casaguy
Senior Member
Looks like some sort of archealogical dig.
Can anyone translate that gang graffiti? Is Shangri-La sparking a turf war?
Can anyone translate that gang graffiti? Is Shangri-La sparking a turf war?
H
Hydrogen
Guest
Graffiti gangs: They're trying to decide who gets in first.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
It seems they will have to take apart the Bishop's Block facade and rebuild it instead:
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2007/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-5698.pdf
AoD
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2007/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-5698.pdf
AoD
allabootmatt
Senior Member
Oy. That may slow things down slightly.
caltrane74
Senior Member
That sucks.
dismantling the facade may take 4 months or so right? And only then can excavation begin.
dismantling the facade may take 4 months or so right? And only then can excavation begin.
So what if it delays it a few months? If you need your fix of excavation sites there are lots of others in the city. This short delay likely means someone else's hole gets attention sooner. No biggie.
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caltrane74
Senior Member
No big deal, but still it would have been better if they could have left it standing, and proceeded with excavation. And according to the city document above, that's what the Heritage Department would have preferred also.
khris
Senior Member
3Dementia
Senior Member
"Holes"? "no Biggies"?
I think a little moderation from the moderator is in order. (blush)
I think a little moderation from the moderator is in order. (blush)
purespirits
New Member
Lol! :d
Believe me 3D, I'm already exercising with restraints - I mean exercising restraint. Oh I just don't know anymore...
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3Dementia
Senior Member
oh my... don't know whether to laugh or cry...
FunkyTechnician
New Member
Shangri-La steps into a 19th-century footprint
SUSAN GRIMBLY
September 22, 2007
As the city's condo boom continues apace, so does discovery of Toronto's underpinnings.
Construction began this spring on a super-luxury 65-storey tower at the corner of University and Adelaide.
Before one can build, of course, one has to dig a hole in the ground. And an archaeological dig is mandated by the city's Planning Act, if there is reasonable cause to think there might be something interesting to find down below the modern world.
What Ron Williamson, chief archeologist of Architectural Services Inc., discovered in July, when his team began investigating the site in depth, was a "remarkable signature of early Toronto's development."
Print Edition - Section Front
Section M Front Enlarge Image
The Globe and Mail
You could call John Bishop, a butcher, one of Canada's early developers. He built five Georgian houses for Toronto's elite at this site in the early 1800s. These, the first brick residences in Toronto, were known as Bishop's Block. One of the owners was attorney-general Robert Jameson.
His wife was Anna Brownell Jameson, author of Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (a 19th-century Canadian travel book), who sailed from London, England, to join her husband in Upper Canada in 1836.
What Mr. Williamson and his team are looking at most closely is the back lots, where the owners had their water features: the cisterns and privies.
The exciting thing is that the artifacts they are uncovering are intact. "It's just so rare," says Mr. Williamson.
Among the relics are things like five complete coconuts, many pieces of a child's tea set whose pot is "a mere few centimetres big," and pieces of a wood domino set covered in deer-antler veneer.
Sad story, though. The excavation will likely continue to mid-October. And after it's all been revealed, photographed, and the artifacts removed, the site will be bulldozed to make way for (scriptwriters couldn't improve on this) a parking lot for the Living Shangri-La Toronto five-star hotel-condominium. Perhaps Mr. Bishop - a developer, after all - would approve.
SUSAN GRIMBLY
September 22, 2007
As the city's condo boom continues apace, so does discovery of Toronto's underpinnings.
Construction began this spring on a super-luxury 65-storey tower at the corner of University and Adelaide.
Before one can build, of course, one has to dig a hole in the ground. And an archaeological dig is mandated by the city's Planning Act, if there is reasonable cause to think there might be something interesting to find down below the modern world.
What Ron Williamson, chief archeologist of Architectural Services Inc., discovered in July, when his team began investigating the site in depth, was a "remarkable signature of early Toronto's development."
Print Edition - Section Front
Section M Front Enlarge Image
The Globe and Mail
You could call John Bishop, a butcher, one of Canada's early developers. He built five Georgian houses for Toronto's elite at this site in the early 1800s. These, the first brick residences in Toronto, were known as Bishop's Block. One of the owners was attorney-general Robert Jameson.
His wife was Anna Brownell Jameson, author of Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (a 19th-century Canadian travel book), who sailed from London, England, to join her husband in Upper Canada in 1836.
What Mr. Williamson and his team are looking at most closely is the back lots, where the owners had their water features: the cisterns and privies.
The exciting thing is that the artifacts they are uncovering are intact. "It's just so rare," says Mr. Williamson.
Among the relics are things like five complete coconuts, many pieces of a child's tea set whose pot is "a mere few centimetres big," and pieces of a wood domino set covered in deer-antler veneer.
Sad story, though. The excavation will likely continue to mid-October. And after it's all been revealed, photographed, and the artifacts removed, the site will be bulldozed to make way for (scriptwriters couldn't improve on this) a parking lot for the Living Shangri-La Toronto five-star hotel-condominium. Perhaps Mr. Bishop - a developer, after all - would approve.
khris
Senior Member
I'd love to see pictures of the excavation. Anyone take any recently?
syn
Senior Member
How big will this parking lot be?