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Robert Home Smith is best remembered today for his development of The Kingsway and for his Old Mill Restaurant, which has been a fixture in Toronto since it opened on the day war was declared in 1914. But he was much more than a visionary who shaped a major area of Toronto... he was a dynamic business leader who made a fortune in a variety of business ventures and who played a major role in shaping Toronto's portlands and lakeshore areas, including Sunnyside.
In the language of his times, Robert Home Smith was a “man of affairs”.
Born in Stratford, Ontario in 1877, he was interested in arts and architecture when he was young. His family insisted that he study law, so he graduated from Osgoode Hall and was called to the bar in 1899. However, in 1901 he suffered an illness (thought to be meningitis) and was left with impaired hearing. This left him despairing of any “dreams of a spectacular courtroom career, debate in the public forum, and high political office”, as biographer James H. Gunn put it.
In 1902, Home Smith joined National Trust Company's estates department, acting as trustee for many businesses forced into bankruptcy. However, it is his involvement with many civic and public organizations that had a major impact on the development of Toronto as we know it today.
Home Smith made a wide variety of personal investments in railways, mills, shipping and real estate, with the bulk of his wealth coming from speculation in northern Ontario mining.
The breadth of his business interests is perhaps best indicated by his position as President of The Mexico Northwestern Railway Company, incorporated in Canada in 1909 under the direction of Fred Stark Pearson. It ran between El Paso, Texas and the lumbering, mining and agriculture areas of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. The firm purchased four short railways and constructed one. It also acquired extensive timber lands and lumber businesses, and formed the Madera Company with two lumber mills, as well as the El Paso Milling Company in Texas.
The area served by the railway was very active during the Mexican Revolution, and Home Smith was actively involved in negotiating with both the government and the revolutionaries (including Pancho Villa) to protect the company's interests. Pancho Villa captured Chihuahua and other northern areas, so had a major impact on the railway's operations. A photo of Home Smith with Pancho Villa reflects the close relationships that were necessary to keep the railway in operation.
Home Smith once said that over a hundred of the battles during the Mexican Revolution were fought along the railway line. Similarly, he told a meeting of railway executives in Toronto that he knew more about running a railway than they did, since he kept his running during a very active revolution. He certainly had a valid point.
Home Smith was a dynamic, charismatic civic figure, too. He was a prominent member of the Toronto Guild of Civic Art. This group was made up of architects, local politicians, businessmen and artists who actively promoted the “City Beautiful” movement. The Guild released a comprehensive plan for the development of the city in the first decade of the 20th century, promoting a park system, landscaped parkways, thoroughfares cutting across the city at diagonals, and public squares surrounded by grandiose buildings.
In a speech to the Canadian Club in November 1913, Home Smith asked, “Are you going to have a Birmingham or a Pittsburgh or a London or Paris?” The Guild saw large scale, deliberate city planning as a means of balancing public and private interests. For Home Smith, his private developments met the aims of the Guild.
He was also an active and prominent member of the Board of Trade. In 1910 the Board of Trade actively campaigned for a new organization to take over responsibility for the waterfront from the Harbour Trust, which had allowed railways to crowd out other uses along the lakeshore. The harbour was silting up, and raw sewage was being dumped into the harbour, posing both shipping and health problems.
A referendum was held on January 2, 1911 that approved a new Toronto Harbour Commission to take over the harbour and waterfront. The new organization was responsible for redeveloping the waterfront from Victoria Park to the Humber River. Home Smith served on the commission until 1923, acting as president from 1921.
Commission plans included the creation of Sunnyside Beach and a breakwater from the Humber River to Bathurst Street, as well as filling in much of the shoreline. In the east, the Don River marshlands were filled in, creating industrial and port lands. All of these projects were completed while Home Smith was on the board.
This redevelopment plan resulted in the creation of Lakeshore Drive and the building of Sunnyside Amusement Park on reclaimed land. Costing $13 million, the redevelopment plan was funded by the federal government.
In officially opening the Sunnyside Amusement Park on June 28, 1922, Home Smith as chairman of the Toronto Harbour Commission proclaimed a new era for the city, saying, “Toronto is upon the eve of the greatest development in its history. I am quite sure if we try to rise to it we will be in reality – what is only now in promise – a truly great city.”
In 1922 the Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion was opened to help bathers change for a swim in the lake. The $300,000 structure provided over 700 lockers for swimmers and a roof garden for 400. Admission fees were 25 cents for adults, 15 cents for children.
In 1925, because the lake had been too cool for swimming the previous two summers, the heated Sunnyside Pool (nicknamed “The Tank”) opened adjacent to the Bathing Pavilion. Able to accommodate 2000 swimmers, it was the largest outdoor pool in the world. Admission was 35 cents for adults, 10 cents for children.
The Sunnyside Amusement Park opened in 1922 by Home Smith is best remembered for its many rides. The Flyer roller coaster was the biggest attraction. It hit top speeds of 65 miles per hour, generating much excitement in those slower-paced days.
Sunnyside Amusement Park was torn down in 1955 to make room for the Gardiner Expressway. After it closed, its original 1922 handcrafted Dentzel carousel was moved to Disneyland in California, where it still operates with some changes. Now named King Arthur’s Carousel, its giraffes, deer and other animals were replaced with white horses because “Walt wanted everyone to ride a galloping horse like King Arthur”. Many of the removed animals were relocated to the Casey Jr. Circus Train ride at Disneyland.
The Flyer Seen behind Several Concession Stands.
Sunnyside’s Derby Racer carousel was also saved and moved to the CNE where it continued to operate until the early 1980s.
It is fitting that we recognize the enormous contribution Robert Home Smith made to this part of Toronto's history through his role with the Toronto Harbour Commission.
Cllr John Lines, Birmingham City Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing, Peter Roach, Chief Executive of the Bournville Village Trust, and The ExtraCare Charitable Trust's Development Director Mark Curran visit the site of the proposed Bournville retirement village on Bristol Road.
Participants during the session "Drones Delivering Development" at the World Economic Forum - AMNC 17, Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
These houses are at the top end of what has now been called Canal Street. Work has already been started on the opposite bank of the canal, as evidenced by the Heras fencing along the western bank. Residents will be able to wave at each other across the canal. As can be seen, the caisson dam erected for construction of the new canal bridge, has not yet been removed.
Sukahati Bululele, Supervisor Road Development from Lolowau Village, Nias.
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Clooci Studios designed marketing material for AutoGrill to help with the company's branding including key rings, notebooks, and plane pillows.
CGIAR Capacity Development Workshop hosted by ILRI in Nairobi, 21-15 Oc 2013 (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan)
Track panels being laid at Applehurst Lane crossing. The 2 new tracks will lead to the flyover over the ECML at Joan Croft Jct. The existing tracks go over the ECML at Tilts and on to Adwick-Le-Street where they join the Doncaster-Leeds line.
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Somali herders and herds converge on Bangali water point during 2011 drought, northeastern Kenya.
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Photo: Peter D. Little (February, 2011).
Having been on a tour of the decommissioned Kew Lunatic Asylum many years
ago, I was very interested to visit the site again recently and to see the
housing development that has taken place in the grounds. I was there in late
afternoon light and took soooo many photos, but have whittled them down in
number to 51 which I will post on Flickr over the coming days. I hope I
won't bore you all to tears in the process !!
"Operational from 1871 to 1988, Kew Lunatic Asylum was one of the largest
asylums ever built in Australia. Later known as Willsmere, the complex of
buildings were constructed between 1864 and 1872 to the design of architects
G. W. Vivian and Frederick Kawerau of the Victorian Public Works Office to
house the growing number of "lunatics", "inebriates", and "idiots" in the
Colony of Victoria."
"The hospital complex was re-developed by Central Equity into residential
apartments. The Willsmere residential development was officially opened on
27 October 1993 by Premier Jeff Kennett.
The remaining grasslands between the Eastern Freeway and the main hospital
buildings, including the site of the asylum's cricket field were developed
as the Kew Gardens residential estate. The Kew Gardens project was completed
in 1995.
The buildings and grounds of the Kew Cottages (formerly the grounds of Kew
Asylum) are currently being redeveloped as the "Main Drive" project by
Walker Corporation."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew_Asylum
"Surrounded by sweeping parkland, wide boulevards and trees that have stood
for more than a century, Main Drive Kew offers unsurpassed contemporary
architecture in an unrivalled botanic setting."
"Sprawling across a 27-hectare woodland sanctuary, Main Drive Kew's
individually designed homes are adjacent to the magnificent Studley Park and
nestled amongst Melbourne's best schools, premium golf courses, designer
shopping and the glorious Yarra River.
Historic gardens dotted with spreading Oaks, grand Moreton Bay Figs, Claret
Ash and Brazilian Rosewood provide a majestic setting. The heritage walkway
connects you to the Studley Park precinct."
Source: www.maindrivekew.com.au/
Cllr John Lines, Birmingham City Council's Cabinet Member for Housing, potential residents Bernard and Betty Hull, and ExtraCare Trustee Rod Scribbins lay the foundation stone at Hagley Road Village, ExtraCare's third Birmingham retirement village.
International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) talks with US Treasury Secretary Tim Geihtner (C) as France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (R) looks on prior to the Development Committee's group photograph at the IMF's Headquarters April 25, 2010 in Washington, DC. Finance Ministers and Bank Governors around the world will be attending the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings this weekend in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
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Participants during the session "Drones Delivering Development" at the World Economic Forum - AMNC 17, Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
H. E. Anne Itto, South Sudan’s Minister of Agriculture and Forestry; Dr. Rajiv Shah, USAID administrator; and Dr. Amit Roy, IFDC president and CEO. Photo by Rob Groot/IFDC. (May 6, 2011)
Development Impact and the PhD Scholarship - Road Map training held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor from 14-16 March 2014
Project 4 monitoring and evaluation activities on 05 Nov 2013 at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (photo credit: Bio-Innovate-ILRI/Albert Mwangi).
1 April 2015 - Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Acting Director, OECD Directorate for Financial and Entreprise Affairs, during
2015 Global Forum on Development, Post-2015 Financing for Sustainable Development
Opening session
OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Photo: OECD/ Andrew Wheeler
This is a photograph from the 9th annual Longwood Village 10KM and 5KM Road Races and Fun Runs which were held in Longwood Village, Longwood, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 21st October 2018 at 11:00. The races are held annually to support the development of the local GAA club while also supporting local charities. The race has support from Trim AC which sees the race have full AAI premit status. These races have grown steadily over the years and this year again almost 400 participants to part in the two races. This is an impressive statistic given that a very large number of local runners will be preparing for the Dublin City marathon 7 days from now. However both races provide marathon runners and all other runners, joggers and walkers with an ideal opportunity to race on a very fair course in a beautiful rural setting. Barry Clarke of Longwood GAA and Trim AC and his very large group of volunteers deserve the highest of praise for the very high standard of organisation immediately apparent to anyone taking part in the race. Overall the whole day was a great success with the hard work put in by the organising committee ensuring that participants enjoyed their race experience. Both routes were accurately measured, kilometer points clearly marked, junctions well stewarded, and electronic timing provided. The event provided many local runners, joggers, fun runners and walkers with a local event to support whilst at the same time providing runners preparing for events such as the Dublin marathon with an opportunity to race a short, fast, distance in the lead up to marathon day. The GAA club provided excellent stewarding and traffic management all around the course. The race had a professional feel to it and as before it gets better year on year given the very positive feedback from many of the participants each year. The weather in the week leading up to the race was almost ideal for racing but Sunday morning seen some more breezy and wet conditions taking hold for the race, despite high temperatures for this time of year around 12 or 13c.
We have an extensive set of photographs from all of the races today in the following Flickr Album: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157702660163805
Timing and event management was provided by PopUpRaces.ie. Results are available on their website at www.popupraces.ie/
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM and 10KM 2017: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157661720601468
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM and 10KM 2016: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157672030705623
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM and 10KM 2015: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157660017638535
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM and 10KM 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157648845224981/
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM and 10KM 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157636477484093/
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157631820426332/
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627782257481/
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157625058772687/
Longwood is a small village in South East Co. Meath and is close to the town of Enfield with access to the M4 Motorway.
5KM Course: The 5KM started in Longwood village. Runners then took a left turn in the Village down St. Oliver's Road. This straight section of road brings runners to a left turn onto a very well maintained boreen road for less than one kilometer. The race then emerges and joins with the 10KM at Stoneyford where the runners take a left and then another left before arriving back at the finish line in Longwood GAA club. Overall this is a very fast and flat 5KM with no hills to speak of.
10KM Course: The 10KM event begins in Longwood Village outside Dargan's Pub and proceeds westward out of the village. There are some interesting points along this part of the course. At the 2KM point the runners will run under the double bridges - an aquaduct for the Royal Canal and a bridge carrying the Dublin Sligo Railway line. The race then enters county Kildare just before the 3km and after taking a right turn at the four-cross roads known locally as Lally's Cross it returns to County Meath on top of the River Boyne Bridge (Ashfield Bridge) which forms the county boundary. The race follows a straight road for the next 2KM until runners encounter Blackshade bridge which is the toughest climb on the route. As a point of interest Blackshade bridge brings runners back over the Royal Canal and the Railway line. The race then crosses the River Boyne again at Stoneyford before taking a right which will bring runners on a testing two kilometer stretch with some short hills. The 10KM course then joins with the 5Km course for the final 1.5KM back to Longwood GAA club for the finish.