Church-Wellesley BIA calls for removal of Alexander Wood statue
Church-Wellesley BIA calls for removal of Alexander Wood statue
Business leaders want the city to take down the statue of the local gay icon over his ties to a missionary school for Indigenous people By Kevin Ritchie
The business improvement association in Toronto’s gay village wants the city to take down a statue of the historic figure considered the area’s founder “immediately and without hesitation.”
In an open letter posted on social media on June 8, the Church-Wellesley Village BIA chair Christopher Hudspeth and vice-chair Sagrario Castilla write that Alexander Wood was the treasurer and a founding board member of the Society for Converting and Civilizing the Indians and Propagating the Gospel Among Destitute Settlers in Upper Canada.
Author Adam Bunch wrote The Toronto Book Of Love A historian reframes the city s evolution through personal dramas and changing norms in The Toronto Book Of Love by Kevin Ritchie on February 15th, 2021 at 10:00 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
Passion, scandal, heartache, and longing those words might not be the first that spring to mind upon laying eyes on the Toronto skyline.
Adam Bunch is working to change that with
The Toronto Book Of Love (Dundurn, 501 pages, $21.99), an expansive city history that revisits the names behind many local landmarks and street signs through the lens of marriages, affairs, love letters, and jealous rivalries.
Sandford Fleming revolutionized how we think about time, but made questionable romantic decisions.
Passion, scandal, heartache and longing – those words might not be the first that spring to mind upon laying eyes on the Toronto skyline.
Adam Bunch is working to change that with The Toronto Book Of Love (Dundurn, 501 pages, $21.99), an expansive city history that revisits the names behind many local landmarks and street signs through the lens of marriages, affairs, love letters and jealous rivalries.
A city of 19th- and 20th-century building facades propping up glass-encased condo towers, Toronto has a reputation as being dismissive toward its history. And on the surface, it’s not hard to understand why: The modern city was a stodgy, Protestant town with the legal codes governing private goings-on inherited from the colonialist British.