Darling Lane - after Darling Terrace at 562-566 Parliament which was built in 1877 by William Darling.
Flos Jewell Williams 1893 - 1970
A Writer with a Passion for Western Canada
Flos Jewell Williams was born in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate and Toronto Normal School. She began teaching in Bobcaygeon in the Kawartha Lakes District, which established the setting for her first novel. After teaching for many years in Toronto, she married and moved to Calgary. As she was separated from her friends and family, she began to write. She submitted, The Judgement of Solomon, to the Hodder & Stoughton Canadian contest and won a prize of $2,500. This came as a big surprise, as she had not previously written.
While living in Calgary, she raised her twin sons and contributed poetry, short stories and articles to Canadian periodicals, to qualify for membership in the Canadian Women’s Press Club.
In 1949 she won second prize in the Ryerson book contest for Fold Home, set in the Cariboo district of British Columbia.
Her novels dramatized the experiences of immigrants building a new life in the harsh Canadian rural environment.
Flos Jewell Williams was one of the best known women writers of Western Canada.
Clara Lane – after the daughter of the Venerable Samuel J. Boddy, Ms. Clara Boddy was an original house owner on Aberdeen Avenue. The Boddy Estate lands were subdivided and sold for housing development along Aberdeen Avenue by Ms. Boddy.
Reverend Boddy Lane - after Samuel Johnson Boddy, D.C.L. who was born in 1826 and who later lived at 21 Winchester Street. Boddy was a reverend who immigrated to Canada from England in 1858. Having held the position of Assistant Minister of St. James Cathedral, he set forth to establish a new parish in 1863.
St. James Cathedral
St. James- The-Less afforded Boddy an interim location near Parliament and Wellesley Streets until the Anglican parish of St. Peter’s was created in 1866. Reverend Boddy opened the facility and was named rector. Reverend Boddy can be credited for sending a representative to Chicago to study the street paving methods of the day and for seeing to it that streets in the area of Cabbagetown were paved for the first time. Upon his death in 1905, Boddy had held the position of Archdeacon of York for nearly 25 years.
COULD NOT FIND REVEREND BODDY LANE
Ishbel Lane – after Lady Aberdeen, born Ishbel Mari Majoribanks, and wife of John Cambell Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Governor General of Canada 1893-98.
Neutral Lane - after the First Nations tribe of people who shared with other tribes in the ownership of the land. In 1871, approximately 28,484 Native people lived in the area.
Dr. Rowena Hume, M.D. 1877 - 1966
A Founder of Women’s College Hospital
Rowena Grace Douglas Hume was born in Galt, Ontario, the youngest of 12 children. She was a graduate of Galt Collegiate Institute, and University of Trinity College. She took post-graduate studies in England and the United States before returning to Canada to take a position at the Ontario Medical College for Women.
Deputy police chief Jim Noble’s (1924-2003) obituary gives us interesting insights in the arrest in Dr. Hume’s case (Noble was the officer who arrested the murderer):
“in one of many infamous cases that he handled, Noble solved the murder of an 89-year-old female doctor, Rowena Hume, who was viciously beaten to death by a Salvation Army derelict whom she had hired to do a few odd jobs. Two days after the murder, having followed a series of clues, Noble nabbed the suspect on a downtown street; the man blurted out a confession almost instantly.”
...Jackie, you found beautiful neighborhoods filled with history. These area would be lovely places to live. Thanks for sharing.
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There's a bridge here named for Lady Aberdeen.
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Interesting, but such a very sad ending. Why would anyone do this. Also sad she is not mentioned on the plaque...
ReplyDeleteLove the garden! Interesting story about Dr. Hume.
ReplyDeleteGreat find from your excursion. Sure is wonderful to walk along the street, look at the beautiful houses and read the history of outstanding people.
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ReplyDeleteI'm loving all the Spring colours, Lady Aberdeen sounds like quite a lady.
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