Ed Brown
My Flemingdon Park: Plaza Timeline
In 1961, construction of the plaza at 747 Don Mills Road lagged behind families moving into nearby rental units. To meet their shopping...
Ed Brown
My Flemingdon Park: Historic Meagher Homestead
It is accepted knowledge that Flemingdon Park’s name honours former Toronto mayor and majority landowner Robert Fleming. A closer...
Ed Brown
My Flemingdon Park: Gold Medal Mini-Olympics at Grenoble Public School
Ten-year-old grade five student Keith Glennie laced up his skates to compete in the medal round of the speedskating competition on the...
Ed Brown
I Am a Pedestrian: Part 7
Walking around a city I Am a Pedestrian is the result of a 159-kilometre walk around Toronto. The book consists of 159 observations...
Ed Brown
My Flemingdon Park: A Milky Conundrum
With phase two of development well underway by 1963, Webin Community Consultants (WCC) dreamed up a new motto to capture the...
Ed Brown
My Flemingdon Park: The Life of Robert Fleming, The People's Bob
The placename Flemingdon is a portmanteau, derived from combining portions of two words: Robert John Fleming, Toronto's 27th mayor, and...
Ed Brown
Dawnmarie Harriott’s Flemingdon Park
Money was scarce, but Dawnmarie Harriott had friendships in abundance. “Flemingdon Park,” she reflects, “leaves a lifelong impression on...
Ed Brown
My Flemingdon Park: A Hoe, a Pitchfork and a Rake
Rae Hopkins threw his full weight against the latched door, desperate to break through the entrance of the shack before flames consumed...
Ed Brown
Bryan Fines’ Flemingdon Park
Bryan Fines is succinct when describing his childhood in Flemingdon Park: “Great times. Great experiences. I was lucky." The Fines were...
Ed Brown
My Flemingdon Park: Ribbon Cutting
If Flemingdon Park—billed as a garden estate in a parkland setting—was born on a June afternoon in 1961, eighteen months after workies...
Ed Brown
Hitting a Sour Note
My eighth-grade Vocal Music teacher at a junior high school in the former Borough of East York had a penchant for Broadway show tunes,...
Ed Brown
I Am a Pedestrian: Part 1
Walking around a city I Am a Pedestrian is the result of a 159-kilometre walk around Toronto. The book consists of 159 observations...
Ed Brown
I Am a Pedestrian: Introduction
Walking around a city I Am a Pedestrian is the result of a 159-kilometre walk around Toronto. The book consists of 159 observations...
Ed Brown
The Gym Shirt
I want to tell you a story about a boy named Eddie. Eddie spent his childhood in a Toronto neighbourhood known today as St. James Town....