Celebrating Christmas Around the World Festival at Toronto's City Hall Today and Tomorrow

Poster: Christmas Around the World festival
at Toronto's City Hall Rotunda, December 5 - 6, 2009
Credit: The Community Folk Art Council of Toronto (CFAC)

Community Folk Art Council of Toronto presents

Christmas Around the World
annual festival held at Toronto's City Hall Rotunda

Starts: December 5, 2009 12:00 PM
Ends: December 6, 2009 05:00 PM

The Community Folk Art Council of Toronto (CFAC) and its member groups will be bringing together over 15 different ethnic community Christmas displays at the 45th Annual Christmas Around the World Festival at City Hall Rotunda

Admission is free.

Address:
Toronto City Hall - Rotunda
100 Queen Street West
Bay and Queen

TTC: Exit Queen or Osgoode subway station.

MAIN STAGE PROGRAM - Saturday, December 5, 2009

12:00 – 12:30 Lithuanian - Atzalynas Cultural Arts and Folk dance Group
12:30 – 1:00 Swedish – Toronto Swedish Folkdances and singer
1:00 – 1:30 Polish –Biedronka polish dance ensemble
1:30 - 2:00 Slovenian-Mladi Glas Slovenian Dance ensemble
2:00 – 2:30 Scottish- Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
2:30 – 3:00 Scottish - Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
3:00 - 3:30 Serbian –Oplenac Serbian Cultural Association
3:30 - 4:00 Polish –Cracovia Polish Dance ensemble
4:00 – 4:30 Serbian- Academy of Serbian Dance
4:30 - 5:00 Croatian – Jadran Croatian Dance Ens.

MAIN STAGE PROGRAM - Sunday, December 6, 2009

12:00 – 12:30 Scottish - Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
12:30 – 1:00 Scottish - Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
1:00 – 1:30 Slovenian - Mladi Glas Slovenian Dance ensemble
1:30 - 2:00 Hawaiian - Hawaiian Pacific Polynesian Music and Dance Assoc.
2:00 - 2:30 Ukrainian - Yavir Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
2:30 - 3:00 Filipino -Fiesta Filipina
3:00 - 3:30 Polish - Radosc Joy Polish Ensemble
3:30 - 4:00 Hungarian _ Kodaly Hungarian Dance Ensemble
4:00 - 4:30 Columbian - Casa Culture di Colombia
4:30 - 5:00 Serbian – The Bohemians

For more information please call or visit CFAC's website:
www.cfactoronto.com
phone: 416-368-8743
email: cfac.toronto@sympatico.ca

Wild in The Junction: WTJHS Historical Mystery Tour

Photo-Collage: Wild, Wild Junction, a Historical Mystery Tour:
West Toronto Junction Historical Society Fall Fundraiser and Pub Crawl
Sunday, October 25, 2009 @ artjunction.blogspot.com

WILD IN THE JUNCTION

WTJHS Historical Mystery Tour asks the question:

"How wild do you have to get to shut down your own bars?"

By David Wencer

For nearly a hundred years, you couldn’t buy a drink in the Junction. In January of 1904, the citizens of the town voted to enforce local option, which enabled Ontario communities to voluntarily “go dry.” What caused the Junction to take such drastic measures?

On Sunday, the Legends of the Junction, a troupe of real figures from Junction history, recruited and lead by Junction historical society Vice-President/Boom Times Cabaret director Neil Ross, took some fifty people on a pub crawl, re-enacting events on the road to Local Option.


THE TROUBADOUR: WHO KILLED JOE CURLEY?

Samantha Martin belted out the Junction’s "national anthem", Junction Bound, then the historical characters and the audience considered the mysterious death of Joseph Curley in 1897. Curley had been drinking at the Subway Hotel (west side of Keele and Vine) with unsavoury characters. Later his body was found with his head crushed in under the Subway underpass. Did he fall or was he attacked?

Coroner George W. Clendenan (Gib Goodfellow) convened a coroner’s inquest and swore the audience in as jurors. Testimony was given by Junction Police Chief Josiah Royce (Ron Clark) who found a blood stained boulder near the body and Junction librarian Elizabeth McCallum who provided evidence of local footpads. Both Dr. Clendenan and Chief Royce were strongly inclined toward accidental death.

A.B. Rice was appointed chairman of the jury and then performed the Shooting of Dan McGrew with pianist Alice Deardon. (Rice was in fact the foreman of the jury, although his quoting Service may be apocryphal.)

The tour hit the street in search of more evidence, passing numerous historic sites, including the Avenue Hotel (Domino’s Pizza) which like all Junction hotels served its last drink on June 30, 1904.


HOLE IN THE WALL: HARLOTRY, INIQUITY AND VICE

The audience filed in to the sounds of When the Saints Come Marchin’ In to witness Annette Street Methodist Church’s Rev. T. E. E. Shore (Cheri DiNovo, MPP) resurrect the famous Harlotry, Iniquity and Vice sermon which galvanized the town in 1903. Rev. Shore attacked big business, liquor and the Liberals, not necessarily in that order.

REV SHORE: Many a poor fallen girl has told me down in yonder mission how she fell into sin and continued in her degradation in Junction hotels!

FEMALE VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: Halleluja!

Soon outside again, the next stop was the corner of Keele and Dundas, from where the jury could see the underpass where Curley’s body was found that fateful December.


SHOX: LAST CALL (BEFORE THE JUNCTION GOES DRY)

Foreman Rice turned the floor over to the jury and they peppered the historical characters with questions about Curley’s death. How far was the second bloodstain from the body? Had it been snowing that night? Was it a light snow? What exactly is a footpad? In the questioning, new evidence emerged about the suspects: the violent robber sought by the police and the mysterious motorman witnesses claimed was last seen with Curley.

Rice gave the jury the choice between "death by misadventure" or "murder by person or persons unknown" and called the vote. Twenty two to twenty two! Like the Junction a hundred years ago, the town could not make up his mind. As foreman, Rice himself cast the deciding vote for murder, citing footpads and Curley's pub companion as chief suspects.

Rice then provided some insights into cockfighting in the Junction, recounted the night ten thousand men surged into the Junction for one last drink; he then went; on to praise the Junction theatre district.

Mrs. Mary Brown (Eileen Jensen) recalled the Junction during the dry years and Anne Leung, "the Junction’s Rosa Parks". And finally, the landlord Gus Koutoumanos explained the historic story of how alcohol was eventually brought back to the Junction in the late 1990s.

The real cause of Josephs Curley’s death may never be known. Was it murder? The available records of the time suggest a great number of viable suspects. The case made a riveting background for a different kind of historical walking tour: with interactive historical characters, a coroner’s jury, gospel songs, an old time temperance sermon, a view of the scene of a crime and a spirited discussion of a hundred year old cold case by a modern audience in a pub.

Only in the Junction.

2009 © David Wencer

Celebrate Toronto Heritage: Wild, Wild Junction, Historical Mystery Tour

Poster: Wild, Wild Junction, a Historical Mystery Tour:
West Toronto Junction Historical Society Fall Fundraiser and Pub Crawl
2PM, Sunday, October 25, 2009
beginning at the Troubadour, 3071 Dundas West (south side just east of Quebec.)
Poster Design by Mark @ MasterEnglish.ca
Credit: wtjhs.ca

WTJHS presents fall fund raiser and pub crawl:
Wild, Wild Junction, an Historical Mystery Tour.
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 2 pm - 4 pm
Chief Josiah Royce investigates the “Death of Joe Curly”;
“Harlotry, Iniquity and Vice”;
the “Heydon House Brawl”
and “Last Call in the Junction”.
Get your tickets for a fascinating glimpse
of the other side of Junction history,
beginning at the Troubadour tavern.
Route and times may vary.
Tickets $25 available at Pandemonium, 2862 Dundas W..
Please check wtjhs.ca for details.
City of Toronto continues to celebrate its 175th anniversary

WILD, WILD, JUNCTION
HISTORICAL MYSTERY TOUR
By Neil Ross

It’s gonna be fierce up there,
Ten thousand men out on a tear,
CPR boys loaded for bear.
Last call before the Junction goes dry.
There’s mud in the street;
Here’s mud in your eye.
Great Canadian party, eh?
It’s the Local Option Fling!
You hear ‘Up the Rebellion’
But ‘God Save the King.’
From Last Call (Before the Junction Goes Dry)

It was a night of Legend, the night they closed the bars in the Junction. The newspapers claimed ten thousand men in the streets. The women weren’t even counted although they’d made their voice heard. The Junction was about to embark on a dry sea of temperance: the Local Option. The hotels were closing their bars and the neighbourhood blind pigs were just thinking about opening.

These days your true historian, will pooh pooh the notion of ten thousand in the Junction, although no less a source than the New York Times will tell you that 250, 000 show up annually for the Junction Arts Festival. The Toronto papers were right there, one on one on the action, and if they happened to be counting double by the end of the night, they were barely half there by the next morning so that evened things out.

We’ll be making a moderate return to that night as we follow the path to temperance with what else, a pub crawl. Our fall fund raiser, Wild, Wild, Junction, a Historical Mystery Tour will tackle some of the great mysteries of the Junction. Chief of Police Josiah Royce (Ron Clark) will lead a group of adventurous souls from tavern to saloon as the Legends of the Junction return to regale us with tales of the wide open railway town that was. Perhaps the most intriguing mystery we’ll be following is what led the Junction to ban the sale of alcohol for almost a hundred years.

We’ll begin with the suspicious death that led the town to its appointment with abstinence. Once again, Chief Royce will investigate and ask Who Killed Joe Curley? that night outside the Subway Hotel just north of Keele and Dundas.

We’ll sit wide eyed and just a little prurient as the Reverend Shore preaches his famous sermon in which he castigates the Junction as a "Cesspool of Harlotry Iniquity and Vice."

We’ll shudder at tales of a weekend long dispute over a prostitute (See: Harlotry, above) between cattlemen from Union Station and railway workers from the CPR that ended in the Brawl at Heydon House.

We’ll end the night where the Local Option began as we relive Last Call Before the Junction Goes Dry in which all the mysteries will be solved. Or dismissed as too murky to understand.

Now, the logistics of the thing are very simple. Tickets are just $25 and you purchase your own libations. For a ticket, just send a cheque or money order to: WTJHS, 145 Annette Street, Toronto ON, M6P 1P3. Or drop by our booth at the Junction Arts Festival, Sept 12 and 13.

Or join us at the beginning of our "wetting" at the Troubadour bar at 2:00 pm on Sunday, Oct. 25 as we begin an historical, musical, poetic, architectural and libatious tour of the town that is dry no more.

We’ll be joined on the tour in protest by members of the Women’s Temperance Movement who will make a strong case for reconsidering.

On the tour we will be joining various drunks who drink a case against it.

NOTE: The poem at the start of this piece can be found on video at wtjhs.ca. Just scroll down on the homepage to Last Call (Before the Junction Goes Dry.)

Wild, Wild Junction, an Historical Mystery Tour. 2PM, Sunday, Oct. 25, beginning at the Troubadour, 3071 Dundas West (south side just east of Quebec.)

YouTube: LAST CALL (Before the Junction Goes Dry)
At 7:00 pm, April 30 1904, the railway town of West Toronto Junction, having voted to adopt the Local Option and forbid the selling of alcohol in public places, shut down its bars. As it happens, there was en election in the larger city of Toronto that day and bars were closed in that jurisdiction as well. This coincidence, the unavailability of drink in Toronto and the last chance to "get a wet" in the wide open Junction, drew an estimated crowd of 10,000 (figure agreed on by The Toronto Star and the Toronto Daily News) for one last drink. Former North West Mountie, Chief or Police Josiah Royce had a force of ten men to keep the peace. This poem, although fanciful, is a fairly accurate rendering of press reports from the night. For further and better particulars see The Leader and Recorder History of the Junction published by the West Toronto Junction Historical Society, or go to wtjhs.ca, click Celebrating the Centennial of West Toronto, Legends of the Junction, and Local Option.
Produced by: Muddy York Films

links:
City of Toronto continues to celebrate its 175th anniversary
West Toronto Junction Historical Society Events: September - October 2009
Fundraiser at the 2009 Junction Arts Festival: Dunking Dignitaries for Art and Youth in the Junction
Call for Junction Artists and Businesses for Boom Times Spring Fling 2010!
Another "Carnegie" Library, Toronto Public Library’s Annette Street Branch, Celebrates Its Centennial
An Exploration of Contemporary Art Scene in Toronto: Reflections on Life and Art
The Junction Amalgamation Celebration, May 1, 2009: a Brilliant Folk Art Rendering of Democracy in the Junction
Annette Street Public Library: Junction Literary Pub Crawl with Glen Downie
Toronto Junction: Jazz Beats, Raw Bites, Historic Bits and More

West Toronto Junction Amalgamation Celebration: Reliving the Historic Night of 1909

Poster: Come Home to the Junction!
West Toronto Junction Amalgamation Celebration 1909 - 2009
Credit: West Toronto Junction Historical Society

Toronto festivals and events

Junction Amalgamation Celebration: Reliving the Historic Night of 1909

Date: Friday, May 1, 2009

Time: 6 pm - 11 pm

Address: Humberside Collegiate Institute
280 Quebec Avenue
Quebec and Annette Streets

TTC: From High Park subway station, take the #30 Bus to Annette.

Description: The Junction Historical Society and West Toronto Paper and Wallpaper present:

Amalgamation Celebration 1909-2009

Come Home to the Junction and Celebrate the Union of Two Great Cities

with

[ V ] 2nd Annual Junction Homecoming

[ V ] Free Family Activities presented by Junction businesses and Community Organizations

[ V ] Boom Times Cabaret Amalgamation Talk Show

[ V ] Dance and Mingle to 100 Years of Canadian Music

[ V ] Live Music featuring Sam Martin and the Boom Times Band

[ V ] Countdown to Amalgamation with Neighbours, Family and Friends!

Cost: Free

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".

For more information contact:
Phone: 416-546-6136
web: www.wtjhs.ca
email: junctionamalgamation@gmail.com

links:
Toronto festivals and events calendar: Junction Amalgamation Countdown: Reliving the Historic Night of 1909
insidetoronto.ca: 2009 marks anniversary of Junction City, Toronto amalgamation
By Lisa Rainford
insidetoronto.ca: Celebrating the 100 years after amalgamation in The Junction
By Lisa Rainford
City of Toronto: Toronto's 175th Anniversary: Events: West Toronto Junction Historical Society

Junction Historical Society Exposition: The Evening Telegram
Originally uploaded by IT Ceremony.

Happy Birthday Toronto from the Junction

Happy Birthday Toronto: 175
2009 @ artjunction.blogspot.com

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TORONTO FROM THE JUNCTION
By Neil Ross

TORONTO CITY HALL Toronto turned 175 today and as Sylvia Tyson quipped, "it didn’t look a day over 100." The day began appropriately enough with a smudging ceremony performed by the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation. Then the Tories & the Reformers wrestled the challenges of the city’s first council (wasn't there for that event, assume it was "Muddy York Wrestling.") The Queen's Own Rifles re-enacted all of Toronto's battles in a historical skirmish in which no guns were fired and nobody was hurt. Those were the days.

Inside the rotunda the walls were filled with images from Toronto's Visual Legacy: Official City Photography from 1856 to the Present. These photos are an incredible collection and a viewer is immediately struck by the fact that David Crombie and the Queen Mother were exactly the same size. Deputy Mayor Pantalone introduced Mayor Miller who recalled how he came to Toronto as an immigrant boy who came to play soccer and fell in love with the city. He lauded the "best public library system in the world," and spoke of the city's "peace, social justice and relative prosperity." The Mayor was interrupted by the city's Town Crier (another job posting I missed) who invited the Mayor to a debate with the city's first mayor William Lyon Mackenzie, who as everyone in the Junction knows robbed the Royal Mail right outside the Coffee Time Donuts and Dundas, Dupont and Annette.

Then the poets took over the stage as Lillian Allen, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Archer Pechawis read poetry especially commissioned for Toronto's anniversary. Lines caught at random: "Beat your SUV’s into plough shares." "A fridge that is Toronto in winter." "Homelessness is us."

The main event for historical buffs was held in the council chambers as the Town Crier predicated when the first Mayor of Toronto debated its most recent (this reporter saw them earlier with microphones in their hands giving a preview for CBC Radio one.) Mayor Miller appeared as himself and Eric Peterson was once again the little rebel William Lyon Mackenzie, a role which he has been playing since 1837: A Farmer's Revolt, the Theatre Passe Muraille classic. I once saw him blow the roof off of Massey Hall as the character in 1987 at an anti-free trade rally. Here he was in fine form telling the anecdote of finding a hat in the muddy streets of Toronto under which was a man, and underneath him a team of oxen.

Mackenzie, a journalist when he wasn't running for Mayor or leading rebellions, characterized Toronto newspapers as "milquetoast" although he took some joy at reading that "someone named Tory is out of a job."
He described the modern Toronto as "huge towering phallic buildings which all seem to be banks while people with nothing are begging for money." This naturally enough led him to urge the crowd to rise up and join him in rebellion.

Mayor Miller observed, "The people of Toronto don't take kindly to their elected officials taking to arms in the streets." Mackenzie shot back: "Has anybody tried it?"

Later, speaking of his ill-fated rebellion, Mackenzie said reflectively, "I was surprised at the turnout . . ." Mackenzie then gave Mayor Miller advice on how to respond to the Ontario and Canadian governments with some very spirited hand gestures, which the current Mayor took to like a natural. Mackenzie, who noted that he had experience stretching over 175 years, "although for most of them I was dead," told Mayor Miller he had attempted to give advice to his predecessor. "He didn’t know who I was and attempted to sell me a couch."

As I left to get a good seat at the Bohemian Embassy Revival, Mackenzie had taken off not only his hat but his wig, but then he always did that.

In the City Hall library, Toronto's Executive Director of Culture Rita Davies, reminiscing of the grand old days of the Bohemian Embassy, spoke of "a city of dreams of possibilities, the city imagined into being." Then she introduced Don Cullen who launched the ground breaking coffee house, named after a slang turn for cold water flat. Over the years, starting in 1960, it had locations on St. Nicholas Street, Harbourfront and Queen Street. The Bohemian Embassy was arguably the most important cultural gathering point in Toronto’s history and introduced some of Canada’s most talented poets and folk singers.

A citizen of the Junction would have been proud that the two poets most lauded were the sadly short lived and brilliant Gwendolyn MacEwen (born at 38 Keele Street) and the man who has been called the quintessential Toronto poet, Raymond Souster who now lives in Swansea but over the course of his life seemed to have lived in just about every house in the Junction. Author John Robert Colombo said that had asked Ray, now housebound at 88, to write a new poem for the occasion. Ray had offered his classic Gwendolyn MacEwen at the Bohemian Embassy. The always persuasive Colombo held out for an original and a few days later received Sylvia Fricker at the Bohemian Embassy (Sylvia Fricker, one of Canada’s most brilliant songwriters, you may recall was once married to a cowboy named Tyson.) The last line of the poem spoke of a low, but clear voice "reaching out and touching as if by magic every lonely heart."

(At the Junction Literary Pub Crawl featuring Junction poet Glen Downie on April 18 at the Annette Street Library at 2pm I will be reading Ray's angry and moving poem, Last Sad Day for our West Toronto Station and Kristen Buckley as Gwendolyn MacEwen will be reading from Magic Cats.)

The night was in many ways a tribute to Don Cullen, who you may remember from Wayne and Shuster, he was the guy who did all the accents. John Robert Colombo quoted Don as saying, "There’s something in Toronto that turns everyone into Presbyterians." Don proceeded to introduce some of his favourite poets and folk singers, most of who began at the Bohemian, which was once listed in the Toronto phone book under "Consulates and Foreign Embassies" and got press in the New Yorker, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal as a result.

Also reading, singing and speaking were Sharon Hampson and Bram Morrison of Sharon, Lois and Bram (no one mentioned the Elephant, but I’m sure he was hanging out and drinking cappuccino with the rest of the bohemians). Greg Gatenby (author of the phenomenal six hundred page Toronto: A Literary Guide and founder of the Harbourfront Reading Series) spoke of the Harbourfront incarnation of the Bohemian in a building full of holes in which you had to kick the snow away in winter and Irving Layton breathed a plethora of icicles onto his microphone. Everyone recalled the Chianti bottles with candles in them.

Introducing biographer and poet, Rosemary Sullivan (author of the haunting Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen), Cullen said that Gwendolyn was a bit like a frightened fawn and he was concerned about her going onto the stage, but then she took over like she'd been doing it for years and her poetry "cleared everybody’s sinuses." Rosemary read Gwendolyn's A Breakfast For Barbarians and her breathtaking tribute to Canada, Dark Pines Under Water. "There is something down there and you want it told . . ."

Nancy White was a surprise guest singing a powerful song called Piping Them Home about military funerals of Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan. George Miller, dubbed the Bohemian's poet laureate, read Milton Acorn's works and his own. Dennis Lee, Toronto's first poet laureate read Al Purdy's work and his own. Sylvia Tyson (nee Fricker), Canada's goddess of song, sang a searing and sad response to Stephen Harper (Canada's ogre of repression) and his remark that the average Canadian doesn't care about culture, No Crowd, No Show. The evening concluded with her classic You Were On My Mind.

And they all were, on our minds, these writers who built this city in words.

Happy birthday, Toronto. Or as Don Cullen used to say when handing out pamphlets for the Bohemian Embassy, "Would you like some subversive literature?"

2009 © Neil Ross

link:
The Arts Junction: Happy Birthday Toronto from the Junction, by Neil Ross
http://artjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/happy-birthday-toronto-from-junction.html

Toronto 175 ... the Older the Better

Screenshot: Toronto in 1834 by Owen P. Staples (1866-1949), 1907
Oil on canvas, 121.5 x 304.5 cm.
City of Toronto Art Collection, Cultural Services
Image courtesy: City of Toronto

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In celebration of the 175th anniversary of the City of Toronto explore what the capital of Upper Canada was like in 1834, zoomify the image ... and enjoy the quality of digital image in 2009.
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Poster: Celebrate 175: Heritage / Unity / Diversity
March 6, 2009 marks the 175 anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Toronto
Credit: www.toronto.ca/175

Today the Toronto City Hall opens its doors and invites the public to commemorate the City’s 175th anniversary. It's going to be a full day of free programming on the Nathan Phillips Square and inside the City Hall:

• Three art exhibits will be showcased including an impressive display of archival photographs from Toronto Archives. Additionally, Well and Good and Manifesto showcase street art in all its forms and School without Borders presents My City My Story (MCMS) featuring photography by Toronto youth.
• Faisal Anwar, a video production artist, will curate an installation in the City Hall rotunda called 360-Extended that uses text or e-mail messages and photos that have been submitted by residents to the My City… campaign online at www.360extended.com or through facebook.
• Lit City will present A City of Writers for 175 Years and The Bohemian Embassy Revival on March 6 in the City Hall Library. Both presentations celebrate Toronto’s heritage, unity and diversity through literature.
• Mayor David Miller will launch the City's commemorative book entitled, Toronto's Visual Legacy: Official Photography from 1856 to the Present. Based on the extensive photographic holdings of the City's Archives, the book provides an impressive and visually rich history of 140 years of urban development, municipal initiatives and major civic events.
• Films that showcase Toronto will be screened and include: Toronto in Silent Cinema, narrated by Mike Filey; 9 Months, 6 Blocks; Tkaronto; Behind the Bohemian Embassy and Let’s All Hate Toronto.
• Award-winning Canadian actor R.H. Thomson will direct two theatrical performances featuring Eric Peterson as William Lyon Mackenzie, Toronto’s fiery first Mayor. In The First Toronto Debate of 1834: Tories & Reformers Wrestle the Challenges of the City's First Council, students from Toronto schools will play the Aldermen and Councilmen of Toronto’s first Council. The second performance, A Unique Meeting - Past & Present, will feature Mayor Miller in a robust debate with Mayor William Lyon Mackenzie.
• Permit Alley will feature interactive activities for kids and families with Art Starts and exhibits from Toronto Police, Fire, EMS and the Historica Foundation.
• Music, dance and theatre will also be front and centre on March 6th. Lal, Maryem Toller, Matt York, Chris Church, Ballet Creole, Shugamai Grace Johnson and other Toronto-based performers collaborate in the finale 1 Love T.O, a celebration of our diversity. Culturally diverse artists from a mix of disciplines create a unique work for the commemoration of Toronto’s 175th.

links:
David Miller's tweets: mayormiller
Twitter's crowd: #TO175
Flickr's search: Toronto 175
The Arts Junction: Happy Birthday Toronto from the Junction, by Neil Ross
360extended.com: The Junction: There are no stories for this neighborhood.

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