Historicist: The People’s Champion

Historicist: The People’s Champion
- Created by: https://torontoist.com/
- By-Line: Kevin Plummer
- Date: 09-07-2013
- Provenance: digitized & reformatted by Ted English
- Notes:
Notes from a Damp Island
Document: TICA handout, Notes from a Damp Island
Date: May, 2017
Provenance: This note was sent in May 2017 to all Islanders related to the Summer flooding event
Digitized by: Ted English, from an original copy. Posted by Eric Zhelka
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Eric Zhelka
Robertson’s Landmarks of Toronto – A Collection of Historical Sketches – excerpt Gibraltar Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse Keepers’ Cottages:
The Island School 1888-1978
Authors: Eva Beyerle and Emily Coleman, former students.
Date: 1978
Provenance: From the archives of Ted English
Digitized by: Ted English
Document: “A Brief History” of the Island Public School, a four page document, from an original copy
Centre Island Association. (1951) The Ferryboat Follies, 4th ed. Toronto Island, ON
I am happy to join with the members of the Board of Control and City Council in extending every good wish to “The Ferryboat Follies Foundation” for the success of its Annual Show in Centre Island Clubhouse, the proceeds of which are used for the community programme of recreation for youth and children on Centre Island.
This is a worthy, voluntary citizen effort which, while presenting most enjoyable entertainment, contributes, as well, to constructive, recreational activities on the Island.
The members of the Civic Administration pay tribute to the officials of the “Ferryboat Follies” for their sponsorship of this public-spirited endeavour and express the hope that it will meet with every success.
H. E. McCALLUM
Mayor, City of Toronto.
Leslie H. Saunders, J. Louis Shannon K.C., The Late John M. Innes, M.B.E., David A. Balfour
Board of Control and City Council.
Welcome! Watch your step… site under construction.
Plans are slowly forming to organize a formal web-based archive of Toronto Island History. Eric Zhelka is coordinating this archival effort, occasionally assisted by Eric Light, still inspired by the late Edward (Ted) English, and gratefully supported by former and current Toronto Islanders who gather on the TorontoIslandConnections Groups.io Group. If interested in any way, please fill in our Survey as we gauge involvement to see how the project should continue.
Kind regards,
Eric Zhelka, for
Toronto Island History Project
[email protected]