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January 2021 - Toronto ON

Frederick Hagan was one of Canada’s greatest artists, a great teacher and a unique personality. When Frederick Hagan was 13 years old, his father, a cabinet maker, died. His mother was left to raise eight children, so at the age of 16, he dropped out of school to work in a paper-box factory. .From a studio he set up in an empty garage, he used to wander the streets of his Cabbagetown neighbourhood sketching and painting. While studying at the Ontario College of Art (now Ontario College of Art and Design) his teachers were John Alfsen, who became a mentor and father figure, and Frank Carmichael of the Group of Seven. In 1946 Mr. Hagan was hired to teach drawing, painting and printmaking at O.C.A. He was living in Newmarket at the time and commuted to Toronto for the next 37 years. In 1998, he was awarded the Royal Canadian Academy of Art’s medal. Previously, he received the Canadian Centennial Medal. His works are held by the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Galleries of Ontario and the Frederick Horsman Varley Museum. (Source: Toronto Historical Board)

I prefer Hagan's art to Jeffreys.
 

 Jefferys Lane (after artist C.W. Jefferys)

Charles William Jefferys RCA (August 25, 1869 – October 8, 1951) was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author, and teacher, best known as a historical illustrator.

Seems he also has a high school named for him in Toronto.

Montcalm à la tête de ses troupes sur les plaines d'Abraham. Aquarelle de Charles William Jefferys.

Schawlow lane (after Nobel Prize winner Arthur Schawlow, co-discoverer of the laser).

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes (his BIL). His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser action from microwaves to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work using lasers to determine atomic energy levels with great precision

Schawlow was born in Mount Vernon, New York. His mother, Helen (Mason), was from Canada, and his father, Arthur Schawlow, was a Jewish immigrant from Riga (then in the Russian Empire, now in Latvia). Schawlow was raised in his mother's Protestant religion. When Arthur was three years old, they moved to Toronto.

The house right beside this lane has a historic plaque on it, but I haven't found the reason for it yet. It is just above the blue house address 22.

OTHER LANES TO EXPLORE

Beatrice Minden Lane

Rosie Ienco Lane 

Bagpipe Lane

Leah Cohen Lane

Spice Lane

Jean Lumb Lane Chinatown

Old Post Office Lane

Al Green Davisville

Memory Lane East end

Bistro Lane Yonge and Wellesley

Galipo Brothers Lane College St.

Luttrell Loop Lane, Paul Estrala, Angelone Danforth

Frank Kovac Lane Harbord

Biscuit, Reverend Porter, Chechalk Downtown Yonge

Alan Powell and Art Eggleton Lanes  Harbord

Boys of Major, Peperonata, Jewish Folk Choir Lanes Harbord

Ice Cream Lane Danforth Ave.

Ching, Ditty, Leader Lanes Downtown