tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805718750098484502024-03-12T16:43:47.949-07:00On Dragon HillI have always loved writing, and now that I am retired I thought I would be able to find time to write, but it seems that I still manage to fill my days with activities. I have however found that while I travel, I enjoy writing about some of the interesting things we do. I hope you enjoy reading of our adventures as much as I like writing about them. Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.comBlogger465125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-25756988225566229862024-03-09T11:49:00.000-08:002024-03-09T11:55:22.901-08:00Murdock Mysteries Live<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDjFSHg-UpSXm6FllqbgM2iLAbxPYi7NKbsTFrsadiSOyk0JJIS7BfoTOpV0-3Hx8jEwSnfpdvF1XHklNA_nVvG7wqUXHDJOrs0WF2Qn9l68ylFgnIuHJolS4wFKXCpprVNWGCFU1l-3cjvMD2c-xmu1OWHJOULdrQ6lqwRoPvmnDcvD6YPQYb-dPMnLU/s1200/Murdoch-Murders.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDjFSHg-UpSXm6FllqbgM2iLAbxPYi7NKbsTFrsadiSOyk0JJIS7BfoTOpV0-3Hx8jEwSnfpdvF1XHklNA_nVvG7wqUXHDJOrs0WF2Qn9l68ylFgnIuHJolS4wFKXCpprVNWGCFU1l-3cjvMD2c-xmu1OWHJOULdrQ6lqwRoPvmnDcvD6YPQYb-dPMnLU/s320/Murdoch-Murders.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since the days of ‘Silent Movies’ ended, there is usually a soundtrack behind the video story in movies and TV shows. Sometimes these soundtracks actually become hits in themselves and often have big name music stars singing and performing in the background. But . . . have you ever wondered how these soundtracks are planned and performed?</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We got a chance to see exactly how one of these soundtracks was made. We had an opportunity to go to Roy Thompson Hall to preview an episode of the Canadian TV hit show Murdock Mysteries and see how the soundtrack for the show was written and performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0A0dmLTmrIFtOxmq8BljaVClqHAUUjaTAF9Yrc6fFUbJJ9eYMNGVtLAihHzfPOUp0yeceoVlnfH9ApA0ZLUTbsqfuD48V-XVsZe1zMTh1KOqQwIMBSsSrhJZ7UT4c_fE8RLTMgRl3xDxCCTmnE-ToxJBQ5u83PhzFYgnoVQ4EiWRRzTcmx45KpBQy1s/s4032/IMG_6288.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0A0dmLTmrIFtOxmq8BljaVClqHAUUjaTAF9Yrc6fFUbJJ9eYMNGVtLAihHzfPOUp0yeceoVlnfH9ApA0ZLUTbsqfuD48V-XVsZe1zMTh1KOqQwIMBSsSrhJZ7UT4c_fE8RLTMgRl3xDxCCTmnE-ToxJBQ5u83PhzFYgnoVQ4EiWRRzTcmx45KpBQy1s/s320/IMG_6288.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Concert Program</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The concert was held in the Roy Thompson Hall which is the spectacular home of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. It is a huge beautiful concert hall designed to provide a comfortable venue to enjoy the music.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The concert started with music from the show played by the orchestra, and then Robert Carli, the composer, Yannick Bisson (Detective Murdock) and Thomas Craig (Inspector Brackenreid), spent the first hour explaining how the music is written to go with the TV Show. Scenes from an episode of the show were shown without sound and then how particular music was written to enhance the action of the show. You do not really notice the music in the background when you are watching the action on the screen, but when you compare the silent and musical versions the value of the music is obvious. In addition the composer introduced some other music pieces that contained mysterious sections. I did not know that composers sometimes composed pieces which hid their names in the scores.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiifhomTNzSunib2Jk6Ihj228cyfmTKokaPQECtuG2Zs1XkeuywxnhxJ-4lf_b2y2U5C1g4DLQXqBkF9DpVjw3zKZR0Pn3-QaAjBC_7dREiySxYfNliqROunlsncJotGOdy_9QZ4_wPf00_evHRQF-EkBpkyvcn3nj1wlUVzfuQoFLm5ujeMYGtVpZ8WK8/s4032/IMG_6286.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiifhomTNzSunib2Jk6Ihj228cyfmTKokaPQECtuG2Zs1XkeuywxnhxJ-4lf_b2y2U5C1g4DLQXqBkF9DpVjw3zKZR0Pn3-QaAjBC_7dREiySxYfNliqROunlsncJotGOdy_9QZ4_wPf00_evHRQF-EkBpkyvcn3nj1wlUVzfuQoFLm5ujeMYGtVpZ8WK8/s320/IMG_6286.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roy Thompson Hall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After an intermission the concert turned to a screening of a new episode of Murdock Mysteries especially written for the concert with a musical theme. As the show was projected onto a huge screen, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra played the soundtrack live behind the screen. I will admit that I have never been a fan of the show, and often when Regis wanted to watch an episode I’d respond with “That’s fine, I will be able to fall asleep for a nap.”, but this time I managed enjoy the entire episode.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Apparently the episode of Murdock Mysteries, entitled “Rhapsody in Blood” will be shown on Monday Night, March 11th, 2024, so be sure to watch it and listen to the soundtrack behind the mystery. I’ve already seen it, so there will be no “spoilers” from me.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6g9PN5cpjH-RVghk7Bf52vFZJtr9Ri5yDojLz9zB2yxG_l5veHR5U1vSi_oPE4mNm4pTxuAN7ZMTCuPkK-AP7rHmmeJLYPWHHKne9fBJIQ2qMXMgtDUcNpvA-0vkOPdKgb5Oq2pjvMBYQkkqNJwZlpDkahJPQCOu_tFh_LSHCai79l_GgIBAuxIJwD0s/s4032/IMG_6287%202.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6g9PN5cpjH-RVghk7Bf52vFZJtr9Ri5yDojLz9zB2yxG_l5veHR5U1vSi_oPE4mNm4pTxuAN7ZMTCuPkK-AP7rHmmeJLYPWHHKne9fBJIQ2qMXMgtDUcNpvA-0vkOPdKgb5Oq2pjvMBYQkkqNJwZlpDkahJPQCOu_tFh_LSHCai79l_GgIBAuxIJwD0s/w640-h480/IMG_6287%202.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's Regis waiting for the show to start</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com060 Simcoe St, Toronto, ON M5J 2H5, Canada43.6466068 -79.386406915.336372963821155 -114.5426569 71.956840636178839 -44.2301569tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-90723747874293860802024-03-07T13:51:00.000-08:002024-03-07T13:51:23.309-08:00Toronto Street Art<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Whenever I go out exploring I am always on the lookout for interesting Street Art. I have collected over 200 photos since I arrived here in September. Some are massive multi-story high commissioned art work, and some are simply graffiti. Some of the artwork is absolutely amazing, and some makes you wonder “What on earth were they trying to say?”. Many interesting examples are on the side of building down alleyways and lanes, so I often take detours when I see flashes of colours in out of the way locations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are some of the most recent examples I have found.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHZ1BWu-3i8KQoViAsWRKDIl58M6Uibxmp3_vMbG3gsvtkSgqcXUIZ09xDSlZwFTaQzj_O6QoaGs0s6BL1DOCi3ndYtDr3AXWF9_BwWM-dFZhY5lPodtBJYyURl7Ha7esuWhPogyV5SLvG7eYSAm2ebeOa1X_O41h4dOUmevtRHho6pPyh2tdcg3VPyo/s4032/IMG_5188.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHZ1BWu-3i8KQoViAsWRKDIl58M6Uibxmp3_vMbG3gsvtkSgqcXUIZ09xDSlZwFTaQzj_O6QoaGs0s6BL1DOCi3ndYtDr3AXWF9_BwWM-dFZhY5lPodtBJYyURl7Ha7esuWhPogyV5SLvG7eYSAm2ebeOa1X_O41h4dOUmevtRHho6pPyh2tdcg3VPyo/w640-h480/IMG_5188.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdgNc9HbbJcq836yau1b75xNTtN-RHPzSMAN2MS89rfJQ2_EYHMvTlTnEbaqfB6fHeHrdgr1vLSn6bmoNlcHapPPSrznTRSLdxRQ9xbBwdVRxVaqc0qT9KHQtSq-nO9Z3y2-7dj9kPRqBNPC61Jb744b5miEQG4rznMjXypwPAAQ0_Ke7ewD7HGq2uv0U/s4032/IMG_5198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdgNc9HbbJcq836yau1b75xNTtN-RHPzSMAN2MS89rfJQ2_EYHMvTlTnEbaqfB6fHeHrdgr1vLSn6bmoNlcHapPPSrznTRSLdxRQ9xbBwdVRxVaqc0qT9KHQtSq-nO9Z3y2-7dj9kPRqBNPC61Jb744b5miEQG4rznMjXypwPAAQ0_Ke7ewD7HGq2uv0U/w480-h640/IMG_5198.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also in my photo collection of "doors"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHiaIt4C2e1LQuJlJbJcNr2gWIkh9h2ddfoxIlLcLZMaT4Jf0Z0lxw9ENDfRmRFjOwV76Hz1LL_SfLM7MJJFOxTQjOHEU5utQAzWFOoRcDDgbIBNmY9SIB69VPWYaw8O6iHtCV2YkM5jx_1fvnlux9_HHZIUErZZWMRMMbC-ZLZeC91kl7RkmAPsuCh8g/s4032/IMG_5292.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHiaIt4C2e1LQuJlJbJcNr2gWIkh9h2ddfoxIlLcLZMaT4Jf0Z0lxw9ENDfRmRFjOwV76Hz1LL_SfLM7MJJFOxTQjOHEU5utQAzWFOoRcDDgbIBNmY9SIB69VPWYaw8O6iHtCV2YkM5jx_1fvnlux9_HHZIUErZZWMRMMbC-ZLZeC91kl7RkmAPsuCh8g/w640-h480/IMG_5292.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was inside a restaurant</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtSGRq3R4XXE9qVWb86mD_QbqQq5-vrJgCqqcifb367B6VB-kKZ5PGRL75zQBMR9nZyanregnYKC_AwmNwel2iS7Jy6t2gIztZ15fGXBji8rW01X7ULxZjc2oyMzvM8cJtS-oN2JLZsheM3sdksOw9BmyL4M51q6-hyOtBoNkWpmz4NP6tYf90nZYoz_M/s4032/IMG_5401.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As I work my way through “The 111 Places in Toronto That You Must Not Miss”, I am finding that many of the suggestions really would be nicer to visit in warmer summer weather. I will admit to pushing some of my walks a bit; I did go to see Woodbine Beach which is renowned for it’s impressive volleyball facilities, only I went on a February day to see “Winter Stations”, so I have decided to slow down and save some of the attractions for the nicer weather.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8VmFWR3fWO6q_Ui842yVyTEM2bJSN5xvevkKBgvIqABD44Dv_ReVK6vBt68d5buCTPQqH3JfsPzbsxNvLNCA44oLq6qia4gCBfKNIQ9fNmElxpZ9sWWneEEkm0n-DSY2GbAOYRPbp3CyNPNgrbvatNTqEuwT0gh2bNGpJwZI7VJWousP-UutF3LZWZ90/s4032/IMG_6239.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8VmFWR3fWO6q_Ui842yVyTEM2bJSN5xvevkKBgvIqABD44Dv_ReVK6vBt68d5buCTPQqH3JfsPzbsxNvLNCA44oLq6qia4gCBfKNIQ9fNmElxpZ9sWWneEEkm0n-DSY2GbAOYRPbp3CyNPNgrbvatNTqEuwT0gh2bNGpJwZI7VJWousP-UutF3LZWZ90/s320/IMG_6239.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the suggestion is “Christie Pits Tobogganing”, so at least that is a “Winter” activity . . . only problem is that winter never really happened here in Toronto; any snow that fell usually melted the next day, so there was not a lot of Tobogganing happening this winter. So today, we decided to go see this “Place not to be missed” even if it was not to slide down snow covered hills.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The park is situated on the site of the Christie Sand Pit which was excavated for the sand, gravel and clay found there. It was named for the street it is on, Christie St., which is actually named after the famous “Mr. Christie” of cookie fame. As the sand, gravel and clay was removed, the pit was formed and once it was no longer useful it was turned into a park. Because it is a pit with steep slopes on all sides it has become a popular area to toboggan in winters when Toronto actually gets some winter snow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZF1Gc6zh6fdTMmdhFVI63p_47uW2aPoyV32iW2XvoyIC5LVOItmgdGM1qPJ2l0zsrg6Z907VjBKf1guInwRb_6HpC8dRN5RJsyp7RCaPXxYG90zyThDsF9FrXWXG7Da724KkuhJyXTbxdErlfFSqwNtjXO8T6pgUsd5F8wTS_iaWq6mcHqSiXc_YSz_4/s4032/IMG_6234.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZF1Gc6zh6fdTMmdhFVI63p_47uW2aPoyV32iW2XvoyIC5LVOItmgdGM1qPJ2l0zsrg6Z907VjBKf1guInwRb_6HpC8dRN5RJsyp7RCaPXxYG90zyThDsF9FrXWXG7Da724KkuhJyXTbxdErlfFSqwNtjXO8T6pgUsd5F8wTS_iaWq6mcHqSiXc_YSz_4/s320/IMG_6234.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christie Pits Park</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Christie Pits Park is called “a city within a park”, and although this park in the western end of downtown Toronto is only one block square, it really does pack a lot into a small area. The park now contains a full sized regulation baseball diamond and several smaller softball fields. There is a swimming pool complex with water slides and a regulation sized outdoor hockey rink with artificial ice (VERY useful this winter). The park also has a skateboard park, a labyrinth, a picnic area, a playground for little people, basketball courts, and an outdoor wood fired oven. There are trails through the park to get you to all the handy facilities and lots of comfortable benches.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcz_tQPIa3cgEWN3KAGcYTtjDpA2Y8PbAaTKSIU4olCP26bomybVCkl9Ua4eLW7-jWzdjgs34JBsWzjv4UUkVr1xYf_K99F1CMAX1Txlv8re3YQ1L5QaPzdlAYdbZLC9sZlhdvWofyDXL-DAD62hCLxcRDRW0WF2xkdRlWMd5Thp50eRtFjdB5oEpwMaU/s4032/IMG_6238.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcz_tQPIa3cgEWN3KAGcYTtjDpA2Y8PbAaTKSIU4olCP26bomybVCkl9Ua4eLW7-jWzdjgs34JBsWzjv4UUkVr1xYf_K99F1CMAX1Txlv8re3YQ1L5QaPzdlAYdbZLC9sZlhdvWofyDXL-DAD62hCLxcRDRW0WF2xkdRlWMd5Thp50eRtFjdB5oEpwMaU/s320/IMG_6238.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Labyrinth used to be a fountain</td></tr></tbody></table><br />We headed out to the park via Subway line two and arrived at the Christie station right beside the park. We walked all the way around the park and then took one of the pathways down into the “pit“ where we wandered around the many pathways and even found our way through the Labyrinth to the very centre. On a cloudy foggy Sunday, the park was well used and it was nice to see the public washrooms were open rather than the usual “Closed for the season” signs we often see in the winter.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our visit to the park was a pleasant way to pass the day, and we were impressed with the facility; it really is a nice community park and the neighbourhood must be pleased to have a park so well equipped to enjoy even if there was little tobogganing this year.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhajzBvIg3p8Ix0MM3Ye9dbDLPww4ArPvTFsUZSx8a4nlszNmt7yzcSm2yh0RR0jdfctihgBiQ7W5OuABraHq_fHRuKFz5PScfRoeBUj2cK-30MyGbbMOrGhuLUlhpF7PTnoXPjBUDhHMy3cGAIb_O_zqi5oEZCmc2-gXr8yv5v-TFuM5gIpbKjkVW7xNc/s4032/IMG_6237.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhajzBvIg3p8Ix0MM3Ye9dbDLPww4ArPvTFsUZSx8a4nlszNmt7yzcSm2yh0RR0jdfctihgBiQ7W5OuABraHq_fHRuKFz5PScfRoeBUj2cK-30MyGbbMOrGhuLUlhpF7PTnoXPjBUDhHMy3cGAIb_O_zqi5oEZCmc2-gXr8yv5v-TFuM5gIpbKjkVW7xNc/w640-h480/IMG_6237.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M6G 3K4, Canada43.6645885 -79.420675315.354354663821155 -114.5769253 71.974822336178846 -44.2644253tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-66584402156048675492024-02-22T15:16:00.000-08:002024-02-22T15:16:17.278-08:00Bits of exotica . . .<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I spent the day at the International Auto Show here in Toronto, and enjoyed taking photos of some of the beautiful vehicles there. I took lots of pictures, but all I am giving you here in the blog are some of my detail shots of little bits of some of the cars. I like to look at the cars and find interesting areas and parts of the cars to photograph. Some of these vehicles I am sure you will be able to identify, but some, I suspect no one will know where the bits came from.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcYGblsSD7_Wz8CBH7uB8NBLznJeczrqBasT3gxdxl-2Ot4xXvU-j54h9Qw6rak-ozls75g6FnzngPw6zpmNvoIH6WEWRVnhHVB40l-oM82BeebOaAiZZLfUd-6u4eGYnvO9Jbl9AqWOuLGtqbpXLhoAg8HzDpgouSj0eHpA1MmGq2dEPaeMI7fB7EBA/s4032/IMG_6047.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcYGblsSD7_Wz8CBH7uB8NBLznJeczrqBasT3gxdxl-2Ot4xXvU-j54h9Qw6rak-ozls75g6FnzngPw6zpmNvoIH6WEWRVnhHVB40l-oM82BeebOaAiZZLfUd-6u4eGYnvO9Jbl9AqWOuLGtqbpXLhoAg8HzDpgouSj0eHpA1MmGq2dEPaeMI7fB7EBA/s320/IMG_6047.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nice February Day at the beach</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A sunny February day . . . . a perfect day to spend the day at the beach!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No bikinis, or speedos though, but at least all the Lifeguard stations were occupied and busy. You might think that a February beach day would not be a good idea, but that is exactly what we did today, took a streetcar and a bus down to Woodbine Beach and spent the day there. We were there to explore the annual Toronto “Winter Stations” event.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTOFikx9wuxvWDwe61P3UUIym0mRNc50jWvpXJCI4i-pmGuuBcKgCY3QAcccWSElFvH459VARqCh8a3mDh-xqC6MYjRILIfMZdJCwxVRL-omMjK9ksYOyYe8T6nOC3skYPE2trk8UoXJ9DzbE3JI088T9NZgOfqThkxnENXgXW1N108P41Pn6k4Bt_zM/s4032/IMG_6063.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTOFikx9wuxvWDwe61P3UUIym0mRNc50jWvpXJCI4i-pmGuuBcKgCY3QAcccWSElFvH459VARqCh8a3mDh-xqC6MYjRILIfMZdJCwxVRL-omMjK9ksYOyYe8T6nOC3skYPE2trk8UoXJ9DzbE3JI088T9NZgOfqThkxnENXgXW1N108P41Pn6k4Bt_zM/s320/IMG_6063.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking the boardwalk</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://winterstations.com/">Winter Stations</a> is an International competition where the Arts and Design community is challenged to reimagine the lifeguard stations along Toronto’s East end beaches. The event has been running for 14 years and has seen entries from over 90 countries. The object is to use one of the unused leftguard Stations to create and build an art installation on the beach. I read about it on the internet and decided to go and see what it was all about. A 27 minute, 25 stop<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>streetcar ride and then a seven stop, seven minute bus ride took us to Woodbine Beach in Toronto’s East end, which runs for almost three kilometres along Lake Ontario.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The beach was not crowded as it would have been in the summer, but I would call it well used, especially by Toronto’s dog community and as we walked down the beach we met many friendly canine beach goers. Scattered down the beach were the actual Winter Station installations. There was . . . .</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>We Caught a UFO</b> by Xavier Madden & Katja Banovic from Croatia and Australia</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A Kaleidoscopic Odyssey </b>by Adam Brander, Nilesh P, Ingrid Garcia & Mayam Emadzadeh from Canada</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Nimbus</b> by David Stein from Canada</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Bobbin’</b> by University of Waterloo School of Architecture</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Winteraction </b>by Department of Landscape Architecture & Ashari Architects for Canada & Iran</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Nova</b> by Toronto Metropolitan University of Architectural Science from Canada <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Each of these installations was designed and built around one of the beach’s lifeguard stations and the public was encouraged to explore and get involved in the displays. As we walked down the beach, we tried each one, climbing into the UFO, Walking through the Kaleidoscopic Odyssey, and titter-tottering in the Bobber. The rain falling from Nimbus’ cloud did not get us wet, and the fallen star Nova sheltered us from the wind and provided a view along the beach. Unfortunately the Labyrinth in Winteraction required an app that did not want to install on my phone so we could not do it, but the rest were imaginative and interesting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not having visited this beach previously, we continued on down the boardwalk along the lakes edge visiting other beaches and enjoying a pleasant afternoon walk before taking a different streetcar and bus route back to the condo.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaC5ugHtRavj-7U1wQrLHKN7137pxbA9rl_BDDoNDzSA7TxFgxxtOTgAWqt3RmTMzu0ajNR0hgECa67NZfRhhNr3Foa893IgPb7uDIgtd2wZ1A6KjqEIjz2k456vqzlMFXL1sg5vjJD3ROIHapHTphCCfjNOT-PbDjYh3_QbkG1FAEFOeBVkqTiFfLLOU/s1280/Portlands.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1280" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaC5ugHtRavj-7U1wQrLHKN7137pxbA9rl_BDDoNDzSA7TxFgxxtOTgAWqt3RmTMzu0ajNR0hgECa67NZfRhhNr3Foa893IgPb7uDIgtd2wZ1A6KjqEIjz2k456vqzlMFXL1sg5vjJD3ROIHapHTphCCfjNOT-PbDjYh3_QbkG1FAEFOeBVkqTiFfLLOU/s320/Portlands.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The planned Portlands</td></tr></tbody></table><br />In October, we went down to have a look at the new “built in Nova Scotia” bridges being installed in the Toronto Portlands and although we did get to walk across one of the bridges, we were disappointed to find that the other two were not open yet. That trip did inspire me to do some research on this area of the city and I discovered that there is a very ambitious plan to revitalize the area to convert what is now an industrial wasteland with deflect building and piles of dirt into parkland and prime real estate. During our October walk (see the post called “Caution Construction”) we had a difficult time even walking the area, so when I saw a news article about the now “open”bridges and the new “artificial river”, I decided it was time to go back for another look.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkPmnqhj7B7NU-bc-xI3lHYSPxvWJIusbmlCUaQAq6XgiJSlM4LToN9uqPi4E0ziw_3BkQwU1I8UQorzJgjjMn-59R6r6z4uCsuUNVetdmFyh1Lyasyo2SzfEGwJVNshcMS7yXDEwsi7mDEl77ocptylScsygw5UWT6Cqqwx7Fi96I47Y7UpM5bh6jIg/s1280/Portland%20Old.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkPmnqhj7B7NU-bc-xI3lHYSPxvWJIusbmlCUaQAq6XgiJSlM4LToN9uqPi4E0ziw_3BkQwU1I8UQorzJgjjMn-59R6r6z4uCsuUNVetdmFyh1Lyasyo2SzfEGwJVNshcMS7yXDEwsi7mDEl77ocptylScsygw5UWT6Cqqwx7Fi96I47Y7UpM5bh6jIg/s320/Portland%20Old.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What it looks like now</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we got to the waterfront, you could see that the road leading to the first bridge, a double span with lanes for bicycles, vehicles and pedestrians was finally open and clear. Now I say open, but really only one span was actually operational so us walkers had to share with bicycles, but we were able to walk across the bridge and onto the Portlands. There was still a lot of construction going on, and we did have to avoid excavators and dump trucks, but although landscaping still has to be completed, you could see clearly what this would look like when finished, and it should be very nice.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5btwXLF1LAC_NrkZ2dLyfBDrjd1NnXyrVezl3jugNyUCL1_kyzno-MCrqLqEm4Nz4SjrMS5F7gL-rdOHmYlZeJjYnclcytiom9_DfIPeBrQN8c7dBLS3hvkbmZbB9q9nB6t-skqVTVCy1huZKhELSxzX_0sD-YqLuqtocDZALwF0cFVQAbQxffOCbzs/s4032/IMG_5968.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5btwXLF1LAC_NrkZ2dLyfBDrjd1NnXyrVezl3jugNyUCL1_kyzno-MCrqLqEm4Nz4SjrMS5F7gL-rdOHmYlZeJjYnclcytiom9_DfIPeBrQN8c7dBLS3hvkbmZbB9q9nB6t-skqVTVCy1huZKhELSxzX_0sD-YqLuqtocDZALwF0cFVQAbQxffOCbzs/s320/IMG_5968.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Built in Nova Scotia</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once across the bridge, we could continue on across the bridge we previously explored on into the actual working Portlands, or we could walk down a new wide avenue to the fourth bridge which crossed the “Artificial River”. Having done the other bridge, we chose to walk down to the one we had not visited. The road across this bridge continued down along the waterfront into another industrial area, but the bridge crossed a man-made river which winds through the Portlands and will eventually connect the Don River wth Lake Ontario, allowing it to flow peacefully through a newly designed recreational park rather than just dumping into the mostly unused Keating ship channel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These four bridges and the artificial river are just the first part of an ambitious 1.3 billion flood protection and revitalization project for the Portlands. There will be a section of the project that will be used for more Toronto High Rise Condos and a large section will be landscaped and reforested into a beautiful recreational area. As we walked across the fourth bridge, we could see the work being done in the area and it is easy to imagine what it will look like when finished. The “river” has water in it, but is not yet connected with the real river and many little trees already line its banks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYSLTzoB3Kh_yXL7sJpK1-tWzzz3ulgRK0O8zG-C_eQFDPdMRZU4Iil_cE6BCiVi8BlThQXh0oL_OcqVpczruGt7RF453o65mypcQJZsJxX6f0lsIGNoKzSPtr4i2tJWV_ensf3G5pFV8SepUWISvPDPtfUjPkWKZydHzYIHQXin2n32vn5SCfPRrLLE/s4032/IMG_5973.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYSLTzoB3Kh_yXL7sJpK1-tWzzz3ulgRK0O8zG-C_eQFDPdMRZU4Iil_cE6BCiVi8BlThQXh0oL_OcqVpczruGt7RF453o65mypcQJZsJxX6f0lsIGNoKzSPtr4i2tJWV_ensf3G5pFV8SepUWISvPDPtfUjPkWKZydHzYIHQXin2n32vn5SCfPRrLLE/w640-h480/IMG_5973.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The River Ends Here for Now</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now those proposed condos will be in an amazing prime location, so I can only imagine they will become very popular locations and I am sure they will be very pricey, as they will have beautiful views, parkland next door, and are still right downtown Toronto. I wonder what they will cost?</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFcFKeZcoS-Yw84OcHoaFuJs2Ft9jf84sDKQmkadwIpeAOFouj00j083gPD9w1LMCdohuBRhmC152aG-CW0Lu3nI5w_JZQD0NWfc8Pl0M95NH1umg9JKs4YeduZxR_9DwtX0MLUJxq2nAJKF-99BMN4soSqYY6uOHSvjGf13S8ZmiKLCjSGsYKz9K8EM/s4032/IMG_5969.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFcFKeZcoS-Yw84OcHoaFuJs2Ft9jf84sDKQmkadwIpeAOFouj00j083gPD9w1LMCdohuBRhmC152aG-CW0Lu3nI5w_JZQD0NWfc8Pl0M95NH1umg9JKs4YeduZxR_9DwtX0MLUJxq2nAJKF-99BMN4soSqYY6uOHSvjGf13S8ZmiKLCjSGsYKz9K8EM/w640-h480/IMG_5969.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ship Canal</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzrA1s4MwCE9TY4tcPcIT_9ByKtLIE2lo7OEjIq7D5SKvh0LZjKJI8d9mM574a_zTJz3hhVK1Jxk9rmQCoQGOBPmHW6u8rX5dAqNardHx5FspS-Lrppd-oq7Jly8V587M1JFHo31o2lY2vzBK4EuFRa6UoJskhsIJmrDlH_j6Y_okUCtlUSdY6N6S__0/s4032/IMG_5972.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzrA1s4MwCE9TY4tcPcIT_9ByKtLIE2lo7OEjIq7D5SKvh0LZjKJI8d9mM574a_zTJz3hhVK1Jxk9rmQCoQGOBPmHW6u8rX5dAqNardHx5FspS-Lrppd-oq7Jly8V587M1JFHo31o2lY2vzBK4EuFRa6UoJskhsIJmrDlH_j6Y_okUCtlUSdY6N6S__0/w640-h480/IMG_5972.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toronto from the new bridge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCBl32bC-kZ0IX4nU77h4jrIPlchCrXxJCzMuc6Cj86OzMTgahavlUPhRpkAMys_Ftmm2pWoIPJ1c0olIwZIJlKp8bxPFJkpM0SJ3gznF2Flft6S6vcnBdeQusAkSzOimlonQrFdk5CorZpeDs7jqADD3DmtzLi6q72KnlVmh5cQjntvwWo4P1H0JNLh0/s4032/IMG_5975.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCBl32bC-kZ0IX4nU77h4jrIPlchCrXxJCzMuc6Cj86OzMTgahavlUPhRpkAMys_Ftmm2pWoIPJ1c0olIwZIJlKp8bxPFJkpM0SJ3gznF2Flft6S6vcnBdeQusAkSzOimlonQrFdk5CorZpeDs7jqADD3DmtzLi6q72KnlVmh5cQjntvwWo4P1H0JNLh0/w640-h480/IMG_5975.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those dirt piles will one day be condos</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3f2RUZ8dBp7jyfLI8Qyz9WaaKr1-Vr23uxBTga8OwJDauD2c3KJJlk2y7gYthEHfyq_VEiIuM7-H20n7_pYuBYm6CI1MK3YJ2nDTcCdhlk0a3hfRQZzLqP-rwKS1HyMcLULbpQin9FfB5weSmDNLXDeFW3blpai93BRDwLMf8ehGYJNjWESUIR2kqIMs/s4032/IMG_5976.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3f2RUZ8dBp7jyfLI8Qyz9WaaKr1-Vr23uxBTga8OwJDauD2c3KJJlk2y7gYthEHfyq_VEiIuM7-H20n7_pYuBYm6CI1MK3YJ2nDTcCdhlk0a3hfRQZzLqP-rwKS1HyMcLULbpQin9FfB5weSmDNLXDeFW3blpai93BRDwLMf8ehGYJNjWESUIR2kqIMs/w640-h480/IMG_5976.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bridge and the River</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46MZiMgteAfDjthYfLNlpfdadIMfcDXcNmdNveYXjNh92rWT320BHxjHwaV-dN7oTht0EdGoaE0GWDlAO_obMGjswvi7xT5UsdGKwa_aYrYWdM_zYtjF5UzDIgTDQrL0U9kmTTcwo_dc6c65J-8FAaHzx0Fw-Pb8poWbSuh6axOljiUaKbHfzDLvVcNs/s4032/IMG_5978.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46MZiMgteAfDjthYfLNlpfdadIMfcDXcNmdNveYXjNh92rWT320BHxjHwaV-dN7oTht0EdGoaE0GWDlAO_obMGjswvi7xT5UsdGKwa_aYrYWdM_zYtjF5UzDIgTDQrL0U9kmTTcwo_dc6c65J-8FAaHzx0Fw-Pb8poWbSuh6axOljiUaKbHfzDLvVcNs/w640-h480/IMG_5978.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This will be recreational parkland when finished</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0Port Lands, Toronto, ON, Canada43.6485233 -79.345033715.338289463821155 -114.5012837 71.958757136178846 -44.1887837tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-21782642114335454572024-02-13T13:46:00.000-08:002024-02-13T13:46:03.310-08:00Back on the Beltline<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQSZFrX7NI7g4TzWcV5D9dJwj813cfFtmsHdmrqZy5VXMzRPpR45ZUPBiZH_QXLMy_hkTOIsvhzD5Bi8_ED6vvPBN0rdSwIfhqNXIUVCkXHhQ6WwtUaMgwAJ9tpBbOhKtG9Mjph79E7utqMp21_6fvvyoR2FBEMqZF4vBhTbV5rFwIhLavhzlapWOWeI/s4032/IMG_5988.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQSZFrX7NI7g4TzWcV5D9dJwj813cfFtmsHdmrqZy5VXMzRPpR45ZUPBiZH_QXLMy_hkTOIsvhzD5Bi8_ED6vvPBN0rdSwIfhqNXIUVCkXHhQ6WwtUaMgwAJ9tpBbOhKtG9Mjph79E7utqMp21_6fvvyoR2FBEMqZF4vBhTbV5rFwIhLavhzlapWOWeI/s320/IMG_5988.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Back on October 2, 2018, I wrote a post about walking the Beltline Trail, where we started at Yonge St. and walked north on this trail which is on an old railway bed. Today we walked another section of the Beltline trail, this time from the same start location but walking south to explore a section of the trail that was really a vastly different experience from the previous walk.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbZkVYFEzVMWtLyuPjxzwFRXeOLR5fyXc8F3dCXZ6QAlQliWhdLAZJrhkXalp_5eWw3kGJKHVW2AgTzh0wqKZhWuzQ1CCZiRUKzFFsxAzkUgcQckPR_UZVBBcUadbZUhGTNczz0mnG4W81O9qH4wNQgnKQiuRibgHAMZ9s8TV2tw5Zg6RCaesEVasfjm0/s4032/IMG_5991.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbZkVYFEzVMWtLyuPjxzwFRXeOLR5fyXc8F3dCXZ6QAlQliWhdLAZJrhkXalp_5eWw3kGJKHVW2AgTzh0wqKZhWuzQ1CCZiRUKzFFsxAzkUgcQckPR_UZVBBcUadbZUhGTNczz0mnG4W81O9qH4wNQgnKQiuRibgHAMZ9s8TV2tw5Zg6RCaesEVasfjm0/s320/IMG_5991.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A unique grave marker</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Back in 2018, we were staying in our son’s condo in Midtown,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>just a short walk from the trail, but our current condo is downtown so we took the subway up Yonge St. to Midtown and walked the trail back down towards our new location.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The first part of the walk was obviously on the old rail-bed, but then the trail turns and detours through the large Mount Pleasant Cemetery and then down into the Moore park Ravine, so I do not think this section of the trail continues to directly follow the route of the old railway. Those old locomotives would have struggled to get up and down from the deep ravine.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKub4-sm_1MLF1n6jTGze-_FD28WebxokvJb8m_qtJHJxB20JTs9769Trx85wjbwpqpgwG8KnH_xN39J6QJVWb3xI9nHHFNsBIR-oltqubYPmnxDIsx7DDPTOreEUwfkPXLPHeCy6PeS4JFM3am0faAE5yVE5bPNzOkqJjYuD8fEcOk5wjTlQHDD-jTeI/s4032/IMG_5993.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKub4-sm_1MLF1n6jTGze-_FD28WebxokvJb8m_qtJHJxB20JTs9769Trx85wjbwpqpgwG8KnH_xN39J6QJVWb3xI9nHHFNsBIR-oltqubYPmnxDIsx7DDPTOreEUwfkPXLPHeCy6PeS4JFM3am0faAE5yVE5bPNzOkqJjYuD8fEcOk5wjTlQHDD-jTeI/s320/IMG_5993.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Down under the city</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The trail itself is really pleasant, as you drop down into the ravine and the ever present skyscrapers of the big city disappear into nature. I recall back in the 70’s when I was here on a training course being amazed at these beautiful forested trails running through the city and they continue to provide a serene walking experience within Canada’s largest, busiest city. Walking in the winter means that the trees are mostly leafless, so we do see some huge houses<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of wealthy Torontonians bordering the ravines but in other seasons the city is mostly blocked out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This section of the trail follows the path of the stream that carved out the ravine and eventually joins the Don River which flows into Lake Ontario. On the way it passes the Evergreen Brickworks where I suspect the bricks that were used to construct so many of the beautiful old houses in Toronto were made. This derelict factory is now a multi-purpose community site featuring a museum, a park and a community market.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgyPIvCtzVSFtIYOtYVMsiNSZxJuwqoHVvAXfjChsgWCxjsLkeRuGwEmk4M_tW3aYgL9Uu8P04LOfLm-Wm-EWibSOobVJGzDgqE7z_iGVxhUMPi0Im_qkJPiDjOJ1Zb5Kcq4hKff16guQnFrw9PGTT6Qj4cXqDxURaXYOltWgmhAJf5XO6urLIsYfY1A/s4032/IMG_5999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgyPIvCtzVSFtIYOtYVMsiNSZxJuwqoHVvAXfjChsgWCxjsLkeRuGwEmk4M_tW3aYgL9Uu8P04LOfLm-Wm-EWibSOobVJGzDgqE7z_iGVxhUMPi0Im_qkJPiDjOJ1Zb5Kcq4hKff16guQnFrw9PGTT6Qj4cXqDxURaXYOltWgmhAJf5XO6urLIsYfY1A/s320/IMG_5999.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Brickworks</td></tr></tbody></table><br />You can continue walking trails all the way down along the Don river to Lake Ontario but we have already done that hike, so after we passed the Brickworks we climbed up out of the ravine on a trail we had to share with a city racoon, in time to, as experienced Toronto Transit commuters we confidently caught a bus that dropped us off a block from the condo. A bit more of Toronto explored.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsjdNgJcGoPVCTROl8RFuMbwOJ0lCuqBPICnnOxnISUfu21n2HMYSxp9RGFedSo6UqoSx6SxIlBImWtQTKlqoS2nu3ZL5ML50DZ2vLL4EE-qUbfUOXADPmjFDccx6KraY0IIXLDBxw-rEJsCesnGffEjr1-7VhD4Jq-dvWE2yJFe2imku6YF-Lt8g2HM/s4032/IMG_5992.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsjdNgJcGoPVCTROl8RFuMbwOJ0lCuqBPICnnOxnISUfu21n2HMYSxp9RGFedSo6UqoSx6SxIlBImWtQTKlqoS2nu3ZL5ML50DZ2vLL4EE-qUbfUOXADPmjFDccx6KraY0IIXLDBxw-rEJsCesnGffEjr1-7VhD4Jq-dvWE2yJFe2imku6YF-Lt8g2HM/w640-h480/IMG_5992.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A well maintained Trail (and "No Winter Maintenance")</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTjsZNKZYMqVOl5DDFVixrPZgpfhBTdHfh_Tavmb5MkxzZWJqzupRJ09Aa90maL3sx6fnKk3XiURmY7r-Ax2w9WpluEHWxnUtruadPUmdGxsTwfQMqfUC1dqtBBFhN-FOtccLVq7c_4lyft3KCZWFSx8kDpV4EV3VD_LWxt8X9Y_bRRPM9Y7XA9aUk-Pw/s4032/IMG_5994.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTjsZNKZYMqVOl5DDFVixrPZgpfhBTdHfh_Tavmb5MkxzZWJqzupRJ09Aa90maL3sx6fnKk3XiURmY7r-Ax2w9WpluEHWxnUtruadPUmdGxsTwfQMqfUC1dqtBBFhN-FOtccLVq7c_4lyft3KCZWFSx8kDpV4EV3VD_LWxt8X9Y_bRRPM9Y7XA9aUk-Pw/w480-h640/IMG_5994.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trailside Art</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtEXOA1gSdooXaQDI1x8kbguiUqg9AYRHV5nkO-z7fQBcnriU-Xs12aIh3LcWIBdAhX4GL4CGypcphUEbQsoE7mvSVNTntVqxV_dz1-kJAL2a_GmzNZ8YCsGAcK6j_d_hjzCBQLGyRglsErTTkoPry8MXg0OYuD_lbeWahNjpQsapLGSRPzGWji-KU5s/s4032/IMG_5997.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtEXOA1gSdooXaQDI1x8kbguiUqg9AYRHV5nkO-z7fQBcnriU-Xs12aIh3LcWIBdAhX4GL4CGypcphUEbQsoE7mvSVNTntVqxV_dz1-kJAL2a_GmzNZ8YCsGAcK6j_d_hjzCBQLGyRglsErTTkoPry8MXg0OYuD_lbeWahNjpQsapLGSRPzGWji-KU5s/w480-h640/IMG_5997.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the bridges spanning the ravine</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0Beltline Trail, Toronto, ON, Canada43.6907951 -79.371330215.380561263821157 -114.5275802 72.001028936178841 -44.2150802tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-51157218985361841442024-02-08T11:50:00.000-08:002024-02-08T13:06:09.878-08:00Bamboo & Gargoyles<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiXQ4t5Milw53cVv7eyYj6Kx3GiSW80cchjAGaKuj-b1Vlor9R_krf8N2WNPDKCTAD43YsujpsyRk5lTSpGRc18Sv3p2NfvCqcVdhzuVkBwOoHEMDqBgvpYwlPDyRBIBQ2iHEG6mRQrYb9k70Y80NBGXuh_z259kmUFEbs_Rf8jtAzq_JV9sGn4TGYsEA/s4032/IMG_5905.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiXQ4t5Milw53cVv7eyYj6Kx3GiSW80cchjAGaKuj-b1Vlor9R_krf8N2WNPDKCTAD43YsujpsyRk5lTSpGRc18Sv3p2NfvCqcVdhzuVkBwOoHEMDqBgvpYwlPDyRBIBQ2iHEG6mRQrYb9k70Y80NBGXuh_z259kmUFEbs_Rf8jtAzq_JV9sGn4TGYsEA/s320/IMG_5905.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bamboo Garden</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">We set out today to find a bamboo garden at The University of Toronto. Yup, another suggestion from that “111 places” book, and although we did find the garden we ended up finding a lot more as well. I find this often happens when you set out to explore on foot; you see things you did not expect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The bamboo garden was a lovely green space within the Terrence Donnely Centre on the University of Toronto campus. Within the garden are wooden platforms with seating areas for students to enjoy. The greenery of the bamboo was lovely in the rather dreary Toronto winter.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxpaQP8BA94GruD7weq-qSB8eJjHDyfWpdvXf354G909vxj4lYX7gXke3pIwsMsNsno1xGJxrGiVxdfix0I5Rx1vh7ZyFr3podLgaJ1enOmGlbQoE-z1-FWMKfaTmWiCK6D_64BziZOQRxRMXl3h6WKaN65Lk3e6MHffF2-lODOLUIuxkGbp5vJqLf1k/s4032/IMG_5917.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxpaQP8BA94GruD7weq-qSB8eJjHDyfWpdvXf354G909vxj4lYX7gXke3pIwsMsNsno1xGJxrGiVxdfix0I5Rx1vh7ZyFr3podLgaJ1enOmGlbQoE-z1-FWMKfaTmWiCK6D_64BziZOQRxRMXl3h6WKaN65Lk3e6MHffF2-lODOLUIuxkGbp5vJqLf1k/s320/IMG_5917.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">University College Building</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rather than going back out onto College St. and making our way home, we decided to walk through the Medical Sciences Building and discovered a hallway where photos honoured all the graduating classes of the Medical Students, and we spent a while searching the photos to see when females started to graduate with Medical degrees. As far as we could tell, 1907 was the first year with women in the photos. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We exited out the back of the building onto a large green space surrounded by beautiful old brick and stone university buildings. We had walked through here previously while looking for another attraction, but today I decided to walk around and look closer at all the buildings. I was particularly interested in the architecture of a large building directly across the green.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoLTEqyEkMCBrFzpWBx3Yb0Azw4EQOyNhQQIjspG62RK5y2XQz2pzQXzcQAURbMssw2PQpJ7c5bkBoi1ub0SrbUFmOgjpqKh4didvQV1J_ws9xemh5Y1jX9likZJgzA9y11fU4klngnqJu4xa1fWnr4dod_dhK2GaQ5IAnDFvJ1g8LtBimpQh2Q-TeD0/s4032/IMG_5922.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoLTEqyEkMCBrFzpWBx3Yb0Azw4EQOyNhQQIjspG62RK5y2XQz2pzQXzcQAURbMssw2PQpJ7c5bkBoi1ub0SrbUFmOgjpqKh4didvQV1J_ws9xemh5Y1jX9likZJgzA9y11fU4klngnqJu4xa1fWnr4dod_dhK2GaQ5IAnDFvJ1g8LtBimpQh2Q-TeD0/s320/IMG_5922.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creatures "hanging around"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I discovered that this was the University College building; the original building of the University of Toronto. I first came to a round building at one end and discovered that the detail in the stonework was really spectacular. The stone trim around the windows and the roof were all completely different. All carved in stone and from a distance looked identical but a closer examination showed that every one was a different design. The more I looked the more amazing details I discovered. The gargoyles in the corners were especially interesting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We couldn’t get into the round building, but a door gave us access to the main building and inside was just as amazing. The wood trim around every door and window had corner blocks each with a unique carved design. Everywhere I looked I saw repeated architectural details with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>completely different carvings.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0yMgZXjWsgeaU9sKA63_ByO_-3ChlMUAdQZjg_F3cvwupAwGlBocUXzfh1X_dpRWl7oFgb6W2LGjeF2yMeHFszbhg1x5gWCUWqp0yomq0zJCqpGUxEWbdWP2J5tA12JqMOSBhMZrg3ua80itzRNSpJAGdnMkuMOmQgYX6H-VMCJPFpTRspeoAg430Xpw/s4032/IMG_5945.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0yMgZXjWsgeaU9sKA63_ByO_-3ChlMUAdQZjg_F3cvwupAwGlBocUXzfh1X_dpRWl7oFgb6W2LGjeF2yMeHFszbhg1x5gWCUWqp0yomq0zJCqpGUxEWbdWP2J5tA12JqMOSBhMZrg3ua80itzRNSpJAGdnMkuMOmQgYX6H-VMCJPFpTRspeoAg430Xpw/s320/IMG_5945.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sculpture of chipboard & shingles</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We then found signs indication an art gallery and twisted and turned our way to it, where we enjoyed some really interesting artwork.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After an interesting day exploring the University of Toronto I came home and did some research on the University College building, discovering that it was built in 1856, burnt down in 1890 due to a tipped Kerosine lamp, and rebuilt in 1892. The building was designated a National Historic site in 1968, and “revitalized” in 2018. It really is an amazing building and a nice way to end a day exploring Toronto.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRjQsEygUJGm2pPY5G-37hlrPnQv2hu4mDijJuNNgWvzX3l7XueV28poP8Z5Gvh2qLwAtf7xxh2iQ_9zdmw04EowapsBzBmQn0t6xehMt6q-rmb76ZRFXpbV4irrO2MttIVb6QiHTsu0isDLAa3FThwbJiQVjdQp51RfGE61-DAFs4-5FZ3ODx5GYn97U/s4032/IMG_5921.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRjQsEygUJGm2pPY5G-37hlrPnQv2hu4mDijJuNNgWvzX3l7XueV28poP8Z5Gvh2qLwAtf7xxh2iQ_9zdmw04EowapsBzBmQn0t6xehMt6q-rmb76ZRFXpbV4irrO2MttIVb6QiHTsu0isDLAa3FThwbJiQVjdQp51RfGE61-DAFs4-5FZ3ODx5GYn97U/w640-h480/IMG_5921.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every divider was a different design</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TRFGI3X3Xky_wybRaWeEOLgR19HxRQONsxydQrHuOES9mbDwD_0pwBBdAb34Ep9AiNYoYZrRUx4KEAdkXNhFNJhVmhCv9jL421EUo13D4CA3zKnByaQxN0YBHYL6V-U2GyhJUvlzQlGPl3Ypmn65bqcYXB3ZpDzVHEDKra6IsyG7e2GcO2LXaddqmnc/s4032/IMG_5929.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TRFGI3X3Xky_wybRaWeEOLgR19HxRQONsxydQrHuOES9mbDwD_0pwBBdAb34Ep9AiNYoYZrRUx4KEAdkXNhFNJhVmhCv9jL421EUo13D4CA3zKnByaQxN0YBHYL6V-U2GyhJUvlzQlGPl3Ypmn65bqcYXB3ZpDzVHEDKra6IsyG7e2GcO2LXaddqmnc/w480-h640/IMG_5929.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every column was a different design</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKemePIf96T_vgNCNdFIN5L8xUDHUyUK8MQ41_sfSVi39WpGmonmFELbWfNdNcybrWOKE9L4PG64CoX6E3CdN28c0FS_aszrzGbVk3JadQmIVFUSDcPimz-K_jvk4DphtEbx9vpnHH8JgkC8CZ7_vEF4FU7CMMreEnwfTcieMKdW2vENQHGZcrxFVYFA/s4032/IMG_5931.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKemePIf96T_vgNCNdFIN5L8xUDHUyUK8MQ41_sfSVi39WpGmonmFELbWfNdNcybrWOKE9L4PG64CoX6E3CdN28c0FS_aszrzGbVk3JadQmIVFUSDcPimz-K_jvk4DphtEbx9vpnHH8JgkC8CZ7_vEF4FU7CMMreEnwfTcieMKdW2vENQHGZcrxFVYFA/w640-h480/IMG_5931.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every column top was different</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2w44xl7ekgP5reCT6cr-TQtRfZQc3YC97qYaW2AVLGV_D3DFH3jEwWf48aNPLlgQvxSUus1ccLMvqbDsTVrzYJUV_xAlTpHXdDQdi4aqGr4b3m1Yjdh9ePBq0rVRVQr3_dfbHcFhpN7UDEa3udrw5L7XuCcQlejLj0pX3wW-cIT1M05gRkNsEmIfYE8/s4032/IMG_5933.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2w44xl7ekgP5reCT6cr-TQtRfZQc3YC97qYaW2AVLGV_D3DFH3jEwWf48aNPLlgQvxSUus1ccLMvqbDsTVrzYJUV_xAlTpHXdDQdi4aqGr4b3m1Yjdh9ePBq0rVRVQr3_dfbHcFhpN7UDEa3udrw5L7XuCcQlejLj0pX3wW-cIT1M05gRkNsEmIfYE8/w480-h640/IMG_5933.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ceiling detail</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiQjIrUWaFhoqV2dSf63wyKl_b2dSbf9CkRQc8L72UXcSaNSPn2aMNLkFsFqH-CffN6oqjPu_NaoI_870zllMvAhr0HgbwKysfeYnVt8AJjVVTEQR7oR0PhD-FmltXtx5yvUZ9NQP0OkzWMGp8ZYASWiamPmcWCxIQ2pnvv8KNjZUWbdWEEZ5AGSML4M/s4032/IMG_5935.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiQjIrUWaFhoqV2dSf63wyKl_b2dSbf9CkRQc8L72UXcSaNSPn2aMNLkFsFqH-CffN6oqjPu_NaoI_870zllMvAhr0HgbwKysfeYnVt8AJjVVTEQR7oR0PhD-FmltXtx5yvUZ9NQP0OkzWMGp8ZYASWiamPmcWCxIQ2pnvv8KNjZUWbdWEEZ5AGSML4M/w480-h640/IMG_5935.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Banister beast</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikoEMo7KRnzVubYF4vBg4xGpXR885-3mBEdv2BpKcGMzuDyGBFVyY3pNzFUdqn6JAFCrvyqWu7_B2d9i7YlU1i5DQUmyMR2QGDzcslQYZHlnqCFS0CHoK2v4cAI3wWwL1rtWSQ3QN1mby2U30bv-xAj9SzXXi6lboERLG0LieieEYEPWWsQGbhLr9Libg/s4032/IMG_5954.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikoEMo7KRnzVubYF4vBg4xGpXR885-3mBEdv2BpKcGMzuDyGBFVyY3pNzFUdqn6JAFCrvyqWu7_B2d9i7YlU1i5DQUmyMR2QGDzcslQYZHlnqCFS0CHoK2v4cAI3wWwL1rtWSQ3QN1mby2U30bv-xAj9SzXXi6lboERLG0LieieEYEPWWsQGbhLr9Libg/w640-h480/IMG_5954.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More columns . . .</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr9jUGKybwjWoaBfPpFz7y24b70n6ovExxfyXFz2FcLM7A-Tsk_hd_otfOA3QWlHgoJft0J6qbdavXeP22r3PZvLuOWX_MnxSiEUctqk3-AvjDFS8z1S0IA7F2R2FsH3zX8ds0fqg_LEei4otwJjLVcSqhFJHT86KDJhBBacsGzI-_HablmW2YgE_ynE4/s4032/IMG_5955.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr9jUGKybwjWoaBfPpFz7y24b70n6ovExxfyXFz2FcLM7A-Tsk_hd_otfOA3QWlHgoJft0J6qbdavXeP22r3PZvLuOWX_MnxSiEUctqk3-AvjDFS8z1S0IA7F2R2FsH3zX8ds0fqg_LEei4otwJjLVcSqhFJHT86KDJhBBacsGzI-_HablmW2YgE_ynE4/w640-h480/IMG_5955.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The round house</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikODbiaKnsN8qjylFMdP-y4CoOVLtZhIkyqPcVjE4wqeo6zPIO5dJvmyay2-5Q_F49bHZXsHjvNemkBPYYfaPP0UX8LYkvSVzkmNbqPGcAdw05DEXlZlM-vmfX3B8jL7swWrqaxVrcKd_iFqBxqEnaHJlG45mxr2MV6UkxwjOBQnNBdMnn9qcTOCHk4Zk/s4032/IMG_5956.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikODbiaKnsN8qjylFMdP-y4CoOVLtZhIkyqPcVjE4wqeo6zPIO5dJvmyay2-5Q_F49bHZXsHjvNemkBPYYfaPP0UX8LYkvSVzkmNbqPGcAdw05DEXlZlM-vmfX3B8jL7swWrqaxVrcKd_iFqBxqEnaHJlG45mxr2MV6UkxwjOBQnNBdMnn9qcTOCHk4Zk/w640-h480/IMG_5956.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">University College Building</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><p></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0University College (Main Building), 15 King's College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7, Canada43.6624645 -79.396198415.352230663821153 -114.5524484 71.972698336178837 -44.2399484tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-57607130238300107292024-02-01T10:34:00.000-08:002024-02-01T10:34:12.374-08:00Not the King<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Following another suggestion taken from “<i>111 Places in Toronto That You Must Not Miss</i>”, we walked down to visit the Mackenzie House Museum which was not far from the condo. It was a damp day with rain threatening so we did not want to venture too far.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mlgzMARpkwDVeXX3aKzjCkUtq9I6awTWuUgQ4K5huyUBmmCNKSpSj9n1Bd1cK8Qhe8_kt_F1xKVpdi1Jx4WaHrYAXmMjT2lx97G5fXKyU4mQ5rjC3Y4-iETEWLUiKaNchR85JIlxbHk6Ef5xGKtj8TLhQd-7e7hhVT_L247py7EAz9P150IJtVRfGRw/s4032/IMG_5807.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mlgzMARpkwDVeXX3aKzjCkUtq9I6awTWuUgQ4K5huyUBmmCNKSpSj9n1Bd1cK8Qhe8_kt_F1xKVpdi1Jx4WaHrYAXmMjT2lx97G5fXKyU4mQ5rjC3Y4-iETEWLUiKaNchR85JIlxbHk6Ef5xGKtj8TLhQd-7e7hhVT_L247py7EAz9P150IJtVRfGRw/s320/IMG_5807.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mackenzie House Museum</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Sandwiched between another old house and overshadowed by a massive new condo construction we located the narrow brick house identified by a nice “Free Admission” sandwich board out front. The museum signs all said “open” and clearly pointed to an entrance door which, when tried was securely locked. Slightly confused we turned to leave, but noticed a friendly face inside waving and gesturing for us to come back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After an apology for the locked entrance, we were welcomed to the museum and offered a guided tour. Our friendly museum employee, was a cheerful young lady who really seemed to enjoy her job as she guided us through the house.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Mackenzie house museum was the home of William Lyon Mackenzie. He was the first mayor of Toronto as a city, a newspaper publisher and the grandfather of William Lyon Mackenzie King, the tenth Prime Minister of Canada.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGVj7fpiWHVnTzc7tUOI8_0EZwQvnyGLPK2LFvy3Tx5NMRPi3LCdvKzMn1TmhESif28xyOS2JCqC04d9EjOGKKcrh3ZtBNq1S0TkaO64yaV90p9ydCF8uFFYFeuQ9L-oFbU4hEepVvoDXTKBhyETQ65HXq3MolVzFx1nweizMY6Ob_7T7y1cwF6TOdkrg/s4032/IMG_5789.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGVj7fpiWHVnTzc7tUOI8_0EZwQvnyGLPK2LFvy3Tx5NMRPi3LCdvKzMn1TmhESif28xyOS2JCqC04d9EjOGKKcrh3ZtBNq1S0TkaO64yaV90p9ydCF8uFFYFeuQ9L-oFbU4hEepVvoDXTKBhyETQ65HXq3MolVzFx1nweizMY6Ob_7T7y1cwF6TOdkrg/s320/IMG_5789.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A really good guide</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The house tour itself resulted in another apology from our guide, for the house had suffered serious damage from a flood caused by a faulty sprinkler system and many walls and ceilings had to be torn out and the furniture had been moved to storage. As a result pre-flood photos and descriptions from our helpful guide allowed one to imagine what the house must have been like. Having done a bit of framing and carpentry in my time, I actually enjoyed seeing the exposed skeletons of the rooms and the talented commentary of our guide filled in the missing plaster, wallpaper, and furnishings.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I assumed that as a newspaper publisher and city mayor, the home owner would have been wealthy but in fact Mr. Mackenzie struggled financially all his life and this house had been purchased for him by supporters and he had difficulty maintaining it. At one point he had to let their maid go because he could not afford to pay her, and the family lived in only a section of the house in the winter to cut down on heating costs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPMRedjt7ooSgy3WJv_LimhsQf7RxkeEuqrajksvyTnJbxgimKFYIZCj-o95YvKXNYExh2O3l9hDfr9_azL-5eitvX85aOT3u6iev99wrRSVNv9frgHXU0ORhk27dRJlEA1ElZoDPI3cSvTMa2It-FhN6uwnpcWGacdsLCyhDzGBV-U-5XRx7ojCAbyo8/s4032/IMG_5784.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPMRedjt7ooSgy3WJv_LimhsQf7RxkeEuqrajksvyTnJbxgimKFYIZCj-o95YvKXNYExh2O3l9hDfr9_azL-5eitvX85aOT3u6iev99wrRSVNv9frgHXU0ORhk27dRJlEA1ElZoDPI3cSvTMa2It-FhN6uwnpcWGacdsLCyhDzGBV-U-5XRx7ojCAbyo8/s320/IMG_5784.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A house in need of repair</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Attached to the house was also a replica of the sort of printing facility Mr. Mackenzie would have used. His actual printing press was located in another building downtown, but the various authentic period printing machinery gave a picture of how Mr. Mackenzie made his living. Our guide demonstrated the printing press and we left with a printed copy of one of his newspapers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had expected that the museum was dedicated to prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie (King), but the information about his grandfather was very interesting and I walked away with a greater understanding of this city and it’s history thanks in large part to our really dedicated tour guide.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1QGuiXicy5oUXOP-lcejK8QJe0mT7N0jt-LRqFwqfrywhy9xgmtlP_zpNILii478_ivt9-c6iF6geNAwtmevPdcDCZPvQjrdcm8A4AELL98CQGEY_dvP8gobH1xcjRhV238QsEja3MUGuZEZGabI9wBBYas6SRrN32IeP8QM1HEVo_iZT5ccrS0SX0do/s4032/IMG_5786.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1QGuiXicy5oUXOP-lcejK8QJe0mT7N0jt-LRqFwqfrywhy9xgmtlP_zpNILii478_ivt9-c6iF6geNAwtmevPdcDCZPvQjrdcm8A4AELL98CQGEY_dvP8gobH1xcjRhV238QsEja3MUGuZEZGabI9wBBYas6SRrN32IeP8QM1HEVo_iZT5ccrS0SX0do/w640-h480/IMG_5786.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front room (Use your imagination)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG0qXkgRJsPXB8aYrg4g42mrRnlolaOTpXFr-rvos2E48r6TCsEHg8RHIiAKgpjvUUVZpkU7doezxIjXo-ZlKimrKq0uDnrmfzqFMVoai_WfdcmAUIr_KH8cGh-PnTgBrde-10-6XDnxSyytJ-U8l3c04sRjheuxt9xU54EUHQXJ4vdzMMX_PBW39PVPE/s4032/IMG_5787.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG0qXkgRJsPXB8aYrg4g42mrRnlolaOTpXFr-rvos2E48r6TCsEHg8RHIiAKgpjvUUVZpkU7doezxIjXo-ZlKimrKq0uDnrmfzqFMVoai_WfdcmAUIr_KH8cGh-PnTgBrde-10-6XDnxSyytJ-U8l3c04sRjheuxt9xU54EUHQXJ4vdzMMX_PBW39PVPE/w640-h480/IMG_5787.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kitchen in the basement</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZzIO3I-9frtBHiMdggTKxxjXm-iXINCH2pahs-Z1P-DCuVPLyzIhklxIXfN0HtRcP5SQZpwtpqRL13if0Xm9agKLo61xFiRhz1vG4TYevrF5jkqG0kr-4IIwnqlbkkfA-rd4wcSWcU4rK99Q78mtB0az07vntwei4-_Mn8RE3wMq_95FT24BTKQfM0I/s4032/IMG_5788.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZzIO3I-9frtBHiMdggTKxxjXm-iXINCH2pahs-Z1P-DCuVPLyzIhklxIXfN0HtRcP5SQZpwtpqRL13if0Xm9agKLo61xFiRhz1vG4TYevrF5jkqG0kr-4IIwnqlbkkfA-rd4wcSWcU4rK99Q78mtB0az07vntwei4-_Mn8RE3wMq_95FT24BTKQfM0I/w640-h480/IMG_5788.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUw8wqeQLXuKFl9DSs5mE0uP6CG6WoHeUe-st0eq0_FCmhC7EQogDS_X8QWs3XZSljwv5nsh4HDRHdJhK-5oHWx8JVOoPbBQIqIV0pBqB1Fxwlb7UiZDRicItePcUmr8CApuuy55GPoV6htCYKa-PvWscH8KBOiWwR5ta1nfoOQIIWnNuTLw5XrQFTnI4/s4032/IMG_5794.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUw8wqeQLXuKFl9DSs5mE0uP6CG6WoHeUe-st0eq0_FCmhC7EQogDS_X8QWs3XZSljwv5nsh4HDRHdJhK-5oHWx8JVOoPbBQIqIV0pBqB1Fxwlb7UiZDRicItePcUmr8CApuuy55GPoV6htCYKa-PvWscH8KBOiWwR5ta1nfoOQIIWnNuTLw5XrQFTnI4/w480-h640/IMG_5794.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printing equipment</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxxce5LMooeG145bWYGnEotpHZKLra5xEJJOqXgUfG2WYjV027iup5YoTTKPKKMx38xXH1i7BO7g3_1W3ApaJuGxmCOif_q2LdP2HkOydB6l_uhOC6HNndNsieF2uF3k0j3-ZO9nI4d4mH4Roo5dcKrwgFr-z5f2VtzhmC4_UYuGhAId0xsZGBhpQXps/s4032/IMG_5797.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxxce5LMooeG145bWYGnEotpHZKLra5xEJJOqXgUfG2WYjV027iup5YoTTKPKKMx38xXH1i7BO7g3_1W3ApaJuGxmCOif_q2LdP2HkOydB6l_uhOC6HNndNsieF2uF3k0j3-ZO9nI4d4mH4Roo5dcKrwgFr-z5f2VtzhmC4_UYuGhAId0xsZGBhpQXps/w640-h480/IMG_5797.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed papers</td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovyn59Yx9t_kGxNgt8p18o4JBpAYCyreYJMhzfZHaaECph9RHCXZNRChswIvUz2g4zj56s5ASLFv_GPIQaKb7BP1gNo3P7Bmm1wj9yWtcVjICnRynfUiTL86LIu0eH5aM_K2pTMc7phC99pW_onuJuRR-A_0C7JuuidSPcbKBD0aeZuQTTNJbx6vvhAE/s4032/IMG_5798.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovyn59Yx9t_kGxNgt8p18o4JBpAYCyreYJMhzfZHaaECph9RHCXZNRChswIvUz2g4zj56s5ASLFv_GPIQaKb7BP1gNo3P7Bmm1wj9yWtcVjICnRynfUiTL86LIu0eH5aM_K2pTMc7phC99pW_onuJuRR-A_0C7JuuidSPcbKBD0aeZuQTTNJbx6vvhAE/w640-h480/IMG_5798.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tools of the trade</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com082 Bond St, Toronto, ON M5B 1X2, Canada43.6556693 -79.3784283999999915.345435463821154 -114.53467839999999 71.965903136178838 -44.22217839999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-14980393499343704192024-01-31T13:41:00.000-08:002024-01-31T14:15:06.402-08:00Aga Khan<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-UOsrY1VKc_g7UUSRk1UxefjcYjwmGKt7s-16WtHEFaswYKcFCxE_Z9cIfCatoVVMUV1LoOYmyTxXhSAeAeHCi4DppWKIS8beIdrjWyhH_UvEOXiSDOJ1wBUisATti4pb1usjdhDHHjtM3bVjvdIHyTMgY6QLpwgtWc0NAsbaWHOxj5BkP4tnIz2yKs/s4032/IMG_5863.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-UOsrY1VKc_g7UUSRk1UxefjcYjwmGKt7s-16WtHEFaswYKcFCxE_Z9cIfCatoVVMUV1LoOYmyTxXhSAeAeHCi4DppWKIS8beIdrjWyhH_UvEOXiSDOJ1wBUisATti4pb1usjdhDHHjtM3bVjvdIHyTMgY6QLpwgtWc0NAsbaWHOxj5BkP4tnIz2yKs/s320/IMG_5863.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Aga Khan Museum & Park</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Continuing through the “<i>111 Places in Toronto that you Must Not Miss”</i>, we decided to head out to visit the Aga Khan Museum located in Don Mills, a Toronto suburb. It involved a subway ride of 7 stops and then a 20 stop bus ride for almost and hour, but sounded like an interesting place. The book actually suggested a visit to the park surrounding the museum, but we figured we might as well make it a day and visit the museum as well which also featured an excellent restaurant for lunch.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I really did not know what to expect from the Museum; I had heard of Aga Khan,</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3g0RN7MFPLyIv4ELxu3MarVoqDTAlZPtKdfBB7umK91UGgK-j78egxd96E_fsc8fUi-4fCQAZ__8rpil9qbyVRtHd82UwcT8LF-sX8cTNl6EDdXknuHxO9uC6M1At6hAamvZufgCiARmhhMOYwx22qUIkNJ5WM2PJo5QaKoliasTzTfZ04DCNvSvaL8Q/s4032/IMG_5822.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3g0RN7MFPLyIv4ELxu3MarVoqDTAlZPtKdfBB7umK91UGgK-j78egxd96E_fsc8fUi-4fCQAZ__8rpil9qbyVRtHd82UwcT8LF-sX8cTNl6EDdXknuHxO9uC6M1At6hAamvZufgCiARmhhMOYwx22qUIkNJ5WM2PJo5QaKoliasTzTfZ04DCNvSvaL8Q/w200-h150/IMG_5822.JPG" width="200" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Eager Visitors</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /> but did not know much about him. After visiting the museum, I came home and did some research to find out more. The Aga Khan is the traditional head of the Ismaili islamic religious people. The Ismaili are an esoteric non-conformist branch of islam that is actually more like Hinduism. Although the Aga Khan was born in Switzerland and actually lives and works from Portugal, his followers are located in countries all over the world. He is one of the richest “Royals” in the world, with his wealth coming from donations from his 15 million followers worldwide. Although he does enjoy the life of a wealthy aristocrat, he is well known for using his wealth for many worthwhile projects around the world. The Aga Khan Museum is one of his projects.</span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-SbyR_MwUf3xxFpzQJQPnTS5yjkYkwcqSAfSSNj2ZvD9mfkzbPXXdStbarYDaKolJCQY9FHNeLK9B5pywyCYBGrbcFrGD-iOL9yeQBRWQyotQJjWlmD9Nr_bdvkWSkpv7GNdTlfVnLLbNn1yJSoE7ibW4zqnupUuBRYAgoCv2RSaEu-6Cw_51RqhaY4/s4032/IMG_5854.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-SbyR_MwUf3xxFpzQJQPnTS5yjkYkwcqSAfSSNj2ZvD9mfkzbPXXdStbarYDaKolJCQY9FHNeLK9B5pywyCYBGrbcFrGD-iOL9yeQBRWQyotQJjWlmD9Nr_bdvkWSkpv7GNdTlfVnLLbNn1yJSoE7ibW4zqnupUuBRYAgoCv2RSaEu-6Cw_51RqhaY4/s320/IMG_5854.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Entry to the 'Night in the Garden of Love"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The museum itself is amazing. It is situated in a large park and the building is modern, beautiful and an example of a “Money is no object” building project. As you walk in you are presented with a wide open spectacular structure. It contains the actual museum, an auditorium, a teaching area, a gift shop wth gifts I could never afford, a restaurant and various areas for temporary exhibitions. The museum itself is actually a small part of the complex. Nothing is crowded here; there are open spaces everywhere, including a huge open courtyard in the middle open to the sky.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Actual museum contains artifacts collected from around the world about the Ismaili religion and culture, and wandering through, I really did feel I was getting a better understanding of their history and culture. The collection contains many beautiful, intricate wood, ceramics and metal pieces from all over the globe as well as various ornate copies of the Qur’an and other Ismaili literature. Another room contained a beautiful collection of ceramics, and the Temporary exhibition featured a multi-sensory presentation by two artists entitled “A night in the Garden of Love”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We spent most of the day exploring the museum, with a break for lunch in the restaurant which is decorated with 200 year old panels donated from an Islamic mansion. I left feeling I knew a lot more about the Ismaili religion and culture; Regis felt the same, but she was also a bit dizzy from the virtual reality part of the “Night in the garden of Love”.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Below are some photos from the museum. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNv2lLEXKVzsLOBuwLV_HvhcL3zoCCFXuc0HhfxpDRSiCrRHO0tZ4HK1pOBzhOEsnybmjn9_1_aHj0uEzgzufkbF2cj3_egT2fJ6mOy9MeSIjglbFcmZrj8wUc5wHE3BA0m3UTAqmxp6sXg4ESIkb30iJcDlKYUJlNQWddPnTgtK2DhLKYm6jDheCqdYo/s4032/IMG_5716.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNv2lLEXKVzsLOBuwLV_HvhcL3zoCCFXuc0HhfxpDRSiCrRHO0tZ4HK1pOBzhOEsnybmjn9_1_aHj0uEzgzufkbF2cj3_egT2fJ6mOy9MeSIjglbFcmZrj8wUc5wHE3BA0m3UTAqmxp6sXg4ESIkb30iJcDlKYUJlNQWddPnTgtK2DhLKYm6jDheCqdYo/s320/IMG_5716.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Image Centre </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Number 84 of the <i>111 Places in Toronto That You Must Not Miss </i>is the Ryerson Image Centre, and as I work my way through the book this was one attraction I wanted to do. It is only about 10 minutes away from the condo, and I have always been interested in Photography. It did take me four and a half months to actually get there though.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Image Centre is an art gallery displaying photographs. It is home to the “Black Star Collection” of photojournalism photography which consists of almost 300,000 photographs used in magazines such as <i>Time</i> and <i>LIFE, </i>but it also features photographs from students and other photographers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Apparently, like Mr Alexander Wood, who you read about in a previous post, Mr. Ryerson has also been disgraced due to involvement in the Residential Schools, so Ryerson University has been renamed “Toronto Metropolitan University”, and the</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoT0XE5oOb0FhjIMQl501mt6cKNu9IIML4-XHAxsKc_OMj6cVa53pZOtNxnh2DnCpp6oO75cWzY2c7qCL3cRZqJlSdvR2homZ91lsvk4YUJJvyla9qmzvW_7jCxKUzfqNaUrCi1LQjrtx4e9jMLnzm26A-_OzwRhfyQ9O31GhQKTDx5cxlstBkQUUsuPA/s4032/IMG_5711.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoT0XE5oOb0FhjIMQl501mt6cKNu9IIML4-XHAxsKc_OMj6cVa53pZOtNxnh2DnCpp6oO75cWzY2c7qCL3cRZqJlSdvR2homZ91lsvk4YUJJvyla9qmzvW_7jCxKUzfqNaUrCi1LQjrtx4e9jMLnzm26A-_OzwRhfyQ9O31GhQKTDx5cxlstBkQUUsuPA/s320/IMG_5711.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ryerson Image Centre is now called just “The Image Centre”.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I finally decided to go visit and looked the location up on Google Maps, only to discover that it was now closed as they were organizing and setting up their 2024 Winter season, so I set the opening evening into my calendar and on a cold January night we went to their Grand Opening for appetizers and drinks as well as finally getting to see some of their photographs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqc6fkt6MI6LffSU-KXObW5cGlyPZBeKdwKYoNFOibtnO496ItqD1DrGMYgIzdnenvin70uRbEsoXGuJTgYJDOQwzvveSl7s422W7Vy_FMYhzLgf031nQPKDnWZ3rVnaMLXrgbfbPQ24OGNanyvJZLw71QO4zv-tQXvWoFvx-QU7r6HdA0BAQ7CNR7P7g/s4032/IMG_5713.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqc6fkt6MI6LffSU-KXObW5cGlyPZBeKdwKYoNFOibtnO496ItqD1DrGMYgIzdnenvin70uRbEsoXGuJTgYJDOQwzvveSl7s422W7Vy_FMYhzLgf031nQPKDnWZ3rVnaMLXrgbfbPQ24OGNanyvJZLw71QO4zv-tQXvWoFvx-QU7r6HdA0BAQ7CNR7P7g/s320/IMG_5713.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The grand opening was actually a pretty swanky event, with a cash bar and servers circulating with delicious appetizers all evening. The clientele was a mix of local dignitaries, ordinary folk like us and lots of arty people out to see and be seen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We made the mistake of buying a couple of glasses of wine (To support the Image Centre of course), but discovered that drinks were not allowed in the various galleries displaying the photographs. This meant we had to set our wine on tables outside the galleries but being very protective of my drink, I did not want to leave it unattended, so we went into the galleries one at a time while the other waited with our drinks. Fortunately this provided an opportunity, for one of my favourite activities, people watching.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was very interesting to stand and watch and listen to the people attending the event, and both of us found the amount of BS that was being thrown around completely entertaining. The local dignitaries were all “Glad-handing” in their suits</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQV4YDqDDFWsu4SI5YbjLJ2zfgnU4mcR44k0eQaBKdDm5GYID8K6Z0SXYZfzcpNG7GrEbSrpKOf2UcyERjsVQvVJzH1sIwE87aBHh8JizzJI-PU66Cs7UxkL6t4FvGrOgG7CW3KvRrnE6LHvhE6JhVEF1U8OmvoOlZ9viE1IALGmzXEuIMPDRoFdXKRdQ/s4032/IMG_5715.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQV4YDqDDFWsu4SI5YbjLJ2zfgnU4mcR44k0eQaBKdDm5GYID8K6Z0SXYZfzcpNG7GrEbSrpKOf2UcyERjsVQvVJzH1sIwE87aBHh8JizzJI-PU66Cs7UxkL6t4FvGrOgG7CW3KvRrnE6LHvhE6JhVEF1U8OmvoOlZ9viE1IALGmzXEuIMPDRoFdXKRdQ/s320/IMG_5715.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> and moving through the crowd finding other “important” people to chat up. The “arty crowd” in their unique and inspired attire were making sure that everyone knew that they were part of “The Scene” . . . . “Oh, yea, I was there in 2006 when that photo was taken!”, “I worked with them back in 2004”, etc, etc etc <br />. . . .</span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I really enjoyed the Grand Opening, and found some of the photo exhibitions really interesting, but I think I will go back and visit when it is just the photos without the BS.</span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com033 Gould St, Toronto, ON M5B 1E9, Canada43.6576945 -79.3793829999999915.347460663821153 -114.53563299999999 71.967928336178844 -44.22313299999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-91208187178371044362024-01-21T13:29:00.000-08:002024-01-21T13:29:04.963-08:00High Rise Scavenger Hunt<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-size: large;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSuoG5W4VwPPPQKuCTeADmfWaOTd8MMF7vzTbgbkLIkh3xCid_q9RisGFPiPzRWJXSkisgjtPJb1YNb6qn2u_rX687qvMG8c1gTe0jo0L_d7DIKfOyWjYXL7z2P0DcOLszKD_gptq2vnXU8G8862MYyb7XCGXeu5WXNddpSwbTtJhuc0U6KetwUQU3Lw/s4032/IMG_4532.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSuoG5W4VwPPPQKuCTeADmfWaOTd8MMF7vzTbgbkLIkh3xCid_q9RisGFPiPzRWJXSkisgjtPJb1YNb6qn2u_rX687qvMG8c1gTe0jo0L_d7DIKfOyWjYXL7z2P0DcOLszKD_gptq2vnXU8G8862MYyb7XCGXeu5WXNddpSwbTtJhuc0U6KetwUQU3Lw/s320/IMG_4532.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our view from the condo at night</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Our condo here in Toronto is on the 9th floor, so we have a nice view out over the city, and Regis likes the fact that she can check the colour of the CN tower every night. There are a few trees to be seen, but the view is mostly of other high rises around our building. I know that some of our country cousins and friends might think that other high rise buildings are no real view at all, but I quite enjoy this view. When our son bought this condo one of the features of the building was that although it is not down on the waterfront, there was a distant view of lake Ontario between two buildings. That slight water view has since disappeared with a new building which has completely blocked the lake from our view, but I have</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">enjoyed watching the new building grow higher and higher; I think they added five floors while we were enjoying Christmas in Nova Scotia.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg9BFUvFu_VCnUvHS8txLox9cVhlW6mSb2jc-HbXTZJhJ5EliLtHzhcNHjs6tzl0rZdcf58nWRF7tF_szsI4ARdwaQqm-iCDvvq6Z9JeFGGEh7lG8-n1_hyphenhyphenN7rTNhiu2Z93NHjFnH-ICq-JQ9UElqyfpt9hlYW-SlWBtlw20icw04XjnEUORkWPOaxpl8/s4032/IMG_5737.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg9BFUvFu_VCnUvHS8txLox9cVhlW6mSb2jc-HbXTZJhJ5EliLtHzhcNHjs6tzl0rZdcf58nWRF7tF_szsI4ARdwaQqm-iCDvvq6Z9JeFGGEh7lG8-n1_hyphenhyphenN7rTNhiu2Z93NHjFnH-ICq-JQ9UElqyfpt9hlYW-SlWBtlw20icw04XjnEUORkWPOaxpl8/s320/IMG_5737.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Lake in Sight</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is interesting to look out at the buildings around us and speculate on what is going on in them. There is one apartment/condo that has two bright lights that come on every day at 6:00 AM sharp and go out at 11:00 PM. They must be on a timer, as they never vary, so we have taken to calling it the “Grow Opp”. Then there is the apartment where the lights never go out; the lights are on 24 hours a day and I have never noticed anyone moving around even though the blinds are never down. One apartment the we can see from our bedroom had a multicoloured light that cycled through the colours constantly all night long; who could live in this multicoloured world all the time?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFXwIxsxXlkQoOs1EdSX3SjymxZMwrLp3hmmf7BwukSGoKwEWXwtTgHmUBTnDw3TPOdp4WH6h1CqT06dtHscc6vyXsu8pZgoNxRY4I7-Ba9rwb3_QRyK7n9NB5lOB2MGLIOMTU_Z7GoOzQN_n9JvkE0_jTYsxFee8_GEVJgLn-c_plXWFtmVHVNA0uh8/s4032/IMG_5735.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFXwIxsxXlkQoOs1EdSX3SjymxZMwrLp3hmmf7BwukSGoKwEWXwtTgHmUBTnDw3TPOdp4WH6h1CqT06dtHscc6vyXsu8pZgoNxRY4I7-Ba9rwb3_QRyK7n9NB5lOB2MGLIOMTU_Z7GoOzQN_n9JvkE0_jTYsxFee8_GEVJgLn-c_plXWFtmVHVNA0uh8/s320/IMG_5735.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "grow opp" </td></tr></tbody></table><br />On the 9th floor, we can see all these buildings around us but not the streets that are situated on, so the other day we set out on a scavenger hunt to actually find the building we were watching all the time. There is a building right next to us that is part of the same complex we live in and a tall modern tower that we walk by when ever we go out, but there were also four building a few blocks away that we wanted to go find.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So on a cold Toronto day when we did not have any big city attractions to go find,<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKPAmPDh2vXBlY_ReSW-GAifNRzXrpto3jWUggH3t5ppScqph58IxNKvKMxppmyMQkRv2vz-7ozKigHkwVxjPX1l-1Wyl5K0OTl6Q_sX4EXcycJHQuZ2J1q2J_cNxkKtQYmQyyExn9CPCH23ymouPXQEqhqGN9OPSt1iB5bSoUI-MtXJd5YFuVl_ZUeJw/s4032/IMG_5739.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKPAmPDh2vXBlY_ReSW-GAifNRzXrpto3jWUggH3t5ppScqph58IxNKvKMxppmyMQkRv2vz-7ozKigHkwVxjPX1l-1Wyl5K0OTl6Q_sX4EXcycJHQuZ2J1q2J_cNxkKtQYmQyyExn9CPCH23ymouPXQEqhqGN9OPSt1iB5bSoUI-MtXJd5YFuVl_ZUeJw/s320/IMG_5739.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The CN Tower</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> a nice walk around the neighbourhood to locate the buildings we look out on every day was a pleasant activity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0285 Mutual St, Toronto, ON M4Y 3C5, Canada43.6635556 -79.378266715.353321763821157 -114.5345167 71.973789436178848 -44.2220167tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-11048444679172927892024-01-17T13:47:00.000-08:002024-01-17T13:47:28.202-08:00A Guest in my own House<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6_lKu13GbVPSyWa-6IESUL9QXALJh94e5cc9n4nntpsumukZSGGXsDkQvR6fCzOhXnqmcM4hU2EHqzP4uImOc3Xf2zpFvHsWSwDUfVeYD7hX0BrMZHdcVNpXyWIzlvbyLINe2sKh8eE5q-AfHq1d8QE9rkLZMa9q1nANfMM40Niu3ElK-aCn3ZFOcQI/s4032/IMG_5653.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6_lKu13GbVPSyWa-6IESUL9QXALJh94e5cc9n4nntpsumukZSGGXsDkQvR6fCzOhXnqmcM4hU2EHqzP4uImOc3Xf2zpFvHsWSwDUfVeYD7hX0BrMZHdcVNpXyWIzlvbyLINe2sKh8eE5q-AfHq1d8QE9rkLZMa9q1nANfMM40Niu3ElK-aCn3ZFOcQI/s320/IMG_5653.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back In NS for Christmas</td></tr></tbody></table><br />When we undertook this adventure in Toronto we rented our house in Dartmouth to our daughter Alisha & her husband Derek. She was moving back to Nova Scotia and needed a place to live while she settled back into an East Coast lifestyle and we needed someone to look after our house while we tried out big-city-condo-life in Toronto, so this was a win/win arrangement for all of us. We spent the month of August sharing the house as we packed up to move and she unpacked so, as we emptied drawers, she filled them with her “stuff”. As we progressed through this we made it very clear to her that we wanted her to treat the house as her’s and she was welcome to make changes as she saw fit to make the house their own. As we settled into the rented condo in Toronto, we were comfortable that our house in Dartmouth was in good hands, although I did compose a handy document with suggestions of how to deal with procedures I had developed over the 30 plus years we lived in the house.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, over the years since the children moved out and left us in a house too big for just Regis and I, we decided that Christmas would be alternated between “home” for Christmas in Dartmouth and Christmas with the children in their cities. This worked well and we spent many pleasant holidays in the children’s apartments and houses in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. This year however was scheduled for a Dartmouth Christmas, so Ryan & Ben and Regis & I were flying “home” to spend Christmas with Alisha and Derek in our old house in Dartmouth. When planning this trip, we made it very clear to Alisha that we did not expect her to give us back our bedroom and our nice adjustable king sized bed, we expected to be “guests” and would live in the guest suite downstairs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The sleeping arrangements were just fine, but it really was a bit odd to be a guest<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Cngv9opx5pWdPg1ptTXF9zAUr2PVjB40i6z1d9Z9ZYUvZfpfh5ADkT6cLOvs3xpf0CpAEVXtROPfIKnHkanz46VbgD1BLcuWziW_-oVS_s9TyL0XA_CixrLNPo42HA97r3MJQenQS02RVGvBSDryN1z8bl37Kcy1HnK187SzeKkIgxgMXeQBhXCFCno/s4032/72705620399__04FBE8B5-9D5F-4DFF-82FF-2AAA8DED45D4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Cngv9opx5pWdPg1ptTXF9zAUr2PVjB40i6z1d9Z9ZYUvZfpfh5ADkT6cLOvs3xpf0CpAEVXtROPfIKnHkanz46VbgD1BLcuWziW_-oVS_s9TyL0XA_CixrLNPo42HA97r3MJQenQS02RVGvBSDryN1z8bl37Kcy1HnK187SzeKkIgxgMXeQBhXCFCno/s320/72705620399__04FBE8B5-9D5F-4DFF-82FF-2AAA8DED45D4.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apparently it is now "Bob's Chair</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> in your own house. Alisha and Derek really have made themselves at home in the house and we had to adapt to their lifestyle. Bob the cat had claimed my favourite chair by the wood stove, and Mochi the dog has taken over the loveseat we left behind. We were there for three weeks and I still looked for the corkscrew in the drawer in the kitchen island every time a new bottle had to be opened. I know I left my big stock pot there, but I never found it; it must be down in the storage room somewhere among the boxes of our stuff and boxes of their stuff so soup stock had to be made in Alisha’s pot. They did not adjust to all of my suggested procedures, and Derek has his own way of lighting and feeding the wood stove that works just fine,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and they haven’t had enough snow to realize that my suggestion of always scraping the driveway clean prevents it getting icy really does work . . . .</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hzVMAb9m1sGbrRSvJHLYGCwadz3HCyyTyool4qX8SLXOV0PxOufj9TV49MaOsPbBQCvccdS-G0aYHdFPGnXFAMi1SjhvTNj54-feKwA2w7K5kwdORfgq4IUnE63Riyd4vXkSnTR8Vn4GAb_2x1YTkG7irGE65JMyYTyWB34bZYC23v1AaNQx7HkRPyI/s4032/72583493101__B5F25300-B60D-42EA-8A45-C3F8309E2964.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hzVMAb9m1sGbrRSvJHLYGCwadz3HCyyTyool4qX8SLXOV0PxOufj9TV49MaOsPbBQCvccdS-G0aYHdFPGnXFAMi1SjhvTNj54-feKwA2w7K5kwdORfgq4IUnE63Riyd4vXkSnTR8Vn4GAb_2x1YTkG7irGE65JMyYTyWB34bZYC23v1AaNQx7HkRPyI/s320/72583493101__B5F25300-B60D-42EA-8A45-C3F8309E2964.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working together </td></tr></tbody></table><br />So, although it was odd being a guest in my own house, it all worked out fine and we spent an enjoyable three week Holiday visit back in Nova Scotia with Alisha and Derek, and Ryan and Ben joined us for a few days over Christmas.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com05 Rossi Dr, Dartmouth, NS B2X 3L5, Canada44.6971131 -63.542987516.386879263821157 -98.69923750000001 73.007346936178848 -28.386737500000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-50597777086952368862023-12-10T20:02:00.000-08:002023-12-10T20:02:43.976-08:00Where is Alexander Wood?<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today we set out to find a statue of Alexander Wood which was supposed to be only two blocks away. It was one of the “<i>111 places in Toronto not to be missed</i>” from the book we have been using as one of he resources as we have been using to explore Toronto. The condo is on Mutual St. and both Alexander St. And Wood St. run off Mutual, so his name is certainly in the neighbourhood. I have walked down both Church St. and Alexander St. Many times, so I was surprised that I somehow missed this statue.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQVdLD18ITLd3nTP1nTbUAiNU8Y9c31iggQ3GDis8a46vKoj0S7P72YC8zuPudOX-tb97dUl6xWrd6TV1LoKK3vXYi3qvTB8pX6nZly6cEYiuK3cSy5YLPOrm0Phf5mlUHA6TDxyJJm43sdiN5HAkk2Kr1uWEagmTME8X9nIFtcDJiAi3DCPU7FcYRvA/s1024/Alex%20Wood.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="1024" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQVdLD18ITLd3nTP1nTbUAiNU8Y9c31iggQ3GDis8a46vKoj0S7P72YC8zuPudOX-tb97dUl6xWrd6TV1LoKK3vXYi3qvTB8pX6nZly6cEYiuK3cSy5YLPOrm0Phf5mlUHA6TDxyJJm43sdiN5HAkk2Kr1uWEagmTME8X9nIFtcDJiAi3DCPU7FcYRvA/w400-h275/Alex%20Wood.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to the book, Alexander Wood was a Scottish merchant and magistrate and possibly a homosexual, so streets named after him and a statue of him in the Church Wellesley gay neighbourhood in Toronto made perfect sense.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>111 Places</i> and Google Maps both placed the statue on the corner of Church and Alexander streets, beside the BMO building, but when we walked down to the corner there was no sign of a statue. Although Google Maps said the statue was there, Google itself provided the answer. In April 2022, the state was removed and destroyed because some community members said that Wood was involved in promoting residential schools and accused him of being a raciest.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, that answers that question . . . .</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However once we got home I decided to research Alexander Wood and I found out that not only was Wood a bit controversial so was the removal of his memorial.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Living in the 1800s, Alexander Wood was not openly gay, but he was a lifelong “bachelor” and his involvement as a Militia leader and a magistrate he apparently “examined” the genitals of soldiers accused of raping a girl when she claimed to have scratched her assailant. This led to him being called “The Inspector of private accounts” and a “Molly”, a derogatory term for homosexuals. When he refused to identify the victim to “protect her privacy” he was suspected of manufacturing the event so he could molest the soldiers. He was however also a successful and respected business person and was very involved with the community, serving on many organizations and charities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His involvement with First Nation schools is historical fact, but it was actually a positive involvement, with a first nation chief coming to Toronto and asking him to work to promote a school for their children which he did work to create. His involvement with the school was only in its creation and when it was not very successful it was indeed turned into a “residential” school but only years after Wood’s death. He was involved with local organizations that promoted residential schools, but his involvement was minor and as a community leader he was expected to be involved in a lot of organizations, and there is no evidence he actually promoted or encouraged the schools; his involvement in most of the organizations was as treasurer since he was a successful businessman.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From news stories from the time when the statue was removed it sounds like a small group of influential people felt it was best to remove the statue while a lot of local people did not agree at all. As usual, there are often more than one side to a story.</span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-1602292398731373972023-12-10T14:54:00.000-08:002023-12-10T14:54:16.140-08:00100 days<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4LhEM9Ccb97lK_ejCYJe46-Vh6xCzb18W3o0SJojxrz0Sg75vOAwl85HyzhcD9lwK7Jzy1gaElynAH-SbeRO5E4dHepRd9llXEnWiS_qSQEjmr6m9XdSWtiklgLyQW0YpysrHissbYbPg0GYfqrpuhzxUcgGN7e4ICtwX3O64MC3GGvzH3N2Qxk0QC8/s4032/IMG_4606.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4LhEM9Ccb97lK_ejCYJe46-Vh6xCzb18W3o0SJojxrz0Sg75vOAwl85HyzhcD9lwK7Jzy1gaElynAH-SbeRO5E4dHepRd9llXEnWiS_qSQEjmr6m9XdSWtiklgLyQW0YpysrHissbYbPg0GYfqrpuhzxUcgGN7e4ICtwX3O64MC3GGvzH3N2Qxk0QC8/s320/IMG_4606.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enjoying Condo Life</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;">Today is our 100th day living in a 850 Square Foot Condo in Downtown Toronto. This whole adventure has been about experimenting with downsizing and seeing if we could deal with going from our two story (And finished basement) house to a small condo or apartment. We really no longer need a big house, and as I get older I have been finding that bad knees and hips make stairs a painful nuisance, so a single floor living space would be nice. As well, I was finding that the house maintenance and routine yard work that I used to enjoy was losing some of it’s appeal.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, what have we learned after 100 days here in Toronto?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXkPpqSdKxNfkTBteopiUGxUJuziqiIIb9CqbytRFSVR0c-rtmZzdzh9HdkX-ccF04oDSZ1x3Uohc4kQQr54bV0WAsEKmYLJnd2PH2-yDheLjFzEZ-bUbinuNipQouPZK4fTJ3ITNfxGj6qn1dmO1UA-UcjSVZSW4IQlFZhbF50A1NkBM_M9lPu-02k1I/s4032/IMG_5343.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXkPpqSdKxNfkTBteopiUGxUJuziqiIIb9CqbytRFSVR0c-rtmZzdzh9HdkX-ccF04oDSZ1x3Uohc4kQQr54bV0WAsEKmYLJnd2PH2-yDheLjFzEZ-bUbinuNipQouPZK4fTJ3ITNfxGj6qn1dmO1UA-UcjSVZSW4IQlFZhbF50A1NkBM_M9lPu-02k1I/s320/IMG_5343.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">First and foremost, we have adapted admirably to the small condo and are perfectly happy with only 850 square feet of living space. There are compromises we have had to make, but they are all good ones and we have had no problems with adapting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We went from having a TV in almost every room to only having one, so when I want to watch NASCAR, F1 or NFL, Regis has to either watch with me or go into another room and watch on another device. The result is that she has learned to enjoy some of the amazing passes and runs in football and she has discovered bluetooth headphones to read and drown out my sports. Of course this also works the other way around, and Regis’ favourite Hallmark Christmas special have allowed me to nap or read as I tune them completely out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have discovered that with a condo sized washer and dryer you have to do laundry more often, but with a simple drying rack, the small loads dry overnight or by the end of the day and put enough moisture into the air to overcome the dryness of ninth floor and central heat.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOfaii6_bUgCQNZQ5YXB3NtyuIDfkg0BL7ylCr5MduA2-pGEkz1wSX8EBz-G-P8nVJIVcfCCxtBdhyphenhyphenZ2d4fkScIPyzXcDfTWVS2E2pL-u_jaTiqj42aKhkzr3BWQQ_x6UeRTVXw1skG61Y1hppmgCP7gZxqY1-IChubJy2md9iUS8ec6tkfwvW8iDrf7g/s4032/IMG_5371.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOfaii6_bUgCQNZQ5YXB3NtyuIDfkg0BL7ylCr5MduA2-pGEkz1wSX8EBz-G-P8nVJIVcfCCxtBdhyphenhyphenZ2d4fkScIPyzXcDfTWVS2E2pL-u_jaTiqj42aKhkzr3BWQQ_x6UeRTVXw1skG61Y1hppmgCP7gZxqY1-IChubJy2md9iUS8ec6tkfwvW8iDrf7g/s320/IMG_5371.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toronto Wildlife</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We went from a large efficient kitchen that we designed around a beautiful Italian gas stove to a small galley kitchen. Our kitchen used to enable the whole family get involved in cooking events, but even two people find it difficult to work in the condo’s smaller space, but we have adapted to alternating the meal preparation and this works fine. We would, of course, like a larger kitchen, but we have found ways to make this work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cleaning and general housework is probably the biggest plus; only one bathroom to clean and you can plug the vacuum into one plug and reach every corner of the condo. The entire space can be clean and shiny in around an hour.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Groceries and food is an area where we really have had to adjust our habits. Those annoying Loblaws/Superstore “Two for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>. . .” deals just do not work as we do not have space to store extra bottles of ketchup or orange juice. We have learned to buy smaller portions so our small “condo sized” freezer doesn’t fill up way too fast. Here in Toronto this works fine for us as the grocery store is only two blocks away and daily walks to the store are easy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgPwGF_qx0lEorKK-YZEJ9MwFe7F3Fpn0-UeWAvnoLtVceL1wNjUHpA29UUgu53lL2n6DUgPEd8aABtgprSZl-ZyYyIeJFmVkwOqL2U7nd39K18R5pNmFOB8o5AlAuq-BUBRZPwjJXDDYw78dEZV3MUiyRHZqV1ihHjC2ovh0Haju6FQrwQBedpNNRIc/s4032/IMG_5508.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgPwGF_qx0lEorKK-YZEJ9MwFe7F3Fpn0-UeWAvnoLtVceL1wNjUHpA29UUgu53lL2n6DUgPEd8aABtgprSZl-ZyYyIeJFmVkwOqL2U7nd39K18R5pNmFOB8o5AlAuq-BUBRZPwjJXDDYw78dEZV3MUiyRHZqV1ihHjC2ovh0Haju6FQrwQBedpNNRIc/s320/IMG_5508.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out for a walk in Toronto</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We like having a gym in the building and have gotten into a routine for exercise and not having a car gives us further exercise as we walk or use Public Transit. Our small second bedroom has been used by a number of guests quite comfortably, so 100 days in, and our condo experiment continues to go very well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0285 Mutual St, Toronto, ON M4Y 3C5, Canada43.6635771 -79.378191115.353343263821152 -114.5344411 71.973810936178836 -44.221941099999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-12119608183106688092023-12-08T13:06:00.000-08:002023-12-08T13:06:24.723-08:00Public Transport<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyZEDKZjW-xZFGd6t8dEHKBcD6R0bbPJdYu8R2i5hdX3BF4lDJcygFZsHwin8219O4SDv83XFpvlx4M3lOqzczhKT6WAvbdTOaWjZoKA7gfWyjfbrJffD8jMzmdLQU-1skfcUF2JyVMyRTDAQMmLajhKkPQ0ZcN_6x88gLVLZCkyt27jCYanfIUkoAmps/s275/TTC%20Subway.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyZEDKZjW-xZFGd6t8dEHKBcD6R0bbPJdYu8R2i5hdX3BF4lDJcygFZsHwin8219O4SDv83XFpvlx4M3lOqzczhKT6WAvbdTOaWjZoKA7gfWyjfbrJffD8jMzmdLQU-1skfcUF2JyVMyRTDAQMmLajhKkPQ0ZcN_6x88gLVLZCkyt27jCYanfIUkoAmps/w200-h133/TTC%20Subway.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just the Subway</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY1L8pEEQvNbzRRTtt5AVWjlAS9WGkf-bTYp4_zWp8g_6u23QQpy4ABhO3kMXqFTh__7CwgF6dWYJz_t8cB8aSMVkynyQRiffzvzVlK4CumjOJK4YchMZAwcQinntIVPHDionO2w5pg-xa1942s2RKs2YiQCcj1qOzSGcdgPcqc58BiSeKmsxDcguezRI/s271/TTC%20Map.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="271" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY1L8pEEQvNbzRRTtt5AVWjlAS9WGkf-bTYp4_zWp8g_6u23QQpy4ABhO3kMXqFTh__7CwgF6dWYJz_t8cB8aSMVkynyQRiffzvzVlK4CumjOJK4YchMZAwcQinntIVPHDionO2w5pg-xa1942s2RKs2YiQCcj1qOzSGcdgPcqc58BiSeKmsxDcguezRI/s1600/TTC%20Map.jpeg" width="271" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TTC Map - a bit confusing</td></tr></tbody></table>Without a “Daily Driver” car here in Toronto, we have had to rely on the public transit system to get around, and we have found that Toronto’s TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) is a very efficient way to get where we want to go. The TTC consists of a Subway system with a line that runs North/south and North/west (Line 1), another two that run east/west, (line 2 & 4), Streetcars that serve most of the major streets, and busses that serve most other areas. In addition, The Subway line 1 goes to the Union Train station which connects to the GO trains that serve outlying areas and the UP Express that gets you quickly to the Pearson Airport.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIk_hAJ2GTnYun5zgj8J3rPF7t2uRPzKdmayBVPwz42zxDviT_UeXMwimqlXLXnLRjDcAFNpD2h1dBiMe8QgF3zeyNKD874vsu1jW7UUVdOGJIyTGOp32umAIA6rf6bAOgBcK7n4ztDdcEWLIQ6Vpn0W-jsGwQlh4oTKW7IW6RY5oo0J2_FTqmYVTRYCE/s284/Presto.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIk_hAJ2GTnYun5zgj8J3rPF7t2uRPzKdmayBVPwz42zxDviT_UeXMwimqlXLXnLRjDcAFNpD2h1dBiMe8QgF3zeyNKD874vsu1jW7UUVdOGJIyTGOp32umAIA6rf6bAOgBcK7n4ztDdcEWLIQ6Vpn0W-jsGwQlh4oTKW7IW6RY5oo0J2_FTqmYVTRYCE/w200-h125/Presto.jpeg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />You can purchase a handy Presto card that gives you access to all of these services. You simple tap your card when you enter the subway stations, or when you get on the streetcars or buses. They are all connected and there is an automatic two hour transfer, so you can take subway, streetcar or bus and so long as you are within the two hour limit you are not charged. Using the GO train or UP Express, you tap your card before getting on the train and then when you get off and your fare reflects how far you go.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IjBbPzVwocpPybf2snxRtXD13n7edFs6bA02681bwgqBaOUhUQQw6FtQAqSvvlKjmzBINWdGcGlEcC-8mH1OIV25Q7m9PUJE8X_JeKiN6oHduCDrz51Nwd3aWJscNsFuZJSQUgjCyJBqIrNj-6xxDcb823aS4PX7UOwF-oYgV1RUxfSIbP0X9rbwXn4/s1020/Subway.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="1020" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IjBbPzVwocpPybf2snxRtXD13n7edFs6bA02681bwgqBaOUhUQQw6FtQAqSvvlKjmzBINWdGcGlEcC-8mH1OIV25Q7m9PUJE8X_JeKiN6oHduCDrz51Nwd3aWJscNsFuZJSQUgjCyJBqIrNj-6xxDcb823aS4PX7UOwF-oYgV1RUxfSIbP0X9rbwXn4/s320/Subway.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Subway</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Subway is the most efficient way around the city itself as it runs underground and so avoids all the traffic, and Toronto is reputed to have two rush hours running from 6 AM to Noon and another running from Noon to 6 PM. That is a slight exaggeration, but in general there is always traffic in the downtown core. The street cars and the busses of course run on the streets so are in traffic, but someone else is doing the driving and so long as you avoid the real busy times seats are available and comfortable. The GO trains are a comfortable ride and runs alongside one of the citie’s major highways, the Gardiner Expressway, so you get to silently zip quickly past the frustrated drivers on the highway stuck in traffic.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBiVUZ2s-E7WcHl47FZ74gXK06Rs_ldgvkT5npdW5Fu-Wx3Kbzimio6H1DyZIuN9RaV1woS3JefgqhW2-yeFyodHgWR5w8S39VKLX4Z8bMboptzZTMdMvXbhERIMasWz5yrQ1BBdZ6KV-Z-1Lf_42y4ov0q_T_r072TZAVldY9uzFJfM-XTpOSLZFyKaY/s4288/streetcar.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4288" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBiVUZ2s-E7WcHl47FZ74gXK06Rs_ldgvkT5npdW5Fu-Wx3Kbzimio6H1DyZIuN9RaV1woS3JefgqhW2-yeFyodHgWR5w8S39VKLX4Z8bMboptzZTMdMvXbhERIMasWz5yrQ1BBdZ6KV-Z-1Lf_42y4ov0q_T_r072TZAVldY9uzFJfM-XTpOSLZFyKaY/s320/streetcar.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TTC Streetcar</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The first few times visiting Toronto, we got used to using the subway but were slightly confused with the streetcar and bus routes so avoided them. This time, here for a year, we have become comfortable with using the entire system. Using a combination of subway, streetcar, bus or GO train we have been able to get anywhere we want to go within the city.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We discovered a suggested four block neighbourhood with some interesting things to see, so we decided to use the system to go visit the area. A short walk brought us to the Collage subway stop on line one and we too the train south on the Yonge line to Union Station and then north on the University line to St. Andrews where we got off and walked down to the Ossington Neighbourhood where we spent $90 in a Cocktail store without buying any actual alcohol, bought Regis a necklace that was worn by the “Mother of the Bride” in a movie made in California, and had lunch at a Coffee & Wine cafe. We then walked back to Collage St. Where we caught a Streetcar to take us back to Church St and a short walk back home. Now all these place names and street names probably mean little to most of you, but it’s just me bragging about how well I have gotten to know Toronto downtown.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRccX0F6_Tg8vhXH3WT70zYn7iLhN3ClrR_DnzVzhzQPULccbTp3pgGKcYvvXLzd09nz9WMCCzF-wHRN0LMIYa8OfO3QWrlmI9_Q_OY7IYNeu0xFaaIBWweVHdzUbp2y2fdmIKpHA_vAM_u3zaa4oe01-33wMOjyWNszcHffjjyWWAIkenS49pb_Klglg/s299/GO.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRccX0F6_Tg8vhXH3WT70zYn7iLhN3ClrR_DnzVzhzQPULccbTp3pgGKcYvvXLzd09nz9WMCCzF-wHRN0LMIYa8OfO3QWrlmI9_Q_OY7IYNeu0xFaaIBWweVHdzUbp2y2fdmIKpHA_vAM_u3zaa4oe01-33wMOjyWNszcHffjjyWWAIkenS49pb_Klglg/s1600/GO.jpeg" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The GO Trains</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Although the TTC does work very well, the ride home did show one serious problem. Lots of people just do not pay. We sat across from one of the streetcar’s middle doors where people entering the car are supposed to tap their Presto cards to pay for their ride. There are lots of signs warning of “Fare Enforcement” and advising users that “All passengers must tap upon entering”, but we were surprised at how many people just got on without paying. Riding for six stops, we saw at least 20 people who ignored the payment procedure and that was just one door. Teams of teenagers, gangs of grandmas and entire families took advantage of the fact that no one actually enforces the “Fare Enforcement” rules. You can’t easily get onto the subway without tapping your card, but it seems that many Torontonians have figured out how to ride for free on the streetcars and buses. This is a shame, because Toronto’s public transit system works well and people using it really should be happy to support it by paying the quite reasonable fares.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBAUpgFKaQ17s8sTK0ZYNYs2pPW6Iut2-Q6XYDkDG4LB9zfEFanatHbo-2RzsY3Hzkki5XoqB3hhQ07IK4zWevap3jzb9GTUoGYTW53yj4bTDBf9LMXvSFO117556GawufyO1Dc7ECRXZKqBiXJN3w7TPORzQ7SkRkZdfxsJHzOPBTfw9RY5S0Jv37PRI/s364/TTC.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="364" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBAUpgFKaQ17s8sTK0ZYNYs2pPW6Iut2-Q6XYDkDG4LB9zfEFanatHbo-2RzsY3Hzkki5XoqB3hhQ07IK4zWevap3jzb9GTUoGYTW53yj4bTDBf9LMXvSFO117556GawufyO1Dc7ECRXZKqBiXJN3w7TPORzQ7SkRkZdfxsJHzOPBTfw9RY5S0Jv37PRI/w640-h242/TTC.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><p></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-25781366167825068662023-12-06T10:40:00.000-08:002023-12-06T10:40:39.178-08:00Italian Leather - SCAM!<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nice weather was back in Toronto for a few days, so I headed out to find a Staples to purchase an art pad for a project I had an idea for. There was a Staples up Yonge Street in Ryan & Ben’s old Midtown neighbourhood, and I wanted to go and see the changes in the area since we last were there.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1rgJTS1xF565jycSF9NR0EU7dbNA0cR46gNvbONfU90OKWhNK6wtecMKfMrybIVLDTq3f4iiUv-bUHBhvWjj_8FzA7Mux-HlxL87akUOC7DpXMu8yEJX45yIMXkdxpnmyivz68uF6LjE34d52eoLpp0Je7ITdi-8DGofV8E6lJrv8C0oHbKheEBqmXvM/s4032/IMG_5396.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1rgJTS1xF565jycSF9NR0EU7dbNA0cR46gNvbONfU90OKWhNK6wtecMKfMrybIVLDTq3f4iiUv-bUHBhvWjj_8FzA7Mux-HlxL87akUOC7DpXMu8yEJX45yIMXkdxpnmyivz68uF6LjE34d52eoLpp0Je7ITdi-8DGofV8E6lJrv8C0oHbKheEBqmXvM/s320/IMG_5396.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back to Midtown for a visit</td></tr></tbody></table>When Ryan and Ben lived in the area they had a nice apartment right on Yonge St, and it was close to everything but there was a massive construction project across the street that made it noisy and dusty. I had to wash their balcony of dust every time I went out to watch traffic. Today it was a big improvement; the condo complex across the street is finished and the neighbourhood has none of the ubiquitous Toronto building cranes working in the immediate area; a definite improvement!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I found the Staples, bought my art supplies and headed home.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Across from Ryan’s old apartment building I stopped for a traffic light to wait for the walk signal. A car pulled up to the red light, and the window rolled down. “Pearson Airport?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This guy was nowhere near Pearson Airport and a strong foreign accent identified him as not local. Now since I have been in Toronto for three months, I have become pretty comfortable with finding my way around and thought I’d help this guy out. I leaned into his window and said I could give him directions, but it was not easy to get there from downtown Toronto. He backed his car up and unlocked the door, offering me a seat. He explained that he was visiting from Italy attending a fashion show in Toronto and had gotten lost on his way to the airport, handing me a business card explaining that he was from Milano, Italy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPgif8_vuSZz-ukXOHoUXUTX3Th_GbohGHlIrisJRIdVHOGEGHEPUF7mt0gT5ykWaAJMN4Ltuixr5_0dnPgIt6gyDKSRq80128Jkn8eBHCEgUxCWUhHs_qwdul-0vmE4YGJ3r8vPe65CcVq0pp5BElIZnEU1uPinUwgoOB1Zs91bARhQAh1TmG3PfGRrk/s4032/IMG_5478.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPgif8_vuSZz-ukXOHoUXUTX3Th_GbohGHlIrisJRIdVHOGEGHEPUF7mt0gT5ykWaAJMN4Ltuixr5_0dnPgIt6gyDKSRq80128Jkn8eBHCEgUxCWUhHs_qwdul-0vmE4YGJ3r8vPe65CcVq0pp5BElIZnEU1uPinUwgoOB1Zs91bARhQAh1TmG3PfGRrk/s320/IMG_5478.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not being familiar with the Sat-Nav in his rental car I got out my phone and checked the route, explaining that his easiest route was right out Yonge St to the 401, head west and then to look for the clear signs to the airport. He seemed to understand and thanked me profusely, saying if I even come to Milano Italy to contact him and he would show me around his city. He then asked my what size I took, and when I told him he reached into the back seat and pulled out a plastic bag with a leather jacket in it. He handed it to me saying I could have it as thanks for helping him. He explained that it was a sample from the show and he did not have room to bring it back on the plane anyway. He said it was valued at $1500 in stores.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He then pulled another out and asked if I had family here who might want one as well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now this was sounding a bit “too good to be true” so my suspicion was seriously aroused. Then another coat was shown, this one was a winter version with lining and a hood, supposed to worth $3000.00 retail.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then the pitch began, I could have all three coats for half the price of one of them. Now I was wearing my nice new winter jacket I got at MEC for $48.00, and I explained I was not interested; I never paid $700 for any jacket. He explained what a great deal it was, and asked how much I was willing to give him. I do not carry much cash on me at any time; paying for everything with a credit card and I showed him that all I had was $50 cash.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“No problem.” He said, “We could go to a bank machine.”<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqDiiFftEXD7DyPkVuwwan3ZMToH5ZDYFfKOD0O6H-sG0TXWxQ74FPC6gsl-QdJzkf6cIKGctc3Em1sUYTpwVnsAk8hNYvt47w60rplaWlTQM2BigeHTzHoBvOSOBvxK9Gy_6-ewhjjgORTyi_Wz7BHuZwV0JapObVbWh5HXDJ9xLEkZjFJ5btRz3_J64/s3088/IMG_5481.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqDiiFftEXD7DyPkVuwwan3ZMToH5ZDYFfKOD0O6H-sG0TXWxQ74FPC6gsl-QdJzkf6cIKGctc3Em1sUYTpwVnsAk8hNYvt47w60rplaWlTQM2BigeHTzHoBvOSOBvxK9Gy_6-ewhjjgORTyi_Wz7BHuZwV0JapObVbWh5HXDJ9xLEkZjFJ5btRz3_J64/s320/IMG_5481.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice Italian Leather Coat</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I realized that this was not a legit deal, and I told him I was not interested, but he continued, trying to convince me it was a good deal. By now I was just getting annoyed and had enough of the fellow, so I said I was leaving.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Obviously annoyed he said “Ok!”, took the $50 and handed me the winter coat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I took the coat and got out of his car.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now earlier I had explained to him that to get to the airport he had to turn right and go up Yonge St, but he turned left, back downtown. I guess he wasn’t really headed to the airport.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back home I tried on the cat and it really is a very nice one and fit well, so a pretty good deal for $50. Searching the Internet I discovered that this is a popular scam in many cities all over the world, but most of the people commented that they were charged $150 or more, so I did not do too bad and the exact same coat is available online for $250 o<br />n discount sites, and one was advertised for $6000, but that was somehow connected to Ferrari Automobiles, so probably not an accurate price. I’m not sure if they are stolen or just knock-offs, but I now have a nice new Italian leather winter coat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com1Davisville Village, Toronto, ON, Canada43.704308999999988 -79.38851615.394075163821142 -114.544766 72.014542836178833 -44.232265999999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-70051806206718468712023-11-28T12:24:00.000-08:002023-11-28T12:24:41.202-08:00Christmas Trees<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back in Nova Scotia, I was always a bit of a Christmas Grinch, not putting up a Christmas tree or turning on the outdoor lights until December 1st, but here in Toronto, they start Christmas right after Halloween, and since we are coming to Nova Scotia in the middle of December for Christmas, I relented and put up a tree and lights in the condo window in November.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, after suffering through a few days with a Toronto cold I went out into the Toronto cold and went for a Christmas tree walk. I few days earlier I had noticed that many of the large offices buildings, malls, and banks had decorated their lobbies with tall Christmas trees and today I went in search of some of them to photograph.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back in Dartmouth we have the famous “Woody the Talking Christmas Tree”, and although I have not found any talking trees, there are some pretty impressive ones around the downtown area. An eight kilometre random walk around the neighbourhood unearthed over 20 large Christmas trees and I know there are lots more to be found.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCevUAmKsB-30m-StyqnJh4P2xtoOPYXg1Im6AaJBWLeBFPHJ6PJe-Q2Sza-cB5v1ZtlkDcFRYXK7OetL0RrLCJjfUuK3j3LDAbwrOkDWxrncmrxW8EPMX68ju7fhqOek3opL7ivKescny1liFcDC8PUe20piJXhTN81qmGSbwFKn0q22okfV2YHu3HCg/s4032/IMG_5350.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC6GM-J0_g16hD1uGVhgD9j3f5FpuNAFOMwate2UgbIg4TrUMG7Gz4G7HSXcwObCdMzjQjc4L5QQQR9axNDTY1alCr2XbUTIMx4VaJB-o9pGt3JaIIZLD1Lr4kfo5RDKvkUdFAhUtovGsPUmmKAFRZLV_zlKo9rjzk6e8gxoh0cewhT-X-NK9rbGFBbZ8/s4032/IMG_5369.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC6GM-J0_g16hD1uGVhgD9j3f5FpuNAFOMwate2UgbIg4TrUMG7Gz4G7HSXcwObCdMzjQjc4L5QQQR9axNDTY1alCr2XbUTIMx4VaJB-o9pGt3JaIIZLD1Lr4kfo5RDKvkUdFAhUtovGsPUmmKAFRZLV_zlKo9rjzk6e8gxoh0cewhT-X-NK9rbGFBbZ8/w480-h640/IMG_5369.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Commerce Court West Building</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcaVsKNvtAN8SsWUMei6bK2MjNF5dDQaN__sF6IOACPX4LHtYKTjIxrL4jB4mnKOT1qiXdkqQpM2K-wHSeunYcp_w1hWEvCY6vNK36HmPBKhf0k7v7i9q5pwU_PNK8EGe16Yo88T_S0qZmrARbp8qWmhjqNobXNS6cD0kmXTApoChvDEu3TZavDbdbe4U/s4032/IMG_5374.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcaVsKNvtAN8SsWUMei6bK2MjNF5dDQaN__sF6IOACPX4LHtYKTjIxrL4jB4mnKOT1qiXdkqQpM2K-wHSeunYcp_w1hWEvCY6vNK36HmPBKhf0k7v7i9q5pwU_PNK8EGe16Yo88T_S0qZmrARbp8qWmhjqNobXNS6cD0kmXTApoChvDEu3TZavDbdbe4U/w480-h640/IMG_5374.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royal Bank Plaza Bay St.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRyUHGxJ6EP7GJM0fqMilc7bGx70LJMCh2mEQdFnbwUBdnEb_fU2uO6Codd1gVXB73P99drVN91YP8eA5PBj-nSXKSJfcoYQsKHcKjlVR5QCsyFNl__fJeiJOlg5-SBAc3Jylpoy6RRDuWEJrty9iuMh_3RZWwhT84Kam28PoK11T2uyXc5b-MFcC9os/s4032/IMG_5376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRyUHGxJ6EP7GJM0fqMilc7bGx70LJMCh2mEQdFnbwUBdnEb_fU2uO6Codd1gVXB73P99drVN91YP8eA5PBj-nSXKSJfcoYQsKHcKjlVR5QCsyFNl__fJeiJOlg5-SBAc3Jylpoy6RRDuWEJrty9iuMh_3RZWwhT84Kam28PoK11T2uyXc5b-MFcC9os/w480-h640/IMG_5376.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TD South Tower Wellington St.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojNJ3iZjmnPegEWVo6KC0ih5gNIDjDTuZ8rP2VlQ1z4wFgs5U0xlQdse3I8I48MNpK0sdxKN6RqLOOf_eTbYwNJGtUNn3Y3br_ewokZWZzREiI0GgWbBrHN5GfZz4BhaMv7tUskLNCAyePgjbW89_kNosRC2IFnLgTNFrt6-bQaHE5SjoDJgocNNz7Ag/s4032/IMG_5378.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNEIO1dCOXDC_Hybt52spWZoDjLqdzlpejeT_2NceWjfa5yGv5m2yMyCy__M0lRK41ymRpOtU66eRFoj3FTQZfu48bwdA6LBF-qhL_C5quQv1Cpg7ulM2QXAUcflBwJQrLOIoI-prxnVJV4_nF3uh-665kqXxhkc26D1Wi9XVDitqTf46qXG9Yg5MGiVM/s4032/IMG_5384.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNEIO1dCOXDC_Hybt52spWZoDjLqdzlpejeT_2NceWjfa5yGv5m2yMyCy__M0lRK41ymRpOtU66eRFoj3FTQZfu48bwdA6LBF-qhL_C5quQv1Cpg7ulM2QXAUcflBwJQrLOIoI-prxnVJV4_nF3uh-665kqXxhkc26D1Wi9XVDitqTf46qXG9Yg5MGiVM/w480-h640/IMG_5384.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DBRS Tower University Avenue</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUii7fCs-YXx2Iy-zAZo2Kd5f2M0lhjffln7e7kf9tSczep16lJ02ftD1L1O28xJvo8oMDPRVOQaYDApAhoAMdyPTRN85ywS1N7bYtufuJNNc7iGKjmJeyytjjvvgQCQvseIWXu3elHHoYIFQcj3GtnIW94jVCxmJ4hfai85d_FQ35Iid74W7ylY_dk7M/s4032/IMG_5390.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUii7fCs-YXx2Iy-zAZo2Kd5f2M0lhjffln7e7kf9tSczep16lJ02ftD1L1O28xJvo8oMDPRVOQaYDApAhoAMdyPTRN85ywS1N7bYtufuJNNc7iGKjmJeyytjjvvgQCQvseIWXu3elHHoYIFQcj3GtnIW94jVCxmJ4hfai85d_FQ35Iid74W7ylY_dk7M/w480-h640/IMG_5390.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Double Tree by Hilton Hotel</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJflWC_FwsHPEjs2W5lqevFA0GDHXPBsU0jPRrf4nw_m1f_XSRhoYRu8gyH6iFnptZVicG-JYXVEwm-M3pVjnNBrGvdN8fsYeVlp_oVuGn21bJOMMo7wJO6DvhlPq8uqZI3ErpNt48rx-6D-EOcrdrnXTwCqHsXzPLFodHSItmYi6pVFP1lihscRZkEZs/s4032/IMG_5392.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJflWC_FwsHPEjs2W5lqevFA0GDHXPBsU0jPRrf4nw_m1f_XSRhoYRu8gyH6iFnptZVicG-JYXVEwm-M3pVjnNBrGvdN8fsYeVlp_oVuGn21bJOMMo7wJO6DvhlPq8uqZI3ErpNt48rx-6D-EOcrdrnXTwCqHsXzPLFodHSItmYi6pVFP1lihscRZkEZs/w480-h640/IMG_5392.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collage Park Shopping Centre</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrvpcm8tWhniD30ZdHRGVhumGcGWbsam_1orBtD_c2cYnrZsxHIU_H7BM4eytFImfgVLd1iGzZGqL915k5fZe83_NJ6YPmGasG0YA1jKav_pdpfPICLyb_mIOs34HET2Z8gT5tuaHpR40itpxkT1ZrOG2BBY-Be4YTTsKbs5oGyV6YlqQcRbl3erU6pE/s4032/IMG_5394.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrvpcm8tWhniD30ZdHRGVhumGcGWbsam_1orBtD_c2cYnrZsxHIU_H7BM4eytFImfgVLd1iGzZGqL915k5fZe83_NJ6YPmGasG0YA1jKav_pdpfPICLyb_mIOs34HET2Z8gT5tuaHpR40itpxkT1ZrOG2BBY-Be4YTTsKbs5oGyV6YlqQcRbl3erU6pE/w480-h640/IMG_5394.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maple Leaf Gardens Loblaws</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><p></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-18277989741733416012023-11-22T13:33:00.000-08:002023-11-22T13:33:13.996-08:00Go to Jail . . . Do not use GO<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BnK-LXvMn2SBnRy2fGVn5BS0zMjXMEkbuIKXgCrzve0tlLlTz5VNlDVZ0Nn8o2BmA-86YZF8itmVRkJAGIDYeKvL-1_EamGvPAVJP6v0e-YaJIwqv0SoUOoodlKcumLWsLpM0z2EnC3iKtGEcGzunpA3-4A969iY_jaIsasTswAmD3U77OAR5EHZLxk/s277/111%20Places.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="182" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BnK-LXvMn2SBnRy2fGVn5BS0zMjXMEkbuIKXgCrzve0tlLlTz5VNlDVZ0Nn8o2BmA-86YZF8itmVRkJAGIDYeKvL-1_EamGvPAVJP6v0e-YaJIwqv0SoUOoodlKcumLWsLpM0z2EnC3iKtGEcGzunpA3-4A969iY_jaIsasTswAmD3U77OAR5EHZLxk/w131-h200/111%20Places.jpeg" width="131" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I am always looking for interesting things to do here in Toronto, so when we found a book entitled “<i>111 Places in Toronto That You Must Not Miss</i>” we bought it and started using it to find things to do. I was actually quite surprised at how many of the 111 places we had already seen. We have 26 places noted already but that still leaves plenty to go find.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We found three places in the same area not far away so decided to go find these three to add to the list. One was the Old Don Jail which was a nice walk through the Riverdale farm and across the Aqueduct over the Don River so we decided to go and do a self guided tour of the Jail, find a really good coffee shop and a bakery known for their “Best in Toronto” butter tarts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJqQv4uP9P-2d5J6BLw2c6qgAEwbWx7AWoTvLHLOva1cHzW1dTL6WLBrkyYAhsEBk-EoNgBnRXwxzQZueBvk34o0CDkv7BqIP04_b-iEu-JUbPzPmna7nsRs9AB2XD0R7uby2VqB95UqjA0oOJ_M0uiWKeHRZYsLkKlVqAwupg9Jq5lROPKOdqybt548Y/s4032/IMG_5324.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJqQv4uP9P-2d5J6BLw2c6qgAEwbWx7AWoTvLHLOva1cHzW1dTL6WLBrkyYAhsEBk-EoNgBnRXwxzQZueBvk34o0CDkv7BqIP04_b-iEu-JUbPzPmna7nsRs9AB2XD0R7uby2VqB95UqjA0oOJ_M0uiWKeHRZYsLkKlVqAwupg9Jq5lROPKOdqybt548Y/s320/IMG_5324.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Don Jail</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Old Don Jail had been converted to the Administrative offices for a medical centre but it sounded like they allowed self guided tours of the building. However, when we got there the building was locked up tight and a notice on the door said tours were cancelled. We did get to see the building from the outside and it is an impressive structure. The front is ornately decorated, but the back still has the look of a large prison and many of the windows retain the heavy bars used to keep the “bad guys”locked away. It was nice that the building has been repurposed rather than being torn down, and according to the guide book, although most of the interior has been renovated, some of the old cells were kept intact and the exterior has been retained. Pity the poor junior clerk who discovers his office is one of the retained cells.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74mN9xl3sIaD1LrfmPRcFWk_ygkjQo_PcYeKlPhkzEepBPh5TtKgQGp9tRhAGbjoVL_u6-ALrLfHbBZtbnEe-TCZ5x-lvtPOxBS8l2TmBwxL5k5lsewKUo_1L4oZvQapdWoosI_Sd_gSkIZlwhRlN-kLtDEZhyphenhyphencYJZEYykBWNPZLDrOHOUINz72wyk-E/s4032/IMG_5322.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74mN9xl3sIaD1LrfmPRcFWk_ygkjQo_PcYeKlPhkzEepBPh5TtKgQGp9tRhAGbjoVL_u6-ALrLfHbBZtbnEe-TCZ5x-lvtPOxBS8l2TmBwxL5k5lsewKUo_1L4oZvQapdWoosI_Sd_gSkIZlwhRlN-kLtDEZhyphenhyphencYJZEYykBWNPZLDrOHOUINz72wyk-E/w640-h480/IMG_5322.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8GsIIh9Zju96HXzPn3kzAYlB-QZ8R_MVB00IyCH0uf6xxWHGCjwOwip9xRpZdE2iyVqqJzTMbyUqDRxrYoOOuRCKP0k-dywn_Ol34xYjjNy7RHSshutBDv25mOs8Eelo98KuDknK8Q-YOJRAje2d5-AmPy1pyUMy0ZOP-NZpoQ6Z09N9RCbI1lo9Lgo/s4032/IMG_5321.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8GsIIh9Zju96HXzPn3kzAYlB-QZ8R_MVB00IyCH0uf6xxWHGCjwOwip9xRpZdE2iyVqqJzTMbyUqDRxrYoOOuRCKP0k-dywn_Ol34xYjjNy7RHSshutBDv25mOs8Eelo98KuDknK8Q-YOJRAje2d5-AmPy1pyUMy0ZOP-NZpoQ6Z09N9RCbI1lo9Lgo/w640-h480/IMG_5321.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The back looks more "Jail" like</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZEjRgDU-slA1ynbMhWS7Em-2ERJeN0Ze7dn2qJnjU8Xe-v0kJgMfw7m1YOkMnvwS5gW6097wxG8PZoOeA2eDV1MyNu6P8sfSym47koadioV0qYSt1QU72QR5HMgimuvq-0BO9KCJObRWW3ldNSNB3b2s1wt2Y1d8bFiC_a2dEIfPwOiDtPH2Pe3zrNQ/s4032/IMG_5327.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZEjRgDU-slA1ynbMhWS7Em-2ERJeN0Ze7dn2qJnjU8Xe-v0kJgMfw7m1YOkMnvwS5gW6097wxG8PZoOeA2eDV1MyNu6P8sfSym47koadioV0qYSt1QU72QR5HMgimuvq-0BO9KCJObRWW3ldNSNB3b2s1wt2Y1d8bFiC_a2dEIfPwOiDtPH2Pe3zrNQ/s320/IMG_5327.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rooster's Coffee</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;">A walk through Riverdale Park East took us past a statue of Dr. Sun Yet-Sen (I will let you google who he is) to the Rooster Coffee Shop, a nice little cafe overlooking the park which apparently serves some of the best brews in the city and excellent views of the Toronto skyline.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From there we walked down into Chinatown East to find Andrea’s Gerard St bakery which was reputed to serve really good butter tarts. Now Regis makes really good butter tarts herself, so we had to buy a couple to test them out, and they also had some interesting empanadas. Back home, Regis even had to admit that they really were excellent butter tarts.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And as for that title . . . we did not actually go to Jail, and we did not have to take the GO train to get there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0Riverdale Park West, 375 Sumach St, Toronto, ON M4X 1B8, Canada43.6657147 -79.358856115.355480863821157 -114.5151061 71.975948536178848 -44.2026061tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-7090174106600822662023-11-17T14:13:00.000-08:002023-11-17T14:13:58.560-08:00Garden Car Update<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Well it turned out that Google does not always know the answer . . . .</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When we could not find the Kensington Market Garden Car, I came home and asked Google about it and I was told that a new car was going to be installed in a few days. So when my daughter was visiting and wanted to go shopping in the area, I decided to go take pictures of the “New” garden car. But the corner it is supposed to sit on was still empty, so this time we did the smart thing and went into a local shop and asked about the car.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Turns out that they remove the flower and plant filled car very year because it impedes snow removal and they do not put another one in until spring. You know . . . that makes sense, since nothing is going to grow in the soil the car is filled with until spring anyway. Take it away when winter is threatening and put a nice “new” old car there on the corner in the spring. I guess still another trip to Kensington Market will be scheduled for next spring. Perhaps that is not such a bad strategy at all; it did get me to turn one visit into three.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So instead of pictures of the Kensington Market car, I turned my attention to the really spectacular street art in the neighbourhood. As you walk through the busy streets in the Market you see vibrant street art decorating buildings and back alleys. Here are some of the best examples.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJJIKy3lRGcQppu2Y2iCl5GsJVYZ1lkwOkQ4Jl2xr5ZKgRTpzh6k0fgh0Se-BR6r0mnPcncgNxwWcO4nl4zvGKOehbXyrsH7fzVaiZoFtlljOkr3KxsRk1ieygftc7zr9sn3YadufyqEpI1oTOf6IilHH4HhKBLH-aeUpc9DWD0Ss3ukgf5orfeURNfM4/s4032/01E082E4-B47C-49CB-A368-2BC91BE0119C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXF-nt9iVCUVxPv1sxRty_peEvZy6Wkp_e7u-qLGNRsbgqQ2Oxc__yw2yb-f4VioTAJgwyqzvNewLxqVK9dblVp68beX6kf5h8RyStyf-cqpYxopVYeAhoflv-GyAp6jYSdWBDbPIRqLOQsEx6kuLbjAJSjR8q7SjzHzhvSTnsA4rYM9tnzIoBW2UaoQ/s4032/F2595D03-3910-455A-B274-2539C63AB2BA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXF-nt9iVCUVxPv1sxRty_peEvZy6Wkp_e7u-qLGNRsbgqQ2Oxc__yw2yb-f4VioTAJgwyqzvNewLxqVK9dblVp68beX6kf5h8RyStyf-cqpYxopVYeAhoflv-GyAp6jYSdWBDbPIRqLOQsEx6kuLbjAJSjR8q7SjzHzhvSTnsA4rYM9tnzIoBW2UaoQ/w640-h480/F2595D03-3910-455A-B274-2539C63AB2BA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This entire building was decorated in this design</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0Kensington Market, Toronto, ON M5T, Canada43.6545236 -79.401456615.344289763821152 -114.5577066 71.964757436178843 -44.2452066tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-32177938066000466532023-11-11T08:18:00.000-08:002023-11-11T08:18:30.674-08:00Where is the Kensington Garden Car?<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjddxB6FZNnQKCUmEksVci8SguvWIZgpALxxMHFQA4Hv8eqMmRDfddIIEKjSuuBVssj-Z5mFcniMPOh1okaYLcIKVREbL4m_DVQKMqITln9u7E2lMhY2WVGH203yk7D1r86xpCOCCggr6-NY0ZEG5JgSJZRyABkM52c8L1pgk4EzbQVEXuZrsRjngus9Mk/s4032/583055DB-B772-431C-B96D-D7E971130FC4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjddxB6FZNnQKCUmEksVci8SguvWIZgpALxxMHFQA4Hv8eqMmRDfddIIEKjSuuBVssj-Z5mFcniMPOh1okaYLcIKVREbL4m_DVQKMqITln9u7E2lMhY2WVGH203yk7D1r86xpCOCCggr6-NY0ZEG5JgSJZRyABkM52c8L1pgk4EzbQVEXuZrsRjngus9Mk/s320/583055DB-B772-431C-B96D-D7E971130FC4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />One of Toronto’s nicknames is “the 6”. Apparently this name comes from the original six neighbourhoods that made up the city, but it might also come from the two original area codes used for Toronto, 416 and 647, or it is possible it is called “the 6” because Drake used the term in one of his songs. There are no longer only six neighbourhoods, there are many many different areas; Little Italy, Little Portugal, Yorkville, Cabbage Town, The garden District, two different Chinatowns, and many more. One of these neighbourhoods within walking distance of our condo is Kensington Market, and we decided to go explore this area of the city the other day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiztELgqt4RiM8uw68cbX8gExYpMwOSKuu9xbf9MkdkVP0SldMVf1HqEdnZBlAE7xenMaIq8pDocFnFcro02Q5Dl4msSu4ONWVlvJoFFARkVosm5Byp90Qf2bHrKVCoSQ77TG-wfrY9GdYQoQl13Npp4iYbP5CRV79p3XRhNnJDFqWmM8fvaAZ4JPWCg9Y/s4032/EDEF3313-7785-489C-8144-E3481F9745B5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiztELgqt4RiM8uw68cbX8gExYpMwOSKuu9xbf9MkdkVP0SldMVf1HqEdnZBlAE7xenMaIq8pDocFnFcro02Q5Dl4msSu4ONWVlvJoFFARkVosm5Byp90Qf2bHrKVCoSQ77TG-wfrY9GdYQoQl13Npp4iYbP5CRV79p3XRhNnJDFqWmM8fvaAZ4JPWCg9Y/w200-h150/EDEF3313-7785-489C-8144-E3481F9745B5.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had heard that there was a derelict car in Kensington that had been filled with dirt and used as a flower planter. It was called the “Kensington Garden Car”, and it sounded to me like a good photo opportunity, so I researched it and located it on Google Maps. Sounded like a good focus for a walk on a nice sunny fall day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8T49j6AOlhWlJsWoEwwicakV_oRjBJURraVOiknVAgM7OIoxAFLGVujGsQhJ_gEnRcMo4u6KQcClV7YZqXotpJ8qNUSTZ0RiyO6H2PmuFuBEws6ZMiBNW-9Z86LSiG4l0j1NbpoJuIRAr19cI-KoOzgXHeGGv-QORns0si9jqaVRmF2tChAdM_Uv9iHE" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8T49j6AOlhWlJsWoEwwicakV_oRjBJURraVOiknVAgM7OIoxAFLGVujGsQhJ_gEnRcMo4u6KQcClV7YZqXotpJ8qNUSTZ0RiyO6H2PmuFuBEws6ZMiBNW-9Z86LSiG4l0j1NbpoJuIRAr19cI-KoOzgXHeGGv-QORns0si9jqaVRmF2tChAdM_Uv9iHE" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the car that I did not see</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kensington Market runs from Spadina Ave. to Bathurst St. east/west and Collage St. to Dundas St., north/south, composing a square of about 20 city blocks. Originally this neighbourhood was an affordable area that attracted immigrants who were new to the city, but it developed into a trendy area with lots of little shops and restaurants. Kensington is interesting in that it has largely resisted the trend towards tearing down the old to build high-rises, and it still has a lot of the original buildings. Many of the immigrants who moved in, converted the street levels of their homes into businesses where the family lived over the shops and restaurants, and the commercial areas of Kensington retains this design. The building have been modified and added to but you can usually still see the original structures underneath. The result really is a very cool neighbourhood that was fun to explore.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPOxzmLHE0mMYbdB5P3J9smY7omV7HOHEtBZ9HRqGm2D-m0wdgA-jQcA_UNDicHhdyP9TjBrLtrTaa8MyW7SRbHQ1O6Zj0RFEtO1AoGUSpDn3sVEmWuKF7qEmu3cAL7-P2YfmiT_YNIDEoPWSSYvdz5Tpn1Ie61_N7nfZBPuc0Dw8H9NEqqONwdrl7faQ/s4032/FD06CE0E-EEDE-409E-90D4-BCD7BE6BE796.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPOxzmLHE0mMYbdB5P3J9smY7omV7HOHEtBZ9HRqGm2D-m0wdgA-jQcA_UNDicHhdyP9TjBrLtrTaa8MyW7SRbHQ1O6Zj0RFEtO1AoGUSpDn3sVEmWuKF7qEmu3cAL7-P2YfmiT_YNIDEoPWSSYvdz5Tpn1Ie61_N7nfZBPuc0Dw8H9NEqqONwdrl7faQ/s320/FD06CE0E-EEDE-409E-90D4-BCD7BE6BE796.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of different styles here</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But, although I had it mapped on Google and I knew the exact corner it was supposed to sit on, I could not find the Kensington Garden Car. There was no sign of it. I finally gave up and found many other interesting things to photograph. Back home I asked Google, “What happened to the Kensington Garden Car?”. Google informed me that the car had been removed this week and a new car was being installed tomorrow. I was informed that this would be the third garden car and had become such an attraction that the neighbourhood planned to continue with the tradition, I just missed it by a day. I guess it will mean another trip to Kensington Market.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeVEOS7hJ68JqPSHfB6GmC19cq2sr3gq3bBiYns73_qcQ9WLn3YouCNEVyLEQ7374VBWfO1QusJf-tCeQaH3jHrd65ZuKJDEUy06n_yCd_XAqTyF6aK6N21x0awXZoYmDWCyw-agFOCLw9a7IqXvki4j8Hv_P9FuvrMWLuFwR1zaQRkGQjHE1vvnps9sY/s4032/1D67ECFE-181F-4986-8C7A-F14CCA3287FA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeVEOS7hJ68JqPSHfB6GmC19cq2sr3gq3bBiYns73_qcQ9WLn3YouCNEVyLEQ7374VBWfO1QusJf-tCeQaH3jHrd65ZuKJDEUy06n_yCd_XAqTyF6aK6N21x0awXZoYmDWCyw-agFOCLw9a7IqXvki4j8Hv_P9FuvrMWLuFwR1zaQRkGQjHE1vvnps9sY/w640-h480/1D67ECFE-181F-4986-8C7A-F14CCA3287FA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrfc2hjEggtjuCtqCh7uS1Jq0EesLjkohzspup2WdeRvdtZcCEiPc1hUk4WHmecvskqVTir7Y2NDlpuV7V4jwUmLimMktWnEn1dTifHHy_KpsC_ucCRGv6Oj9PqEfRDxeCjcJoB0TaPP3pp4MbiAk8ryB1476LH8p1dvI3UkFLDAoIE4tOxPDTAf8EVE/s4032/406618BC-7FCF-4BD6-A545-03FABC55C6C1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrfc2hjEggtjuCtqCh7uS1Jq0EesLjkohzspup2WdeRvdtZcCEiPc1hUk4WHmecvskqVTir7Y2NDlpuV7V4jwUmLimMktWnEn1dTifHHy_KpsC_ucCRGv6Oj9PqEfRDxeCjcJoB0TaPP3pp4MbiAk8ryB1476LH8p1dvI3UkFLDAoIE4tOxPDTAf8EVE/s320/406618BC-7FCF-4BD6-A545-03FABC55C6C1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sharing the bench with a statue</td></tr></tbody></table><br />When I spent a couple of months in China just after I retired, I had time to explore the city of Suzhou where I was living and I discovered interesting <a href="https://ondragonhill.blogspot.com/2009/04/suzhou-sculpture.html"><span class="s1" style="color: #21ffff;">sculptures</span></a> all over the city. I was intrigued because most of them had no explanation of what they were all about or why they were installed. Since then I have begun noticing city sculptures wherever I am.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I wrote another post featuring sculptures in <a href="https://ondragonhill.blogspot.com/2017/04/street-sculpture.html"><span class="s2">Florida</span></a> as well, but I have collected photos of city sculptures from all over the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji2h0CKUsN-rr_SCn0ZXdP03mH_a1mHOE2yOgFzlns5hoMqIJK0h2BZcAQkA3A2YBfZX69r1KddR34Ywe3lClwPV9P9-4EQARJ4pabt60OuEHIZ38Gh5386Zz9tw8x63n-cCPSk_UeA7i9A4PdnUq5y_IHdWOwvIVh8tu8sO02nxOo7h3r1cDsK1Dze8/s4032/A3449A0D-32A7-46BE-9E0E-FAF811A6525B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji2h0CKUsN-rr_SCn0ZXdP03mH_a1mHOE2yOgFzlns5hoMqIJK0h2BZcAQkA3A2YBfZX69r1KddR34Ywe3lClwPV9P9-4EQARJ4pabt60OuEHIZ38Gh5386Zz9tw8x63n-cCPSk_UeA7i9A4PdnUq5y_IHdWOwvIVh8tu8sO02nxOo7h3r1cDsK1Dze8/s320/A3449A0D-32A7-46BE-9E0E-FAF811A6525B.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Queen is under there</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;">Here in Toronto I have collected quite a few interesting sculpture photos during my wanderings around the city. Here, most of the statues and art installations do have some descriptions of what they are about and the artist is usually given credit for their work. Some of the sculptures are to honour some respected historical figure but many are simply decorations for buildings here in the city. Yesterday during a walk around Queen’s Square in Downtown, we came across an unveiling of a new sculpture in front of the provincial legislature. The statue itself was covered in an elegant cloth waiting for the reveal, but I later heard that it was a new statue honouring Queen Elizabeth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are a few of the sculptures I have found so far during my time here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ogde_sbbIjhUVJOFQx7lgbdetj0SIQGXn5amFM22N2zVrfZpisokmhV_XyNYfcUnD8VFR4odx7LK25fsOlHWmwXkdjuI6RERw8vnTUqHcVLfIRm-h6mOSfslcg_p_hyphenhyphen389SX3xw29EU0a_mYLk3SXI75_hjNHOEa1l0cvElB8T8PMwbnMwPsI3RqcQY/w640-h480/E25561FA-F90A-490D-AFCF-B836B3C3B71D.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space">These last sculptures decorates our condo complex. They were being installed a few years ago when Ryan & Ben bought the condo. They are stainless steel pieces and are installed outside and inside the two buildings in the RadioCity complex. I recently discovered that they were designed to represent segments of the original CBC broadcast tower which once stood on the site; thus the name "RadioCity". </span></span><p></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com1Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-56480733673534611522023-10-28T08:38:00.001-07:002023-10-28T08:38:25.504-07:00Halloween in Hallowed Halls<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAftDGvsO0t13qoBl6_CsX9qsecf_RmVWtSX8h8dsGgRegFxriz9jLAz5h3BFrkvL2uoHJqWwV9p2m-tsSDlvYj4kuMaQwtql7CJwWN-lkE2fUfphjPS0NTcZOMdnpanYnTgsJzFWwmrDaNN1w2BhexfwNwJDylzvBLw7VrLKwnGx1GpLNKCB4NFFCOQ/s4032/308BA413-155E-4F3F-9A8E-5AB4C9672EB3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAftDGvsO0t13qoBl6_CsX9qsecf_RmVWtSX8h8dsGgRegFxriz9jLAz5h3BFrkvL2uoHJqWwV9p2m-tsSDlvYj4kuMaQwtql7CJwWN-lkE2fUfphjPS0NTcZOMdnpanYnTgsJzFWwmrDaNN1w2BhexfwNwJDylzvBLw7VrLKwnGx1GpLNKCB4NFFCOQ/s320/308BA413-155E-4F3F-9A8E-5AB4C9672EB3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Last night we went to a concert that was held in a neighbourhood church. The concert was part of a series of Candlelight concerts held all over the world in churches and concert halls. These musical performances are performed in darkened facilities lit with just hundreds of candles. Of course the candles are the new battery powered ones not actual wax candles with real flames. The stage is surrounded by literally hundreds of these candles and once the audience is seated and settled the lights in the building are dimmed and the candles provide the only light. It must have been quite the job setting up and turning all the candles on; I’m surprised the series is not sponsored by Energizer because they must go through a lot of batteries.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCi4CTX50X0rr7S1fKj8_I6KZKeuTrwK956B4lDIlHKCa0WLPhh6W109OnqhNJ8HHPrfJAAqBsnZ-ZdUeNA6Lguay_fdMnsXJKWRy4iNlbUYCG3LyGc8bRQulRmq6fgIXpl4MzgZui1egv4SGFGZOcf4B8K1bUu_RAVu_QHTN98tVG3a9QgNxeYuIT4C4/s4032/A80F8A94-B564-44BD-84C2-7A8D155744F7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCi4CTX50X0rr7S1fKj8_I6KZKeuTrwK956B4lDIlHKCa0WLPhh6W109OnqhNJ8HHPrfJAAqBsnZ-ZdUeNA6Lguay_fdMnsXJKWRy4iNlbUYCG3LyGc8bRQulRmq6fgIXpl4MzgZui1egv4SGFGZOcf4B8K1bUu_RAVu_QHTN98tVG3a9QgNxeYuIT4C4/s320/A80F8A94-B564-44BD-84C2-7A8D155744F7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The concert we attended was a Halloween special featuring spooky songs played by a string quartet. Songs included “Thriller”, the theme from “Psycho”, and the “Ghostbuster” theme among other halloween themed music. With the candles providing the only illumination, the music was front and centre; you could see the musicians, but the darkness caused you to listen to the music more than watch the concert.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The event was held in a beautiful old church and the quartet was set up surrounded by candles in the front of the church with a massive pipe organ dimly visible behind them. It created a really appropriate setting for the music. The experience was a unique and very enjoyable evening that I can highly recommend if the series comes to your city.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can listen to the music on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EnujgmnoAyAIZ1AOT0iY9?si=56c28ab9881e4523"><span class="s1">Spotify</span></a> from a playlist I created from the concert’s program. I tested this ink and it should open your Spotify app if you subscribe to Spotify or it will open the Spotify website and invite you to get a free account.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Don’t get too frightened by the music. . . . . .</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDOmWmumGCB5REh-qPc-lfqpTIvRcZKNPF3t1i3u_XkJrcPn0E1OyOvxrUqfPOmkLW28Q37q_hOrxvRzTLxdC8VwC_9Fhu4DPwJPE_NKEpwMBov25Jge4lO8aWQ9CY1Veb5_tIStwg4liK1YAo7UOGXwmUZxJlY1y-8025R6mPuAMcypf3TEyYuZRxnE/s4032/77060C4E-C8E9-4AAB-8B5E-E6CF7E258CEF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDOmWmumGCB5REh-qPc-lfqpTIvRcZKNPF3t1i3u_XkJrcPn0E1OyOvxrUqfPOmkLW28Q37q_hOrxvRzTLxdC8VwC_9Fhu4DPwJPE_NKEpwMBov25Jge4lO8aWQ9CY1Veb5_tIStwg4liK1YAo7UOGXwmUZxJlY1y-8025R6mPuAMcypf3TEyYuZRxnE/s320/77060C4E-C8E9-4AAB-8B5E-E6CF7E258CEF.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fall colours and a bit of rain</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Although there are plenty of things to do here in Downtown Toronto, my Alfa Club drive through the countryside got me interested in venturing out to see more of the fall colours north of the city. I had received a suggested tour of Muskoka that went around Muskoka lake and visited towns around the lake from an e-mail newsletter, so we decided to borrow our son’s car and go and see just what this Muskoka place was all about.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now I had heard about Muskoka from people who had been there or had heard of<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIwC-Y-Hu2MePbwMKE2Kv0TuiqSFiafHnxH-Z7FgayAym3jXXxif0u6GCMq8-cSAwvCbEqzJqYrz8xXx4GKMm70iZiKB_dEaOi7Gjk2BlG6Xb043p3L6PPh1vQ26NMPNe7u2SHdm0x0K7vGV4RGbB8Qv6b6QrHEBerqI5FGY98rxiI9_QvN8xi1Vs0REI/s4032/BD6523F5-8BAA-4A0C-B12E-F89DE5C5EAF9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIwC-Y-Hu2MePbwMKE2Kv0TuiqSFiafHnxH-Z7FgayAym3jXXxif0u6GCMq8-cSAwvCbEqzJqYrz8xXx4GKMm70iZiKB_dEaOi7Gjk2BlG6Xb043p3L6PPh1vQ26NMPNe7u2SHdm0x0K7vGV4RGbB8Qv6b6QrHEBerqI5FGY98rxiI9_QvN8xi1Vs0REI/s320/BD6523F5-8BAA-4A0C-B12E-F89DE5C5EAF9.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hook & Ladder Pub</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> it. My opinion was that it was the ultimate cottage country location; the area that the residents of Toronto and other big cities bought cottages to get away from the city on weekends and vacations; lots of lakes and idilcc water frontage properties. But I also had the impression that the area had been largely taken over by the rich and famous and the cottages were priced in the millions; not at all the “Cape Breton Bungalow” or the <a href="https://ondragonhill.blogspot.com/2011/08/camping.html"><span class="s1">British Columbia “camp”</span></a> I was used to.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9urKdTP_2dfARACPtt2hraDDL3k6IJXZYIiK7gN6OzJTMcSfpmN9LSe08IMEnr63CZ5ys5tfncAZlqhi6EoLs3ae47Wm83Zb2tU2ZIDlUz5twuaC_kRHJNpxnYmszAWbAKjT3mQuGDxVMiy4IZP4npIs8dBt4ukETy1KMFX0_mRd7jRCfHy5geRaUtMg/s4032/82311DDB-FC7E-4A61-B348-756FEA02F881.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9urKdTP_2dfARACPtt2hraDDL3k6IJXZYIiK7gN6OzJTMcSfpmN9LSe08IMEnr63CZ5ys5tfncAZlqhi6EoLs3ae47Wm83Zb2tU2ZIDlUz5twuaC_kRHJNpxnYmszAWbAKjT3mQuGDxVMiy4IZP4npIs8dBt4ukETy1KMFX0_mRd7jRCfHy5geRaUtMg/s320/82311DDB-FC7E-4A61-B348-756FEA02F881.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One f the waterfalls</td></tr></tbody></table><br />As usual, “out of town” meant a long drive and the tour we had planned was around Lake Muskoka, starting in the town of Gravenhurst at the south end of the lake and it was a 90 minute drive just to arrive at the starting point of our two hour fall colour drive. We had timed our outing very well however and the leaves were at their most spectacular, in full red and yellow colour with most trees still full of leaves, so the drive up was actually very rewarding.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Muskoka itself was a bit disappointing. The fall colours were beautiful, but the<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvFMREIc5IUu4tCA9X-514x6NlyDxbtxiDp6McaGNO9VtffLk856gd95NrsTgNeUWwJtHKxWvV1BVijdppELO5RplL0thYlMlyj_okiw9p6bIZ62cZObUlLmsKnFLcQya-NxsbIK6tZNtlnXmR2ujz7By90XjlOQ34dGfxM61U4jKbt7GrjYZqzMElcIk/s4032/D75BF2DA-BC66-4FBA-9703-616F00549A8D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvFMREIc5IUu4tCA9X-514x6NlyDxbtxiDp6McaGNO9VtffLk856gd95NrsTgNeUWwJtHKxWvV1BVijdppELO5RplL0thYlMlyj_okiw9p6bIZ62cZObUlLmsKnFLcQya-NxsbIK6tZNtlnXmR2ujz7By90XjlOQ34dGfxM61U4jKbt7GrjYZqzMElcIk/s320/D75BF2DA-BC66-4FBA-9703-616F00549A8D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The locks were not working</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> cottage country I was expecting was obviously somewhere else. There were lots of very ordinary little cottages in beautiful settings on the lake, but there were also many closed and shuttered businesses, and not just “for the season”, but permanently closed with broken windows, leaking roofs, and yards and parking lots overgrown with weeds and covered in debris. The cottages we saw did not look like million dollar ones, unless the real estate market here is really very overpriced, and the full time locals did not look like they were benefiting from the influx of cottage people every summer. You could see that many of the businesses we passed were geared to the cottage industry with lots of small hardware stores and boat storage facilities full of motorboats put to bed for the winter, but there were also many failed enterprises looking very deserted and sad.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwl6D0Ud7K6jXaYmg1ZLCuJXP5IFEq4W4kVLLIXcUBNUscr0uK4Y_NN_LoaZgiN2uMeU_cuUYVyWvlsGrBUJOIScwwR7-aadrjvgllQF7QPU8S1UePnVc1CRHR4P-ATt_K24xQEEyYJrOeEACvk7y9X52-SFpUPO2aKbGwT3T4Us7h7FRiY0We0UnAUA/s4032/72B62EB0-A397-4F22-8280-6C051E2F0EF5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwl6D0Ud7K6jXaYmg1ZLCuJXP5IFEq4W4kVLLIXcUBNUscr0uK4Y_NN_LoaZgiN2uMeU_cuUYVyWvlsGrBUJOIScwwR7-aadrjvgllQF7QPU8S1UePnVc1CRHR4P-ATt_K24xQEEyYJrOeEACvk7y9X52-SFpUPO2aKbGwT3T4Us7h7FRiY0We0UnAUA/s320/72B62EB0-A397-4F22-8280-6C051E2F0EF5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bracebridge Main St.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Although it was not what I expected, we still had a lovely day exploring Lake Muskoka. We stopped at the Hook & Ladder Pub, a cute little place with a firefighter theme for a delicious pizza for lunch, and then at the Sawdust City Brewery for a drinks and sandwich supper. It rained a bit, but there was also sunshine, and we stopped to photograph a couple of nice waterfalls and to explore the shops in a some of the towns we passed through.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those million dollar cottages were obviously hidden away down side roads away from the curious eyes of “day Trippers” like us.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRX70-C2yeotdeXsu25qEEw9o5881HJtFekTT2w_gCXKuaB-vp6huZe0P2QTQnX0YSQUNMEMbKQ1cBjJEL2atsrAgn89cyLgvCTWKo1LDsYY2dv4wbDXOYRUWXWKfi7qVT8-r3h7VPfmz3uV2qe1TJJH1uC3m3YXXbvAs20e8m1QSbQZAOxr6ng7OYsM/s4032/1B3EECBF-983E-4EF0-AD23-983C0543FBFC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRX70-C2yeotdeXsu25qEEw9o5881HJtFekTT2w_gCXKuaB-vp6huZe0P2QTQnX0YSQUNMEMbKQ1cBjJEL2atsrAgn89cyLgvCTWKo1LDsYY2dv4wbDXOYRUWXWKfi7qVT8-r3h7VPfmz3uV2qe1TJJH1uC3m3YXXbvAs20e8m1QSbQZAOxr6ng7OYsM/w640-h480/1B3EECBF-983E-4EF0-AD23-983C0543FBFC.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Couldn't resist putting in one old car photo</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrfdlcCQRSEllTGyvZtALU9VFwr76EJ3sdNgOHjXEbowR7PziWhCweVCqOA1fvPxtIfh0M6zpS5qwJBLVIm0-Z8bYNVZ2NZue6ax9ysP8nGwLaAq4KZhvFn8WRz_piUJ405n8ozqvU7sO5drDbpk0J5m0xVGTREn93qVkZkvYClByyKZFq8bSLaQ3YQA/s4032/8C179536-B83C-4FB2-9A48-414AF0E46EA1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrfdlcCQRSEllTGyvZtALU9VFwr76EJ3sdNgOHjXEbowR7PziWhCweVCqOA1fvPxtIfh0M6zpS5qwJBLVIm0-Z8bYNVZ2NZue6ax9ysP8nGwLaAq4KZhvFn8WRz_piUJ405n8ozqvU7sO5drDbpk0J5m0xVGTREn93qVkZkvYClByyKZFq8bSLaQ3YQA/w640-h480/8C179536-B83C-4FB2-9A48-414AF0E46EA1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Muskoka Chair</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8T5cwBFbm82l8NUu3SZjnCPWwwXf_01QaodyYOphEhhzX7YMJloTJEaW6D_yne-j-UeEe1PCsoBukhyZpxMR4su2ZNAyXWQ__dRotocdVQG4i-LAwvlKnarGANt5MahugrXvOG05YubyUJ3BNhIwdWq474ZEZbabgbEnr5Mjj8Q34QuTeP5WbbYM_2qA/s4032/0892D0BC-B5D4-4698-B7F0-4D94A6E42925.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8T5cwBFbm82l8NUu3SZjnCPWwwXf_01QaodyYOphEhhzX7YMJloTJEaW6D_yne-j-UeEe1PCsoBukhyZpxMR4su2ZNAyXWQ__dRotocdVQG4i-LAwvlKnarGANt5MahugrXvOG05YubyUJ3BNhIwdWq474ZEZbabgbEnr5Mjj8Q34QuTeP5WbbYM_2qA/w640-h480/0892D0BC-B5D4-4698-B7F0-4D94A6E42925.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muskoka Lake</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqrFVTWWXGNQystGAUnGpCzDYMBOn-dVISB0EBAj33LA_eYiPpk4JWi1Sr5Ur_OQNsqzRvKPkwujgTDysc1eMt8mq1Jl0BD1vvXVGG7KmPlJt325GvlQh5tBBRMugarbUfDirebJcNfjZJ3FVEy8zS-h46fbcZt-pkIwf-HRIbEE9OYibSCFGkbn1fZ0/s4032/1650190D-6284-498E-A5C8-ECA4129FC582.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqrFVTWWXGNQystGAUnGpCzDYMBOn-dVISB0EBAj33LA_eYiPpk4JWi1Sr5Ur_OQNsqzRvKPkwujgTDysc1eMt8mq1Jl0BD1vvXVGG7KmPlJt325GvlQh5tBBRMugarbUfDirebJcNfjZJ3FVEy8zS-h46fbcZt-pkIwf-HRIbEE9OYibSCFGkbn1fZ0/w640-h480/1650190D-6284-498E-A5C8-ECA4129FC582.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNDhCQLB5zh6SHr07Z3M252a3ygtk_1pvUXaXSCh9121k8tOnxDmEwY5djx_3A6SRxaPNq0fDHzTNq_8QXIDKHqrg2aBJ-7vNHjwgDjZx4f15wfaV2NW5lO56Lk9GzvW8xK8iTmmP8gLih202j4br6fepkiZXLL96mCXw4qLGfyhc7yUtKgRUAY7QUyE/s4032/DE6E84BC-C866-4434-B99A-9162502936B9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNDhCQLB5zh6SHr07Z3M252a3ygtk_1pvUXaXSCh9121k8tOnxDmEwY5djx_3A6SRxaPNq0fDHzTNq_8QXIDKHqrg2aBJ-7vNHjwgDjZx4f15wfaV2NW5lO56Lk9GzvW8xK8iTmmP8gLih202j4br6fepkiZXLL96mCXw4qLGfyhc7yUtKgRUAY7QUyE/w640-h480/DE6E84BC-C866-4434-B99A-9162502936B9.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bracebridge waterfalls</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFdvBsrGbGCZjH0dWfXgjfbI1waj9pbkpeYNcnCtPZv3cbC05mV4VoGsIc_I272WUXGyyg4siIBIndnTySgO15zPPD561rqsBMsYwnf8srNAI47p4vfWJ3_zYsbU71by0qJrSmpk-AAw3Fww3x7EzXFiRADUR_ie5eOJ2rjblkhOvAEMzXcp8C1EXEwc/s4032/EB322B91-9688-4EB9-AC44-923A0B63200D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFdvBsrGbGCZjH0dWfXgjfbI1waj9pbkpeYNcnCtPZv3cbC05mV4VoGsIc_I272WUXGyyg4siIBIndnTySgO15zPPD561rqsBMsYwnf8srNAI47p4vfWJ3_zYsbU71by0qJrSmpk-AAw3Fww3x7EzXFiRADUR_ie5eOJ2rjblkhOvAEMzXcp8C1EXEwc/w640-h480/EB322B91-9688-4EB9-AC44-923A0B63200D.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bala Falls</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><p></p>Art.hill@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736184663076488534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180571875009848450.post-63591157969321339592023-10-23T19:50:00.000-07:002023-10-23T19:50:21.770-07:00Caution . . . Construction<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbslF9YRY6KPF_2kDjyKsLJ01gCabhjFkR509a7bayuEmqcxWqspBF2g_i9x-ysw6cx0rYlw8Nh10TfD7gOkRBRuBHYR4xSyWpqdbNVWs2p4tKGnsJ2n0K-OLkb4Ejq0sETqIzJLbMyFTiB2aAhzIROUgUASAwfSs09xcqc9PVLYFe0lvkMrQVnUBjHM/s4032/17866FEC-1DE2-4168-8C57-B89E12EC4DD3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbslF9YRY6KPF_2kDjyKsLJ01gCabhjFkR509a7bayuEmqcxWqspBF2g_i9x-ysw6cx0rYlw8Nh10TfD7gOkRBRuBHYR4xSyWpqdbNVWs2p4tKGnsJ2n0K-OLkb4Ejq0sETqIzJLbMyFTiB2aAhzIROUgUASAwfSs09xcqc9PVLYFe0lvkMrQVnUBjHM/s320/17866FEC-1DE2-4168-8C57-B89E12EC4DD3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful new bridges</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Today was a cold day, but a sunny one, so we decided to continue our waterfront walk. My goal was to go down to the western end of the downtown Toronto waterfront and try to see the new bridges that had been built in Nova Scotia to be installed here to provide better, more attractive access to the Toronto Port Lands. The area itself is actually a bit of a mess with empty lots, heavy industrial, aging grain elevators and piles of “stuff”, mixed with a yacht club and a nice beach park at the end of the road. There is an actual marine port with access for seaway freighters as well as cruise ships, but coming from Halifax with one of the best harbours on the east coast, Toronto’s Port Lands do not look that impressive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwNsmabUBVW328fylJ2atj0KhAFDLT1Or-7lePv6LKUV3wHzWmdu8YGBVoS0TSi_1Gqs9alkiEibTT6pAq7i8BXPg5KO9CjGp3CJQ9HBY3JhFkPqXunROEPWZPCqAlp9ThFyjtmAW-AiU31AAPJnqphBBwPtF10SeZFBR5OyefjLNHWVe78DZnWBk8y_8/s4032/4A3DEA24-275C-46D6-A807-BF075E10BE78.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwNsmabUBVW328fylJ2atj0KhAFDLT1Or-7lePv6LKUV3wHzWmdu8YGBVoS0TSi_1Gqs9alkiEibTT6pAq7i8BXPg5KO9CjGp3CJQ9HBY3JhFkPqXunROEPWZPCqAlp9ThFyjtmAW-AiU31AAPJnqphBBwPtF10SeZFBR5OyefjLNHWVe78DZnWBk8y_8/s320/4A3DEA24-275C-46D6-A807-BF075E10BE78.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking the new bridge</td></tr></tbody></table>There are four of the new bridges being installed but only one is actually installed and being used, while the other three are seriously under construction. Once done, these new bridges will take this rough Industrial area much more attractive, and I assume encourage some more attractive development of the underused areas of the Port Lands. These bridges are elegant attractive structures, providing a vehicle roadway, a two lane bikeway, and a nice wide pedestrian walkway. The bridges are painted white on the exterior and each is a different colour on the inside. They will be a big improvement over the narrow temporary bridge and the old rusty lift bridge. But Really . . . what do you expect from a Nova Scotia product?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh, and there was lots of construction . . . .<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA3IjE1JSkZK_cm18ZjViJix5UgIvfuFsCXhtjm8Zm83Zk-8NSAqBcfQ87gVcBnI3LR_R_AkvdVIj8Ff3kSb5H1f-XirnnmgPeOsvtwXOKL9EzmyrFcYeiH5JpzXH8i9wHBHPNXTFOGG9yUJVq4zFyyY9dq8FYpsjRpvXYfAfTsgROaZY3pJEgE952U-o/s4032/C0261A98-6A71-463F-A394-1AF8417F873E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA3IjE1JSkZK_cm18ZjViJix5UgIvfuFsCXhtjm8Zm83Zk-8NSAqBcfQ87gVcBnI3LR_R_AkvdVIj8Ff3kSb5H1f-XirnnmgPeOsvtwXOKL9EzmyrFcYeiH5JpzXH8i9wHBHPNXTFOGG9yUJVq4zFyyY9dq8FYpsjRpvXYfAfTsgROaZY3pJEgE952U-o/s320/C0261A98-6A71-463F-A394-1AF8417F873E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of many detours</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Our walk to explore this section of Toronto’s waterfront was not easy. Once finished the new bridges with provide a nice direct route, but we had to walk around a large parking lot, across a thin rubber track across a narrow bridge which we had to share with vehicle traffic, then back and forth via construction detours, closed sidewalks and roadblocks. The rusty lift bridge only supports one lane of traffic and the pedestrian walkway is a temporary wooden one that replaced a rusted metal lane. Information on Wikipedia says that the lift bridge is historically significant and is being restored and rebuilt, but it looks pretty bad right now.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kdCkVC6Us0F1yXfdFSzd-Qt4cu12EYeX74EAz6titrX1HEqyghsA38qcSOeX_b8jh0Qmov8NUyUvJqibUWViixFywYV0SkvVHdJQrE5TvOZzjSZqrHuDY0Z4wSHg20IvqRwWRAmew-ZkIq6Zd5GjLpgux8qQazVOqqbNSxx1cTit893WQ6JQA3qP7ZU/s4032/38700673-5630-411A-BEBC-E54C7FCCC90A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kdCkVC6Us0F1yXfdFSzd-Qt4cu12EYeX74EAz6titrX1HEqyghsA38qcSOeX_b8jh0Qmov8NUyUvJqibUWViixFywYV0SkvVHdJQrE5TvOZzjSZqrHuDY0Z4wSHg20IvqRwWRAmew-ZkIq6Zd5GjLpgux8qQazVOqqbNSxx1cTit893WQ6JQA3qP7ZU/w150-h200/38700673-5630-411A-BEBC-E54C7FCCC90A.jpeg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caution</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fortunately we survived our walk through the construction zones and continued our walk to Cherry Beach where the road ends at an attractive city park. On the way I can provide an update on an earlier post about the “sea can” market. We walked by a business that promises to provide a converted shipping container for any purpose - perhaps that is where all the ones used for the market came from. I think I recognize the shipping container washrooms . . .</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And then we had retrace the route and do it all over again to get home.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizMZ26zgnahvOhrPW7YC39j63CmAjwpLe1bgT7tI4OR9VMOS5yUJ3GVvci6wLlZiVCkFMMQ_uHssmEDMQ3Y6O1cQTfrcyx6xzNxNL0OEgFDIU5uxs63j1eYHxRR63efD8v67nAqkIz8NxhJfSVKQQhFEJjQmDIxubrUS5nzUBIqT_b9Qi4DZcdblpE4LQ/s4032/4CC391D9-EF85-43C6-9F1C-71C6CE125E02.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizMZ26zgnahvOhrPW7YC39j63CmAjwpLe1bgT7tI4OR9VMOS5yUJ3GVvci6wLlZiVCkFMMQ_uHssmEDMQ3Y6O1cQTfrcyx6xzNxNL0OEgFDIU5uxs63j1eYHxRR63efD8v67nAqkIz8NxhJfSVKQQhFEJjQmDIxubrUS5nzUBIqT_b9Qi4DZcdblpE4LQ/w640-h480/4CC391D9-EF85-43C6-9F1C-71C6CE125E02.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toronto Beach Sand - construction debris</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrvM9AsAilkeAyGMCo2rq0NUgha4auPG6dTw1QKrVA7jinISqiPHnBttYmPYgu7WInHfw411p_PfERgXcTfKBiMUHSFbEX2ivm8zzImwykJ1SMjrq35Rr5Atq7sSkGUcmVutgkDwNY2f8BmYjbuPsqKihKhm1g83jXa2hRMPDygHHC9jRPO4zUBoCdhk/s4032/6B38B06B-0807-4FC2-A9E3-ACD0557A85A6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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