|
Contact
Community
Studies: Publications
Educational Resources
Historic Sites in Scarborough Heights
Links for Toronto Links
mccowan.org
Scarboro Heights Record
Search This Site
Table of Contents
Sources
| |
Old Fashioned Hospitality
Centennial Corners
No doubt you would like to hear an account of our adventure to Whitevale Monday evening
to hear the Sherlock quartette. We met at Centennial Corners about five o’clock. Our
driver brought his four able horses and a wagon to hold fifty persons, but all that
appeared was thirty five. We started on our journey with merry hearts and all went well
with us (although the roads were not in a very promising condition) until we were within a
few rods of Whitevale corner. A cracking, a splitting and a smashing, and first thing we
knew we were in a snow bank on the side of the road seven or eight people deep. Our wagon
box had given away on the side. While the rescuing of the unfortunate took place, you
would hear one fond husband enquire "Where is my wife?" another "Oh! Where
is my wife?". When each man had his wife at his side, and each swain his sweet-heart,
we saw another four in hand drive up with fifteen in their sleigh, but when they saw there
might be distress, as the Priest and the Levite of old, passed by on the other side, but
if we still have Priests and Levites, we have good Samaritans as well. When we got to the
village we were met by your ex-deputy reeve David Annis, who
took our driver to his home, threw open his stable doors, bound up our wounded wagon, and
invited us all to come to his place for lunch after the concert, which invitation we all
acepted. After enjoying the program and meeting many friends, we returned with Mr. Annis.
His worthy wife had ready hot coffee, chicken sandwich, doughnuts and many other
delicacies to which we did ample justice. We then returned homeward with the "Cheers
for our host and hostess" and "God Save the King" all feeling that we had
an evening’s enjoyment long to be remembered and all arrived home safe with no other
accident.
The Scarboro Heights Record V11
#8
The Fanny Annis Scrapbook
Scarborough Heights
Park
The late Jack
Cavanagh quite appropriately summarized the end of an era in community
togetherness in
Scarborough
:
Sadly, at
the close of the 1929 season, the TTC ceased to operate the
Scarborough
Heights
Park
due to lack of support. The days of the huge church and community picnics
seemed to have passed. The automobile had become king, and the trend was
toward smaller group outings and family gatherings. By 1936, the radial lines
in
Scarborough
and most other places had ceased to operate.[i]
Quilting
Togetherness in Metro Toronto's heritage community is flourishing:
After all
materials were fireproofed, the layers of the quilt were assembled on
specially built frames, and the quilting was carried out in public at the CHP
Heritage Centre. The fireproofing caused its own difficulties: needles
corroded, thread broke. But [60] enthusiastic quilters took turns coming each
week, chattering cheerfully and demonstrating that quilting is not only a
heritage activity but a highly social one.
February
15/93[ii]
"The Metro Heritage Quilt", produced for 46 local heritage
groups, was
presented to the people of Metropolitan Toronto on Heritage Day, February 15, 1993.
Ultimately, the quilt is to hang in Metro Hall at a location to be determined by the
Public Art Policy Advisory Committee of Metro.
[i]
Jack Cavanagh, "Parks in Scarborough Remembered", in "
Scarborough
Historical Notes and Comments", Vol. XI, No. 2, p. 10.
Scarborough
Heights
Park
was operated by the
Toronto
and York Radial from about 1904. The Park was situated between
Kingston Road
and the
Lake
at
Bellamy Road
. The Ontario Agricultural Schools Fair was held in the Park in 1920.
[ii]
From The Metro Heritage Quilt, commemorating the presentation
of the Quilt to the people of Metropolitan Toronto, February 15, 1993.
The
Scarboro Heights Record V13 #9
|