Cabbagetown Preservation Association CPA: Who Are We? Attention All Volunteers ounded in 1988 to encourage the Fpreservation of the architectural and Would-be Volunteers: integrity and historic character of Cabbagetown, the CPA does that and We are also always looking for more people to join in. more. Here’s what we do: There are several volunteer committees that take responsibility EWSLETTER Heritage Preservation Board Members Preserving the architectural integrity and historic character of our neighbourhood Stephen Yeates, Chair for various interesting CPA projects including: • Review applications to Committee of Helen Coltrinari, Vice-Chair Adjustment and the Ontario Municipal Sandie Scott, Treasurer Board, Heritage Walking Tours, Heritage Research, Sue McMurtry, Secretary • Make submissions to regulatory bodies Alan Waterhouse, Past President Cabbagetown Festival Booth, Forsythia Festival, Christopher Dew Tour of Homes Afternoon Tea, C/RP Museum Reveals A Different Beat Heritage Promotion Mary Gallant • Produce quarterly newsletter Newsletter Delivery, etc. David Pretlove s the Cabbagetown/Regent Park Misdemeanours didn’t significantly escalate • Produce special heritage displays Helen Coltrinari museum gears up for its first public from those of 1860, which included one • Organize “Speaker Series” What Rick Merrill Some committees are responsible for an annual event, some a • Manage “Walking Tour” program A exposure at Police Division 51, we “Andrew Adams having in his possession a Toby Schertzer A few times each year, and some on a more frequent basis. We Sheila Schirmer will be giving you teasers of future displays. is this horse and buggy stolen from Dr. Geikie,” and Awards Programs Carol Moore-Ede have a chair person for each of these committees, and this per- The following account of policing shows “a house at the head of Sayer Street, lately • “Restoration Awards” Peggy Weir son connects with our Volunteer Director who is a member of object? • “Streetscapes in Bloom” us a very different Toronto. occupied by John Aston, but now by Furniss, the Board. allows drinking & disorderly conduct to be Community Events Office: Cabbagetown Preservation In 1876 the Police force in the carried on therein.” • Forsythia Festival Being a volunteer on any of the Cabbagetown Preservation See back • Cabbagetown Cabaret Association Cabbagetown/Regent Park area had four • “Tour of Homes” Tea 422 Parliament Street Association Volunteer Committees is a great way to become main beats. These were patrolled by At that time offences were usually minor and P.O. Box 82512 page involved in our community and to get to know your neighbours. officers Corbett, Dickson, Hetherington, included “some irregularities at the Quebec Special Long-Term Projects Toronto, On M5A 4N8 • Heritage Conservation District Tel: 416-410-4259 Ross, Worth, McKay, Bowers, Coleman, Bank”; and some individuals who “attempted • Books on Cabbagetown Heritage Fax: 416-966-2036 To confirm your participation, and if you are interested in joining and Murray. The local force boasted a Day Patrol and a Night theft by drilling a hole in the adjacent store and stole about $4,000 • “Cabbagetown People” plaque program [email protected] www.cabbagetownpa.ca in as a new volunteer, please contact Mary Gallant , Volunteer Patrol; 2 detectives – Burrows & Reid, an undercover officer as goods.” They were quickly arrested. • Cabbagetown/Regent Park Museum Director, at (416) 920 3882 or by e-mail at • HCD street signs well as officers on Station Duty, Wharf Duty and Rail Duty. [email protected] The occasional officer was not to be beyond reproach. On October Newsletter design and illustration by Steve Yeates 416-531-5757 Each day Sergeant Major Archibald of Police Station 4 routinely 7th 1876, an officer on duty was “found sitting down and asleep www.steveyeates.ca checked the bells, inspected the station and cells, and the on his beat, also his having the appearance of being under the Telegraph Instruments, and counted the number of prisoners – influence of liquor at 3.40am.” Researchers Needed Urgently What is this object? This highly effective handheld coal-oil usually from 2 to 8. The officers on duty were inspected and more lantern was used by both the police service and by railway often than not found to be “all sober & correct” by their It was a simpler time and a more unified time – a different beat to personnel. It has a clip-on for a belt for hands-free use with the The Cabbagetown/Regent Park Museum project, jointly Sergeant, who then marched them to their beats. be sure. managed by the CPA and Regent Park communities, is in need added option of two handles to allow for carrying by hand. The conical scalloped top has two vents, which allow the smoke and of volunteers to help in researching the history of our heat to disperse. A 3" glass convex Bull’s Eye magnifying lens well-known historian and author is determined communities and in assembling material for exhibition purposes. Join us: TO History with Bruce Bell pivots open to access the wick and fuel reservoir. A lever directly to look under those parking lots to see what below the lens opens and closes a sliding “shutter”, which can at the Ben Wicks Pub Nov 29, 6:30 PM secrets are held in Toronto's much overlooked Volunteers who have some knowledge of, or are interested in spread or focus the light as desired. Robert Edwin Dietz colonial and 19th century past. And you don't local historical research, are asked to contact Carol Moore-Ede designed this early “flashlight” in 1859. This particular one The CPA will be hosting a lively presentation by Bruce Bell, the have to live in Toronto to fully enjoy this unique at 416-962-9139. dates back to the 1880s. popular history columnist for the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood tour. Visitors from all over the globe have been Community Bulletin, who will regale us with tales of Toronto’s fascinated in how Bruce has connected their Theatre History. AND: Awards for Streetscapes in Bloom will be own country's history to Toronto's. CPA Membership/Volunteer Application given at this meeting. In May 2002 Bruce was appointed by the City Please mail to Cabbagetown Preservation Association, P.O. Box 82512, Toronto, ON M5A 4N8 Bell is an Award winning playwright, actor, standup comedian and the of Toronto the Official Historian of historic St. or e-mail www.cabbagetownpa.ca honourary curator of the most photographed building in the city of Lawrence Hall. In April of 2004 Bruce was appointed official historian Name__________________________________________________ Date _____________ Toronto the historic Gooderham Building better known as the Flatiron. of Toronto's famed King Edward Hotel and in May was elected to Bruce’s insights into Toronto’s past have brought him legions of fans serve on the board of The Town of York Historical Society. On Address ________________________________________________ 1 year ($20) _____________ that not only read his monthly column but also follow him around the September 28, 2004 Bruce was named Honourary Historian of Postal Code_______________Telephone_____________________ 3 years ($50) _____________ old downtown core as he leads them on historic walking tours. the Hockey Hall of Fame building in Toronto. E-mail_________________ 5 years ($75) _____________ So much of Toronto's history is either buried under parking lots or Ben Wicks Pub, Tues. Nov. 29 at 6:30 p.m., 424 Parliament Street. Interested in Volunteering?________________________________ single _____________ confined to dusty history books hidden on the top shelves of libraries or For more information about our lecturer, go to family _____________ just plain forgotten. Using his wealth of knowledge and experience, the www.brucebelltours.com November 2005 volume 15 issue 4 November 2005 volume 15 issue 4 Resources! Luigi von Kunits Mrs. von Kunits initiated the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Women’s First Conductor of Committee. This strong group of women found ways to financially Heritage Website The Toronto Symphony Orchestra 1870 – 1931 support and sustain the orchestra, and by the fifth season the Plaque location: Rose Avenue Public School, south-west corner orchestra had found its place and its patrons. The New Symphony A group of heritage volunteers has became the Toronto Symphony. For the next five years Luigi von Kunits built a website to make heritage Luigi von Kunits was born and raised in the musically-enriched city of (now an honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Toronto) issues more visible and more easily Vienna, Austria. He studied violin, composition and music history with brought a series of Twilight Concerts to Toronto, which gave purpose accessible. Take a look! some of the finest teachers. At the age of eleven, the great Brahms him- and pleasure to its musicians and a great deal of pleasure to its citizens. http://www.ontarioheritageconnec- self, who knew his father, asked him to play second violin in one tion.org. You'll find news of heritage of the composer’s string quartets. When he was twenty- The 1924 – 25 season included the first orchestra spon- conservation districts, upcoming con- one, he had the opportunity to perform his own violin sored jointly by the Toronto Board of Education and ferences, endangered buildings, book concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. the Toronto Catholic School Board. This concert reviews, our multicultural heritage, was the beginning of the TSO Education Program. newly-discovered shipwrecks, success- In 1893, von Kunits traveled to the United States to ful restorations, endangered natural perform with an Austrian orchestra at the Chicago In the Fall of 1929, the first radio broadcast was environments, highlights from Doors World’s Fair, where he also won the best solo violinist heard across Canada on the CNR Radio Network. Open Ontario, links to current media trophy. At this time, he decided to stay in the United This performance was broadcast from the Arcadian items, Then and Now photographs, States and taught violin in Chicago from 1893 until 1896.