway lines. Further to the south, Lake Shore Boulevard runs east–west parallel to the lake shore.

View of the Humber River from the Humber Marshes, located in the western portion of Swansea. Humber Marshes Toronto.jpg
View of the Humber River from the Humber Marshes, located in the western portion of Swansea.

The area is hilly in nature. The waters of Grenadier Pond, Rennie Pond and the Humber River all are at or near the level of Lake Ontario. The majority of the lands of 'upper' Swansea are 30 to 40 feet (9.1 to 12.2 m) higher than this, with steep hillsides along Grenadier Pond, Humber River and Rennie Pond.

History

The nearby mouth of Humber River was the southern terminus of the route First Nations people used to travel from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron, and the other upper lakes. [2] It is at this spot between 1615 and 1618 that it is believed that Étienne Brûlé was the first European to view Lake Ontario, with his party of indigenous and French explorers. The foot of the Humber was also the site of a French fur trading post.

When the fall of the French Regime came in 1760, Jean-Bonaventure Rousseau, a fur trader, of French descent, was trading furs at the mouth of the Humber River. The British Quebec government granted Rousseau a license to continue his trading in 1770. [2] [3] In the late 1780s, his son Jean Baptiste Rousseau began developing a parcel of 500 acres around the trading post. Rousseau was living at his 'Rousseau House' when Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe arrived with the first English settlers for the new settlement of York and Rousseau guided the new governor's ship into Toronto Bay (now Toronto's harbour). [4] When York was first surveyed, the entire area along the Humber River was designated as a Mill Reserve (forest to be left intact for the use of the King's Sawmill. Rousseau refused an offer to relocate across the river to Etobicoke and left the area. Rousseau moved his main area of development to Ancaster, Ontario in 1795. [4] The site of 'Rousseau House' is today marked by a plaque.

By the 1880s, the mill reserve in Swansea was still unused and the area was subdivided into 'wood lots' (sections of forest to be sold to families living further away for use as timber fuel).

Through the 19th century the area later known as Swansea was divided between two farm lots:

The western half of Swansea became surveyed as lots 39 and 40. The lots were laid out south of Bloor Street, lot 1 starting to the east, and the numbers increasing in the western direction. Lot 40 was directly south-east of Jane Street extending east to where Windermere Avenue intersects Bloor Street. Lot 39, the next to the east saw the first development, on property owned by Mark Coe. By 1884, along Bloor Street, several blocks were subdivided as far south as today's Morningside Avenue, then known as Grenadier Road, and as far east as today's Kennedy Avenue. These are the only streets in Swansea laid out on a grid pattern, possibly because this section is relatively flat.

The estate of John Ellis c. 1880, whose lot comprised what is now the eastern half of Swansea. SwanseaHerneHillEllisEstate.jpg
The estate of John Ellis c. 1880, whose lot comprised what is now the eastern half of Swansea.

The eastern half of what is now Swansea was a forested lot purchased in 1838 by early Toronto artist, philanthropist and architect John Ellis whose home, 'Herne Hill', stood on Grenadier Heights overlooking Grenadier Pond. [5] The north–south street that connects to Grenadier Heights was named 'Ellis' in honour of Swansea's first family. Despite the building of a railway along the south of his estate in the 1850s, Mr Ellis did not develop his lot. With the death of John Ellis' widow in 1884, the Ellis estate became the property of John Ellis Jr. who sold off the land to the north of Herne Hill. The house itself was demolished in 1925. 71 acres (29 ha) of former Ellis lands on the east side of Grenadier Pond were bought by Toronto and merged with High Park in 1930. [5]

Windermere & Swansea

By the 1880s, the area south of Bloor was known as 'Windermere' after England's Lake District which it is said to have resembled. [6] To the south, industry developed on Coe's land along the railway line, including the Ontario Bolt Works, just east of the Humber, which replaced a factory on the site of today's streetcar yards at Roncesvalles. Built in 1882, its cornerstone laying attended by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, [7] the factory lands extended north to today's Morningside Avenue. In 1889, the factory was bought by James Worthington and the name changed to Swansea Works, Worthington himself being from the Swansea area of Wales. The factory became the major employer in the area with subsidiary industrial lands to the north of today's The Queensway. A settlement of workers' cottages built by Worthington dating from the 1880s grew around the plant. [6] The factory, burnt down in 1906 and rebuilt, became part of Stelco in 1910, and it remained in operation until 1989.

In the centre of Swansea were several elongated ponds running north–south. The largest, Catfish Pond, is the only one that has survived. Some of the ponds were filled in for the railway line and industrial area. One of the ponds on the former Coe property, on the site of today's Swansea Mews public housing project, was turned into a dump and filled in with tailings. [8]

Swansea Public School, c. 1908. Swanseapublic.jpg
Swansea Public School, c. 1908.

By 1890, the area was known as Swansea, with a train stop on the Great Western at Windermere. The post office was in the Works building, and church services were also held there. [7] Worthington promoted the community, giving land for Swansea Public School in 1890 and the mission church. [6] Worthington's ownership of the Bolt Works ended not long afterward, and the Works was eventually absorbed into Stelco in 1910.

Village of Swansea

In 1926, Swansea separated from York Township and incorporated as a village. The largely forested village saw the building of many upper-middle-class homes on the former Ellis estate as a quiet 'leafy' neighbourhood developed.

The Swansea Village corporate seal reveals a great deal about the colourful history of the neighbourhood. Included on the Swansea seal is explorer Étienne Brûlé, who in 1615 became the first European to set foot on what is now Swansea and also shown is a First Nations member. This is symbolic in that it recognizes that First Nations members were the first people to inhabit Swansea, thousands of years ago. The hills in the Swansea Village seal represent Swansea's rolling countryside. The water in the Swansea seal refers to Swansea's natural boundaries, which include Lake Ontario, the Humber River and Grenadier Pond.

Joining Metropolitan Toronto

In 1953, the Village of Swansea became part of Metropolitan Toronto. With the extension of Toronto's Queen Street and Queen streetcar line as 'The Queensway' following the southern limits of the village, Swansea quickly urbanised with many apartment buildings being built in the western half of the area. The small strip of industrial land housing the former wire works between The Queensway and Lake Shore Boulevard has been largely redeveloped as a high-density residential mix of towers and townhouses. [9]

Demographics

St Pius X Catholic Parish on Bloor Street. St. Pius X, Toronto.JPG
St Pius X Catholic Parish on Bloor Street.

Census tracts 0050.01 and 0050.02 of the 2006 Canadian census cover Swansea. According to that census, the neighborhood has 11,133 residents, up 0.5% since the 2001 census. Average income is $58,681, well above the Toronto average. Like much of West Toronto, the largest ethnic minorities are Eastern European. The ten most common languages in the neighbourhood, after English, are:

  1. Polish: 3.0%
  2. Ukrainian: 2.6%
  3. Serbian: 2.3%
  4. Russian: 2.2%
  5. French: 0.9%
  6. Portuguese: 0.9%
  7. Spanish: 0.8%
  8. Bengali: 0.7%
  9. Croatian: 0.7%
  10. Korean: 0.6%

Recreation

The former Swansea Town Hall now serves as a community centre for the neighbourhood. Swansea Town Hall Toronto.jpg
The former Swansea Town Hall now serves as a community centre for the neighbourhood.

The former Swansea Town Hall is now the Swansea Town Hall Community Centre which includes a selection of meeting rooms available for a variety of functions. It is also the home of the Swansea Memorial Public Library, the second smallest branch of the Toronto Public Library system. This branch specializes in material for children and seniors and provides complete inter-library loan services.

Parks

Rennie Park, located on the east side of Rennie Terrace, south of Morningside Avenue, has four tennis courts, an artificial ice rink, and a wading pool. Swansea Recreational Centre, a part of Swansea Public School, has a gym and a swimming pool. High Park features a full day of recreational activities including fishing, theatre performances, train rides, an animal zoo, historical exhibits, a restaurant and a myriad of fitness opportunities.

Reeves of the Village of Swansea

The village reeve was the head of the village council and the equivalent of a mayor. Swansea had its own reeve from its attainment of village status in 1926 until its dissolution on December 31, 1966.

Reeves of the Village of Swansea
No.ReeveTerm in officeOther officesBiography
1James Arthur Harvey1926-1927Leading local architect. Among the first in Toronto develop the two and three storey walk-up apartment block. Created 'Harcroft', adjacent to High Park, which was one of the first bird and wild flower sanctuaries in Canada. [10] [11]
2Robert John Wallace1928-1937Previously Mayor of Alliston, Ontario
Manager of Swansea Hydro		Immigrated from Ireland at the age of 2, Wallace moved to Toronto in 1912 after having lived in Alliston, Ontario. He was active in the Conservative party. Died in 1964 at the age of 93. [12] [13]
3 Clarence C. Downey 1938-1945
Chairman of Toronto Transit Commission (1960-1963) [14]
Toronto Transit Commission commissioner (1960-1968) [15] 		Lawyer with a practice in west Toronto [15]
4 Elmer Brandon 1946-1951
Progressive Conservative MPP for York West (1951-1956)		Lawyer by profession
5C. Douglas Cameron1952Councillor (1945-1949)
Deputy Reeve (1946-1949)		Cameron was an accountant with the Dominion Income Tax Bureau [16]
6Dorothy Hague1953-1962School trustee (1933-1949)
Chairman of Swansea Board of Education for 7 years
First elected Swansea Councillor in 1949
Deputy Reeve (1951-1952)
Also served on Metro Toronto Executive
Chair of Metro Parks and Planning Committees [17] 		Taught Latin at Mimico High School from 1922 to 1924. Hague was the descendant of pioneers and is credited, as chair of the Metro Conservation Authority's historic sites advisory board, with winning Metro and the province's support for the creation of Black Creek Pioneer Village. First woman reeve of Swansea and, with Marie Curtis, first woman reeve or mayor in York County. On Metro Council, she fought against amalgamation of Swansea into Toronto and in favour of spending for public transit over expressways. [18] [19] [20] [21]
7Lucien C. Kurata1963- April 30, 1966Provincial court judge (1966–69)First Japanese-Canadian to be called to the bar in Ontario, in 1948. He was the first Japanese-Canadian called to the bench when he was appointed as a provincial court magistrate in 1966. [22] He was removed in 1969 after a public inquiry determined he was unfit, leading the provincial cabinet to remove him from the bench. [23] He was the first judge to be removed from the bench under the Provincial Courts Act. [24] In 1969, Justice Donald Keith of the Ontario Supreme Court ruled in a 221-page report that Kurata was "unfit by reason of misbehavior" [25] and that in a 76-day period in 1968, Kurata had attempted suicide, offered to use his influence to reduce charges against a prostitute in exchange for sexual favours, and made the same offer to an undercover female police officer posing as a prostitute, whom he had indecently assaulted. [24] [25] [23] After being removed from the bench, he moved to Shelburne, Ontario in 1969, where he restarted his legal practice. He died two years later, aged 48. [23]
8James T. BonhamMay 2 - December 31, 1966School trustee on Swansea Board of Education (1945-1962) [26]
Swansea councillor (1963-1966) [26]
Chairman of the Toronto Board of Education (1971) [26]
Toronto school trustee (1970-1972) [27] 		Worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. as a cost accountant for 43 years. As a village school trustee led the campaign for an indoor ice rink and helped establish a music program and a remedial reading program at Swansea's only elementary school. Initiated eye and dental exams for all children attending the school. [28] [26]

Prominent residents

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Etobicoke</span> District of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Etobicoke is an administrative district and city within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Comprising the city's west-end, Etobicoke is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the east by the Humber River, on the west by Etobicoke Creek, the cities of Brampton, and Mississauga, the Toronto Pearson International Airport, and on the north by the city of Vaughan at Steeles Avenue West.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Forest Hill, Toronto</span> Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Forest Hill is a neighbourhood and former village in Midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located north of Downtown Toronto. The village was amalgamated into Toronto in 1967 and the area has retained its name as a neighbourhood. Along with other neighbourhoods such as Rosedale and The Bridle Path, it is one of Toronto's wealthiest neighbourhoods, with an average income, among income recipients 15 or older in private households, of $157,600 in Forest Hill South and $89,700 in Forest Hill North, compared to the $59,250 average income in Toronto's Census Metropolitan Area and $54,450 in Canada as a whole.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">High Park</span> Urban park in Toronto, Canada

High Park is a municipal park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. High Park is a mixed recreational and natural park, with sporting facilities, cultural facilities, educational facilities, gardens, playgrounds and a zoo. One-third of the park remains in a natural state, with a rare oak savannah ecology. High Park was opened to the public in 1876 and is based on a bequest of land from John George Howard to the City of Toronto. It spans 161 hectares and is the second-largest municipal park in Toronto, after Centennial Park.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">New Toronto</span> Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

New Toronto is a neighbourhood and former municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-west area of Toronto, along Lake Ontario. The Town of New Toronto was established in 1890, and was designed and planned as an industrial centre by a group of industrialists from Toronto who had visited Rochester, New York. New Toronto was originally a part of the Township of Etobicoke. It was an independent municipality from 1913 to 1967, being one of the former 'Lakeshore Municipalities' amalgamated into the Borough of Etobicoke, and eventually amalgamated into Toronto. The neighbourhood has retained the name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">York, Ontario</span> District of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

York is a district and former city within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located northwest of Old Toronto, southwest of North York and east of the Humber River.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roncesvalles, Toronto</span> Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Roncesvalles is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, centred on Roncesvalles Avenue, a north–south street leading from the intersection of King and Queen Streets to the south, north to Dundas Street West, a distance of roughly 1.7 kilometres. It is located east of High Park, north of Lake Ontario, in the Parkdale–High Park provincial and federal ridings and the municipal Ward 4. Its informal boundaries are High Park to the west, Bloor Street West to the north, Lake Ontario/Queen Street West to the south and Lansdowne Avenue/rail corridor to the east. Originally known as "Howard Park", most of this area was formerly within the boundaries of Parkdale and Brockton villages and was annexed into Toronto in the 1880s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mimico</span> Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mimico is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, being located in the south-west area of Toronto on Lake Ontario. It is in the south-east corner of the former Township of Etobicoke, and was an independent municipality from 1911 to 1967.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Weston, Toronto</span> Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Weston is a neighbourhood and former town in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The neighbourhood is situated in the northwest of the city, south of Highway 401, east of the Humber River, north of Eglinton Avenue, and west of Jane Street. The eponymous Weston Road, just north of Lawrence Avenue is the historic core of Weston, with many small businesses and services. Weston was incorporated as a village in the 19th century and was absorbed into the Borough of York in the late 1960s. York itself was amalgamated into Toronto in 1998. Weston is one of the few former towns and villages in Toronto located in a generally suburban setting, although it is contiguous with the inner city to the southeast along Weston Road. It is also one of the few not developed as a planned satellite town, as is the case with Leaside or New Toronto.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kipling Avenue</span> Road in Toronto, Canada

Kipling Avenue is a street in the cities of Toronto and Vaughan in Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, 6 concessions (12 km) west from Yonge Street, and is a major north–south arterial road. It consists of three separate sections, with total combined length of 26.4 km. (16.4 mi.).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Queensway</span> Road in Toronto and Mississauga in Ontario, Canada

The Queensway is a major street in the municipalities of Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is a western continuation of Queen Street, after it crosses Roncesvalles Avenue and King Street in Toronto. The Queensway is a divided roadway from Roncevalles westerly until 600 metres of the South Kingsway with its centre median dedicated to streetcar service. The road continues undivided west from there to Etobicoke Creek as a four- or six-lane thoroughfare.

High Park was a federal electoral district in the west-end of the old City of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1972. It was created in 1933 and abolished in 1972, when it was redistributed into the newly created High Park—Humber Valley district, which shared virtually the same boundaries as High Park's last incarnation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sunnyside, Toronto</span> Lakefront district

Sunnyside is a lakefront district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It includes a beach and park area along Lake Ontario's Humber Bay, from west of Exhibition Place to the mouth of the Humber River. The area has several recreation uses, including rowing clubs, sports clubs, picnic areas, playgrounds, a nightclub, a bathing pavilion and public pool. The area is a 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long strip along the lakeshore, bounded by the Gardiner Expressway and rail lines, which separate it from the Parkdale, Roncesvalles and Swansea neighbourhoods to the north. The name originates in a local farm owned by John Howard, which was situated just to the north, on the location of the current St. Joseph's Health Centre hospital.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Old Mill, Toronto</span> Riverside neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Old Mill is a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the banks of the Humber River. It is located north and west of the intersection of Bloor Street and Jane Street. The area takes its name from the old grist mill ruins on the west bank of the river, now converted into a hotel. The City of Toronto includes this neighbourhood in the official "Lambton Baby Point" neighbourhood which includes the Baby Point enclave and former Lambton village areas to the north.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Queensway–Humber Bay</span> Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Queensway–Humber Bay, known officially as Stonegate–Queensway, is a neighbourhood in the southwest of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the southeast area of the former City of Etobicoke.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Royal York Road</span> Thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario

Royal York Road, historically known as Church Street or New Church Street, is a north-south arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, 5 concessions (10 km) west of Yonge Street, and runs through many residential neighbourhoods, most notably Mimico and the Kingsway. It is classified as a "minor arterial" road by the city of Toronto.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bloor West Village</span> Residential Neighbourhood and Shopping District in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bloor West Village is a residential neighbourhood and shopping district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Bordered on the south by Bloor Street, it encompasses all businesses along Bloor Street between South Kingsway and Ellis Park Road, consisting of more than 400 shops, restaurants and services, plus the residential neighbourhood to the north. The official City of Toronto name of the neighbourhood is Runneymede-Bloor West Village.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Long Branch, Toronto</span> Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Long Branch is a neighbourhood and former municipality in the south-west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-western corner of the former Township of Etobicoke on the shore of Lake Ontario. The Village of Long Branch was a partially independent municipality from 1930 to 1967. Long Branch is located within a land grant from the government to Colonel Samuel Smith in the late 18th century. After Smith's death, a small portion of it was developed as a summer resort in the late 1800s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Parkdale—High Park (provincial electoral district)</span> Canadian provincial electoral district in the city of Toronto, Ontario

Parkdale—High Park is a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, created in 1996 and represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. It is located in the Toronto's west-end, bordering on the lakefront to the south, the Humber River to the west, and the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks essentially defining its northern and eastern borders. There are 107,035 residents in the district. Federally the electoral district is held by Member of Parliament (MP) Arif Virani, provincially by Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Bhutila Karpoche and municipally by city councillor Gord Perks.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dundas Street</span> Major arterial road in Ontario, Canada

Dundas Street is a major historic arterial road in Ontario, Canada. The road connects the city of Toronto with its western suburbs and several cities in southwestern Ontario. Three provincial highways—2, 5, and 99—followed long sections of its course, although these highway segments have since been downloaded to the municipalities they passed through. Originally intended as a military route to connect the shipping port of York to the envisioned future capital of London, Ontario, the street today connects Toronto landmarks such as Yonge–Dundas Square and the city's principal Chinatown to rural villages and the regional centres of Hamilton and London.

References

  1. ↑ 2006 Census (Statistics Canada tracts 5350050.001, 5350050.002)
  2. 1 2 "ROUSSEAUX ST JOHN, JOHN BAPTIST (baptized Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, dit Saint-Jean), fur trader, interpreter, businessman, militia officer, and office holder". Dictionary of Canadian Biography . Retrieved 2019-03-29. In the fall of 1770 Jean-Bonaventure, an interpreter with the Indian Department, was licensed to trade at the Toronto (Humber) River with the local Indians.
  3. ↑ "Toronto Culture – Exploring Toronto's past – Natives and Newcomers, 1600-1793". City of Toronto. Archived from the original on 2006-04-12. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
  4. 1 2 Kenneth L. Cooper. "The Rousseaux Window". Ontario Genealogy Society . Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  5. 1 2 Lundell, pp. 116–117
  6. 1 2 3 "Swansea in Toronto". Planet Swansea. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
  7. 1 2 McLeod, p.26
  8. ↑ "History of the Area". Parkdale Community Legal Services. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
  9. ↑ "Swansea Stelco site walkabout". www.world19.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ↑ "Harvey, James Arthur | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada".
  11. ↑ Jas. Harvey Dies Was First Reeve, Toronto Daily Star (1900-1971); Toronto, Ontario [Toronto, Ontario]07 Nov 1935: 38.
  12. ↑ Swansea Reeve For 10 Years Retired in 1938" Wallace, R J.The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]14 Feb 1964: 4.
  13. ↑ Robert J. Wallace, Toronto Daily Star (1900-1971); Toronto, Ontario [Toronto, Ontario]14 Feb 1964: 32.
  14. ↑ With TTC 3 Weeks, Day New Chairman The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]06 Mar 1963: 5.
  15. 1 2 "University of Toronto News". Toronto. 1969.
  16. ↑ Reeve, Woman Deputy Acclaimed in Swansea The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]06 Dec 1951: 8.
  17. ↑ "Metropolitan Council Begins Its First Two-Year Term of Office: Would Expand Metro Executive". Globe and Mail. January 16, 1957. p. 7
  18. ↑ Dorothy Hague: Swansea reeve for 10 years The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]27 July 1973: 5.
  19. ↑ Dorothy Hague, 76, ex-Reeve of Swansea, Toronto Star, 28 July 1973: 93.
  20. ↑ First Woman Reeve in York County The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]27 Nov 1952: 12.
  21. ↑ Hundred Years Ago Today Recreated in Pioneer Village The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]22 May 1961: 17.
  22. ↑ "Japanese-Canadian appointed to bench" (March 14, 1966), Globe and Mail, page 5
  23. 1 2 3 "Lucien Kurata: Jaunty ex-judge first of race called to bar" (June 19, 1971), Globe and Mail, page 17.
  24. 1 2 "Williams performed his court duties 'well, faithfully,' hearing judge says", (December 16, 1977), by Brian Gory, Globe and Mail, page 9
  25. 1 2 "'Unfit by reason of misbehavior': Cabinet removes Kurata from bench", (May 2, 1969), Globe and Mail, page 1
  26. 1 2 3 4 Board chairman by calling: A cost accountant by training, James Bonham will lead Toronto's schools through austere 1971 Lind, Loren.The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]12 Dec 1970: 5.
  27. ↑ "James BONHAM Obituary (1998) - Toronto, ON - The Globe and Mail". Legacy.com .
  28. ↑ James Bonham, village reeve: [1 Edition] Doran, D'Arcy.Toronto Star; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]21 Dec 1998: 1
  29. ↑ "Lucy Maud Montgomery Historical Plaque".
  30. ↑ Villager, Erin Hatfield Parkdale (2010-02-09). "Who is Rita Cox?". Toronto.com. Retrieved 2024-02-25.

Further reading

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.