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    My Flemingdon Park: Gold Medal Mini-Olympics at Grenoble Public School
    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...
    I Am a Pedestrian: Part 7
    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...
    My Flemingdon Park: A Milky Conundrum
    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...
    My Flemingdon Park: The Life of Robert Fleming, The People's Bob
    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...
    Dawnmarie Harriott’s Flemingdon Park
    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...
    My Flemingdon Park: A Hoe, a Pitchfork and a Rake
    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...
    Bryan Fines’ Flemingdon Park
    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...
    My Flemingdon Park: Ribbon Cutting
    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...
    Hitting a Sour Note
    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,...
    I Am a Pedestrian: Part 1
    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...
    I Am a Pedestrian: Introduction
    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...
    The Gym Shirt
    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....

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