Articles Tagged with 'Edith George'

By Edith George and Natalia Outkina Edith - I was celebrating my 70th Birthday this year, so I decided to treat myself to a commissioned watercolour painting of one of my favourite places, the house called, “Rivermede,” located at 3100 Weston Road. I knew all the stories of the Gardiner and ...

By Edith George My name is Edith George and I have lived in the Humbermede neighbourhood since 1960. I have always had a passion for the natural and built history of the City of Toronto. For a few years I was on the Board of Directors of the Weston Historical Society. My curiosity about my nei...

By Sean Delaney On Sunday, October 3 many residents met at Rowntree Mills Parks to continue planting new shrubs and plants. Stephanie Smith of the Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) was the coordinator for the community-based restoration team. Why is everyone digging holes in one partic...

By Sean Delaney On Sept. 14, as part of the Heritage Oak plaque unveiling, the Woodview Park Library held a celebration for the winners of the Heritage Tree Art Contest. The contest ran throughout the summer and had participants create an original piece showing a tree and using commonly recycle...

By Tim Lambrinos It’s now about a tree that has become more colourful than any other tree in all of Toronto. It’s the massive red oak of Coral Gable Drive – estimated to be between 250 and 350 years old. The tree stands in the rear yard of a home built in the early 1960’s. Prior to that, th...

Strong roots in the community By Sean Delaney In 2015, a popular opinion began to be expressed that the Red Oak of Coral Gable Drive was an Oak tree, and community symbol worthy of a monument. But we’ll come back to that later. The tree is more than just branches, leaves, bark and a trunk...

By Maria Maiolo Sophia Maiolo was just six years old when she fell in love with a giant Red Oak tree. Her love of the great outdoors was obvious when we spoke about nature. Those conversations led us to explore where the largest and oldest tree in Toronto was located. And to our surprise it was...