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ecent news regarding the discovery of 400,000- plus artifacts at the site of the future Laurier RBrantford YMCA Athletics and Recreation Centre got us thinking about one of our favourite photos never published in Brant News. You might recall that back in 2009 and 2010 there was quite a battle at Brantford city council over the expropria- tion and demolition of 41 properties on the south side of Colborne Street, where the $66-million Laurier-YMCA athletics complex will soon take shape. Without rehash- ing extensive details, city council was split by a narrow 6-5 margin in favour of acquiring and clearing the land. In January 2010, then-city councillor Mark Littell of- fered to take reporters inside the buildings. The city had already expropriated the properties, but the fight over de- molition continued at city hall. Littell, a forceful advocate for demolishing the buildings, wanted to show off their decrepit state. We’re sure reporters saw the worst of the worst that day, but Littell certainly made his point. While I was taking photographs in the south side’s most westerly building – the one that used to overlook the in- LEFT: A beer bottle full of syringes was left behind in an apartment in the former buildings on the south side of Colborne Street in tersection of Colborne Street and Brant Avenue – I came January 2010 – prior to their demolition. Notice the silver coffee thermos and cottage cheese container in the background.RIGHT: The across a particularly rundown upper floor apartment full same thermos and container can be seen falling as an excavator tears into the building months later. PHOTOS BY SEAN ALLEN, BRANT NEWS of debris, including a spoon with heroin residue. Nearby ❱ on the counter was a beer bottle full of syringes. (Yes, EDITORIAL CARTOON that sort of thing did happen on the south side.) I took a
VIEWPOINT photo of the beer bottle to go along with his story, think- ing the image emblematic of what I saw in many of the now-demolished buildings. Fast forward to June 2010. The lead up to the start of demolition of the south side buildings was a big news story. As a result, I took a lot – and I mean a lot – of photos on the very first morning of demolition. Later that day in the newsroom, I was sorting through all of those images when something in one of them caught my eye: a silver coffee thermos sailing through the air. The image of the thermos was contained in a photo that showed a high- reach excavator tearing through the south side building at the corner of Colborne and Brant like it was butter. Something told me I had seen that thermos before – and it turned out I had. I soon realized that the thermos – as well as an empty cottage cheese container also pictured falling in the debris – were both sitting on the counter along with that beer bottle full of syringes I had photographed months 2016 › earlier. With so much debris falling with the buildings, I was blown away to have captured an image of such a small item I recognized during the demolition. It’s kind of surreal. Have a look at the photos at the top of this page and see for yourself. Many of the artifacts discovered as land was prepared for the new Laurier-YMCA complex are historically sig- FEBRUARY 25 FEBRUARY
› nificant. They include a shoe that could be more than 100 years old, an Upper Canada sloop penny from the 1820s, as well as many others. Neil Oliver Vice President & Group Publisher Metroland West But we have just one question: Did anybody happen to find a thermos? Laurie-Beth Russell General Manager Brant News is a member of
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