By GENE DOMAGALA On Saturday, May 21, I will be leading an historic walk starting at the northwest corner of Woodbine and Danforth avenues. The walk will begin at 1 p.m. Even though I have been leading historic walks on the Danforth for more than four decades, the area still intrigues me. It is one […]
By GENE DOMAGALA There have been many articles written by fine sports people about baseball who are far more knowledgeable than I about the game. But baseball in the East End did not originate down in the Beach! The original East Toronto baseball teams started up in the present area of Ted Reeve Arena, about […]
By GENE DOMAGALA The Beach Metro Community News (which published its first edition on March 1, 1972 as Ward 9 Community News) is celebrating its 50th anniversary. In my humble opinion, each of these 50 years have been a reflection of great historic and journalistic prose. This is what we mean by Freedom of the […]
By GENE DOMAGALA One of the great things Beach Metro Community News/Ward 9 Community News has done in its 50-year history is the watchword of all newspapers – Freedom of The Press. In Beach Metro Community News, they have given people of all types of abilities the chance to present their views on all matters. […]
By GENE DOMAGALA Toronto in 1972 was different than it is today. Politically in 1972 the Prime Minister of Canada was Pierre Elliot Trudeau. And now here we are freshly arrived in the year of 2022, and the Prime Minister of Canada is his son Justin Trudeau. In 1972, the Premier of Ontario was William […]
By GENE DOMAGALA This year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Main Street Library. What was that I wrote? The 100th anniversary of the Main Street Library? Yes, it is the 100th anniversary of a building that housed the beginning of a library. The official date of the anniversary is Dec. 15, and that’s […]
By GENE DOMAGALA The War Memorial cenotaph in Kew Gardens in the Beach is one of only two on Queen Street in Toronto. The other is in front of Old City Hall. For a number of years, the citizens of the Beach would mark Remembrance Day on Nov. 11 in different locations, at schools and […]
By GENE DOMAGALA Did you know that the Woodbine Race Track wasn’t the first race course in the east end of Toronto or that the Queen’s Plate was held at this particular site? To find out its location, join me on a Heritage Walk of East Toronto on Saturday, Nov. 6, starting at 1 p.m. […]
By GENE DOMAGALA Baseball has been around for a long time in the East End, especially in the Beach area. There have been professional teams in both the western and eastern parts of Toronto, but that is for another column. We here in the Beach are concerned with the “amateur” baseball teams. Originally, as I […]
By GENE DOMAGALA It is great to have all these different types of plaques about people, places and public events in our community. But where is the plaque for one of the world’s greatest film directors, Norman Jewison? He was born in the Beach and remains a proud Canadian. Growing up, Jewison attended Kew Beach […]
