The history of the Dominion Foundry buildings in Toronto
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Those who love Toronto s heritage could only watch in horror as demolition began on four buildings, known as the Dominion Foundry, this week.
The four abandoned buildings at 153 to 185 Eastern Ave. in Corktown were once part of a thriving industrial enclave along the lower Don River.
The foundry site contains the largest concentration of heritage buildings to be preserved within the 80 acre West Don Lands precinct, according to the City of Toronto.
The building at 153 Eastern Ave. was the foundry building.
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Kiwi Jr. photo by Warren Calbeck
There’s a lot of history caked into Toronto quartet Kiwi Jr.’s sophomore LP, Cooler Returns. Sewn into a jangly bed of 12-string guitars, folksy harmonica melodies, and ’60-leaning Farfisa lines, vocalist-guitarist Jeremy Gaudet lyrics casually wax nostalgic on last year’s Super Bowl (“Cooler Returns”); a loneliness felt back in 2017 (“Maid Marian’s Toast”); the devastating fires at the Glasgow School of Art in both 2014 and 2018 (“Undecided Voters”); and one particular viaduct’s salutatory graffiti scrawl of “Long Live 2012” (“Highlights of 100”).
On “Omaha”, however, a narrator anchors himself to the present with a call to tattoo “2021” on his ass. While Cooler Returns was recorded in the time of COVID-19 replete with hand sanitizing stations and mask-up mandates the line captures the album’s copyright specifics more than it does the zeitgeist.
TORONTO It’s starting to look very different at the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst streets. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the city has slowed down or come to a halt, but some major construction developments, including the Mirvish Village project, are booming. On Monday, construction and building services company EllisDon posted four updated photographs of the progress being made at the downtown Toronto site. Our Mirvish Village site team is making exceptional progress thanks to our Virtual Design and Construction team as they provide assistance in all forms of #digitalconstruction to build projects of better quality with more efficiency and less uncertainty. #Toronto#technologypic.twitter.com/xP65aFLCv9
Toronto restaurant sets record for most funded Canadian cookbook project ever
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Not only did a cookbook from a Toronto restaurant surpass its goal of $20,000 in less than 24 hours, it s become the most funded Canadian cookbook on Kickstarter.
The Depanneur Cookbook (A Book Where Interesting Food Things Happen: 100 Recipes by 100 Cooks) has raised more than double its goal from over 460 backers, now holding strong at over $47,000.
Founder and owner Len Senater of The Depanneur (a place where interesting food things happen AKA an experimental pop-up kitchen) is behind it all.
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