Articles Tagged with 'Percy Gardiner'

By Tim Lambrinos The Emery Village Voice is reprinting an earlier article on the Rivermede Cottage. We hope to contextualize the recent ongoing controversy, heritage designation, and property sale for development. Sept 2014 Emery Village developed exclusively as a farming community in the 180...

By TIM LAMBRINOS Percy Gardiner’s Rivermede Cottage - PART 2 The Emery Village Voice is recognized each month by countless numbers of readers who continue to pass on their own individual recollections of flashes from Emery’s past to our paper’s publisher, Sean Delaney. Thank you. As ou...

BY TIM LAMBRINOS Emery Village developed exclusively as a farming community in the 1800s and the small village quickly established a centre at Finch and Weston Road. Yet by the mid 1920s a parcel of the Griffith farm on the west side of Sheppard and Weston caught the eye of an illustrious T...