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Making Land on the Toronto Waterfront in the 1850S Thomas Mcilwraith
Document generated on 09/24/2021 10:01 p.m. Urban History Review Revue d'histoire urbaine Digging Out and Filling In Making Land on the Toronto Waterfront in the 1850s Thomas McIlwraith Volume 20, Number 1, June 1991 Article abstract A half-million square metres (50 hectares) was brought in to railroad and URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1017560ar commercial use at wharfage-level along the Toronto lakefront during the DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1017560ar 1850s. This major engineering project involved cutting down the terrace south of Front Street, and this was the source of most of the fill dumped into the Bay. See table of contents Neither railroad cars nor harbour dredges were capable of delivering the additional material necessary for building anticipated port lands, and many parts of the waterfront remained improperly filled for decades. The land-area Publisher(s) that was created should be regarded as a byproduct of short-run, selfish commercial interests, abetted by a City Council that gave only lip-service to the Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine concept of a parklike lakefront. ISSN 0703-0428 (print) 1918-5138 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article McIlwraith, T. (1991). Digging Out and Filling In: Making Land on the Toronto Waterfront in the 1850s. Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 20(1), 15–33. https://doi.org/10.7202/1017560ar All Rights Reserved © Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 1991 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. -
510 Main Street Winnipeg City Hall
510 MAIN STREET WINNIPEG CITY HALL City of Winnipeg Historical Buildings Committee Researcher: M. Peterson April 2014 510 MAIN STREET – WINNIPEG CITY HALL Winnipeg’s first City Hall was officially opened in March 1876, the brick structure costing nearly $40,000 to complete (Plate 1), one of only a few substantial structures in the City that had incorporated two-and-a-half years earlier.1 But the structure had been built over a poorly filled Brown’s Creek. The fill could not hold the weight of the building and cracks began to appear shortly after it opened. An addition was completed in the winter of 1882-1883 but it too was poorly built. The entire structure had to be propped up because of these structural problems, ultimately being torn down in April 1883.2 The second City Hall, the famous “Gingerbread” building, was erected amid controversy between 1884 and 1886. Debate over location, construction materials, architect fees and other problems kept the building in the local papers throughout its construction. However, the completed structure was well-built and served the civic government and the citizens of Winnipeg for nearly 80 years (Plates 2 and 3).3 Three years later the City Market Building was completed to the west of City Hall adding a major retail element to the area (Plate 4). In 1913, a City of Winnipeg committee recommended replacing this City Hall, a competition was held and a winner from Regina, Saskatchewan, architects Clemesha and Portnall, was declared (Plate 5). But global economic downturn and the escalation of conflict leading to World War I halted any major construction plans and this new city hall building was never built. -
The Value of Investing in Canadian Downtowns Part 2
REGINA A new era Snap Shot of Regina Provincial capital of Saskatchewan Experiencing one of the fastest economic growth rates in Canada Downtown is poised for a large increase in population A compact and dense urban core with an impressive skyline, for a city of its size There are few physical constraints when it comes to urban expansion Regina is presently experiencing some of the fastest economic growth in Canada, and the downtown is poised to undergo a period of rapid change in the coming decades. In preparation for this growth, the City has undertaken an “Regina has a very small, very extensive downtown master planning process that contained downtown this is a – recognizes the importance of the core and envisages it tremendous positive when it emerging as an increasingly vital, mixed use and walkable comes to experiencing the neighbourhood. The City has also created a range of downtown environment.” financial incentives, policy tools and invested in public projects to accelerate downtown revitalization efforts. Despite these positive steps, downtown Regina remains challenged to attract its share of growth and investment in an expanding urban region, achieve high quality urban design, enhance its heritage buildings, and attract residential growth to increase its critical mass of activity beyond business hours. On the whole, Regina is placing greater value on its downtown, but long term commitment to intensification efforts will be required to realize the urban vision set out for the downtown core into the future. 53 Downtown Regina Timeline 1881: Edward Carss, one of the first 1882 – Regina, named for Queen Victoria, European pioneers in the Regina area, is established as the capital of the North- settled at the junction of Qu’Appelle River West Territory near the site of an earlier and Wascana Creek. -
Cultural Heritage Impact Statement Ottawa Public Library/Library and Archives Canada Joint Facility 555 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON
Cultural Heritage Impact Statement Ottawa Public Library/Library and Archives Canada Joint Facility 555 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON Prepared for: Ralph Wiesbrock, OAA, FRAIC, LEED AP Partner / Principal KWC Architects Inc. 383 Parkdale Avenue, suite 201 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4R4 T: 613-238-2117 ext. 225 C: 613-728-5800 E: [email protected] Submitted by: Julie Harris, CAHP, Principal & Heritage Specialist, Contentworks Inc. E: [email protected] T: 613 730-4059 Date: 17 June 2020 Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 2 1.1 ABOUT THE CHIS ........................................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 SOURCES .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.3 DEVELOPMENT SITE ...................................................................................................................................... 3 2 HERITAGE RESOURCE DESCRIPTIONS AND HISTORIES ........................................................ 9 2.1 FORMAL MUNICIPAL RECOGNITIONS .......................................................................................................... 9 2.2 OTHER HERITAGE ....................................................................................................................................... 18 3 PROPOSED -
NIAGARA ROCKS, BUILDING STONE, HISTORY and WINE
NIAGARA ROCKS, BUILDING STONE, HISTORY and WINE Gerard V. Middleton, Nick Eyles, Nina Chapple, and Robert Watson American Geophysical Union and Geological Association of Canada Field Trip A3: Guidebook May 23, 2009 Cover: The Battle of Queenston Heights, 13 October, 1812 (Library and Archives Canada, C-000276). The cover engraving made in 1836, is based on a sketch by James Dennis (1796-1855) who was the senior British officer of the small force at Queenston when the Americans first landed. The war of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States offers several examples of the effects of geology and landscape on military strategy in Southern Ontario. In short, Canada’s survival hinged on keeping high ground in the face of invading American forces. The mouth of the Niagara Gorge was of strategic value during the war to both the British and Americans as it was the start of overland portages from the Niagara River southwards around Niagara Falls to Lake Erie. Whoever controlled this part of the Niagara River could dictate events along the entire Niagara Peninsula. With Britain distracted by the war against Napoleon in Europe, the Americans thought they could take Canada by a series of cross-border strikes aimed at Montreal, Kingston and the Niagara River. At Queenston Heights, the Niagara Escarpment is about 100 m high and looks north over the flat floor of glacial Lake Iroquois. To the east it commands a fine view over the Niagara Gorge and river. Queenston is a small community perched just below the crest of the escarpment on a small bench created by the outcrop of the Whirlpool Sandstone. -
City of St. Catharines Designation of Rodman Hall Under Part IV
Corporate Report Report from Planning and Building Services, Planning Services Date of Report: April 19, 2018 Date of Meeting: May 23, 2018 Report Number: PBS-111-2018 File: 10.64.187 Subject: Designation of 109 St. Paul Crescent (Rodman Hall) under Part IV of Ontario Heritage Act Recommendation That Council designate the interior and exterior of the building located at 109 St. Paul Crescent (Rodman Hall) and grounds to be of cultural heritage value or interest pursuant to Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act, for reasons (see Appendix 7) set forth in the report from Planning and Building Services, dated April 19, 2018; and That the City Clerk be directed to give notice of Council’s intent pursuant to the Ontario Heritage Act; and That the City Solicitor be directed to prepare the necessary by-laws to give effect to Council’s decision if no appeals are submitted; and That upon expiration of the appeal period, the Clerk be directed to forward any appeals to the Conservation Review Board; and Further, that the Clerk be directed to make the necessary notifications. FORTHWITH Summary The St. Catharines Heritage Advisory Committee (SCHAC) is recommending that the building (interior and exterior) and grounds at 109 St. Paul Crescent, be designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. Staff concur with its recommendation under the Ontario Heritage Act. This report summarizes the background, conclusions of the heritage research, consultation, and Provincial and Official Plan policies that support heritage conservation in St. Catharines. The Ontario Heritage Act enables the council of a municipality to designate a property within the municipality to be of cultural heritage or value or interest if the property meets prescribed criteria. -
Drawer Inventory Combined G
Class Size code File # Item # Title Author CB13 half 26 #12 Population Xiao Hangha CB13 half 26 #13 Health CB13 half 26 #14 Land Xiao Kanghai Great Historical Documents - Victory Propaganda of the Great Shanghai full 26 Proletarian Culture Revolution People's Press Threshold FC177 quarter 020C1 #1 Animal Farm Theater Claire Coulter in "The Fever" by Threshold FC177 quarter 020C1 #2 Wallace Shawn Theater Comedy Cabaret in the Baby FC177 quarter 020C1 #3 Serious Comedy for Oxymorons Grand Comedy Cabaret in the Baby FC177 quarter 020C1 #4 Serious Comedy for Oxymorons Grand Sunbuilders in Association with Brilliant Turquoise of her A. Small Theatre FC177 quarter 020C1 #5 Peacocks Co. FC177 letter 020C1 #6 Live Sex Show - Llamas FC177 letter 020C1 #7 Live Sex Show - Llamas FC177 quarter 020C1 #8 Kingston Fringe Festival FC177 quarter 020C1 #9 Kingston Fringe Festival Kingston Fringe FC177 quarter 020C1 #10 No More Medea Festival FC177 quarter 020C1 #11 Walk FC177 quarter 020C1 #12 Cold Comfort FC177 quarter 020C1 #13 Cold Comfort Pagnello Theatre FC177 quarter 020C1 #14 Don't Forget to Breathe Group Mirimax FC177 letter 020C1 #15 Face Productions FC177 letter 020C1 #16 Newsweek. Art or Obscenity? Month of Sundays, Broadway Bound, A Night at the Grand, Baby Fringe FC177 quarter 020C1 #17 Sex and Politics Theatre Festival FC177 quarter 020C1 #18 Shaking Like a Leaf FC177 quarter 020C1 #19 Bent FC177 quarter 020C1 #20 Bent FC177 quarter 020C1 #21 Kennedy's Children FC177 quarter 020C1 #22 Dumbwaiter/Suppress FC177 letter 020C1 #23 Bath Haydon Theatre Kingston Fringe FC177 quarter 020C1 #24 Using Festival West of Eden FC177 quarter 020C1 #25 Big Girls Don't Cry Production Two One Act Plays: "Winners" A. -
Heritage Churches in the Niagara Region: an Essay on the Interpretation of Style Malcolm Thurlby
Document generated on 09/28/2021 7:11 a.m. Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Le Journal de la Société pour l'étude de l'architecture au Canada Heritage Churches in the Niagara Region: An Essay on the Interpretation of Style Malcolm Thurlby Volume 43, Number 2, 2018 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1058039ar DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1058039ar See table of contents Publisher(s) SSAC-SEAC ISSN 2563-8696 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Thurlby, M. (2018). Heritage Churches in the Niagara Region: An Essay on the Interpretation of Style. Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada / Le Journal de la Société pour l'étude de l'architecture au Canada, 43(2), 67–95. https://doi.org/10.7202/1058039ar Copyright © SSAC-SEAC, 2019 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ ANALYSIS | ANALYSE HERITAGE CHURCHES IN THE NIAGARA REGION: AN ESSAY ON THE INTERPRETATION OF STYLE1 MALCOLM THURLBY, PH.D., F.S.A., teaches MALCOLM THURLBY art and architectural history at York University, Toronto. His research concentrates on Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, and nineteenth-century Canadian his paper is an expanded ver- architecture. -
Architectural Records Collection
Description and Finding Aid ARCHITECTURAL RECORDS COLLECTION Including records from: acc. 1986-0098 acc. 1988-0059 acc. 2005-0032 Prepared by James Roussain, 2011-2012 Architectural Records Collection page 2 of 307 Introduction The construction history of the University of Trinity College as seen through its collection of architectural drawings, spans two centuries of different styles and contents, from the hand-painted watercolour drawings done on heavy paper of William Hay 1857 to the machine-generated drawings of more recent years. Among the plans listed in this finding aid are those related both directly to the physical plant of Trinity College, and those related indirectly by reason of their associational history including St. Hilda's College, the Gerald Larkin Academic Building, George Ignatieff Theatre, Munk Centre and other records as listed; all records and materials are listed chronologically within their organization series. Requests for information from researchers which previously went unanswered for lack of access to architectural plans can now be responded to with greater alacrity and with more attention given to identification by means of detailed descriptions. As several incomplete efforts have been made to comprehensively organize these materials, several accession numbers have come to be associated with these records. Where possible, all numbers associated with a record have been included in their description. Records are listed as follows: Records from the Offices of the Bursar and Building Manager, University of Trinity College, 988 0059/ A1857-1858 (01) 01 …where 988-0059 is the accession number, / A1857-1858 is the series number as defined by the record's date of creation or use, (01) is the section number, and 01 being the item's position within the section. -
Cultural Heritage Impact Statement4
HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT OPTIONS FOR THE OLD BOOTH STREET BRIDGE OTTAWA, ONTARIO Julie Harris Contentworks Inc. 3 September 2019 Table of Contents BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................................. 3 HERITAGE VALUE OF THE OLD BOOTH STREET BRIDGE ................................................................. 4 HERITAGE GUIDANCE ...................................................................................................................... 5 IMPACT ASSESSMENT ..................................................................................................................... 7 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................................. 10 FIGURES ......................................................................................................................................... 11 APPENDIX A: ALTERNATIVES FOR THE BOOTH STREET BRIDGE, 2019 ......................................... 17 APPENDIX B: DRAFT STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE VALUE AND HERITAGE ATTRIBUTES OF THE BOOTH STREET BRIDGE .................................................................................................... 19 APPENDIX C: DRAFT STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE VALUE FOR THE OTTAWA WATER WORKS, LEBRETON FLATS – BYLAW 22-82 ................................................................................... 21 Contentworks – Old Booth Street Bridge Heritage Impact Assessment 1 HERITAGE -
CHARLES THOMAS a Stonemason's Legacy Restored
CHARLES THOMAS A Stonemason's Legacy Restored . ~ 'Reprinted with the kind permission of the Ontario Genealogical Society journal Families (28:2, 1989) and the author. What is a genealogist to do when he/she reads statements in popular and respected . publications crediting another person with an achievement that we know proudly belongs to a relative? What if such statements are often written as absolute fact, yet are contradictory to our own family history? What if every time one picks up a book or reads a magazine article about the subject in question, that glaring "mistake" is found? One might try to ignore the inaccuracies. But most family historians would do as much as possible to correct them. I was caught in just such a problem in the spring and summer of 1986. In my case the inaccuracy was a fully understandable case of mistaken identity. But because it appeared in print again and again, I grew increasingly frustrated. I decided to try to set the record straight. -•~, Victoria Hall, Cobourg, Ontario, circa 1860. This may well be the earliest photograph of Victoria Hall. The three-storey building to the extreme left is the Bank of Montreal, designed by J.H. Spring Ie. Directly behind Victoria Hall is the Market Building, apparently designed by IVvas Tully and constructed as part of the town hall project. (Art Gallery of Northumberland, NEC) thas alwaysbeen the contention in our family that my maternal too, was born in Wales. The story goes on to say that after the work on Igreat-great-great uncle, a Welsh stonemason and master Victoria Hall was completed, Charles Thomas left Cobourg and, some builder named Charles Thomas Thomas (1820-1867), executed the time later, was killed on a bridge building project in the United States. -
Ce Document Est Tiré Du Registre Aux Fins De La Loi Sur Le Patrimoine De L
This document was retrieved from the Ontario Heritage Act Register, which is accessible through the website of the Ontario Heritage Trust at www.heritagetrust.on.ca. Ce document est tiré du registre aux fins de la Loi sur le patrimoine de l’Ontario, accessible à partir du site Web de la Fiducie du patrimoine ontarien sur www.heritagetrust.on.ca. 0r\T,til0 litRiTtCI TRTST i:ii I i :iij Town of Whitby -?FtP*{.{r* Office of the Town Clerk 575 Rossland Road East, Whitby, ON L1N 2M8 www.whitbv.ca April 30, 2015 Sent Via Courier Ontario Heritage Trust '10 Adelaide Street East Toronto, ON MsC 1J3 Re: Passage of By-law to Designate Land Registry Office 400 Centre Street South, Whitby Please be advised that the Town of Whitby Council enacted By-law # 6986-15 at its meeting held on April 20, 2015 to designate the above noted property in the Town of Whitby, as being of cultural heritage value or interest under Part lV of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, O.18, Part lV, Section 29. A copy of the Notice of Passing of the by-law, in addition to copy of By-law # 6986-15 has been attached for your reference. Further information regarding this matter may be obtained by contacting the undersioned. Sincerely, Sudan Cassel, 905-430-4300 ext.2364 i:, t_:' :.t,-. :, if r,.i f r lii--,5t-,1.:..1 SC/lam Encl. Copy. D. Wilcox, Town Clerk R. Short, Commissioner of Planning S. Ashton, Planner ll, Planning Department A.