By GENE DOMAGALA Whatever happened to the businesses on Queen Street East? Dear readers, I want your input and your memories on this crucial subject. First, let us get a little bit of history on Queen Street since this month is Toronto’s birthday. Queen Street, in one way or another, locally and politically has been […]
By GENE DOMAGALA This column is dedicated to all the police officers who gave their lives in the line of duty. They are not forgotten and will always be remembered, especially the three from 55 Division. I am writing about the police from the 1880s until the present day. All of the information and material […]
By GENE DOMAGALA There are great plans for our different transportation systems. The planners have great ideas for our subway systems, our roads, our bicycle paths, and don’t forget the trains on the railroad track system. I am not including air flights at this time, but who knows…one day. Our different governments have spent thousands […]
By GENE DOMAGALA Thirty years ago, in 1989, the Cold War ended. It was the collapse of one of the most tyrannical empires the world has seen – the destruction of the U.S.S.R., the Communist oligarchy of Eastern Europe that enslaved tens of millions of people and was also responsible for the annihilation of tens […]
By GENE DOMAGALA As we approach Remembrance Day on Monday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m., we recall all the horrific wars that were fought and the millions of soldiers that died and the millions of civilians who also died – and to what end? Throughout the last decade, and the last 10,000 years of recorded […]
By GENE DOMAGALA The area in the east end of Toronto around the Scarborough Bluffs, the Beach, and Birchcliff, has long been a haven for all types of birds, butterflies, insects, beautiful trees and flowers. In one area known as Rosetta McClain Park, and also the lush green grounds of the Toronto Hunt Club on […]
By GENE DOMAGALA We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ) Roman Catholic Church in the Beach named in honour of its founder Jesus Christ who started the Roman Catholic Church 2,000 years ago. We try to emulate all the great teachings, works and charities that Jesus taught us. […]
By GENE DOMAGALA Many Beachers think that they are having problems with the wind, the water, the storms, the sand, uprooted trees, climate change and issues all around the eastern Beach. Let me give you a little lesson in the climate area in the Beach – history is the teacher! The present Boardwalk as we […]
By GENE DOMAGALA This is an article about the early union history in the City of Toronto and the names of some of the different unions and associations. I was asked many years ago to write on the union movement so finally I am. This is dedicated to that person who was a great union […]
By GENE DOMAGALA Eighty years ago in May of 1939, for one of the first times in Canada’s and Toronto’s history, a reigning monarch visited the city and the Beach area. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited over the Victoria Day holiday in May of that year. This was an unprecedented event which gave […]
