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Boxcar CNA 405444 sits on the spur to XTL, by the Home Depot in Rexdale. Shot from a GO train stopped at the adjacent Etobicoke North station
XTL, a logistics and shipping company, occupies the former (out of frame to the right) warehouse once used by the Quebec-based Steinberg's grocery and supermarket chain, which was built in Rexdale next to the large Simpsons-Sears warehouse in the late 1950's/early 60's.
While the 'Depot here gets no direct rail service here, they do have a lumber transloading facility between Malton and Woodbine that gets boxcars and flatcars full of lumber and forest products, for local distribution to GTA area stores via truck.
this store is filled with books on many topics. Quran, Hadit, seerat, biography, politics, economic, culture, children, education, arabic and other languages. Books are in English, Arabic and many other languages.
Plus you can buy a wide veriety of Itar (oil based perfumes) honey and many other medicines and clothes. must check it out. It's located on Rexdale blvd and Islington. just north of 401
I THINK THERE IS ONLY ONE former RED BARN IN THE WORLD that still closely resembles the ORIGINAL FORMAT and FACADE. Outside and inside colour scheme.
And it is THIS ONE in Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA.
It has only a few changes (different seating, no Red Barn ads, different wall paint, etc.) The enclosed tunnel to the washrooms was a later (but not too late) addition.
YOU KNOW… AS I WALKED UP to this MR. SUB, just for a second, for me, it becomes a RED BARN!
I have ancient and fond memories of waiting in the wintertime, in our Chrysler Windsor, looking up at the Rexdale Red Barn’s hayloft door, way above me, while my dad went inside to get a barrel of "dignified" chicken.
Red Barn chicken was like KFC, just way better!
The Red Barn used a Henny Penny Pressure Cooker made exclusively for them, and the chicken pieces were bigger than KFC’s (like Mary Brown’s today).
And brace yourselves, folks, you could order THE KEEL of the chicken! Most today have no idea what that even is! And I ain’t gonna’ say …
Well, here goes. I’m going in.
I immediately request a Big Barney, 9 pieces of dignified chicken, and some keels.
The owner, Gus, tells me I need to find a time-machine … because this is a MR. SUB now.
Well, it was worth a try.
Gus is good-natured, and I’m told I'm not the only one who has come into the restaurant, over the years, asking about the Red Barn, so he has a few facts ready for me.
This (former) MISSISSAUGA RED BARN opened in 1965!
The first one in Canada opened in 1963, in Scarborough.
The Mississauga outlet closed in 1975.
It re-opened briefly in the same year as a "Goodies". They had kept all the Red Barn food prep equipment but, sadly, couldn't make it work.
Then it re-opened again, in 1975, as a Mr. Sub.
THANKFULLY, the RED BARN facade is still going strong, for 50 years+ and was blended in with the MR SUB facade which uses almost the same colour scheme!
ATTENTION AMERICANS! If you get a chance, try out a MR. SUB in Canada!
Preferably THIS ONE, for the old-time Red Barn nostalgia!
SUBWAY makes some great subs … but YOU CAN'T BEAT a MR SUB 12" ASSORTED with their trademark "secret sauce”. YOU JUST CAN'T beat that sub!
ALSO, the MR SUB Louisiana Pepper Chicken sub … IS, will always be … out-of-this-world! And no one else has it!
AND ONLY in Canada, YOU'ALL!
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE RED BARN RESTAURANT CHAIN?
AS EVERYONE IN CANADA knows … it isn't always THE BEST that wins out!
THINK, CANADA'S Avro Arrow!
The absolute best! But the programme gets scrapped by Canada's Conservative government!
THINK, CANADA'S homegrown, and Howard Hughes favourite, the C-102 Avro Jetliner!!
Perfect AND 7 years before the Boeing 707!!
Aircraft orders on the table, programme and prototype, scrapped by Canada's Liberal government!!
NOW THINK, the RED BARN fast-food chain!
IT AIN'T OVER, 'till it's over.
Well, it’s been over for AVRO CANADA for 55 years.
And its just as over for THE RED BARN RESTAURANT.
IT'S BEEN LIGHTS OUT for the Red Barn System (Canada) Ltd. for 35 years.
Most corporation stores and franchises closed, even before that.
At the time, in the early 60s, the Red Barn was WAY AHEAD of the fast-food competition (McDonalds, A&W, Arby's, KFC, Burger King, and Wimpy's).
Red Barn advertising showcased muppet-like figures in their ads (created by Sesame Street's Jim Henson) long before McDonalds created (rather copied) the concept when they introduced the Hamburgler years later.
Red Barn buildings had that distinctive barn shape appearance.
There was a barn right in the middle of the city or suburbia!
Every kid alive could spot one a mile or two away!!
And when you ordered chicken and fries it came in a BARN-SHAPED container!
And yes, there was the unforgettable barn design painted red and white.
The building structure details included glazed bright red bricks (on the exterior and the interior), a high front barn peak, complete with a hayloft door, and the roof was topped off with two rooster weathervanes. The dining area was small and there was a large country scene mural above the order counter.
The innovative Red Barn Chain was the FIRST to have a salad bar. Then a sundae bar.
Hey, Ponderosa, were you taking notes?
The Red Barn not only made hamburgers, but they made fried chicken!
McDonalds still doesn't have fried chicken!
Almost a 60 years later—
The RED BARN made their fried chicken specially, in a closed-top Henny Penny Fryer!
The Red Barn's fried chicken was also way better than KFC's and was even cut up differently than the competition, so you could order the chicken's KEEL as a piece! And everybody did — just 'cause they could — and jus' cause it was the best part of the chicken!
Back in the day, what the Red Barn offered the local kid was far superior, and their variety was far ahead of the competition, I mean McDonalds didn't get ice cream until the late 80s! Twenty years after the Red Barn! And remember they still don't have fried chicken!
The Red Barn chain got sold early, and the original vision was rapidly lost.
And on top of that, corporate advertising evaporated.
One thing that made McDonald's king of fast-food world was their relentless advertising on kid's shows!
The Red Barn had better fare… BUT McDonald’s had more frequent advertising.
AND, in the end, in a move that was never fully comprehended by the franchisee owners … the chain was finally abandoned by its last hospitality owners, the Motel 6.
Franchisee licences were allowed to elapse and then the RED BARNS were legally done.
They couldn't even keep the famous Red Barn name, or look.
MOTEL 6 only wanted the Servomation food business, which was a widespread vending machine and office refreshment company.
That's all they cared about.
The Red Barn was a separate entity BUT under the Servomation umbrella, having been acquired by Servomation, much earlier.
Here's how it went down.
RED BARN TIMELINE
Founded: 1961
Founders: Don Six, Martin Levine, and Jim Kirsch
Owners:
1961 - 1963 Don Six, Martin Levine, and Jim Kirsch
1963 - Late 60s Richard O. Kearns (Foodcraft Management)
Late 60s - Late 70s Servomation
Late 70s - 1986 Motel 6 acquires Servomation and Red Barn.
The Motel 6 executive decides not to promote or advertise for the Red Barn chain, and to allow the 300+ Red Barn franchisee licences to lapse!
Imagine being an franchisee/owner in those circumstances.
If ever there was a time to lawyer up, that was it.
Full support to NO support.
Where do you get the benefits of volume purchasing of meat, poultry, fish and vegetables?
You don't.
Who co-ordinates advertising and promotions for 300+ North American outlets?
No one. There is none.
And by 1986, as the last 15 year license lapses, the RED BARN chain is declared defunct.
Many Red Barn franchisees immediately go under.
Any former RED BARNS left, go independent, with a name change.
Soon, these too, are done.
A handful (10) regroup under "The Farm" banner in Ohio.
The fare is classic "Red Barn" but is now rebranded, "The Farm".
The Big Barney hamburger becomes the Farm Boy. The Barnbuster becomes the Farmbuster. You, get the picture.
The fried chicken is STILL "dignified" the Red Barn way … because it is pressure cooked.
And, yes, you could still order keels! I most definitely remember the RED BARN deep-fried keels from my childhood.
Nobody else fries it that way. But, hey thanks for comin' out KFC, you have a strong second place finish alongside the former Red Barn.
WANT TO TRY RED BARN FOOD?
In 2016, there is ONLY ONE RED BARN left.
That one is in Racine, Wisconsin. It’s called THE FARM.
Located: 3810 Durand Ave Racine, WI 53405-4425
Hours of operation:
Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday-Saturday 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Major Holidays : Closed
Phone: (262) 634-1267
Email: info@thefarm.com
WANT TO BUY AN AUTHENTIC RED BARN?
Until December 31, 2015 this one was still operating in Pennsylvania.
It was called The Family Farm, located at 545 E. Main St. Bradford, PA 16701 (814-368-3733).
It just closed now, and is for sale for $200,000 USD, lock, stock, barrel and BARN! Great deal!!
A 35 minute flight into Canadian and world history.
The small country of CANADA had produced a technological marvel.
THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS waited and watched (inside and outside) Malton Airport as the CF-105 Avro Arrow was put through some light-duty paces on its MAIDEN FLIGHT.
The crowd mills about waiting for another pass of the Arrow, while the Arrow passes over Rexdale.
The Avro Canada and Orenda Engine plants can be seen for the massive structures they were (look just above the flying Arrow).
It would be Canada's first and last all-Canadian supersonic airplane.
Every other Canadian engineered aircraft SINCE…has been sub-sonic~
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When CANADA was SUPER-GREAT we produced the CF-105 Avro Arrow Interceptor and the PS.13 Orenda Iroquois Turbojet Engine.
Why were these Canadian technological achievements so awesome, you ask?
CF-105 AVRO Arrow (outfitted with Orenda Iroquois Engines) “FIRSTS and NOTABLES” to the uninitiated:
• FIRST AIRCRAFT designed with digital computers being used for both aerodynamic analysis and designing the structural matrix (and a whole lot more).
• FIRST AIRCRAFT design to have major components machined by CNC (computer numeric control); i.e., from electronic data which controlled the machine.
• FIRST AIRCRAFT to be developed using an early form of "computational fluid dynamics" with an integrated "lifting body" type of theory rather than the typical (and obsolete) "blade element" theory.
• FIRST AIRCRAFT to have marginal stability designed into the pitch axis for better maneuverability, speed and altitude performance.
• FIRST AIRCRAFT to have negative stability designed into the yaw axis to save weight and cut drag, also boosting performance.
• FIRST AIRCRAFT to fly on an electronic signal from the stick and pedals. i.e., first fly-by-wire a/c.
• FIRST AIRCRAFT to fly with fly by wire AND artificial feedback (feel). Not even the first F-16's had this.
• FIRST AIRCRAFT designed to be data-link flyable from the ground.
• FIRST AIRCRAFT designed with integrated navigation, weapons release, automatic search and track radar, datalink inputs, home-on-jamming, infrared detection, electronic countermeasures and counter-countermeasures operating through a DIGITAL brain.
• FIRST HIGH WING jet fighter that made the entire upper surface a lifting body. The F-15, F-22, Su-27 etc., MiG-29, MiG 25 and others certainly used that idea.
• FIRST sophisticated bleed-bypass system for both intake AND engine/exhaust. Everybody uses that now.
• FIRST by-pass engine design. (all current fighters have by-pass engines).
• FIRST combination of the last two points with an "ejector" nozzle that used the bypass air to create thrust at the exhaust nozzle while also improving intake flow. The F-106 didn't even have a nozzle, just a pipe.
• Use of Titanium for significant portions of the aircraft structure and engine.
• Use of composites (not the first, but they made thoughtful use of them and were researching and engineering new ones).
• Use of a drooped leading edge and aerodynamic "twist" on the wing.
• Use of engines at the rear to allow both a lighter structure and significant payload at the centre of gravity. Everybody copied that.
• Use of a LONG internal weapons bay to allow carriage of specialized, long-range standoff and cruise missiles. (not copied yet really)
• Integration of ground-mapping radar and the radar altimeter plus flight control system to allow a serious strike/reconnaissance role. The first to propose an aircraft be equally adept at those roles while being THE air-superiority fighter at the same time. (Few have even tried to copy that, although the F-15E is an interesting exception.)
• FIRST missile armed a/c to have a combat weight thrust to weight ratio approaching 1 to 1. Few have been able to copy that.
• FIRST flying 4,000 psi hydraulic system to allow lighter and smaller components.
• FIRST oxygen-injection re-light system.
• FIRST engine to have only two main bearing assemblies on a two-shaft design.
• FIRST to use a variable stator on a two-shaft engine.
• FIRST use of a trans-sonic first compressor stage on a turbojet engine.
• FIRST "hot-streak" type of afterburner ignition.
• FIRST engine to use only 10 compressor sections in a two-shaft design. (The competition was using 17!!)
The Avro Arrow was Canada's finest aviation achievement, even though it never entered RCAF service.
DETRACTORS … thanks for comin' out ~
© PAUL CARDIN - 2013 Special Projects In Research
Mavericks claim the front row of this Canadian Ford dealership at www.flickr.com/photos/30484128@N03/. Summit Ford is still at this location as of March 2017.
Orion VII #7921 is southbound on Humber College Boulevard while operating on the 191B Highway 27 Rocket.
Power Play is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum (now TD Coliseum) in Hamilton, Ontario. The show starred Michael Riley as Brett Parker, a former New York City sports agent who became the general manager of a (fictional) National Hockey League franchise, the Hamilton Steelheads. One of the throughline plots of the series dealt with Parker's ongoing love–hate relationships with the sport, the team and his superior at McArdle Industries, corporate executive Colleen Blessed, played by Kari Matchett.
The cast also included Gordon Pinsent as team owner Duff McArdle, Jonathan Crombie, Jennifer Dale and Al Waxman. The show's theme song was a modernized version of the Stompin' Tom Connors classic, "The Hockey Song", performed partly by Connors himself, and then transitioning to the performance of the band Rusty. The show was briefly aired on the United States broadcast network UPN, starting in 1999, but was pulled after two episodes. The second episode aired in the United States has the distinction of being the lowest-rated episode (since the Nielsen ratings service began in the 1950s) of any prime-time TV series ever aired by any United States network.
Autographs are:
1. Jonathan Rannells – (Todd Maplethorpe) - Jon Rannells is an award winning actor/writer/filmmaker and self-taught mixed media artist. As an actor, Jon has more than 70 appearances in commercials, TV shows and films. As a playwright, Jon’s plays have been produced in North America and Europe and translated into several languages. Jon co-wrote the cult dark comedy feature film, ‘Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal’ which premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival, and went on to win the Black Tulip award at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival and the European Fantasy Film Grand Prize at Leeds International Film Festival. Jon also wrote and directed the feature film ‘Ruby Booby’, which won Best Actor at the International Film Festival Of Manhattan. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Jon now lives in Highland Park, Los Angeles, with actress Kathryn Winslow and their two daughters.
2. Unknown - could be Tanja Jacobs??
3. Caterina Scorsone - (Michelle Parker) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as neurosurgeon Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2010–present) and its spin-offs Private Practice (2010–2013) and Station 19 (2020–2024). Prior to this, she made her debut as a child actor on the Canadian children's program Mr. Dressup. She also appeared in a number of films, including 2010's Edge of Darkness and 2014's The November Man. Other television credits include Jess Mastriani on Missing, Callie Wilkinson on Crash, and Alice Hamilton on Alice. Scorsone was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the middle child of five in her family. Her father, Antonio Bruno Scorsone, is a social worker, and her mother, Suzanne Rozell Scorsone, is a social anthropologist. Scorsone's first TV appearances were in Goosebumps adaptation of Night of the Living Dummy II, then she progressed to regular guest spots as a child on the Canadian children's TV show Mr. Dressup. In 1998, she had a role in one installment of CBC Radio's The Mystery Project called Peggy Delaney as Amber, an estranged fifteen-year-old daughter who comes from Vancouver to stay with her mom for a school term in Toronto.
4. Kari Matchett – (Colleen Blessed) - Kari Matchett is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Colleen Blessed on Power Play, Joan Campbell on Covert Affairs, Kate Filmore in the science fiction movie Cube 2: Hypercube, and U.S. president Michelle Travers on The Night Agent. She has also appeared in films such as Apartment Hunting (2000), Angel Eyes (2001), Men with Brooms (2002), Cypher (2002), Civic Duty (2006), The Tree of Life (2011), and Maudie (2016). Matchett was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan. She attended high school at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute in Lethbridge, Alberta. She attended the National Theatre School in Montreal and the Moscow Theatre School. In Canada, her first major role was on The Rez, and her first starring role was as Colleen Blessed in Power Play (1998–2000). Matchett was a cast member on the A&E Network TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002), with Timothy Hutton in which she played several characters, including a recurring role as Lily Rowan.
5. Michael Riley - (Brett Parker) - Michael Riley (born February 4, 1962) is a Canadian actor. From 1998 to 2000, he portrayed Brett Parker in Power Play. He has acted in over 40 films and television series, including This Is Wonderland, for which he received a Gemini Award, and the Emmy-nominated BBC / Discovery Channel co-production Supervolcano. He also portrays, Dr. Tom, a leading character in the 2009 to 2011 CBC Television series Being Erica. Riley was born in London, Ontario, and graduated from the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec in 1984. Riley's first screen appearance was in the film No Man's Land (1987). As a stage actor, he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for his performance as Arkady in George F. Walker's Nothing Sacred in 1988. He has voiced the animated title character of Ace Lightning.
6. Dean McDermott – (Mark Simpson) - Dean McDermott (born November 16, 1966) is a Canadian actor best known as a reality television personality with his former wife, actress Tori Spelling, and as the host of the cooking competition Chopped Canada. He played the role of Constable Renfield Turnbull on the TV series Due South. McDermott was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to David and Doreen McDermott. He has three sisters, Dale, Dawn, and Dana. He graduated from North Albion Collegiate Institute in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood. McDermott has performed in films Open Range, Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy and Against the Ropes. McDermott has appeared in several TV movies including Always and Forever, Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe and A Christmas Visitor. McDermott has had a variety of guest and recurring roles on television series, such as Earth: Final Conflict, Tracker, 1-800-Missing, NCIS and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 2016 saw Dean McDermott take on a starring role, portraying Iain Vaughn on Slasher.
7. Krista Bridges – (Rose Thorton) - Krista Bridges (born 4 November 1968) is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in more than 110 film and television productions since 1988, and received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992 for The Shower.
8. Lori Anne Alter – (Renata D'Allesandro) - Lori Alter is a Canadian actress, singer, and writer whose multifaceted career spans film, television, theatre, and music. She is best known for starring as Juanita Simmons in Disney's hit The Cheetah Girls franchise. Lori Alter is known for House at the End of the Street (2012), The Cheetah Girls (2003) and Goosebumps (1995). She has been married to William Laurin since 3 August 2003. They have two children.
9. unknown - could be Normand Bissonnette??
10. Neil Crone – (Harry Strand) - Neil Crone (born May 29, 1960) is a Canadian actor and writer. He is known for portraying Fred Tupper in Little Mosque on the Prairie, Jerry Whitehall in Cube 2: Hypercube and the voices of Gordon, Diesel 10 and Splatter in Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) and voiced Dr. Chu In The Pecola Series. Crone reprised his role as Gordon in the US dub of the Thomas & Friends reboot, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go (2021-2025). He appeared in films with roles as Officer Strauss in New York Minute (2004), Chuck in Hollywoodland (2006), Keith in The Rainbow Kid (2015), Chief Borton in the 2017 remake It (2017) and its 2019 sequel, and George in Through Black Spruce (2018). His television credits include Bud Topper in the PBS Kids children's television series Noddy (1999–2000), Ed Barnes in the sitcom I Love Mummy (2002–2003), Ray Cooper in Really Me (2011–2013), Chief Crown Attorney Gordon in Murdoch Mysteries (2013–2016), Ollie Jefferson in Wind at My Back (1996–2000) Ronnie Stewart in When Hope Calls (2019, 2021) and Mr. Leopold in Endlings (2020–2021).
11. Gordon Pinsent – (Duff McArdle) - Gordon Edward Pinsent CC FRSC (July 12, 1930 – February 25, 2023) was a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. He was known for his roles in numerous productions, including Away from Her, The Rowdyman, John and the Missus, A Gift to Last, Due South, The Red Green Show, and Quentin Durgens, M.P. He was the voice of King Babar in the Babar the Elephant television and film productions from 1989 to 2015. Pinsent's professional acting career began in 1957 at Winnipeg's Theatre 77 (later known as the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre) under the direction of John Hirsch. In the years that followed, he performed in many theatrical productions in Winnipeg, Toronto and at the Stratford Festival. In 1979, he was made an officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1998. In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2007, it was announced that Pinsent would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
Recurring actors: (the two autographs I can't figure out, are in this group)
Mark Lutz – Jukka Branny-Acke
Normand Bissonnette – Al Tremblay
Greg Spottiswood – Joe Harriman
Johanna Black – Andrea Stuyvesant
Jonathan Crombie – Hudson James
Fiona Highet – Rayanne Simpson
David Keeley – Bud Travis
Jennifer Dale – Samantha Robbins
Tanja Jacobs – SM3 Reagan Sexsmith
Chris Tessaro – Marshak
Sean McCann – Ray Malone
LINK to video - Stompin' Tom Connors - The Hockey Song - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxJvrD80nJ4
A much rusted 'no trespassing' sign near Rexdale Boulevard and Queens Plate Drive. In Toronto, Canada. Spring afternoon, 2023. Pentax K1 II.
After having printed this image with minor adjustments, I feel the need to reupload this image. I used a 3 light set up as well as a ring flash to give her a bit more definition.
I've known kayla for a long time and she's always been my favourite person to work with over the years. I love being able to explore different parts of her personality.
Not having met her, what part of her personality do you feel as if I'm trying to portray?
I work based out of Toronto and Brantford and I'm always looking to work with new people. If you're interested you can contact me at: highlyamuisingphotography@gmail.com or 647.385.7441
You have 4 to 10 siblings in one House!
You Live in Mitra-housing or a Condominium
You already know what your having for dinner – Bariis or Basto (Rice or Spaghetti)
You Eat bananas with every meal (Usually Bariis or Basto), and your prolly eating one as you are reading this
You love eating Canjero (like pancakes but wayyy better)
Your mother invites people you’ve never seen before to your house, and she tells you its your Edo, Athero, or Inn-Atheer (Aunt, Uncle, Or Cousin)
You know which tribe you are, and so quick to tell any other Somali person, unless you are ‘Midgaan’ tribe, then you don’t telll any one loll (IM CIIDAGALE, BRaP BRAP)
You call yourself Somalian, even though that word doesn’t exist and it’s ‘Somali’
Every Somali you know is some how related to you
You know 10 Muna’s and they all have nicknames cause its so damn confusing
You know 10 Mohammed’s in your city alone, that all call themselves ‘Moe’
Your name is Ahmed, Abdi, Abdirahim, Abdi-Aziz, or any other type of Abdi, Abdul, Abdulla, Aden, Ali, Mohammed, Osman, Hassan, Omar, Nasser, / Muna, Hamdi, Hamda, Amal, Ayan, Faduma, Idil, Iman, Najma, Nasra, Samaira, Sahra, Saida, Hani, Deqa, ….if none of these are your names you prolly know 2 ppl of every name
You have 100’s of cousins you’ve never met, but its cool, cause you can basically visit any country and have a relative to stay with
You bite your batteries or put it in the freezer thinking it will magically recharge!
You stay repping the block you live on, but don’t own a property on the block
You got your ass wooped by your Hoyo or Abo, and they’d always hit you with the closest object to them (my moms favorite her ‘Dacas’ (Sandle))
On Eid, You go to the Masjid in the morning, and spend the rest of day finding your ride for the Jam going on that same night - your all guilty of it! Including me
On Eid, when you were younger you use to hit up Woody mall in the west end of Tdot, I don’t know what y’all outer city ppl did
You crash weddings, and as soon as you get in there you ask ppl who’s the bride & groom
You call any other Somali lady, ‘Habo’
Your with a person of the opposite sex, u gotta hide from any Somali woman cause you know soon as they get home, their gonna call your hoyo, and ANY other person they know
You celebrate your birthday on January 1…you immigrant lmaooo
You live in Rexdale, Jnf, Blackcreek, Dixon, Jamestown or Markham and Lawrence (blue building)
You live in Ottawa ..loll
You just moved to Edmonton or Calgary lollll
You go to York University or plan on going to York University...
Your Hoyo or Abo drive a Mini-van
You drive with a G1… im guilty
Your good looking, (well most of us)
Your Skinny or Fat, because theres no in-between for Somalis
You call a towel, ‘Toowal’, and don’t care about this pokeman ‘Sukumaan’ business WEIRD Somali people are calling it
You call a Vacuum, ‘Hoover’, (I just discovered last year it wasn’t called a Hoover and that Hoover was just a company that makes Vacuums )
You say ‘Sigis’ instead of 6, and you call Detergent, ‘Tide’
You checked the ‘Somaligate’ website 10 times a day, to see if your picture was posted up or not …loll
You checked the Somaligate website, and laughed your ass off when you found out someone you hated got Xposed
Your planning to get married before the age of 24
Updates:
You know your somali when your hoyoo screams on long distance phone calls
You know your somali when you hang curtains infront of doorways
You know your somali when you re-use cooking saleed
You Know Your Somali When You Hoyo Puts Qasil on her face
You know your Somali when you got 5 brothers ready to fuck up any nigga that try to holla at you
You know you’re Somali when your hoyoo is the kitchen drinking shah gossiping, and your Abo is with the rest of his Chad crew at Tim Hortons
You know your Somali when you leave your money at home, cause you know soon as you hit McDonalds with the homies they all gonna ask for money (“yo just a dollar yo, yo!!”)
You know your Somali when you braid your hair in the afternoon and it takes 3hours to do it, and at night before you reach home, you unbraid it cuz you know hoyo & Abo will whoop your ass... piercing your ears... SAME THANG
You Know Your Somali when everyone in your house 18 or under is getting government aid..and hALF of THEm WORK!! loool
You Know Your Somali When you pay 25 buckz to go to the riwayaad (party) knowing its going to end 2 hourz early with a ffist fight!!!
You Know your Somali when you say close the lights instead of turn off the lights
You Know your Somali when the back of ur TV remote control has some sort of Tape on it
You know your Somali when every other word out of ur mouth is ‘wallahi’
You know you're Somali when...your mom & 10 of her friends/neighbours carpool together to go visit a sick person in the hospital....Then get mad at the hospital staff when told there can only be 2 visitors at a time in the room - the rest need to wait.
You know you're Somali...if you pride yourself on being the "only Somali" at your workplace/school (as if other Somalis can't achieve the same)
You know you're Somali...if you try to support Somali run businesses (just because they're your ppl, even if you can get a better service elsewhere
Straight Outta TDOT
Scarbrough
1970's style sign. Demolished a few years ago to make way for Wal-Mart. This mall used to be a busy shopping centre with both Eaton's and Towers to anchor each side of the mall.
April 11, 2015, Toronto, Ontario - Danae Beckles (left ) hugs Iman Suluhu Bakari after talking about her brother Donald Beckles, who was slain on March 31. She described the 46-year-old as a “good man” who never troubled anybody and “took care of his family. Beckles was remembered by dozens of loved ones and community members at an emotional vigil outside his Rexdale home.
The 1973 Honda....back in the mid 70's the four Gregory brothers borrowed my wife Julia's year old almost new Honda Civic, I think she signed up for a four thousand dollar loan on the car, or thereabouts, her friends owned the successful Dalt's Honda dealership up on Rogers Road, Gibb Oderkirk was the guys name who sold her the car, he was a friend of Julia's brother Nip, as in Nippy or Nipper, Dave actually, but everyone called him Nip, they probably went to George Harvey together, that was one of the local high schools, besides George Harvey which was a technical school, there was York Memorial the Arts and Science High School, funny how they separated things back then, why, I am still trying to figure out why they never sent me to Harvey, I would have made a great electrician or plumber, I guess maybe cause my dad was a paper handler a white collar worker, a tax assessor for the city of Toronto and also head of the union, local 79, that got the Toronto nurses their first contract, so that union stuff runs deep in my blood...
The Gregory Brothers consisted of Alex, me Charlie, Kevin and Shane, I don't know if we had all been on a fishing trip together in our lives, I can't remember....we got this fishing bug from our dad Alex and his friend Nelson Bowman and other adults in our circle, Uncle Jim and Uncle George, Frank Taylor, Mickey Dowd, males that were also fond of fishing...as far back as being a young boy, I recall the importance of the bonding of men that took place through the fish that one caught, it was a very real testament to ones position in the heirarchy, this fishing ability, the ability to land a fish, which when I think of it today is more like tricking a creature, a hungry creature into attacking your bait or lure or whatever it is you are presenting, boy oh boy, I sure know that if I was hungry and someone through a hot dog on a stick in front of me, I would grab and try to eat it, or even a marshmallow or a piece of corn, or bread or even a cheesie, I have seen fish caught on cheesies! For some reason a man became a man or at least in our circle, being able to fish was a way to become a man, of acceptance and well, geez, I still don't get it, and I caught thousands of fish in my days of fishing, and I am no more a man than someone from the desert!
At the time, I was working as a waiter at the Seaway Beverly Hills Hotel on Wilson Avenue in Toronto's north west end, it was run by the Jewish Mob, Jack something or the other owned it, I first went there when it opened in 1966, I got dressed up like a street thug and because I was pretty fit and punchy I got served in the six hundred seat draft room, six hundred seats, now that's a big room, I remember sitting in there with Georgie Holmes and other hoods before The Band played Crang Plaza, that was way before The Band was called that or maybe it was the beginning of them being called that cause when we saw them play there was no Rompin Ronnie, it was like being at an old time lynching as the hoods from one part of town were always looking to rumble with the hoods from some other part of town, especially the coloureds, it was weird, is it still weird and punchy like that out there growing up? The Hills, as it was called used to bring in the big bands, Fats Domino, Roy Orbison, The Platters, I mean, really big bands to the Hook and Ladder Club the fancy nightclub at the front of the building...Fishcer was the owners last name, Jack Fishcer and I knew from Italian guys that he was connected and owned the rounder hangout on Bloor Street called The Concorde Tavern...anyways me and my friend Vern we worked at the back of the hotel in the Trophy Lounge, a couple of hundred seat room where there was nightly B grade entertainment...Vern and I had been drafted from the lowly Queensbury Arms which was in our neighbourhood, south of the highway 401 on Weston Road, a place called Mt.Dennis, Mt.Dinky for short, it was a working class area, with numerous plants and factories, so many in fact that if you were to quit school, you could go knock on one of the factories doors and find employment, somewhere that same day, maybe at the CCC, Continental Can Company, or Raybestos or Johnson Matthey and Mallory, or Kodak, or Feranti Packard, or Square D, or Moores Buisness Forms, they were all within walking distance of our home on Victoria Blvd #26..., a rented home, which we paid Mr.Gowland about $50 a month for, that eventually went up to $75 a month, like now, I had no concept of how much money that was in the scope of things, somewhere along the line, my idea on a fair price to pay for rent was set at $300 dollars those would be 1970 dollars...I recall working in that tough bar making at times a thousand dollars a week or probably more like five hundred a week, money was everywhere, people would tip you like crazy, and being from my family and working in the neighbourhood, that helped a lot, we got respect!
So this night in the summer, after work at the Hills, I get home and the brothers are packed, the four of us, the Honda is packed to the rafters, there are eight fishing rods and reels, a cooler with beer, three extra cases of beer, a cooler with food for the weekend, a tent, four sleeping bags, a cookstove, imagine the stuff and I get home, tear off my white work shirt and put a flannel shirt on and kiss Julia and say goodbye because we are heading to the holiest of holy fishing holes, The French River...up Weston Road to Jane, a right turn, past Trethewey, just past Lawrence Avenue there is a tackle shop where we stop in front, the car running, the four of us run into the shop, we are at the back of the shop buying minnows, a big box of minnows, some lures, what have you and we go to get in the car, and the car is gone, not there, stolen, it's two in the morning, there isn't a person to be seen, we call the police, all our stuff is gone, everything! Can you imagine how I felt when I told Julia her car was gone, her uninsured car, you didn't have to buy insurance back then!
Forlorn, is to weak a word to describe how we felt, Shane went home to his love Margie, Kevin who had hardly been free from the hoosekow a week or so went home to moms, Alex, Big Al was staying with us on Mahoney Avenue, top it off, we had no beers to drink, it was the most somber of moments, the most somber of nights...As a second car we owned this 64 dark blue Rambler, a four door sedan that used more oil than gas, at least we could get around..Julia was particularly upset, she was making car payments, The Honda was new at the time, made in Japan, Dalt's was a small car lot and the owner himself, Dalt let her have the little car once he heard the new 75s were on there way...the police came to the house and took a statement at four in the morning, our last name didn't help, there were two officers, you could here them scoff at the news of the stolen vehicle, we did not expect them to be much help.
The next day I grabbed the carved stick purchased in Maynooth on a vacation to Lake Baptiste and declared, "I am going to find the Honda and I let out a chant that is simple, Honda Honda, Honda, Honda, the while holding the cane in my right arm as a warrior might his weapon, and I repeated the mantra loudly to those present, Honda, Honda, Honda, Honda....and off I went in the old Rambler that Verma the dining room manager of the Queensbury Arms had sold me for $400. I went everywhere, gas was just about free back then, about a dollar a gallon...I drove up to Dundas and Keele, looking in all the parking lots as I went, over to Etobicoke and Rexdale, up to Weston and to Wilson near Albion Road, driving through all the apartment building lots, the plaza lots, even Yorkdale shopping centre on Dufferin Street, I spent the entire day out there on my own, looking very intently as a bird would hunt its prey, by days end I was tired and dejected, my report to Julia was not good. No car.
The next day, I went out again, this time I took the back roads down Blackcreek through the Smythe Park area where I had played hardball on the Softley Cartage team and won the batting championship and up the hill toward Annette Avenue and Runnymede where my grandfolks used to live on Webb Avenue and around that area, near the Stockyards that smelled like a ten day old dead rat, and around McCormick Avenue where there were some auto wreckers that you could go browsing in if you had proper foot ware cause those auto wrecker yards they always have mucky oily surfaces, and after that back down the sneaky way, past the apartments on Humber Blvd to Blackcreek again and I stopped at the big apartments on Woolner Avenue, they weren't called ghettos then, they were pretty snazzy, and there, in the middle of one of the big outdoor parking lots was the shit brown Honda! I was all over myself, I had a key I got in, everything was there, the fishing gear, the beer, our camping equipment, I drove the car to the gas station on Weston Road across from the Queensbury Arms, the old Esso station that used to just like an NHL commercial back in the fifties, where you could get a tony the tiger flag for your car, the attendants wore them bus driver type hats and they cleaned your windshield, well it was now a precusor to self serve and the foreign man who owned it was always grumpy anyways as he was putting some gas in the little car, a police man drove by and I flagged him down and he came over and I told him I had found the car! He didn't believe me, not for one second did he believe me, and you know, that was a very dark moment for me, the moment I realized the stain my name Gregory carried, and I don't really know if I have trusted a police man since, cause, right then when I did something good, found a difficult thing to find I could not get a thank you or some recognition of this small deed...the fact the car was not insured did not go unmentioned in my words, even still, I was scoffed at, and it tarnished the moment....beside me, in the car, on the front seat was the cane from Africa which we still have and we call it The Honda Finder...if you lose something and need to borrow it, let me know...
Masonic Bible - Presented to Brother Thomas Walter Wood.
Initiated: September 9th, 1963,
Passed: October 24th, 1963,
Raised: November 29th, 1963.
Possibly at: Memorial Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 652, Toronto
by W.Bro. M.K. MacLearn, Worshipful Master,
Bro. Fred Twitchen, Senior Warden,
Bro. Les Logie, Junior Warden.
John M. K. MacLean:
Malcolm King passed away at the age of 91 years.
John was born to John Malcolm MacLean and Florence MacLean (nee King) in Toronto, Ontario where he was raised and attended school before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force during W.W.II. He then worked as a salesman in Ontario, moving to B. C. in later years.
John and Jean Gibbs met in 1973 and they became life partners in May 1974. Together they worked and travelled around B. C. settling in Prince George, B.C. before retiring to Parkswville where he assisted with the Adult Lliteracy Program.
John was an avid swimmer all his life, participating in the B. C. Senior’s Games, medalling several times. He was also on the Senior’s Games Committee. John volunteered to deliver Meals on Wheels for ten years. He enjoyed travelling around the country and photography.
John and Jean moved to Portage la Prairie in 2009 to be closer to Jean’s family.
John was the last of seven siblings. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Jean Gibbs, her family and special neice, Dana Ormiston (Ted) of Toronto, ON.
Thomas Walter Wood:
Birthdate:February 14, 1907
Birthplace:Temiskaming Shores, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Death: Died 1974 in Peterborough, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada
Cause of death: Stroke
Immediate Family:
Son of Thomas Wood and Laura Wood
Husband of Muriel Eglintine Woods
Father of Wendy Laura Thompson; Patricia Ann Wood; Crawford (Wood) and Wood
Brother of Mary Jean Dorothy Wood; Gladys Catherine Wood and Roy Wood
Occupation:Salesman
Managed by: Tina Christin Dale
Last Updated:July 3, 2014.
Frederick John Twitchen, B.A.:
Retired school teacher, Toronto District School Board, Volunteer Teacher at James Bolton Public School for 9 years; Past Master, Memorial Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 652, Toronto
Suddenly, at his residence on Christmas Day, 2010, Frederick John Twitchin, Bolton, formerly of Rexdale, in his 85th year, beloved husband of the late Georgina Ewing. Dear father of Fred and Terry, Robert, Dayle and Ron, David and Karen. Loving grandfather of Rebecca, Matthew, Rachel, Michael, Marissa, Nathan and Dana. Cherished great grandfather of Braelyn.
The family will receive their friends at the Egan Funeral Home, 203 Queen Street S. (Hwy. 50), Bolton (905-857-2213), Monday afternoon 2-4 and evening 7-9 o’clock. Funeral service will be held in the chapel on Tuesday morning, December 28 at 11 o’clock. Interment Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bolton.
Biography:
B. R. Tunis and E. H. Bensley
William Leslie Logie: McGill University's first graduate and Canada's first medical graduate
CMAJ December 4, 1971 105:1259-1263
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At the bottom of the stairs was a key maker, Bargain Harolds and various offices. Also, this was the way to the underground parking and bathrooms.
This used to join the mall to Towers department store. When you entered the mall, Rexdale hobbies was to the right and a restaurant was to the left.
BODYBUILDINGS GREATEST LOSS…so many would say when he stopped competing after the 1980 Mr. Olympia. But Mike, Mr. Heavy Duty, went on to dazzle the weightlifting masses with his controversial training plans. Fit for Life is loosely based on Mentzer's HEAVY DUTY™ System. Less is more. 45 minutes a day in the gym, 4X a week. Not three hours a day, six days a week, like Arnold and the 'boys'. Later on, Mike trained Englishman Dorian Yates who went on to become Mr Olympia for 6 years running.
Mike was born and raised in Pennsylvania, by mom and dad, who were Mennonite descendants! And Mike, himself, was ex-USAF!
I met Mike and talked to him almost 31 years ago which was captured in the picture on the left at Vic Tanny's SUPERFITNESS in Rexdale, Ontario.
Toronto.
I wasn't putting on much size or weight, was somewhat at a standstill…until I met Mike here and purchased the first draft of his training programme. A little over a year later, I was thirty pounds heavier, and had problems sleeping because my arms were too big! Mike's intense, highly disciplined system didn't work for everybody—but it worked for me!
Ten years ago today June 10, 2001 Mike finished filming his new DVD, Mike Mentzer's HIT (High Intensity Training) Exercise Video (with Markus Reinhardt). Mr HEAVY DUTY™ was dead a few hours later! Mike, an avid fitness and philosophical writer, was found slumped over his typewriter by his bodybuilding brother, Ray.
Sadly, Ray also died two days later from complications of Berger's Disease!
The Mentzer's took the bodybuilding world by storm when they arrived, and yet again when they died suddenly in 2001. RIP Mentzer brothers—
UPDATE: Accidentally DELETED my original post which WAS uploaded on June 10, 2011.
New MENTZER photo generous courtesy of famed bodybuilding photographer, Garry Bartlett. Garry took the RIGHT SHOT , which I think was one of the best Mentzer photos ever —when Mike competed in an IFBB event in Montreal in 1979.
(left photo taken, by me, with a horrendous Agfa 110!)
Thoroughbred racetrack located at 1661 Queen St. East, in Toronto, opened in 1874 . Also known as Woodbine, Woodbine Park and Old Woodbine. Name changed to Greenwood Racetrack in 1963, so as not to be confused with the New Woodbine opened in Rexdale. Racetrack closed in 1993 and eventually demolished.
Habib is not the only guy in this plaza. Amira fashion is just one of the many stores offering islamic books and fashion in the rexdale plaza at rexdale and Islington in Toronto Canada. Just opposite Sears outlet store and IMO mosque.
TAKEN IN REXDALE, sometime mid 1980, at Vic Tannys, in the very same plaza that William Shatner shot one of his famous commercials for Loblaws. And this plaza was across the street, and down the hill from the former secretive Briarcrest mansion—the last hold-out of the Arrow and Avro Canada.
The 80s. Weightlifting. Health food. Girls. Not enough, girls.
No matter.
Heady days indeed, even, for me.
But this piece is about Arnold—not me.
Even 30 years ago Arnold was no stranger to controversy. At this bodybuilding event, Arnold announced he could come back and beat anybody, anybody, in the highly competitive world of bodybuilding with only 6 weeks of training. Everyone, some very serious bodybuilders were in attendance, became instantly enraged! To Arnold's delight. Soon derogatory comments were hurled back at Arnold. Even more to Arnold's delight. Rarely have I seen Canadians act in such unison. Schwarzenegger had long retired from the barbell scene five years previous, when he had won his 5th, and final Mr Olympia.
Still, the rumors started.
Immediately.
Was Arnold coming back? Would he compete in the 1980 Mr Olympia? Arnie had been seen training but that was for one of his cheesy movies right? Right?!?!? And why was the Austrian Oak pumping iron all covered up—so no one could see what he looked like?
True to form Arnold did come back 12 weeks later—and he did win his sixth Olympia!
Everyone said the contest was rigged.
Mike Mentzer, who had won the Mr Universe contest, the previous year, with a perfect score of 300 (which has never been done since) swore he would never compete in bodybuilding again. There was no way Arnold should have beaten Mike. And although everyone tried to reason with Mike about the unfairness of life etc., true to his word he walked away from the sport, and never. Competed. Again.
The scandalosa would be re-visited through the years, but when Mike's brother Ray became quite sick and was near death, Arnold called the hospital and told Ray that if he needed anything— Arnold would get it for him. And for a while Ray's health stabilized.
The road to healing had begun—Arnold and Mike even talked on the phone a few times after Mike found out about Arnold's generous overture to his brother.
Life was good again.
Will Maria and Arnold make it back from the abyss? Can their marriage be saved?
One thing is sure—forgiveness is a direction.
And THAT is the hand that Maria will have to play out—it's all up to her now, and no one else—
And another thing is sure—Arnold's 'rendezvous days' are over—Maria can't go back to that, he'll be on a tight leash from here on in.
Arnold has to decide if he can actually do that~
(photo taken, by me, with a horrendous Agfa 110!)
Here we see the beginning of the fabrication of the antenna at the CANRON Rexdale facility.
The left image shows the mount of the antenna which will secure the upper sections of the antenna to the concrete shaft of the tower
The 39 can sections were pre-assembled at CANRON to ensure a good fit.
They would then be broken down into smaller sections which would then be lifted to the top of the tower of the antenna by the Sikorsky helicopter.
Masonic Bible - Presented to Brother Thomas Walter Wood.
Initiated: September 9th, 1963,
Passed: October 24th, 1963,
Raised: November 29th, 1963.
Possibly at: Memorial Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 652, Toronto, ON
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by W.Bro. M.K. MacLearn, Worshipful Master,
Bro. Fred Twitchen, Senior Warden,
Bro. Les Logie, Junior Warden.
John M. K. MacLean:
Malcolm King passed away at the age of 91 years.
John was born to John Malcolm MacLean and Florence MacLean (nee King) in Toronto, Ontario where he was raised and attended school before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force during W.W.II. He then worked as a salesman in Ontario, moving to B. C. in later years.
John and Jean Gibbs met in 1973 and they became life partners in May 1974. Together they worked and travelled around B. C. settling in Prince George, B.C. before retiring to Parkswville where he assisted with the Adult Lliteracy Program.
John was an avid swimmer all his life, participating in the B. C. Senior’s Games, medalling several times. He was also on the Senior’s Games Committee. John volunteered to deliver Meals on Wheels for ten years. He enjoyed travelling around the country and photography.
John and Jean moved to Portage la Prairie in 2009 to be closer to Jean’s family.
John was the last of seven siblings. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Jean Gibbs, her family and special neice, Dana Ormiston (Ted) of Toronto, ON.
Thomas Walter Wood:
Birthdate:February 14, 1907
Birthplace:Temiskaming Shores, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Death: Died 1974 in Peterborough, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada
Cause of death: Stroke
Immediate Family:
Son of Thomas Wood and Laura Wood
Husband of Muriel Eglintine Woods
Father of Wendy Laura Thompson; Patricia Ann Wood; Crawford (Wood) and Wood
Brother of Mary Jean Dorothy Wood; Gladys Catherine Wood and Roy Wood
Occupation:Salesman
Managed by: Tina Christin Dale
Last Updated:July 3, 2014.
Frederick John Twitchen, B.A.:
Retired school teacher, Toronto District School Board, Volunteer Teacher at James Bolton Public School for 9 years; Past Master, Memorial Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 652, Toronto
Suddenly, at his residence on Christmas Day, 2010, Frederick John Twitchin, Bolton, formerly of Rexdale, in his 85th year, beloved husband of the late Georgina Ewing. Dear father of Fred and Terry, Robert, Dayle and Ron, David and Karen. Loving grandfather of Rebecca, Matthew, Rachel, Michael, Marissa, Nathan and Dana. Cherished great grandfather of Braelyn.
The family will receive their friends at the Egan Funeral Home, 203 Queen Street S. (Hwy. 50), Bolton (905-857-2213), Monday afternoon 2-4 and evening 7-9 o’clock. Funeral service will be held in the chapel on Tuesday morning, December 28 at 11 o’clock. Interment Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bolton.
Biography:
B. R. Tunis and E. H. Bensley
William Leslie Logie: McGill University's first graduate and Canada's first medical graduate
CMAJ December 4, 1971 105:1259-1263
Citation Only
This was for sale but my book shelves are already maxed out to the point of one new one in for two going out. I didn't know them but am guessing that my web search is likely accurate.
Masonic Bible - Presented to Brother Thomas Walter Wood.
Initiated: September 9th, 1963,
Passed: October 24th, 1963,
Raised: November 29th, 1963.
Possibly at: Memorial Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 652, Toronto
It seems that Memorial Lodge 652 was going dark, so it joined with another lodge.
by W.Bro. M.K. MacLearn, Worshipful Master,
Bro. Fred Twitchen, Senior Warden,
Bro. Les Logie, Junior Warden.
John M. K. MacLean:
Malcolm King passed away at the age of 91 years.
John was born to John Malcolm MacLean and Florence MacLean (nee King) in Toronto, Ontario where he was raised and attended school before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force during W.W.II. He then worked as a salesman in Ontario, moving to B. C. in later years.
John and Jean Gibbs met in 1973 and they became life partners in May 1974. Together they worked and travelled around B. C. settling in Prince George, B.C. before retiring to Parkswville where he assisted with the Adult Lliteracy Program.
John was an avid swimmer all his life, participating in the B. C. Senior’s Games, medalling several times. He was also on the Senior’s Games Committee. John volunteered to deliver Meals on Wheels for ten years. He enjoyed travelling around the country and photography.
John and Jean moved to Portage la Prairie in 2009 to be closer to Jean’s family.
John was the last of seven siblings. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Jean Gibbs, her family and special neice, Dana Ormiston (Ted) of Toronto, ON.
Thomas Walter Wood:
Birthdate:February 14, 1907
Birthplace:Temiskaming Shores, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Death: Died 1974 in Peterborough, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada
Cause of death: Stroke
Immediate Family:
Son of Thomas Wood and Laura Wood
Husband of Muriel Eglintine Woods
Father of Wendy Laura Thompson; Patricia Ann Wood; Crawford (Wood) and Wood
Brother of Mary Jean Dorothy Wood; Gladys Catherine Wood and Roy Wood
Occupation:Salesman
Managed by: Tina Christin Dale
Last Updated:July 3, 2014.
Frederick John Twitchen, B.A.:
Retired school teacher, Toronto District School Board, Volunteer Teacher at James Bolton Public School for 9 years; Past Master, Memorial Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 652, Toronto
Suddenly, at his residence on Christmas Day, 2010, Frederick John Twitchin, Bolton, formerly of Rexdale, in his 85th year, beloved husband of the late Georgina Ewing. Dear father of Fred and Terry, Robert, Dayle and Ron, David and Karen. Loving grandfather of Rebecca, Matthew, Rachel, Michael, Marissa, Nathan and Dana. Cherished great grandfather of Braelyn.
The family will receive their friends at the Egan Funeral Home, 203 Queen Street S. (Hwy. 50), Bolton (905-857-2213), Monday afternoon 2-4 and evening 7-9 o’clock. Funeral service will be held in the chapel on Tuesday morning, December 28 at 11 o’clock. Interment Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bolton.
Biography:
B. R. Tunis and E. H. Bensley
William Leslie Logie: McGill University's first graduate and Canada's first medical graduate
CMAJ December 4, 1971 105:1259-1263
Citation Only
The only info I found about Leslie (Les) Logie was limited and was written in French.
There was no mention of the lodge's name in the Bible, and unfortunately none of the lodge's members signed the Bible on the page provided for those signatures.
Toronto, April 11, 2015 - Donald Beckles, who was slain on March 31, was remembered by dozens of loved ones and community members at an emotional vigil on Saturday evening outside his Rexdale home, where he was killed.
The always happy and cooperative owner of Habib Islamic Books store at rexdale and Islington. just nort of 401. more of this beautifull store to come.
Thoroughbred racetrack located at 1661 Queen St. East, in Toronto, opened in 1874 . Also known as Woodbine, Woodbine Park and Old Woodbine. Name changed to Greenwood Racetrack in 1963, so as not to be confused with the New Woodbine opened in Rexdale. Racetrack closed in 1993 and eventually demolished.