Ed Brown
My Flemingdon Park: The Portable
Remembered today as the hippy portable or hippy house, this long-absent structure, once located near the centre of the neighbourhood,...
top of page
Ed Brown
- Jul 26, 2022
- 5 min
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...
267 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Jun 16, 2022
- 5 min
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...
99 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- May 19, 2022
- 4 min
Tonnette And Steve Kosloff’s Flemingdon Park
In the mid1960s antiwar sentiment in America over the country’s incursion into Vietnam spilled over to college and university campuses....
75 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Apr 19, 2022
- 3 min
My Flemingdon Park: Where the Streets Have New Names
From its inception, Flemingdon Park was a planned neighbourhood. Nothing was left to chance. From postal service to policing, placement...
132 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Mar 16, 2022
- 3 min
Arnold Rockman's Flemingdon Park
Writer, artist and educator, the late Arnold Rockman lived at 58 Grenoble Drive in townhouse #57. The art critic for the Toronto Star...
68 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Feb 10, 2022
- 5 min
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...
145 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Jan 10, 2022
- 5 min
My Flemingdon Park: Darow Myhowich, the CBC and a Missed Opportunity
Darow Myhowich dreamed of becoming a singer. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, into a working-class Ukrainian family – his father Leon was a...
81 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Dec 13, 2021
- 4 min
Rob Young's Flemingdon Park
If you're looking for someone to give you the straight goods and don't pull their punches, don't look any further than Rob Young. Loyal...
105 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
My Flemingdon Park: Avenue of Stars
Phase two in Flemingdon Park's development also initiated the construction of the industrial component of the master plan, some of which...
62 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Nov 3, 2021
- 5 min
Chris Smith's Flemingdon Park
Chris Smith was 29 in September 1961 when he and his young family settled in townhouse #36 at 58 Grenoble Drive. By then, he had already...
78 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Oct 19, 2021
- 5 min
My Flemingdon Park: The Human Cost of Constructing a Neighbourhood
The construction of Flemingdon Park was fraught with fatalities. March through May of 1968 proved particularly deadly. Five workers at...
131 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Oct 12, 2021
- 4 min
Gail Goldfinch's Flemingdon Park
If you lived in Flemingdon Park through the 1970s and played house league hockey at the arena, bought a Curly Wurly from Gerry’s,...
117 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Oct 4, 2021
- 5 min
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...
173 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Sep 27, 2021
- 4 min
Cindy Charity's Flemingdon Park
There are times when life deals you a lousy hand. When Cindy Charity feels overwhelmed and needs a break from adulting, she lifts her...
177 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Aug 26, 2021
- 5 min
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...
271 views1 comment
Ed Brown
- Aug 26, 2021
- 3 min
Fergus O’Connell's Flemingdon Park
Fergus, his wife Sheila, a son and a daughter lived in a series of apartments and flats before moving to townhouse #23 at 61 Grenoble...
169 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Jul 8, 2021
- 4 min
Dawnmarie Harriott’s Flemingdon Park
Money was scarce, but Dawnmarie Harriott had friendships in abundance. “Flemingdon Park,” she reflects, “leaves a lifelong impression on...
153 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Jul 8, 2021
- 9 min
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...
211 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Jun 20, 2021
- 3 min
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...
247 views0 comments
Ed Brown
- Jun 20, 2021
- 7 min
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...
170 views0 comments
bottom of page