A reunion

So I’m going to date myself here. In 1969 we moved, as a family, to Scarborough. We had been in Hamilton for the previous three years and I had never heard of Scarborough – Toronto yes, Scarborough no. It wasn’t long before I began to understand how the boroughs worked. Toronto as a whole was…

The end of the May long weekend

Last evening Wendy and I went for a walk, as has become our practice, after supper. We’ve found ourselves taking different routes depending on our ambition but we’ve also come to favour revisiting certain houses because we are watching the development of gardens or the stages of flower and fruit development. Last night we saw…

circa. 1858 Scarborough Ontario

After doing some research on the John A. Patterson house on 37 Kecala Road in Scarborough and the related history of the area, I decided to see what else I could find out about this area in these days. Turns out that there is a series (58 pages) of municipal council minutes available on line…