“Girl blowing bubbles on a daisy at Harvey’s,” Toronto, Ontario, June 25, 1916, by John Boyd, via Library and Archives Canada Commons under CC license.
Tag: Toronto
Life in gardens: discovery
“Bryan family, Jane & Dagmar in garden,” probably Toronto, September 1925, The Globe and Mail Fonds (1266, Item 6299), via City of Toronto Archives.
The little girl on the right (Dagmar?) is holding up something, perhaps a caterpillar or worm.
The Sunday porch: healthful rest
Sleeping porch, Toronto, October 1913, via Department of Health Collection (Fonds 200, Series 372), City of Toronto Archives.
Judging from two other photos in the same collection, sleeping porches were being promoted as a way to cut the risk of contracting tuberculosis.
Life in gardens: roof garden
“Yonge St. Mission, Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Davis on roof garden,” Toronto, July 29, 1924, via The Globe and Mail Collection (Fond 1266, Item 3318), City of Toronto Archives.
John Coolidge Davis founded the Yonge Street Mission in the 1890s, handing out food and clothing to the poor from a “gospel wagon.” In 1904, the Mission purchased the building at 381 Yonge Street, now called the Evergreen Centre for Street Youth.
Life in gardens: delicately
“Aileen Parker watering a garden with a hose, Toronto, Ontario,” June 26, 1920, by John Boyd, via Library and Archives Canada on flickr (used under CC license).
. . . To love,
this song of water,
the insects work their garden long into the sun,
and the apples, still far away,
dream October.— Richard Barnes, from “Watering the Lawn“
