Monday Mural

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March 2019 - Toronto ON

Listed as part of ArtworxTO.

In late 2015, the former Primrose Hotel at the southwest corner of Toronto's Carlton and Jarvis intersection reopened its doors after being converted into a student residence. Now known as the Parkside Student Residences, the 23-storey tower, has got a colourful addition with a new mural by renowned Spanish street artist Okuda San Miguel gracing the building's blank east facade along Jarvis Street.

Click here for a video of his work.

Dubbed Equilibrium, the landmark mural draws inspiration from the surrounding community, and was designed in consultation with various community stakeholder groups, the residence's student community, and several local groups. The mural's crest will feature an Okuda Kaos Star—a signature element present in many of Okuda's works—topped by a dove and foliage in a reference to the neighbouring Allan Gardens.

Below, a trio of faces represent various forms of knowledge, with grayscale faces representing wisdom and history, and a brightly coloured face representing research and innovation. Below the trio of faces, a pair of multi-patterned figures—representing local cultural diversity—hold up a globe. The base of the mural will feature a second colourful Okuda Kaos Star.

We had seen another work of his in 2017 in Fort Smith AR!

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BeckyB's March Spiky Squares Challenge

March 2019 - Toronto ON

We stopped into Allan Gardens this week to look at their spring display and John snapped this.

Monday Mural

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April 2018 - Toronto ON

Jarvis St. 

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Haven Toronto supports elder homeless, marginally housed and socially isolated men every day, all year.
On any night, there are more than 5000 people living on the streets of Toronto and in city shelters. Over one third are men over 50.
They are fathers, grandfathers, brothers and sons. They are people you know and people that you pass on the street every day.

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April 2018 - Toronto ON

Another sign from last week's diner.

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April 2018 - Toronto ON


The Jarvis Street Baptist Church is one of the oldest churches in the city, its congregation was founded in 1818, and the present church constructed in 1875.

Early records indicate that by 1827, church meetings were held at the Masonic Hall on Colborne Street. The congregation then bought property on Lombard Street and constructed a small chapel in 1832. It was then known also as the Baptist Church of York. By 1848, the congregation had moved to Bond Street and became known simply as Bond Street Baptist Church with a membership that grew to 400 by the late 1860s.

Beginning with Bond Street and continuing through at Jarvis Street an outreach was begun further west which was established in 1880 as Beverley Street Baptist Church. (See also Toronto Chinese Baptist Church).

The present church was erected on Jarvis Street in 1875, with a large donation to the construction costs from the Canadian Senator and banker, William McMaster.The newly formed Baptist Union of Canada held its first meeting at Jarvis Street in October 1880. In 1882, William McMaster, William Elliot (a member of Jarvis Street and a Toronto pharmacist and businessman), and others established the Standard Publishing Company, which published the Canadian Baptist, transferring that enterprise from private ownership to a denominational enterprise.

Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College trains pastors for the Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada, the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada, and other Baptist churches in Canada and elsewhere.

The school was founded in 1927 and is currently located adjacent to Jarvis Street Baptist Church with which the school has had a longstanding relationship.The school was proposed in 1925 by Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, editor of The Gospel Witness and pastor of the Jarvis Street Baptist Church who was dismayed by the modernism that had taken hold in contemporary theological institutions. McMaster University's McMaster Divinity College, which provided training for Ontario and Quebec's Baptist ministers, drew Shields' evangelical/fundamentalist ire when it appointed a liberal professor Laurance Henry Marshall (from England) to the faculty of theology. Shields, who was on the university's board of governors, railed against the appointment with such ferocity he was expelled from both the university and the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec. Therefore, Shields formed his own Baptist convention, the Baptist Bible Union, and founded Toronto Baptist Seminary.

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April 2018 - Toronto ON

Photo Finds

1. Starts with  J

2. Week's Favorite

3. SURPRISE

The first two will be the same, except we’ll work our way through the alphabet. The second can be a favorite image or activity from the week. The third will be different each time.

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August 2016 - Toronto ON

Starts with J - Since we've covered off some famous Toronto notables such as Bloor and Gardiner we'll continue with Jarvis.

The Jarvis' family were an unsavoury lot and I'm not sure why we would have named a street after them but times change.

Samuel Jarvis fought in the War of 1812, and was part of the city's pioneering political class when Toronto was incorporated. His father, William Jarvis, was a militiaman and member of early local governments in York, the town that eventually became Toronto.

Most historians argue the Jarvis' were unsavoury characters — "turkeys," "incompetent," "lazy," "selfish," and "dishonest" are just some of the adjectives that can be found in Toronto literature to describe the father and son.
Keeping to the facts, the Jarvis family were indeed slave-holders. TheJarvises owned at least six slaves, according to John Ross Robertson's 1894 book Landmarks of Toronto, even as the mood and law in Upper Canada was decidedly anti-slavery.

Samuel Jarvis, William's son, is also not fondly remembered. The younger Jarvis was notoriously hostile to First Nations in Toronto. At one point, he even spent time in jail for murder.

Both Jarvis men were caught stealing in their roles with Upper Canada's government, but Samuel was the first Jarvis to have to repay the money he stole.

When he was the Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Upper Canada, Samuel was found guilty of embezzling some £4,000 from First Nations groups in the area.

After he was caught, the younger Jarvis was forced to sell his land to reimburse Toronto. His property, called Hazel Burn, was sold to the city to pay the debt, and a boulevard in that property is now known as Jarvis Street.

WEEK'S FAVOURITE - Not a lot of photos taken this week other than at the Ex, the CNE that I mentioned under the letter E. 

There were many of these painted chairs but my favourite was this showing the Princes' Gates with the CN Tower in the background. Not a photo you can get today as there is now a condo in the way as you can see from the next photo.

SURPRISE - when we were in Montreal last weekend we stopped (i know, gasp, surprise) to look at a church - check back on Sunday. Imagine our SURPRISE as we walked around one of the buildings and found a windmill on the shores of the St. Lawrence!

AROUND TORONTO ALPHABETICALLY

A is for Adelaide St
B is for Bloor St
C is for Chechalk Lane
D is for Dundas St and Square
E is for Exhibition Place
F is for Front StG is for Gardiner Expressway
H is for High Park
I is for Islington