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February 2021 - Toronto ON

School Lane

This name was suggested because of schools in the area, both past & present, including Church St. Junior Public School, Jarvis Collegiate Institute, Canada's National Ballet School, Le Collège Français and Havergal College.

“CALLAGHAN LANE” after Morley Callaghan who was born in 1903 to an Irish Catholic family. Callaghan grew up on Belshaw Place in Cabbagetown and was later educated at the University of Toronto. Callaghan attended Osgoode Hall in the mid- 1920s, but never engaged in the practice of law. Instead, Callaghan worked at the Toronto Star, where he was a junior reporter. In his time there, he met writer Ernest Hemingway who was supportive of his craft. In 1928, Callaghan’s first novel, Strange Fugitive, hit the shelves and his subsequent popularity garnered him the informal title of Canada’s first urban novelist. By the 1950s, Callaghan mapped his skills as a writer to the emerging broadcast industry and thereby became known to a much larger audience. His writings continued to be successful and in 1951 Callaghan received Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for his book The Loved and the Lost. A later success was his 1963 memoir, That Summer In Paris. Callaghan achieved the Companion of the Order of Canada. He died in 1990.

“VERNER LANE” after John Verner, the owner of the popular Cabbagetown store at 283 Parliament Street (demolished). J. Verner Mc Aree, the nephew of the owner, used the store as a primary setting in his book Cabbagetown Store. The work records the writer’s upbringing with his Uncle John and Aunt Polly. Together, they lived onsite and operated their business from the 1870s to World War I. The store was known to take credit and issue no interest loans to their Cabbagetown clientele. While not a formal lending institution, the general stores of Cabbagetown exemplified the challenging economic circumstances under which many Cabbagetowners lived and the standard of personal attention given to them as clientele of the store.

OTHER LANES TO EXPLORE

Dapper, Sky Gilbert, Luscombe Lanes Cabbagetown

Dr. O, Central Hospital, Oskenonton, Drovers, Magic Lanes Cabbagetown

Hagen, Jeffreys and Schawlow Lanes Cabbagetown

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