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  1. Anna

    Rob Ford's Toronto

    How about 'Russian Greek Orthodox' - which is what it says on Karla's grandparents' marriage registration (in Ottawa in 1916). http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=125398327
  2. Anna

    Rob Ford's Toronto

    1947
  3. Anna

    Rob Ford's Toronto

    Thank you. Still looking for the Renwick/Middlebrook wedding, but if Julie's sister was married in Evangel Temple...
  4. Anna

    Rob Ford's Toronto

  5. Anna

    Leaside

    http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/20014-Costco-(42-46-Overlea-Boulevard)-Demolition-of-Heritage-Building-Former-Coca-Cola-HQ http://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/City%20Planning/Community%20Planning/Files/pdf/4/42overlea_PlanningRationaleReport_may2014.pdf
  6. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Goldie, I'm glad you managed to find a photo of your childhood hangout - but - assuming the theatre was in the back behind the storefronts, like Mustapha's Capitol - was it partially below ground or have they lopped off the top of it? Or was it just a lot smaller than the nearby Odeon Danforth?
  7. Anna

    Rob Ford's Toronto

    page 19
  8. Anna

    Rob Ford's Toronto

    No, charitable donations are a credit against tax otherwise payable. You get a 15% credit for the first $200, and a 29% credit for everything above that (for federal tax purposes - for Ontario it's 5.05% and 11.16% ). You only get a credit for charitable donations up to 75% of net income in a...
  9. Anna

    Rob Ford's Toronto

    No, he served 15 days in jail for assault. Toronto Star 12 Dec 1986 Toronto Star 25 Sep 1987 page A19
  10. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    It was taken in 1958 from the Post Office building on St Clair - it shows the first covered portion of the open cut subway (I think). - see also http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/19559-Toronto-Architecture-from-the-1940-s-and-1950-s?p=917269#post917269
  11. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Our neighbours in the 60s in Scarborough were an all-Volkswagen family - the lady of the house drove a Karmann Ghia. Very exotic. I can't see any Karmann Ghias from here
  12. Anna

    Toronto Architecture from the 1940's and 1950's

    Don't tell Rob Ford, but most of the original (1954) 'subway' in the burbs (Bloor to Eglinton) was not underground.
  13. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    oops, yes, fixed
  14. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    That photo's from 1975 - April 22 specifically And this says it was converted to Ziggys in Nov 1975. http://torontoist.com/2008/06/vintage_toronto_70/
  15. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    I'm definitely not Adma, but you can see a bit of it in this shot of the southwest corner of Yonge & Yorkville - but the sign says 'Pickering Farm'?
  16. Anna

    Victoria Village

    The Scarborough Historical Society has a Facebook page called 'Scarborough, Looking Back' which has snapshots of aerial photos of Eglinton Square - one, before it was closed in and Harris Park Blvd went up to Eglinton, and other when the Bay was Morgan's and there was a parking lot on the roof...
  17. Anna

    More Lost Toronto in colour

    The Wildcat The Tornado
  18. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    1957 Under construction in 1962 - in connection with both the York ramps and the University subway construction? And done in 1971.
  19. Anna

    More Lost Toronto in colour

    Bring back the Flyer, too.

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