Yesterday and Today - December 2022

  •  January, 2023
The building of a better community By Tim Lambrinos Certain people become known as key figures in creating great communities. Very often, it takes only one person that is trusted to complete a larger vision for everyone to enjoy. Such was the case where, in 1955, Emery and Humber Summit became t...

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Yesterday and Today - April 2022

  •  May, 2022
By Tim Lambrinos Previously printed. Back in 1955, a quaint little pioneer town was valiantly attempting to continue to thrive as a proper rural community. Little known to many in this rural community, the 1948 Township of North York’s Official Plan was about to set the wheels in motion for ra...

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Yesterday and Today - Jan 2021

  •  February, 2021
By Tim Lambrinos Reflections of G.B. Warren Junior High School The Humber Summit Middle School provides classes for grades six through eight and is located at 60 Pearldale Avenue. The school is located just north of the Finchdale Plaza along Finch Avenue West. The school operates from a curricu...

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Yesterday and Today: Industrial Factories

  •  March, 2017
The making of Emery’s first three industrial factories By Tim Lambrinos By the late 1950’s, Camillo Domenico Milani was taking on the enormous task of creating the largest industrial sector in the nation. With such a massive vision in mind, Milani needed to accept numerous financial partners...

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Yesterday and Today : Milani’s Italian Gardens

  •  March, 2014
Milani’s Italian Gardens The present name of Italian Gardens appropriately labels a shopping plaza that exists on the east side of Islington Avenue at Satterly Boulevard, right in the heart of Humber Summit. However, the name Italian Gardens actually came from a specific phase in the remarkable s...

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