{"id":717,"date":"2015-09-08T20:38:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/?p=717"},"modified":"2016-07-13T23:53:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T23:53:01","slug":"riverside-queen-and-munro-street-september-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Riverside, Queen and Munro Street, September 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TiP Mobile Lab greet visitors again\u00a0on September 12 (saturday) from\u00a010:30 am and 1:30 pm &#8211; at the corner of Queen and Munro street (1 Munro).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"#TiPLabTO Riverside\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/microchip\/albums\/72157658169360209\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/713\/21394826605_43e94e9753_z.jpg\" alt=\"#TiPLabTO Riverside\" width=\"352\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We were\u00a0grateful to be part of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverside-to.com\/events\/riverside-medicinal-plant-herb-walk-mobile-history-lab-more-join-us-on-september-12th\/\" target=\"_blank\">Riverside Walk<\/a>, <\/strong>paired with a medicinal plant walk and blessed by the presence of many residents and friends.<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"64.96881947607841\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-743 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bee-905x650.jpg\" alt=\"bee\" width=\"905\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bee-905x650.jpg 905w, https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bee-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bee.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"64.96881947607841\">In 1884, the City of Toronto annexed what today we\u00a0call Riverdale. This annexation meant city services\u00a0and city services turned farm fields into real estate; by 1889, the horses that pulled the city\u2019s streetcars\u00a0were pulling the city itself eastward across the river. There were two routes: one along Queen St. to\u00a0The\u00a0Beach, the other north on Broadview to the village\u00a0of Chester, at Danforth Ave.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"441.3045192125744\">By 1889 an updated Goads map states that Riverside is now\u00a0known as St. Matthew&#8217;s ward and<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"370.37850102313445\">proclaims that it will eventually form part of Toronto.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"370.37850102313445\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"370.37850102313445\">It is important to know this little bit of information about Riverside. In fact, the annexation of the village of Riverside to the city meant that a lot of the heritage and the very identity of the area were flattened in favor of a more homogeneous and city-like narrative that saw\u00a0Riverside as\u00a0a part of the greater Riverdale neighbourhood. in 1980, South Riverdale\u00a0businesses embraced a new identity as Queen-Broadview Village, one of Toronto&#8217;s first Business improvement area. Unlike many other of this kind in Toronto, the Riverside BIA has made it one of its main mandates to\u00a0reclaim its history. It is not surprising then that many of the people who stopped by our installation were not only interested in the\u00a0history of the area but they were also remarkably knowledgeable of its\u00a0history . this included a historian who brought us images, maps and pictures of pre-annexation Riverside and explained to us what the Canadian Curling club meant to the neighbourhood. \u00a0A homeless person stopped by and \u00a0told us about the transformation of the Broadview Hotel, from its early incarnation as the Dingman\u2019s Hall, to Lincoln Hotel, to the New Broadview House and finally Jilly&#8217;s, the latter recently dismantled to make space for yet another boutique hotel (now under construction).\u00a0We received a very old bottle found among\u00a0the debris of an old building before a brand new condo was built.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"370.37850102313445\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Broadview-hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-740 size-large alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Broadview-hotel-919x650.jpg\" alt=\"Broadview-hotel\" width=\"919\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Broadview-hotel-919x650.jpg 919w, https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Broadview-hotel-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"370.37850102313445\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TiP Mobile Lab greet visitors again\u00a0on September 12 (saturday) from\u00a010:30 am and 1:30 pm &#8211; at the corner of Queen and Munro street (1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-riverside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}