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Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club

NEWS 

What do you want to see at new Davisville parks?

February 4, 2017August 1, 2017 Eric Emin Wood Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club, Josh Matlow, Manor Road United Church, parks

Ward 22 councillor Josh Matlow wants to know what you’d like to see at the new Davisville parks and is holding a meeting on Feb, 27 to get residents’ ideas.

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NEWS 

Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club … Park?

January 21, 2016February 17, 2016 Shawn Star Derek Tilley, Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club, Jayson Schwarz, Josh Matlow, Michael Volpentesta

It was an unlikely ending to an already bizarre story. The now-unused land at the site of the former Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club — which became a contentious neighbourhood issue after it was believed to be sold to a developer to build houses on it — will mostly be saved and kept as greenspace.

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NEWS 

Contradictions hound lawn bowling club transaction

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 Shawn Star Georgina Raynor, Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club, Jayson Schwarz, Michael Volpentesta

While the Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club land is believed to have been sold to a developer who intends to

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Opinion VIEWS 

Residents strongly against development of Glebe property

January 22, 2015May 9, 2018 Town Crier staff Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club

Re: Unusual ‘general meeting’ told about sale [Town Crier, January 7] Kudos to your team, especially Shawn Star, for the

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NEWS 

Lawnbowlers told midtown club has sold

December 19, 2014May 4, 2017 Shawn Star Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club, Jayson Schwarz, Josh Matlow, Michael Volpentesta

A Wednesday night meeting for shareholders of the believed-to-be-dissolved Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club turned into an emotionally charged night of contradictions, with few answers to satisfy questions swirling around an alleged secretive May sale of the club’s Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton area property to a developer.

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Derek Tilley
NEWS 

Calls for halt to property sale

June 9, 2014June 15, 2014 Shawn Star Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club, Josh Matlow

More than 750 people have signed a petition started by nearby residents in hopes of stopping the potential sale of the Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club property to a North York mortgage financier. And local councillor Josh Matlow is set to ask city hall for money to buy it and have it turned into a park.

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THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

Empringham Hotel 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danfoirth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan
Mt. Pleasant loop being built
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan
Hay wagons on Yonge Street
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan
Avoca bridge being torn down
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Streeter staff

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