Plenty of Nothing

Hampton Park Path, 2004

Leaving Westboro Station for Detroit

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Cottage Gas Station

This cottage-style gas station sits at the SW corner of Richmond Road and Island Park Drive. It was designed to fit in with the Garden City concept for the Island Park neighbourhood. Source. Gilbert Lacroix built a model of it. Source.

House of Staples, 2005

Crain Printing Plant, 1947

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Maplelawn 2004

LeBreton Flats, 1962

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The Last Days of Lincoln Fields Mall

Komatsu excavators are coming for Lincoln Fields Mall, or Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre, or Lincoln Heights Galleria as I'll always call it because that was its name when I worked there. CBC story. You may recall that the Wendy's burned down a couple of months ago. It was never the best shopping centre, but it was the only one I've ever seen where, for a while in the Eighties, you could buy contraband Cypriot antiquities. See here for an article about the origins of the building. D.

So Long, Lincoln Heights Wendy's

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Alooktook Ipellie

There's a retrospective of this Inuk Ottawan's works going on. Read.