Along the Shore: Rediscovering ’s Waterfront Heritage ― Interviews

The following is a selection of interviews I conducted during the course of research for Along the Shore, including interviews that I referred to in the text.

SCARBOROUGH Jane Fairburn. Interviews with:

John Alexander, Scarborough resident, May 2011.

Kevin Brown, former Scarborough resident, May 2011. Telephone interview.

Paul Burd, Scarborough resident, May 2011.

Ian Campbell, Scarborough resident, January 2009, November 2011, January 2013. Telephone interview.

Margaret Carr (née Heron), former Scarborough resident, summer 2000. Telephone interview.

Nancy Gaffney, Waterfront Specialist, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, June and November 2011. Telephone interview.

Professor Richard Harris, School of Geography and Life Sciences, McMaster University, April 2011. Telephone interview.

Herb Harvey, Scarborough resident, May 2011.

Sue Johanson, author, nurse, and sex educator, September 2012. Telephone interview.

Margie Kenedy, Senior Archaeologist, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, June 2011. Telephone interview.

Barbara (neé Beech) Kennedy, Scarborough resident, January 2009 and May 2011.

Professor Victor Konrad, archaeologist, University of Ottawa, July 2011. Telephone interview.

Raimund Krob, President, Underwater Council, Toronto, 2009. Telephone interview.

Sherri Lange and Michael Spencely, Scarborough residents, May 2011.

Denis Matte, General Manager, Scarboro Golf and Country Club, August 2011. Telephone interview.

Doris McCarthy, Canadian landscape painter and Scarborough resident, June 2000.

Robert McCowan, Scarborough resident, June 2000, October 2008, and September 2011.

Robert Pollock, Scarborough resident, June 2000 and April 2009.

Dana Poulton, archaeologist, D. R. Poulton and Associates Inc., (email correspondence, November 2011 and February 2013).

Phil Richards, artist and Scarborough resident, June 2000.

Margaret Sault, Director of Lands, Membership and Research, Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, July 8, 2011. Telephone interview.

Richard Schofield, Archivist of Scarborough Historical Society, 2000, 2008, 2009, April 2011, (email correspondence, April – September 2011).

Professor Bruce Schroeder, archaeologist, University of Toronto, 2000. Telephone interview.

Harry Spindel, President, Community Association, May 2011. Telephone interview.

Ruth Sutherland (née Heron), former Scarborough resident, summer 2000. Telephone interview.

BEACH

Beach Hebrew Institute, “Growing Up Jewish in a Non-Jewish Area”: Avrom Siegel, Ontario Jewish Archives, Oral history #292 .

Beaches Library Local History Collection, Interviews:

Alice M. Keys, “Not ‘The Beaches’”, 1967.

Beaches Library: Research and Reminiscences Norah Lawson, interviewed by Mary Campbell at a meeting of the [and Beaches] Historical Society, April 17, 1975.

Florence Spencer, interviewed by Ray Winner, c. 1975, Interviews #11.

Waverly Wilson, interviewed by Joan Latimer, Interviews #9.

Jane Fairburn. Interviews with:

Sal Azzarello, former proprietor of Azzarello Brothers Ltd., 2010.

Kevin Bazzana, author, 2011, (email correspondence, 2005 and March to April 2011).

Andy Buhot, Beach resident, February 2011. Telephone interview.

Paul Christie, Beach resident, February 2011. Telephone interview.

Wayne Clutterbuck, Beach resident, February 2013. Telephone interview.

Gene Domagala, Local Beach historian and activist, 2006. Further telephone interviews 2009, February 2013.

Senator Irving Gerstein, former East Toronto/Beach resident, August 2010.

Edna Howston, Beach resident, 2006.

Jan Hycamp, President, Greater Beach Neighbourhood Association, February 2013. Telephone interview.

Avrom Isaacs, art dealer, September 2011. Telephone interview.

Tom Jakobek, Beach resident, February 2011. Telephone interview.

Norman Jewison, film director and former Beach resident, July 2009. Telephone interview.

Suzanne Philps Kempton, former East Toronto/Beach resident, September 2010. Telephone interview.

Barbara Kurelek, former Beach resident, April 2009.

Stephen Kurelek, former Beach resident, April 2009. Telephone interview.

Dr. Janine Langan, former Professor, University of Toronto (Saint Michael’s College), June 2009.

Nancy Lee, former Beach resident, 2010. Telephone interview.

Leontine Major, Senior Planner, City Planning Division, February 2013. Telephone interview.

Vandra Masemann, Malvern Collegiate Institute graduate, (email correspondence, February – December 2011).

ISLAND Jane Fairburn. Interviews with:

Elizabeth Amer, Islander, October 2006.

Jay Bascom, Islander and Executive Board Member of the Toronto Marine Historical Society, July 2008, November 2009, February 2013. Telephone interviews.

Ed Burtt, Ocean Scan Systems, January and February 2010, February 2013. Telephone interview.

Vivienne Trudeau Doyle, former Islander, November 2006.

Jerry and Leida Englar, Islanders and Board Members of Community Air, February 2010. Telephone interview. .

Edward English, former Islander, February 2006, February 2010. Telephone interviews.

Albert Fulton, Islander and Toronto Island Archivist, February 2006, March 2007, April 2008.

Peter Holt, Islander, November 2012. Telephone interview.

Brian Iler, Chair, Community Air, October 2012. Telephone interview.

Jimmy Jones Junior, Islander, February 2006, October 2006, April 2007, October 2009, May 2012, February 2013.

Sandy Kryzanowski, Islander, October 2009. Telephone interview.

Raimond Krob, President of Ontario Under Water Council, March 2010. Telephone interview.

Karin Larson, former Islander and publisher of GAM Magazine, September 2007 and March 2010. Telephone interviews.

Reverend Michael Marshall, parish priest, St. Andrew by-the-Lake, Toronto Island, 2009. Telephone interview.

John McLarty, former Islander, April 2006.

Micheal and Pearl O’Shea, former Islanders, October 2006.

Lee Oldershaw, Burlington, February 2013. Telephone interview.

Snadjr, Lise (neé Hodgson). Toronto, March 2013.

Bill Ward, Islander, April 2006.

Geoff Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto Port Authority, March 2010, October, 17, 2012. Telephone interview. .

LAKESHORE

Long Branch Library Local History Collection, Interviews:

Donna Brindle, granddaughter of John Ernest (Erney) Collict, “Memoirs of Long Branch”, July 1991. (The comment about Oates for Boats actually derives from information collected by Donna Brindle and cannot be definitively attributed to one individual).

Don Smith, former Long Branch resident, “Long Branch Remembered, (1922? [sic] to 1942)”, September, 1991.

Jane Fairburn. Interviews with: Christian Bode, La Société d’histoire de Toronto, October 2011.Telephone interview.

Teresa Bodzan, former proprietor of the Casa Mendoza, October 2012. Telephone interview.

Ross Bonar, resident, November 2007.

Ian Campbell, Scarborough resident, November 2011. Telephone interview.

Dr. Wayne Carscadden, Long Branch resident, April 2007.

Paul Chomik, Long Branch resident, January 2012.

George Chowns, New Toronto resident, October 2007. October 2012, telephone interview.

Martin Cooper, Archaeological Services Inc., October and November 2011.

Bert Crandall, Long Branch resident, September 2007.

Marilyn Di Lascio (neé Bell), former marathon swimmer and member of the Lakeshore Swimming Club, November 2011. Telephone interview.

John and Muriel Easton, Long Branch residents, March 2012. Telephone interview.

Mary Fitzpatrick (neé Gamble), former Humber Bay and New Toronto resident, October 2011. Telephone interview.

Nancy Gaffney, Waterfront Specialist, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, November 2011. Telephone interview.

Ross Gamble, New Toronto resident, November 2007.

Wendy Gamble, New Toronto resident, November 2007.

Steven Green, Long Branch resident, 2012. Telephone interview.

Honorary Colonel Gerald P.J. Haddon, (email correspondence, February – March 2012).

Denise Harris, President, Historical Society, October 2011. Telephone interview. Professor Richard Harris, McMaster University, October 2011. Telephone interview.

Michael Harrison, Lakeshore historian, fall 2007, January 2008, November 2011. Telephone interviews.

Hilda (Briscoe) Insley, Port Credit resident, October 2011. Telephone interview.

Ed Janiszewski and John Firth, Toronto, October 2011.

Lorne Joyce, Port Credit resident, 2008 and October 2011. Telephone interviews.

Barry Kemp, Long Branch resident, April 2007.

Ken Maxwell, Cruising Club, February 2013. Telephone interview.

Madeleine McDowell, Toronto, March 2012.

Kelly Peterson, Mississauga, February 2013. Telephone interview.

Bob Poldon, Past President, Mimico Residents Association, 2008, February 2013. Telephone interviews.

Carl Porritt, Long Branch, Ontario 2008.

Ernest (Ernie) Scale, Long Branch resident, October 2007 and October 2011.

Daphne (neé Smyth) Scale, Long Branch resident, October 2007.

Kyra Trainor, President, Mimico Residents Association, February 2013.

Matthew Wilkinson, Historian, Heritage Mississauga, October 2007.