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Comment on R.L Hearn Generation Station by admin

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:02:52 +0000

Jt.. glad you liked it. It’s definitely one of the items on the UE tour checklist. No one has the vision that you do so… I’m rooting for ya!
;- )

thx for stopping by and the words. Jx

Comment on R.L Hearn Generation Station by JT Colfax

JT Colfax — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:05:58 +0000

Nice Stuff. I am so glad I finally made it to that place. I think I could sit in that control room for hours. Why is it always baking hot and humid when I go to Canada?
Anyway…I dreamed about Hearn thusly:
Everyone I went with was KILLED when the entire building collapsed. I ended up standing on some little column that didnt. Like a statue on a pedastal I bake in the heat over this tragic rubble. AND the kicker is,..some DUNCE among hundreds of policemen down below READS me some sort of LEGAL NOTICE over a bullhorn while I wait for a helicopter.

Comment on Tower Automotive by Liz

Liz — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:51:11 +0000

Thanks for all the info! Went there last night, and wish I could have seen it when you went. Almost everything is gone in the area we saw. Next time I’d love to go upstairs!

Comment on Christ Church, St. James by admin

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:26:06 +0000

to the person hiding behind “anonymous poster”

I suggest you contact the National Post and Christie Blatchford first.

http://ionelectric.tripod.com/_disc11/00000075.htm

Comment on Christ Church, St. James by Anonymous Anonymou

Anonymous Anonymou — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:09:00 +0000

Get your facts straight: The alleged murderer was not a professor. The crime was solved, although Steve T was never implicated in the church arson. It is wrong to implicate him in this article posthumously. Please do not spread rumours. It is very hurtful to friends and families.

Comment on Kids Camp by Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:05:17 +0000

The property is actually for sale. I have the document which outlines all the properties and the history of the place. If you think the camp is a serious waste (that has been closed for ten years) just take a look at the school on the upper level of the property. It couldn’t have been used for more then five years. The problem, I guess with selling it to someone is that a large portion of the camp itself sits on a flood plain and many area are not allowed to be re-developed. I guess everything on this website shows great examples of wastefulness, neglect and greed, but not many have taken notice yet, or rather they seem to be the minority.

Comment on Kids Camp by Ed Nixon

Ed Nixon — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:20:57 +0000

They say market economics are the most efficient system of resource allocation; you’re saying this place has been abandoned for 10 years. Sounds like some dog is sleeping in his manger waiting for embarrassment levels to lever a better price.

It does appear to be maintained at a minimum level, i.e., someone mows the weeds. But, I’m astonished to see an outdoor pool full of water, unsupervised, open and waiting for an accidental drowning. I suppose it’s posted, some lawyer’s solution to the problem of neglect.

Comment on Tower Automotive by Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:24:30 +0000

Its not ringing a bell (ha!) but its been a while. Are you still in Paris? Have plans to ever come back?

Comment on Tower Automotive by dirge

dirge — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:39:09 +0000

…But did you guys discover the phone up in the elevator shaft room?

So good!!

Comment on Sherwin Williams by SherwinJTB

SherwinJTB — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:31:25 +0000

Not really sure what happened, but I’d assume this was for the better of the environment. Good luck on a quick recovery.
Sherwin

Comment on Chicago of the North - Port McNicholl by Gary

Gary — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:47:50 +0000

I lived in Port McNicoll in the late 50’s and early 60’s . I remember well the grain elevator , the CP rail freight sheds and the passenger dock for the Keewatin and the Assiniboia . Port McNicoll was a nice sleepy town to grow up in . Sad to see everything that made Port McNicoll what it was , is now gone .

Comment on Chicago of the North - Port McNicholl by Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:12:24 +0000

Wow, thanks Scott. Are you a railway history buff, or a local? When I went there, and even online we really couldn’t find anything out about when the place was even abandoned at first, probabily because its been almost a generation (30 years). Its amazing how people (especially locals) really stop noticing things in their own backyards because they see it everyday.

Comment on Lakeshore Gentrification by Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:08:46 +0000

Is this your way of telling me your pretty ;)?

Comment on Lakeshore Gentrification by jacob

jacob — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:17:00 +0000

I remember once walking under the bridge of the humber and being chased by a bum who was sleeping there.. I later saw a police poster with his face on it for being a Perv and chasing women in the park lawn area.

Comment on Chicago of the North - Port McNicholl by Scott

Scott — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:10:22 +0000

@Kiddo
You are correct in identifying Port McNicoll as a village and not a hamlet, however Victoria Harbour was the original name referred to by the Georgian Bay and Seaboard Railway, a contract subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Victoria Harbour was the closest settlement in reference to the new development. CPR plans and documents from approximately 1905 until about 1910 refer to the “new C.P.R.terminal at Victoria Harbour, Ontario. The new grain elevator and railyard had also been coined “Victoria Harbour West”. Railway officials soon realized that the two communities were separate and distinct and gave the development the name of Port McNicoll in 1910, after then C.P.R. vice-president David McNicoll. It was only after the arrival of the C.P.R. near Victoria Harbour in 1907, the year the Hog Bay Trestle was built to carry building supplies and eventually grain that a settlement which is now present day Port McNicoll started to take shape. The land that now encompasses the village was only settled by a few farm families prior to the arrival of the railway. Many acres that the C.P.R. eventually purchased adjacent to the manmade slip was from these farmers.

Comment on The Junction Bunsmaster by N*TROPY » Sherwin Williams

N*TROPY » Sherwin Williams — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:26:33 +0000

[...] One had NRI also next door, and also down the street, Tower Automotive a bit further south and ‘Bunsmaster’ right next [...]

Comment on Downsview Hangers by Air33

Air33 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:06:01 +0000

Thanks! It was such a wonderful location. Not just because I have been there several times when it was in operation, but also because I always passed by there on my commute for over 5 years and always wondered what would happen with the place.

Comment on Downsview Hangers by hi-lite

hi-lite — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:02:01 +0000

Excellent write-up. I love those historical photos, great find!

Comment on Canada Linseed Oil Mill by ohlenna

ohlenna — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:48:24 +0000

Fantastic series - as usual. You asked about others shooting the site - a couple of us recently had permission to go in and shoot the building (December 8th) for Heritage Toronto’s Building Storeys 2010 exhibit that we’re putting on in February. It was a blast - amazingly freezing day with sleet, water raining in on the third floor flooding it a bit, flooded basement, and gorgeous light.

Comment on Chicago of the North - Port McNicholl by Kiddo

Kiddo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:37:51 +0000

Interesting, however, Port McNicoll is a village and not a hamlet. Its population is approx 1500. Victoria Harbour was not the original name of the Port McNicoll, rather it is the next village over. And if you come to Port hungry, there is a diner and restaurant to eat.