In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge, Notre Dame High School will be planting a ‘Vimy Oak’ in the front of the school June 2. The oak trees were originally brought to Canada by Leslie Miller, a WWI soldier who fought in the battle of Vimy Ridge, according to the Vimy Oaks Legacy […]
Local resident Graeme Boyce will be giving a presentation at Murphy’s Law on June 3 about the Beach in the early 1900s and how it came to be a part of the City of Toronto. An active member of and historian for the Beaches Lodge of Freemasonry, Boyce came up with the idea for the […]
He had a budgie named Mozart. His goldfish were Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Haydn. As a boy growing up in the Beach, Glenn Gould left plenty of clues he might have a future in music. One was rediscovered this October, when a former classmate of his came to the centennial at Williamson Road Junior Public […]
My grandfather and his brother both served in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces during the First World War. My grandfather was wounded and his brother was killed. This past summer, on the hundredth anniversary of the start of the war, my family – parent Edmond Sr. and Letitia Valin, my wife Lisa Charette and my children […]
This year’s November 11 Remembrance Day observance will include a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Several thousand men and women from the Beach served in the military or were part of civilian home front efforts from 1914 to the war’s end in 1918. The ceremony will take […]
The Anglican church of St. John’s Norway will put new meaning into the words, “Lest we forget,” with Poppies, Poetry and Song: A Remembrance of the Great War. This year marks 100 years since so many members of the Beach community responded to the call to action as war clouds gathered in Europe in 1914. […]
Candidates for the Ward 32 city council seat meet for a two-hour debate at St. John the Baptist Norway Anglican church, organized by Beach Metro Community News and Community Centre 55, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The event will be moderated by Rob Granatstein, senior producer and director of canada.com. Questions for the […]
One man is dead and another in hospital after a fight broke out between two groups of people outside a licensed restaurant on Danforth Avenue just east of Dawes Road. Toronto Police were called to the scene just after 5 p.m. on Sept. 8 to find two males suffering from obvious stab wounds. Dwayne Goodwin, […]
Malvern war memorial vulnerable without protection I am a Malvern alumnus. The statue has been the target of vandals for over 45 years. The solution is to move it inside. If and when the vandals are caught and convicted, the next part of the solution is to sue the family for damages. The family will […]
Vandals have once again damaged a cenotaph outside Malvern Collegiate. Designed by sculptor Emanuel Hahn, the 1922 cenotaph honours 25 Malvern students who died in the First World War. It features a statute of a young man raising a broken chain in one hand, and holding a sword in the other. Security camera footage shows vandals removing […]
