Press-Release: Junction Community Countdown Reviving the Historic Night of 1909Credit: Junction Historical Society
For Immediate Release
Junction Community Countdown
Reviving the Historic Night of 1909
Who: Mayor David Miller
Samantha Martin and the Boom Times Band
The Boom Times Cabaret
Junction Historical Society
West Toronto Paint and Wallpaper, celebrating its 100th year in the Junction
What: Amalgamation Celebration - West Toronto Junction joins the City of Toronto
Mayor David Miller accepts the Key to the City on the 100th Anniversary
Where: Humberside Collegiate Institute, Gymnasium, 280 Quebec Avenue
When: Friday, May 1, 2009 6 pm - 11 pm
Junction Community Countdown
Reviving the Historic Night of 1909
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Junction Historical Society - April 23, 2009) On the 100th anniversary of Amalgamation -- amid music, dancing, and cabaret-style comedy -- Mayor David Miller will accept the Key to the Junction to mark the historic date when the City of West Toronto Junction joined the City of Toronto as an equal partner.
The May 1st celebration will be a recreation of a similar countdown in 1909 when reportedly thousands of Junction residents gathered to mark this important municipal amalgamation with various festivities and "squeals of delight".
The May 1st anniversary celebration is organized by the Junction Historical Society and sponsored by West Toronto Paint and Wallpaper, which has been adding colour, spirit and prosperity to the Junction since 1909. The Second Annual Junction Homecoming and the Humberside Alumni Association are inviting current and former residents to come and have a hysterical time under the historical murals of Arthur Lismer, of the Group of Seven.
The Junction anniversary and countdown to Amalgamation features cabaret-style comedy, live music by Roots rising star Samantha Martin, a community art sculpture created under the direction of artist Reid English and Latitude 44 and displays of spring floral splendour by Martin’s Flowers - another local business with over 110 years of history in the Junction.
Door prizes will be given away each hour with a grand prize drawn at countdown. The evening will end with dancing to music of the last 100 years and the countdown to amalgamation!
Free! Everyone is Welcome.
Join in Community and Old-Fashioned Fun!
Contact: Kristen Buckley, Chair, Amalgamation Celebration
Tel: 416 5466136
junctionamalgamation@gmail.com
Cristina Senjug, Volunteer
Cell: 647-885-1247
link:
eventful.com: West Toronto Junction Amalgamation Celebration: Reliving the Historic Night of 1909 in Toronto, Canada at Humberside Collegiate Institute
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