City of Toronto Heritage Planning utilizes Cultural Heritage Resource Assessments (CHRAs) to document and analyze an area’s history and ensure that properties of potential cultural heritage value or interest are appropriately identified, understood and conserved. Read our submission to the City, providing input and recommendations for the CHRA field study of the Bloor-Yorkville/North Midtown Area.
The proposed change to “Basil Johnston Terrace” would acknowledge and honour the First Nation presence and positive contribution within our community and our city. Basil Johnston Terrace would commemorate the significant contribution of a brilliant Ojibway author and educator, recognized in his 2015 Globe & Mail Obituary as the “foremost scholar of Anishinaabe life. Andin the Canadian Encyclopedia as “one of the foremost indigenous authors in Canada.”
The ABC Residents Association has a long history of caring for its neighbourhood parks which we consider valued resources. In 1969 ABC successfully fought the proposed expansion of two Greenwin towers on the west half of Ramsden Park, and have been Park stewards ever since, hosting regular community initiatives such as our annual Park spring clean up. In honour of the Park’s 110th anniversary, ABC hopes this discussion paper will contribute design ideas to inspire the revitalization of the Park.