Tag: Woodfield Road
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March 14th
Sale Norway House, Globe, March 14, 1859 Robins ad Gerrard Street East, Toronto Star, March 14, 1908 John Nelles Bastedo, Toronto Sunday World, March 14, 1909 Danforth Tech Toronto World, March 14, 1914 Brick manufacturers prepare for building boom, Toronto Star, March 14, 1919 Globe March 14 1922 W.W. Hiltz to build stores Danforth, Woodbine, Dawes Toronto Star, March 14, 1922 -
March 4 in the neighbourhood’s past
Price-fixing, bricks, Globe, March 4, 1904 
Our New East Side Proposition (subdivision on Ashbridges Estate), Toronto Star, March 4, 1908 Morley Avenue is today’s Woodfield Road. Applegrove Avenue is now part of Dundas Street East. 
Brick manufacturers expect boom Toronto Star, March 4, 1919 -
February 24 in our neighbourhood’s past
Fire, William Harris shoe store, 1394 Gerrard Street East, Globe, 24 Feb 1936 
Fire, William Harris shoe store, 1394 Gerrard Street East, Globe, 24 Feb 1936 More about Fannie Harris
Fannie Irene Feiga Maryam Chipokova Zhipikov was born on August 23, 1887 in Bersobar, Poland. She arrived on 27 Aug 1908 at Montreal, Quebec at the age of 20. Her occupation was listed as “tailoress”. Three years later she married William “Harry” Wishnefsky Harris in the McCaul Street Synagogue, when she was 23 years old.Their daughter Annie was born in 1912 Ontario and son Nathan was born on January 12, 1914. Sadly they lost their twin boys on March 20, 1916. All their children were born in Toronto. By 1921 they owned a shoe store at 1392 Gerrard Street East and lived in the apartment. The building is still there, on the north side of the street, two stores east of Woodfield Road. My vet’s office used to be there, but now it’s a beauty salon.
She died on October 19, 1942, in Toronto, Ontario, at the age of 55, while living above the family store at 1392 Gerrard Street East. She and her husband are buried in Roselawn Cemetery. Her husband died in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario, at the age of 78.
Harris Family, 1392 Gerrard St E -
February 23 in the past: a visual tour of Gerrard Street from Greenwood to Coxwell
Three new stores Gerrard and Ashdale, Toronto Star, Feb. 23, 1913 
Sheep grazing Gerrard and Greenwood, Globe, June 4, 1909 
Douglas Fairbanks in “The Thief of Bagdad” – Ideal Bread Company Limited, Ideal Bread – Purity Flour, two billboards and a painted wall advertisement located on the south side of Gerrard Street East opposite Redwood Avenue. View is looking south-west, showing the south side of Gerrard Street East. opposite the Redwood Theatre 
Looking west on Gerrard towards Greenwood between 1920 and 1926, advertisement on the side of a building. 
Gerrard Street east of Greenwood Avenue 
Looking west on Gerrard towards Greenwood from Woodfield Road, between 1920 and 1926, advertisement on the side of a building. The apartments on Highfield Road (right of photo) are distinctive. 
Little India streetscape, Gerrard Street East, north side, looking east near Woodfield Road – October 10, 2008 
Morley Avenue (Woodfield Road) and Gerrard St fill, April 28, 1912 
Southwest corner of Gerrard and Woodfield 
Hamilton’s Hardware, Gerrard St. E., s. side, e. of Hiawatha Rd., 1920, Shows Mr. & Mrs. John Hamilton, with son Jim 
Gerrard and Hiawatha 1960s 
Gerrard & Hiawatha ca 1966 
St. Monica’s Church, Ashdale and Gerard (where the library is) 
Gerrard Ashdale library, Globe, May 14, 1924 
North-east corner of Gerrard and Ashdale – [between 1975 and 1988] 
Site of the Black Pony, Gerrard Street and Rhodes Avenue, south west corner, June 16, 1919 Creator: Goss, Arthur, 1881-1940 Ad T.F. Dove and Co Ltd, Real Estate Brokers, 1614 Gerrard St E, just west of Coxwell Ave. View is looking west along Gerrard Street 
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The Will of John Ashbridge
This is an exceptional find for which we owe Caerwent House Stories a debt of thanks. Also thanks to the donors to the Midway Historical Society for funding the purchase of software which made the conversion of the files from PDFs to JPGs possible. These may be hard to read and will be posted in a different format on the Leslieville Historical Society Facebook page.
Here is the will of John Ashbridge (1761-1843). His mother, brother Jonathan and the rest of the family were the first settlers on the Ashbridge Estate.
We have also passed this on to the Ontario Archaeological Society by email.
The frame house build at the northwest corner of Woodfield Road and Queen Street for John and Jonathan Ashbridge. This was a “double house” with separate quarters for the families of these brothers. It replaced the 1796 log cabins. 
1809 Ashbridge House 
1854 Ashbridge House, spring, 2010 photo by Joanne Doucette. 
Woodfield Rd., alongside Jesse Ashbridge farm, 1906, Toronto Public Library Digital College. Picture taken between Queen and Dundas (that part of Dundas was called Applegrove Avenue) 
Ashbridge Farm, looking north from Gerrard Street along what will later be Woodfield Road, 1906 
Ashbridges Estate, Robins ad, Toronto Star, April 2, 1908 
Ashbridge Estate September 29, 1955
The Midway Historical Society of Toronto 