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Leaside Daily Updates: March–April 2020

April 30, 2020November 22, 2020 Streeter staff Bayview Avenue, bike lanes, Butterfly Canoe, cancellations, coronavirus, Davisville Avenue, Distantly, essential workplaces, extreme weather, garbage, Laird Drive, Lake Leaside, Leaside Park, long-term care, Mabel's Fables, parks, Patrick Rocca, shutdowns, Toronto Police, traffic iights, yard waste

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Leaside neighbourhoods.

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Back for its fourth year, Lake Leaside offering a rest stop for the birds

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Rodger Burnside geese, Laird Drive, Lake Leaside, Vanderhoof Avenue

Lake Leaside, the annual flood that fills the excavation on Vanderhoof Avenue, east of Laird Drive, with water every spring has returned.

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Lake Leaside
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Lake Leaside is back

March 8, 2018March 18, 2018 Rodger Burnside Jon Burnside, Lake Leaside, Vanderhoof Avenue

Lake Leaside has made its appearance again. The abandoned construction site on Vanderhoof Avenue, east of Laird Drive in Leaside, has started to fill with water again, as shown in the above photo in early March.

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Lake Leaside
NEWS 

The disappearance of Lake Leaside

September 12, 2017October 2, 2017 Streeter staff Jon Burnside, Lake Leaside

It was dubbed “Lake Leaside” by some local wags but others complained it was a danger, as kids or other sightseers could fall into the water.

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth 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
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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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