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Mike Filey. Toronto Sketches 12
Cover
Dedication
Contents
Publisher’s Note
Here’s to Our Kennedys
St. Clair Bridge Still Gives Us Trouble
Cemetery Last Port of Call
Escaping Summer by Boat
They Lined Up to Cross Niagara
Where Is Our Spitfire?
Makin’ Tracks Through History
This 1910 Idea Was a Real Lifesaver
Pleasant Streetcar History
From Civic to Simcoe
This Canuck Was a Golf God
Toronto Still Yonge at Heart
The Ill-Fated Ex of 1974
CNE’s Back to the Future
Stately Structures Indeed
World’s First Movie Star
Streamlining T.O.’s Streets
Rollin’, Rollin’ Down the River
Keewatin Comes Home
Tunnel Comes in for Landing
Mother Parker Turns One Hundred
Belt Line Was Short-Tracked
Wharf Lighthouse Turns 150
The Very First Grey Cup
Travels Back in Time
Gardiner in a Pickle
T.O.’s Evolving Skyline
T.O.’s Little Piece of Venice
Identified Flying Object
Toronto’s Master Sleuth
The Best-Laid Plans …
T.O. Tried Its Luck Before
Starter Motors
T.O.’s Second Subway
A Real Swinger on Bathurst
Gargoyles Get a Second Life
The Fileys Head South
Historic and Truly Moving
Jets Back on Island Radar
A Hot Time in the Old Town of York
Streetcar Inferno
Toronto’s Changing Waterfront
Floating History
Postcard from the Wedge
Toronto’s Early Hotels
The Little Tug That Could
Northern Fighters
The Way We Kept Our Cool
Wonderful Flying Machine
Never Got Off the Ground
Never Taxed for a Topic
Scarborough’s Lost Dream
Getting There from Here
City Joined the Streetcar Biz
Toronto’s Union Station, Then and Then
Toronto’s Worst Disaster
Can’t Beat New City Hall
When Vaudeville Ruled
Take the Time to Go to Jail
Pachyderms from the Past
Our First Remembrance
First TTC Rider Paid 7¢ Fare
Mi Casa Es Su Casa
Streetcar’s Brush with Fame
A Piece of T.O.’s Flying History
When Eaton’s Was Christmas
1944 Storm Still the Worst
Previously in the Toronto Sketches Series
Also by Mike Filey
Copyright
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This volume of collected works is dedicated to Yarmila, my faithful spell-checker, image manager, typist, and wife of forty-seven years (and in case she reads this, these responsibilities are not in that order).
What today are acknowledged as two of our city’s busiest thoroughfares, Kennedy and Ellesmere roads, began as a couple of dusty pioneer roads in the wilds of what had been established as the Township of Scarborough back in 1850. According to Scarborough archivist Rick Schofield, Kennedy Road was named in recognition of the Kennedy family, many of whom were prominent in the early development of the township. Two of the best known Kennedys were brothers Samuel and William, who owned several hundred-acre farms on the west side of Kennedy north of Sheppard. Other family members farmed on Church Street, a thoroughfare that was subsequently renamed Midland Avenue after the Midland Railway of Canada, an early transportation company that was to become part of the new CNR when the latter was established in 1923. Much of the Midland Railway’s original right-of-way through Scarborough still exists between Kennedy and Midland and is used by GO trains on the Stouffville route.
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Both Hardy and Dixon are at rest in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Torontonian Samuel Dixon is shown in this rare photograph crossing the Niagara River on September 6, 1890, at a location not far from the Whirlpool Rapids. He drowned in a Muskoka lake the following year. The bridge in the photo is the old Michigan Central Railway cantilever bridge that was built in 1883 and replaced in 1925 by the present Michigan Central steel arch railway bridge. Two other Toronto boys, Clifford Caverley and James Hardy, crossed the river at this same location in 1892 and 1896, respectively.
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