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Post by lizmc on Feb 8, 2015 4:49:19 GMT
There used to be a number of amusement parks on Toronto's Lakeshore and on the Toronto Islands. Here is some information about them: www.blogto.com/city/2014/07/the_lost_amusement_parks_of_toronto/
We still have the annual Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), known universally as The Ex. which started in 1879 as an industrial fair, morphed into an agricultural fair, with rides, concerts, etc.......it runs for the last few weeks of summer, ending Labour Day......as a kid, the opening of the Ex was always bitter sweet.....we were all looking forward to going, sampling the food and going on the rides, but it meant school was starting again soon......here is the Ex's website: theex.com/footer/about-the-cne/history/origin
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Post by snacky on Feb 8, 2015 6:00:20 GMT
There used to be a number of amusement parks on Toronto's Lakeshore and on the Toronto Islands. Here is some information about them: www.blogto.com/city/2014/07/the_lost_amusement_parks_of_toronto/
We still have the annual Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), known universally as The Ex. which started in 1879 as an industrial fair, morphed into an agricultural fair, with rides, concerts, etc.......it runs for the last few weeks of summer, ending Labour Day......as a kid, the opening of the Ex was always bitter sweet.....we were all looking forward to going, sampling the food and going on the rides, but it meant school was starting again soon......here is the Ex's website: theex.com/footer/about-the-cne/history/origin
Cheers We've talked a bit about the diving horse here before. I think we're all interested in the amusement park setting, but it's probably too expensive. I've seen pictures of the boardwalks from old New York and Coney Island that are just amazing - I imagine Toronto was similar since it was on the lakeshore. I imagine there should have been combinations of docks and boardwalks and carnival-like game and concession stands and lots and lots of electric lights. Perhaps lots of film or proto-film since this was also a novelty. Radioactive materials were also often built into marketing novelties before they realized how dangerous those materials were. mentalfloss.com/article/24871/11-ways-we-used-radiation-everyday-lifeThe Ex may have been the inferred setting for the fair at the start of Dead End Street. We've also talked a bit about industrial fairs and how William's expertise could be deployed there because I was promoting the idea of William and Julia going to a Japanese industrial fair for their honeymoon. |
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Post by lizmc on Feb 8, 2015 6:41:45 GMT
If I'm not mistaken, Dead End Street took place in June as the parade was to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The Ex opens in mid August........Toronto's waterfront, except for where the amusement areas were was very industrial with wharves and warehouses.......
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Post by snacky on Feb 8, 2015 7:33:38 GMT
If I'm not mistaken, Dead End Street took place in June as the parade was to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The Ex opens in mid August........Toronto's waterfront, except for where the amusement areas were was very industrial with wharves and warehouses....... Cheers The murder hinged on the parade the previous year but the model was shown off at a fair of some sort. |
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Post by lovemondays on Feb 11, 2015 1:23:58 GMT
If I'm not mistaken, Dead End Street took place in June as the parade was to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The Ex opens in mid August........Toronto's waterfront, except for where the amusement areas were was very industrial with wharves and warehouses....... Cheers The murder hinged on the parade the previous year but the model was shown off at a fair of some sort. You are correct on that point; however the fair that William and the Garlands attended was not the CNE IMO. The story played out on a very summertime Cherry Street. The Ex is ALWAYS the last 2 weeks of August. Toronto's waterfront is always a hot button issue. You'd think there would be boardwalks and beaches galore, but NO. There are disconnected pockets of this but no unified plan. All city council can agree on is rubber stamping yet another condo development. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2015 3:53:31 GMT
The murder hinged on the parade the previous year but the model was shown off at a fair of some sort. You are correct on that point; however the fair that William and the Garlands attended was not the CNE IMO. The story played out on a very summertime Cherry Street. The Ex is ALWAYS the last 2 weeks of August. Toronto's waterfront is always a hot button issue. You'd think there would be boardwalks and beaches galore, but NO. There are disconnected pockets of this but no unified plan. All city council can agree on is rubber stamping yet another condo development. Which is why they have to go to Hamilton and Cambridge and god knows where else to film any outside scenes, and a lot of inside scenes as well. Toronto has lost so much of its history to development. That is why we really cannot do a proper Murdoch Mysteries Toronto tour. It would be just shadows: or like my little photo tour, pictures of parking lots where things were supposed to have been. |
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Post by lizmc on Feb 22, 2015 6:46:56 GMT
One thing that really sticks in my craw is the lousy job Toronto has done preserving its history. Just a few weeks ago, Stollery's Menswear store, which was 114 years old, was demolished......the Waterfront never really was developed with any plan and was almost completely industrial from the beginning of the city's history, but subsequent development cut the Harbour off from the core of the City. If you arrive in Downtown from the north, you wouldn't even know we still had an active working port, yet the Harbour is the very reason we are located where we are.....we've lost so much of our heritage.......One aspect of MM which has been invaluable is it has actually educated Torontonians about their own city......
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Post by lizmc on Feb 24, 2015 3:41:28 GMT
Given my rant yesterday, here is good news.....Toronto's venerable old concert hall, Massey Hall, is being restored: www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/02/23/restored-glory-on-the-way-for-massey-hall-hume.htmlI spent many a happy evening going to Toronto Symphony concerts there.....the musicians hated it because they couldn't hear each other properly, and god help you if you had to go to the washroom in the intermission, but it has an atmosphere and sound like no other venue in Toronto. Cheers |
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Post by cyrious on Mar 16, 2015 20:30:44 GMT
I would absolutely love them to talk about the beginnings of the waterfront park Sunnyside Amusement Beach, 1902 is the start of the area's boom. If I could convince the writers I would so have them introduce a historical character that I can get some first hand info on, my maternal grandfather was the superintendent of the area for over 20 years.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2015 5:53:27 GMT
I would absolutely love them to talk about the beginnings of the waterfront park Sunnyside Amusement Beach, 1902 is the start of the area's boom. If I could convince the writers I would so have them introduce a historical character that I can get some first hand info on, my maternal grandfather was the superintendent of the area for over 20 years. That would make for good material for the show. Although I think someone on the production team MAY read this forum, if I felt strongly about an idea I would post it on Facebook or email Shaftesbury directly. You never know. |
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Post by snacky on Mar 17, 2015 6:14:05 GMT
I would absolutely love them to talk about the beginnings of the waterfront park Sunnyside Amusement Beach, 1902 is the start of the area's boom. If I could convince the writers I would so have them introduce a historical character that I can get some first hand info on, my maternal grandfather was the superintendent of the area for over 20 years. That would make for good material for the show. Although I think someone on the production team MAY read this forum, if I felt strongly about an idea I would post it on Facebook or email Shaftesbury directly. You never know. Training a horse to dive might run afoul of PETA, though.  |
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Post by Hodge on Mar 17, 2015 6:26:29 GMT
That would make for good material for the show. Although I think someone on the production team MAY read this forum, if I felt strongly about an idea I would post it on Facebook or email Shaftesbury directly. You never know. Training a horse to dive might run afoul of PETA, though. Who gives a rat's ass about peta, bunch of lunatics out for themselves. NOT animal lovers, they kill more animals than any other 'shelter' % wise. |
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Post by lizmc on Mar 17, 2015 16:41:32 GMT
Training a horse to dive might run afoul of PETA, though. Who gives a rat's ass about peta, bunch of lunatics out for themselves. NOT animal lovers, they kill more animals than any other 'shelter' % wise. One of these days, PETA will be exposed for the crazed, misogynist, power hungry gang of thugs they are....... |
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Post by lizmc on Mar 20, 2015 6:47:22 GMT
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