#but there is one notable part in today's section that involves a very significant not-talking part of these characters' interaction

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trolley does nano day 2!

i continue to do the thing! i managed a solid 2068 words today which puts me at 700 words over the day 2 goal, a very nice place to be. i had to thrash out some plot tangle in a voice note to @littlerose13writes - our standard way of talking through writing confusion, and one which has almost a 100% success rate.

all these words so far are on chapter 15 of solstice, which may well get completed tomorrow if i continue at this rate. that means i will soon have to start the daunting task of beginning chapter 16 and wading into the section of fic that i have planned a bit less of. may the nano gods be merciful 🙏

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How I got over procrastinating

Remember that fifth tip i promised y’all. Here it is. All the credits belong to my dad!

One thing I have to say before this is that every person is different and no everyone can get over procrastination the same way. Different people get over this in different time periods it took me five months to get over procrastinating after i figured out that i was procrastinating. But a lot of s might take whereas another lot of us might get over this comparatively faster. Whatever I’m writing down here is simply my experience. This are the few I think might help others the way they helped. And, btw... i ain’t no professional here.

Procrastination turned out to really bother me and my schedule(which i hardly follow). I used to skip tasks and instead do much different things like randomly scroll through apps then complete my homework. It sucked for me. really. 

But then when my dad noticed that i was skipping tasks at hand, he decided that i needed a lecture on that topic... usually i hated the lectures i get from my parents, but this one actually helped me. It really did. So, that’s the reason i thought of sharing it today. Might as well put my dad’s lecture to use somewhere...

The fifth tip! Goals!

In order to stop procrastinating, you first need to set your goals, and then identify how procrastination will prevent you from achieving them. Once done with that, you need to create a plan of action based on that info, and then implement it(the implementing part was tough... i aint one to stick to plans). But one very important thing to remember while carrying out this plan is that you need to be ready to change it anytime depending on how things are going. You should be able to refine it later as per your needs.

Set your goals

‘The first step to overcoming your procrastination is to set your goals.’

When you do this, it’s crucial to make sure that your goals are as clear as possible, since you are more likely to procrastinate when it comes to goals that are vague, compared to goals that are clearly defined. This is true. Whenever you don’t have a clear mindset towards your goal ou will end up avoiding it more due to the uncertainty.

For instance, “be more healthy” is a relatively vague goal, and you are therefore more likely to procrastinate when it comes to pursuing it than you are when it comes to pursuing a more definite goal such as, “drink only water and avoid eating fast food for the next month”. Now this is a long term goal. A lot of us people are not able to complete or maintain long term goals either, so that’s the reason this clarity is needed. That’s the first step to making sure you know what you are up to.

Similarly, a goal such as “start exercising” is relatively vague, and is therefore more likely to lead to procrastination than a goal that is more defined, such as “go to the gym 3 times a week, and work out for at least 30 minutes each time”.

In addition, when setting your goals, you also want to make sure that those goals are achievable and meaningful:

‘Achievable’ means that your goals should be realistic enough that you can actually accomplish them.

‘Meaningful’ means that your goals should be substantial enough that they lead you to make notable progress.

This is indeed very important. It helps a lot. When it comes to achievable goals my father always tells me to divide larger tasks into smaller tasks and complete them step by step. That way your mind doesn’t think of the task as a big obstacle and completes it with ease. And when talking of meaningful tasks, it is very important that if we make progress, we also reward that progress. And that, is what is important. If you reward your progress, it makes the mind feel better and motivates it to finish more tasks so as to win more rewards!

but dividing tasks into meaningful and achievable isn’t always easy.

For example, the goal of writing 5,000 words for your thesis each day is meaningful but is generally not achievable, since most people can’t write at that rate, which is why such a goal should be avoided. But on the other side, the goal of writing 5 words each day is certainly achievable but isn’t meaningful, since it will take you too long to finish your thesis at that rate, which is why this type of goal should also be avoided.

In comparison, the goal of writing 500 words per day is both achievable as well as meaningful, which is why it is a better goal for yourself.

Of course, different people might choose different rates of progress, and there isn’t a single rate of progress that works for everyone. As such, the most important thing is to find the rate of progress that works for you, in your particular situation.

Overall, the first step to overcoming your procrastination is to set your goals. These goals should be quite well-defined, possible to accomplish, and significant enough to help you make progress.

Moving on to the next part.

Identify the problem

If you want to successfully solve your procrastination problem, it’s important to first understand the exact nature of the problem that you’re dealing with.

Three main things to remember when determining the nature of your procrastination are:

When you procrastinate. This involves asking yourself in what situations do you procrastinate. For example, do you tend to procrastinate more when you’re working from home compared to when you’re working in the library? Do you struggle to finish tasks after you’ve started them or do you struggle to get started in the first place?

How you procrastinate. This involves asking yourself what you do when you’re procrastinating. For example, do you browse social media, play video games, watch TV shows, go out with friends, or find small and unimportant tasks to complete?

Why you procrastinate. This involves asking yourself what’s causing you to procrastinate. For example, do you constantly find yourself being distracted, or do you feel so overwhelmed that you don’t know how to get started?

For an example of how to consider these factors, imagine a scenario in which you’re taking a class where you need to hand in a series of assignments throughout the semester.

Each time you get a new assignment you sit in front of the computer in your room (the ‘when’), but instead of working on the assignment you find yourself wasting time on the internet (the ‘how’), because the assignment is so boring that you can’t find the motivation to start until shortly before it’s due (the ‘why’). This is the kind of procrastination that i end up doing. 

In this situation and in similar ones, you might often end up promising yourself that you’ll get started soon, or that next time will be different, despite the fact that the same thing happened in the past, and that you never really did anything much to change your behavior. The main reason i noticed why this happens is that people wrongly assume that procrastination is just about their willpower, while also believing that next time they’ll be able to exert more willpower and change their behavior, despite the evidence to the contrary.

However, by taking the time to clearly identify the nature of your procrastination problem, you can then figure out a way to deal with it, instead of just hoping that things will be different in the future.

A few things to avoid that i would suggest during tasks are as follows:

Rewards that are very far in the future.

A disconnect from your future self.

A focus on future possibilities, together with an unjustified optimism about the ability to achieve them.

Feelings of overwhelm.

Anxiety.

Perfectionism.

Fear of evaluation or negative feedback.

Fear of failure.

Self-handicapping.

A perceived lack of control.

Lack of motivation.

Lack of energy.

Task aversion.

Prioritization of short-term mood.

Distractibility.

If you’re not sure why you procrastinate, then you should read the guide on the topic and identify the reasons for procrastination that describe you the best, and then return here and figure out how to build a plan of action that takes these reasons into account.

Create a plan of action

Once you’ve set your goals and identified the nature of your procrastination problem, you can create a plan of action that will allow you to stop procrastinating and start getting things done.

To create a plan of action, you need to figure out which anti-procrastination techniques you should use, and how to use them. These techniques, which are listed in the next section, fall into two main categories:

Behavioral techniques. These techniques involve directly modifying your actions, by helping you instill positive behaviors and avoid negative ones. Examples of behavioral anti-procrastination techniques include breaking large tasks into smaller ones and removing distractions from your work environment.

Cognitive techniques. These techniques involve directly modifying your thoughts, by helping instill positive thought patterns and avoid negative ones. Examples of cognitive anti-procrastination techniques include visualizing your future self and focusing on your goals instead of on your tasks.

Some techniques can involve a blend of behavioral and cognitive aspects, and it’s not crucial to understand the distinction between these two types of techniques. Rather, the important thing is to understand the general idea behind anti-procrastination techniques, and specifically that you can overcome your procrastination by instilling positive behaviors and thought patterns while eliminating negative ones.

In general, each technique is likely to help you accomplish at least one of the following things:

Make it easier for you to get started. For example, leaving the document that you need to work on open on your computer before you go to sleep will make it easier for you to start working on it once you sit down at the computer the next day.

Make it easier for you to keep going once you’ve started. For example, putting your phone on silent mode and out of sight reduces the likelihood that you will be distracted by notifications while you’re working, which will make it easier for you to focus on your work.

Make it harder for you to avoid working. For example, turning off the WiFi on your computer and phone removes the temptation to procrastinate on social media instead of writing your paper.

You can use any combination of techniques that you want, and you should pick the ones that fit you best given your particular situation, since different techniques will work differently for different people, and will even work differently for the same person in different situations.

As such, make sure to identify the nature of your procrastination problem before figuring out which techniques you should use in order to solve it. As you go along, try to see which techniques are working for you, and then eliminate those that don’t, while experimenting with other techniques that you haven’t tried, in order to find new beneficial approaches.

Finally, keep in mind that if this all feels like too much at first, remember that imperfect action is infinitely better than no action at all. 

As such, if you feel overwhelmed and don’t know where to start, just pick a single technique that you want to work on for now (if you’re not sure which one, go with the first one on the list: ‘My ultimate guide to avoiding procrastinating’).

Later on, once you feel more comfortable with the situation, you can choose to implement additional techniques if you’d like.

The link to my first and second post on procrastination are below!

The art of procrastination (Part 1)

My ultimate guide to avoiding procrastinating (Part 2)

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August 20, 2020 at 1:07 PM EDT

Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed criminal charges Thursday against Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, and three other men they alleged defrauded donors to a massive crowdfunding campaign that claimed to be raising money for construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a news release, prosecutors said Bannon and another organizer, Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, lied when they claimed they would not take any compensation as part of the campaign, called “We Build the Wall.” Bannon, prosecutors alleged, received more than $1 million through a nonprofit entity he controlled, sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage while keeping a “substantial portion” for himself.

The campaign, publicly supported by several of the president’s allies, raised more than $25 million through hundreds of thousands of donors, the news release states.

Prosecutors alleged that Bannon and Kolfage along with two others — Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea — routed payments from the crowdfunding campaign through the nonprofit and another shell company, disguising them with fake invoices to help keep their personal pay secret.

All four were arrested Thursday and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. They were expected to make court appearances later in the day.

Bannon, a law enforcement official said, was taken into custody off the coast of Westbrook, Conn., while aboard a 150-foot yacht owned by a friend, Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui — who is wanted by authorities in Beijing on charges of fraud, blackmail and bribery. This official, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an active investigation.

Another law enforcement official said that Attorney General William P. Barr was briefed about the matter in advance.

Bannon, 66, served on Trump’s presidential campaign and then as the White House’s chief strategist. He was ousted in the summer of 2017 amid what appeared to be a major falling out with Trump, who derided his onetime confidant as “Sloppy Steve.” An attorney and a spokeswoman for Bannon did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

Asked about the matter Thursday, Trump said he felt “very badly” but asserted of Bannon, “I haven’t been dealing with him for a very long period of time.” Trump said he felt the private fundraising effort was “something I very much thought was inappropriate to be doing.”

“I don’t like that project,” the president said. “I thought it was being done for showboating reasons.”

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Trump had “no involvement in this project” and pointed to a tweet he issued last month in response to a ProPublica story about a privately funded section of wall, saying: “I disagreed with doing this very small (tiny) section of wall, in a tricky area, by a private group which raised money by ads. It was only done to make me look bad, and perhaps it now doesn’t even work.”

“President Trump has always felt the Wall must be a government project and that it is far too big and complex to be handled privately,” McEnany said in a statement. During the last presidential campaign, Trump vowed that Mexico — not U.S. taxpayers — would fund the border wall.

Those involved in the project had close ties to the administration, and campaign memorabilia was often pictured on the privately built section of the border wall.

Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. was a guest at a symposium hosted by the We Build the Wall group in New Mexico in 2019, praising the organization as “private enterprise at its finest.”

“Doing it better, faster, cheaper than anything else,” he added.

One of the group’s advisers, Kris Kobach, is the former Kansas secretary of state known for his hard-line views of immigration and close ties to the Trump administration. Earlier this month, Kobach was defeated in a Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Kansas.

In January 2019, Kobach told the New York Times that he had described the organization to President Trump in a personal phone call and that he had given it his blessing.

“I talked with the president, and the We Build the Wall effort came up,” Kobach said. “The president said, ‘The project has my blessing, and you can tell the media that.’ ”

Other board members included Erik Prince, a conservative activist and defense contractor close to Bannon, as well as former congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.).

In a statement, an attorney for Prince said he joined the group’s advisory board because he was a believer in its mission to build a wall on the southern border. “He had nothing to do with the conduct alleged in today’s indictment, was never contacted in connection with any investigation, and doesn’t know anything about it,” attorney Matthew L. Schwartz said.

Kobach and Tancredo could not be immediately reached for comment.

Bannon was brought in to lead Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 after it had cycled through two other campaign managers and was trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the polls. He was the impetus for some of Trump’s populist ideas and a provocateur, coming up with ideas such as bringing Bill Clinton’s accusers to a debate after damaging audio emerged of Trump suggesting he could sexually assault women. Before working for Trump’s campaign, Bannon had promoted many of the same ideas that Trump espoused during the race, via the conservative news site he had run, Breitbart.

Once joining the White House as the president’s top political strategist, he kept a whiteboard of campaign promises in his West Wing office, along with newspaper articles on which Trump had written messages to him with a Sharpie.

He was ousted after seven months in the White House, having clashed with a number of senior officials — most notably the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Bannon was frequently profane and was accused by a number of other administration officials of leaking damaging information about them.

But he kept a prominent role in Trump’s Washington, throwing parties at his Capitol Hill townhouse, which he called the “Breitbart Embassy,” and hosting prominent government officials and media figures.

In early 2018, Trump viciously attacked Bannon for his comments published in Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury,” which included on-the-record quotes by Bannon criticizing Trump’s family, the president and the White House’s operations.

He has slowly come back into Trump’s orbit, though he is not in regular touch with him. The president appreciated Bannon’s fierce defense of him during his impeachment, and Bannon hosted a pro-Trump podcast with Jason Miller, now a Trump campaign strategist, until earlier this year.

In private, Bannon was often critical of the president’s focus and performance in the White House, people who know him say, though he has remained publicly supportive.

Kolfage, 38, of Miramar Beach, Fla., is a military veteran who in 2004 was severely injured in a rocket attack while he was stationed in Baghdad. According to the We Build the Wall website, he lost both of legs and his right arm instantly and was in a coma for three weeks. He would later take a civilian role in the Air Force, work on a veterans advisory committee for then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and found a coffee company.

Kolfage’s wife declined to comment.

In a 23-page indictment, prosecutors described how Kolfage and others in December 2018 launched the wall-building fundraising campaign to immediate success, raising almost $17 million in the first week — money they claimed would be given to the federal government. But with success came scrutiny, and GoFundMe, the site the group had been using to collect funds, suspended the campaign and warned Kolfage the donations would be refunded if he could not identify a legitimate nonprofit to which they would be transferred.

Around that time, Kolfage recruited Bannon and Badolato, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, prosecutors alleged. The two took significant control of the campaign’s day-to-day activities and oversaw creation of a nonprofit, We Build the Wall Inc., to which funds could be transferred and then spent on private construction of a border wall, prosecutors alleged.

The group claimed publicly and to the crowdfunding website through which it had initially raised funds that Kolfage would take no salary and that “100 percent” of the money raised would be spent on wall construction, prosecutors alleged. It also agreed that existing donors would have to opt in to having their funds transferred to the new nonprofit.

“I’m taking nothing! Zero,” Kolfage wrote on social media. He also wrote a mass email to donors asking them to buy from his coffee company because that was how he “keeps his family fed and a roof over their head.”

For his part, Bannon said during interviews, “we’re a volunteer organization,” prosecutors alleged.

Privately, prosecutors alleged, the men discussed how that messaging would drive donations and opt-ins, and from January to October 2019, they collected more than $25 million from new or existing donors. And contrary to their public assertions, they schemed to make sure they were paid, the indictment says.

“As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” acting Manhattan U.S. attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement announcing the case. “While repeatedly assuring donors that Brian Kolfage, the founder and public face of We Build the Wall, would not be paid a cent, the defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle.”

In total, prosecutors alleged, Kolfage received more than $350,000 in donor funds, routed through various accounts and shell companies to help keep them secret, and used them to pay for home renovations, a boat, a luxury SUV, a golf cart, jewelry, cosmetic surgery and personal taxes and credit card debt. Bannon and the others also received hundreds of thousands of dollars, spending it on travel, hotels and personal credit card debts, the indictment says.

After learning of authorities’ investigation from a financial institution in October, prosecutors alleged, Kolfage and Badolato began communicating on encrypted messaging apps and added a statement to the campaign’s website that Kolfage would be paid a salary starting in January. On Wednesday, Kolfage tweeted that he had deleted the campaign from the GoFundMe site, alleging it had blocked a separate attempt by him to raise money for those wanting to sue the Black Lives Matter group.

The We Build the Wall project had worked with Fisher Industries, a North Dakota company. Trump has regularly promoted the company, saying it should get a bigger border contract — comments that have concerned some officials in the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Homeland Security.

Earlier this year, Fisher received its biggest contract yet for work associated with the border wall.

Felicia Sonmez contributed to this report.

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How to Reach Your Potential: An Interview with James Tjan

James Tjan is taking part in "How to Reach Your Potential," a series of 100 interviews with leaders who inspire Alex Rascanu and whose insights can help you reach your potential.

Meet James

James Tjan is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Snacks, a provider of healthy snacks and beverages servicing some of the most notable companies in Ontario and the East Coast, including Google, LinkedIn, eBay, and many more. The company is based in Mississauga and recently celebrated its fifth year milestone. Tjan founded Mindful Snacks following four successful years with Freshii, first as Director of Operations, and later as Vice President, Purchasing and Product Innovation, where he managed over $10 million in global purchasing annually. In his time with Freshii, he led menu development and franchising, and oversaw the rebranding of the company, helping it to grow from 8 to 50 locations in cities in Canada, the US, Austria and Dubai, with pre-sales of 300 franchises that will open over the next decade. James graduated from Ryerson University’s Hospitality program in 2003 and lives in Toronto with his wife, Alice. When he’s not out strategizing on building his business, he can be found trying new restaurant destinations in the city with his closest friends and family, or finding time to create new culinary dishes at home.

Alex: What is your life’s purpose? James: To live the fullest life possible. To have experienced cancer at the age of 21, and to have lost the ability to walk and feed myself on my own during that time was extremely frightening, but it served to remind me each day to never take things in life for granted. Be thankful for everything that has been given to me and to give back to the community whenever possible.

Alex: What are the three things you’re most passionate about? James: 1. Food – exploring new cuisines, ingredients and the latest upcoming restaurants. 2. Travel – checking our exotic destinations and learning about different cultures. 3. Music – I grew up playing the piano and trumpet, and I really enjoy listening to jazz

Alex: How do you stay healthy? What’s your main health-related goal? James: My goal is to strive to remain healthy, both physically and mentally, so that I never need to look back or worry that cancer may be a possibility again. I wish I had more time to hit the gym or get more exercise. The reality is that when you run a startup business that is fairly young, it can take up a lot of your time. However, I can’t say I sit in a chair all day. The business requires for me to get pretty physical ensuring operations is running smoothly in the warehouse, shipments are ready to move out, unloading skids of products from our vendors and distributors and constantly meeting with new clients or suppliers to ensure the business is growing and running smoothly. This requires a lot of energy and I’m grateful that I’m healthy enough with a very high metabolism. My wife and I live a busy lifestyle as entrepreneurs so coming home from work and preparing a healthy meal can also be challenging. However, we try to use as many resources as we can to eat healthy. We subscribe to a fantastic food service called HelloFresh that delivers freshly prepared ingredients with a recipe card for fully proportioned meals weekly. It’s very convenient and best of all, it’s healthy.

Alex: How do you build wealth? What’s your main financial goal? James: During my early childhood, my parents really set a good example and always reminded me, my brother and my sister to save and put money aside. I’m lucky to have started at an early age and I continue to do this. Building a new business can be one of life’s most challenging experiences and ensuring you have enough cash flow will either make or break you. Taking some of these values that my parents instilled in me has made me more disciplined in my personal spending and savings. Financially, on the business side, my goal is to continue to grow the company and eventually expand across the country. We have had tremendous growth in the last 6-12 months at Mindful Snacks. Being the Founder and CEO of the company, the success of the business will ultimately dictate the capacity of how much time I can spend doing the things I’m most passionate about. Being wealthy can only bring so much happiness in life. As long as I can incorporate food, travel and music into my daily life, I am satisfied.

Alex: How do you balance work and family life? James: As my wife works in the business with me, it can sometimes be tough trying to separate work from personal time. We dedicate many hours to work each day, but we try and our best to not talk about work once we are home. Early on when the business just launched, we would typically be at the office 7 days a week. Today, we ensure we take one full day on the weekend for ourselves.

Alex: How do you enjoy spending time with family and friends? James: Being able to spend time with family and friends over a great meal and wine, or traveling to a new destination and just kicking back and relaxing are my all time favourites. That’s probably when I’m most relaxed and able to enjoy myself.

Alex: What has been the most fulfilling role you’ve ever had, or the most fulfilling project you’ve been involved with so far? James: I would have to say now being a Founder and CEO of your own company is the most fulfilling role I’ve had thus far. There are ups and downs in growing a business and several moving parts that I have to manage on any given day. However, working with an amazing team and seeing where we can take the company is exciting. We just hit our 5-year anniversary and looking back to how Mindful Snacks started and where we are today is one of the most fulfilling experiences to date.

Alex: What’s one career planning lesson that has made a significant difference in your life? James: Volunteer work can really help to promote real life values and experiences that can be applied later in life and to any job. An example is when I had wanted to work in a kitchen as a cook but I didn’t have any chef accreditation or culinary training. All I knew was that I loved to cook and knew if I was given the chance, I could prove to be really good. I offered to volunteer over 250 hours to my university’s international conference center during my school years and continued to do so until the executive chef offered me a paid position. I learned so many new experiences and techniques over the next 3 years and if it wasn’t for that chef who provided me with an opportunity to prove myself, who knows if I would have continued to be in the hospitality industry.

Alex: What would you like your legacy to be? James: I hope the people who I have met throughout my life felt, in some small way, that I was able to inspire them or help them when they were in need, and that they too, will also do the same at some point in their life. In regards to my love for great food, I hope I will always be remembered for sharing great meals with wonderful people together. To me, it can’t get better than that.

Alex: Thank you for taking part in this interview! Your candor and insights are much appreciated!

Did you find one or more of James' insights helpful? Are there any ideas or resources that came to mind as you read the interview? Know someone we should interview? We encourage you to share your thoughts and feedback in the comments section below. Alternatively, feel free to send us an email using our contact us form on the Rascanu.com website.

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What Other Historical St. Lawrence Market Buildings Could Become Condos?

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I suppose I sort of asked myself this question to conclude Monday’s blog post, and thus I felt the topic was somewhat unfinished.

We are running out of land in Toronto on which to build housing, and developers are buying fully-functional 20-storey office buildings to build 60-storey condominiums!

A lot of the “old” properties in the original Town of York aren’t actually designated heritage, but rather merely listed.

Which of these could we see become condos in the coming years?  Let’s take a look, and debate whether or not these buildings are worth saving…

  I’ve always been a bit of a history buff.

Although my first real interaction with the subject of history did not go very well…

Leaside High School, at least while I attended in the 1990’s, made a spectacle each and every year of “The History Fair.”  I had heard about it in years’ prior through babysitters, and eventually I had witnessed it through my older sister’s display.

History was taught to both Grade-9’s and Grade-10’s, as you had the option of taking Geography or History, in those two years.

I decided as soon as Grade-10 started that I was going to win The History Fair; well, me, and whichever three guys I would be saddled with as a “group.”

My topic was “The History of American Influence On Sports In Canada,” and I was proud of having the most unique topic ever presented.

Every year, the same topics would be covered: Confederation, The War of 1812, Canadian Writers – anything you can think of that involved Canada.

But in 1995, having witnessed what I had with respect to sports in Canada over years prior, I decided this would be our topic.

In hockey, our national past-time and the game we had invented, we had only five of then twenty-six NHL teams based in Canada, and two (Quebec and Winnipeg) had moved to American cities, despite over 85% of the NHL being comprised of Canadian-born players.

In basketball, the inventor of the game, James Naismith, was Canadian, and yet we were never mentioned by journalists, commentators, coaches, or players in the NBA or NCAA, even though Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens hosted the first ever Baskeball Association of America (precursor to the NBA) game in 1946.  The NBA still credits this November, 1946 event as “the first official game of the NBA.”  It took almost fifty years for Canada to get a basketball franchise.

In football, we had never been invited to join the NFL, and our very own Canadian Football League had been invaded by the Shreveport Pirates, Sacramento Gold Miners, Las Vegas Posse, Birmingham Barracudas, the Memphis Mad Dogs in what was an absolute bastardization of our Canadian game during a failed mid-90’s “American expansion.”

And in baseball, the game had been played in Canada since 1838 (which many claim was the first documented game of baseball, anywhere, ever), and was actually adopted from a British game called “rounders” when Canada was a part of Britain, and yet an American named Abner Doubleday was long credited with having invented the game; a claim that has since been proved false.  We were also coming off back-to-back World Series wins here in Toronto, which added some fuel to the fire.

Hockey clearly dominated our thesis, but the overall presentation was fantastic.

We cornered off about 50-60 square feet in the corner of the gym, and built a fortress out of the display boards that, in all likelihood, were for all presenters to use, but the guys in my group were big and scary, and stole enough boards to set up what was basically a small “room.”

I did 99% of the work on the project, and my mother, sister, and even my little brother (who was in Grade-8 at a different school!) helped me put the displays together.  I’ll never forget, the morning of the History Fair, my brother skipping his breakfast to help glue Bristol-boards together on our kitchen floor before he went off to school.

Our project absolutely crushed it.

It was the talk of the school, and on the “public” night, all the parents were jamming into our makeshift-room.  At one point, we had a lineup to get in!

At 15-years-old, this was the proudest I had ever been, of any accomplishment.  And the recognition that came with winning “1st Place” would justify the countless hours I put into the project while my three team members were slacking off (one of them called me, drunk, with a group of other people to ask, “Do you want to have a party at your house?” as I was typing up a section of our project on Word Perfect 7.

The day before the winners were set to be announced, my teacher, Mr. Verdun, asked me to stay after class.

I thought he was going to be the first to say “congratulations” to me, but it turns out, it was the complete opposite.

Mr. Verdun told me, “Ordinarily, I would never have this conversation with a student, but I think you might be mature enough to handle this, and plus, I think you deserve an explanation.”

My heart sank.

He told me that The History Fair was completely political, and the winners were pre-determined, based on the years.  This year, the winner would be from the French Immersion program, since they rotated years with the English projects.  Not only that two of the three – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd “winners,” would be French, and the third would be English, as it had been decided, but, the English winner would be from the other teacher’s class, since Mr. Verdun had two of the top three the year before.

Mr. Verdun told me that nobody from his class had a chance, no matter what they did.

“This is how it works in the real world,” he told me, “So perhaps the silver lining in all of this is that you see how things really work, and how politics plays a role with everything in society.”

I went from being proud of my project, to being completely ashamed.

I was embarrassed to have put all that work into a project, and have nothing to show for it.

I felt like the entire school was laughing at the idiot who spent his nights at the library researching baseball’s origins, when everybody else was smoking pot and having fun.

It’s been twenty-two years, and as you can tell, I’m still bitter.  But I learned a valuable lesson that day, one that’s probably more valuable than anything I learned in four years of high school.

So what’s the point to this story?

Well, my intention was to make a mere mention of The History Fair, as a lead-in to a blog about Toronto’s history, but now I’m staring at the word-count and seeing over 1,000, and this has almost become a post of its own.

“You mean you didn’t come to Toronto Realty Blog to read about my high school experiences?”

I guess the take-away was supposed to be about politics, and how so much of the decision-making with regards to the growing landscape of our city is absolutely, positively, political.

Take the decision to allow David Mirvish and Frank Gehry to build eighty-storey condominiums in an area where the largest condos are HALF the size, and on the site of the historical Princess of Wales Theatre.

Tell me that decision is not political.

You’ve got a member of the prestigious Mirvish family, with money and influence, partnering with a world-renowned, Toronto-born architect who is in his final days, looking to make a mark on the city, and even though there is absolutely zero precedent for 90-storey towers (remember they wanted two 90-storey towers, before they “agreed” to scale back to three 80-storey towers), I don’t believe this project was ever in doubt.

So if these guys are allowed to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre, how come the developer who wanted to tear down the historically designated building at 251 King Street back in 2008 wasn’t allowed?

Politics, that’s why!

Also keep in mind that when it comes to the Toronto Heritage Register, there are properties that are merely “listed,” and then there are those that are “designated” as heritage properties, and with that, comes restrictions on what can be done with them.  Just ask the residents of areas like Rosedale, where virtually every home has significant hurdles to development and renovation.

So while I can already feel this blog is going to be way too long, I thought today I’d look at some of the more notable older buildings in the St. Lawrence Market area, and discuss why they’re significant (in addition to giving you a brief history lesson that you didn’t ask for), whether or not they’re listed or designated, how large the sites are, and whether or not I think they could be redeveloped.

You may recognize these buildings as having walked by them many times, so if you’re learning some history by reading this, then I’m quite pleased!

Bank of Commerce – 1907 144 King Street East Heritage Status: Listed

This was an original branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), but more importantly, this is where the Township of York held it’s council meetings for forty-three years.

While the main floor of the building was used for the CIBC branch, the second and third floors contained offices which were the perfect meeting place for the city council, and thus it became the York Council Chambers beginning in 1907.

Council members had previously met across the street at St. Lawrence Hall before the current structure was even built in 1850, and dating back as far as the early 1800’s.

This city block at Jarvis/King and down to Front Street was home to several different City Council meeting places, in several different buildings for more than a century due to the constant rebuilding of the structures and of course the great fire of 1849.

The adjacent building on the west side – that red-brick, 3-storey structure you can see in the photo, was built in 1850 and is also merely “listed” as heritage.

Together, the two buildings sit on a 7,087 square foot piece of land.

I would hate to see either building demolished, or even built upon.  But a developer must be salivating at the idea of those north and west-facing park views overlooking St. James Cathedral.

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Daniel Brooke Building – 1833 150 King Street East Heritage Status: Listed

This is one of the oldest buildings in the old Town of York, and unlike the former “Grand Central Hotel,” which was incorporated into the King Plus Condos development in 2016, the Daniel Brooke Building still stands on its own, as originally constructed.

The most amazing part about this building, as I wrote on Monday, is that The Great Fire of 1849 wiped out a large portion of the Town of York, and yet this building remained.  The fire started right next door too, and somehow, magically, this building was left unscathed.

The building’s name is merely derived from the person who owned the land and had the building constructed in 1833, Daniel Brooke, who would otherwise have disappeared from history.

Notable tenants include The Patriot newspaper in the mid-1800’s, which as you might assume from the name, had some right-wing undertones to say the least.  “The Patriot” logo is still visible on the building today, if you look above the second floor window on the east-most side of the building.

This property is designated heritage (along with 61-63 Jarvis), and the site measures 4,356 square feet.

As much as I would like to think this lot is too small on which to build a condo, the condo would be too close to 168 King Street (and block views), and this building has massive cultural and historical significance, I suppose anything is possible…

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Toronto Street Railway Stables – 1887 165 Front Street East Heritage Status: Designated

On September 11th, 1861, the very first street railway line opened in Toronto and ran a route from Yorkville Town Hall down to St. Lawrence Market.  The goal was to complement the very successful Williams Omnibus Bus Line which was the first mass transportation system in Toronto, running four buses each capable of carrying six people.

The Williams Line became far too busy to meet the growing demand, and thus the City of Toronto issued a transit franchise for a street railway

The three-storey brick building at 165 Front Street East was built as a stable for the horses that pulled the Toronto Street Railways horse-cars, and later served as electrical generating plant before becoming a warehouse for the Toronto Transit Commission in the company’s infancy.

In 1966, the building was converted to Young People’s Theatre.

The site measures 10,201 square feet, which is big for a downtown site, but the property is designated heritage, so maybe developers will just have to go back to looking at parking lots…

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W.A. Drummond & Company Dairy Supply Warehouse – 1911 204-214 King Street East: Heritage Status: Intention

Heritage Toronto has placed a plaque on the side of the building that says “Adams Brothers Harness Manufacturing Company, 1903,” but the property is listed in the Toronto Heritage Register as being home to the W.A. Drummond & Company Dairy Supply Warehouse, dated 1911.  I’m assuming the former pre-dated the latter!

But if you really want to delve back in time, consider that before the current structure was erected, this was the site of the very first brick home in the Town of York.

Constructed between 1807 and 1811, by a man named Laurent Quetton St. George, whose purpose in building the first brick house in York, a town of 700 people was to impress the parents of a young lady he was courting, to try and win her hand in marriage.

It didn’t work…

The house was torn down a near century later in 1904, and the 7-storey red brick structure that stands today, was built.

This site measures 30,784 square feet, which is 0.7 acres, and that’s massive for downtown!

It sold for over $30,000,000 back in 2008, so we can only guess on what this would sell for now.

City council recommended the building for heritage designation in 1985, and an easement agreement was reached in 2011, but it still remains as “intention” by definition, and thus is not designated.

The site includes the adjacent buildings at 185 Frederick Street and 214 King Street, so I believe there are already enough tenants in these buildings to provide an exceptional return.  I don’t see this building being included in a condominium development any time soon.

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Bank of Upper Canada – 1825 252 Adelaide Street East Heritage Status: Designated

In 1822, there were only 2,000 residents of the Town of York, and thus there was no bank in the town.  Residents who needed to borrow money (I suppose there were no bank accounts at that time, and people stuffed their money in their straw mattresses?) had to travel to other cities such as Montreal, which was the capital of Canada at the time, and the financial hub.

The Bank of Upper Canada opened in July of 1822, and was constructed entirely of white stone blocks.  It continued to function for 48 years as other rival banks started to pop up throughout the town.

In 1870, the De La Salle Institute purchased the building from the bank, and opened a Roman Catholic college for boys.  They also purchased the building next door to the east, which is a red-brick building that served as the first post office in Canada.

There were other tenants over the years, but the building was completely empty by the 1960’s, and like many of the other buildings in the St. Lawrence Market area, it sat boarded up, and decaying.

It was designated as heritage in 1978.

“Post House Condos” was built at 105 George Street, behind the Bank of Upper Canada, and Toronto’s Post Office, so along with the fact that these buildings are heritage, I see zero redevelopment possibilities, at any point.

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These are only five of the many heritage-listed and heritage-designed buildings in the St. Lawrence Market area, and of course, the SLM area is not the only neighbourhood in Toronto that houses the city’s history.

As a reader pointed out on Monday’s blog, there are some heritage-designated buildings that seem to be sitting and rotting, with no end-game, and no visible value in terms of cultural or historical significance.

But then there are some gorgeous buildings, that I personally think are worth preserving.

And buildings like St. Lawrence Hall, which is the black-and-white feature image of this blog, need not even be discussed in this manner, since it should remain in its entirety, and never be demolished or built upon.

But that’s just my opinion.  Let me know if you disagree…

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What Other Historical St. Lawrence Market Buildings Could Become Condos?

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I suppose I sort of asked myself this question to conclude Monday’s blog post, and thus I felt the topic was somewhat unfinished.

We are running out of land in Toronto on which to build housing, and developers are buying fully-functional 20-storey office buildings to build 60-storey condominiums!

A lot of the “old” properties in the original Town of York aren’t actually designated heritage, but rather merely listed.

Which of these could we see become condos in the coming years?  Let’s take a look, and debate whether or not these buildings are worth saving…

  I’ve always been a bit of a history buff.

Although my first real interaction with the subject of history did not go very well…

Leaside High School, at least while I attended in the 1990’s, made a spectacle each and every year of “The History Fair.”  I had heard about it in years’ prior through babysitters, and eventually I had witnessed it through my older sister’s display.

History was taught to both Grade-9’s and Grade-10’s, as you had the option of taking Geography or History, in those two years.

I decided as soon as Grade-10 started that I was going to win The History Fair; well, me, and whichever three guys I would be saddled with as a “group.”

My topic was “The History of American Influence On Sports In Canada,” and I was proud of having the most unique topic ever presented.

Every year, the same topics would be covered: Confederation, The War of 1812, Canadian Writers – anything you can think of that involved Canada.

But in 1995, having witnessed what I had with respect to sports in Canada over years prior, I decided this would be our topic.

In hockey, our national past-time and the game we had invented, we had only five of then twenty-six NHL teams based in Canada, and two (Quebec and Winnipeg) had moved to American cities, despite over 85% of the NHL being comprised of Canadian-born players.

In basketball, the inventor of the game, James Naismith, was Canadian, and yet we were never mentioned by journalists, commentators, coaches, or players in the NBA or NCAA, even though Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens hosted the first ever Baskeball Association of America (precursor to the NBA) game in 1946.  The NBA still credits this November, 1946 event as “the first official game of the NBA.”  It took almost fifty years for Canada to get a basketball franchise.

In football, we had never been invited to join the NFL, and our very own Canadian Football League had been invaded by the Shreveport Pirates, Sacramento Gold Miners, Las Vegas Posse, Birmingham Barracudas, the Memphis Mad Dogs in what was an absolute bastardization of our Canadian game during a failed mid-90’s “American expansion.”

And in baseball, the game had been played in Canada since 1838 (which many claim was the first documented game of baseball, anywhere, ever), and was actually adopted from a British game called “rounders” when Canada was a part of Britain, and yet an American named Abner Doubleday was long credited with having invented the game; a claim that has since been proved false.  We were also coming off back-to-back World Series wins here in Toronto, which added some fuel to the fire.

Hockey clearly dominated our thesis, but the overall presentation was fantastic.

We cornered off about 50-60 square feet in the corner of the gym, and built a fortress out of the display boards that, in all likelihood, were for all presenters to use, but the guys in my group were big and scary, and stole enough boards to set up what was basically a small “room.”

I did 99% of the work on the project, and my mother, sister, and even my little brother (who was in Grade-8 at a different school!) helped me put the displays together.  I’ll never forget, the morning of the History Fair, my brother skipping his breakfast to help glue Bristol-boards together on our kitchen floor before he went off to school.

Our project absolutely crushed it.

It was the talk of the school, and on the “public” night, all the parents were jamming into our makeshift-room.  At one point, we had a lineup to get in!

At 15-years-old, this was the proudest I had ever been, of any accomplishment.  And the recognition that came with winning “1st Place” would justify the countless hours I put into the project while my three team members were slacking off (one of them called me, drunk, with a group of other people to ask, “Do you want to have a party at your house?” as I was typing up a section of our project on Word Perfect 7.

The day before the winners were set to be announced, my teacher, Mr. Verdun, asked me to stay after class.

I thought he was going to be the first to say “congratulations” to me, but it turns out, it was the complete opposite.

Mr. Verdun told me, “Ordinarily, I would never have this conversation with a student, but I think you might be mature enough to handle this, and plus, I think you deserve an explanation.”

My heart sank.

He told me that The History Fair was completely political, and the winners were pre-determined, based on the years.  This year, the winner would be from the French Immersion program, since they rotated years with the English projects.  Not only that two of the three – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd “winners,” would be French, and the third would be English, as it had been decided, but, the English winner would be from the other teacher’s class, since Mr. Verdun had two of the top three the year before.

Mr. Verdun told me that nobody from his class had a chance, no matter what they did.

“This is how it works in the real world,” he told me, “So perhaps the silver lining in all of this is that you see how things really work, and how politics plays a role with everything in society.”

I went from being proud of my project, to being completely ashamed.

I was embarrassed to have put all that work into a project, and have nothing to show for it.

I felt like the entire school was laughing at the idiot who spent his nights at the library researching baseball’s origins, when everybody else was smoking pot and having fun.

It’s been twenty-two years, and as you can tell, I’m still bitter.  But I learned a valuable lesson that day, one that’s probably more valuable than anything I learned in four years of high school.

So what’s the point to this story?

Well, my intention was to make a mere mention of The History Fair, as a lead-in to a blog about Toronto’s history, but now I’m staring at the word-count and seeing over 1,000, and this has almost become a post of its own.

“You mean you didn’t come to Toronto Realty Blog to read about my high school experiences?”

I guess the take-away was supposed to be about politics, and how so much of the decision-making with regards to the growing landscape of our city is absolutely, positively, political.

Take the decision to allow David Mirvish and Frank Gehry to build eighty-storey condominiums in an area where the largest condos are HALF the size, and on the site of the historical Princess of Wales Theatre.

Tell me that decision is not political.

You’ve got a member of the prestigious Mirvish family, with money and influence, partnering with a world-renowned, Toronto-born architect who is in his final days, looking to make a mark on the city, and even though there is absolutely zero precedent for 90-storey towers (remember they wanted two 90-storey towers, before they “agreed” to scale back to three 80-storey towers), I don’t believe this project was ever in doubt.

So if these guys are allowed to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre, how come the developer who wanted to tear down the historically designated building at 251 King Street back in 2008 wasn’t allowed?

Politics, that’s why!

Also keep in mind that when it comes to the Toronto Heritage Register, there are properties that are merely “listed,” and then there are those that are “designated” as heritage properties, and with that, comes restrictions on what can be done with them.  Just ask the residents of areas like Rosedale, where virtually every home has significant hurdles to development and renovation.

So while I can already feel this blog is going to be way too long, I thought today I’d look at some of the more notable older buildings in the St. Lawrence Market area, and discuss why they’re significant (in addition to giving you a brief history lesson that you didn’t ask for), whether or not they’re listed or designated, how large the sites are, and whether or not I think they could be redeveloped.

You may recognize these buildings as having walked by them many times, so if you’re learning some history by reading this, then I’m quite pleased!

Bank of Commerce – 1907 144 King Street East Heritage Status: Listed

This was an original branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), but more importantly, this is where the Township of York held it’s council meetings for forty-three years.

While the main floor of the building was used for the CIBC branch, the second and third floors contained offices which were the perfect meeting place for the city council, and thus it became the York Council Chambers beginning in 1907.

Council members had previously met across the street at St. Lawrence Hall before the current structure was even built in 1850, and dating back as far as the early 1800’s.

This city block at Jarvis/King and down to Front Street was home to several different City Council meeting places, in several different buildings for more than a century due to the constant rebuilding of the structures and of course the great fire of 1849.

The adjacent building on the west side – that red-brick, 3-storey structure you can see in the photo, was built in 1850 and is also merely “listed” as heritage.

Together, the two buildings sit on a 7,087 square foot piece of land.

I would hate to see either building demolished, or even built upon.  But a developer must be salivating at the idea of those north and west-facing park views overlooking St. James Cathedral.

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Daniel Brooke Building – 1833 150 King Street East Heritage Status: Listed

This is one of the oldest buildings in the old Town of York, and unlike the former “Grand Central Hotel,” which was incorporated into the King Plus Condos development in 2016, the Daniel Brooke Building still stands on its own, as originally constructed.

The most amazing part about this building, as I wrote on Monday, is that The Great Fire of 1849 wiped out a large portion of the Town of York, and yet this building remained.  The fire started right next door too, and somehow, magically, this building was left unscathed.

The building’s name is merely derived from the person who owned the land and had the building constructed in 1833, Daniel Brooke, who would otherwise have disappeared from history.

Notable tenants include The Patriot newspaper in the mid-1800’s, which as you might assume from the name, had some right-wing undertones to say the least.  “The Patriot” logo is still visible on the building today, if you look above the second floor window on the east-most side of the building.

This property is designated heritage (along with 61-63 Jarvis), and the site measures 4,356 square feet.

As much as I would like to think this lot is too small on which to build a condo, the condo would be too close to 168 King Street (and block views), and this building has massive cultural and historical significance, I suppose anything is possible…

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Toronto Street Railway Stables – 1887 165 Front Street East Heritage Status: Designated

On September 11th, 1861, the very first street railway line opened in Toronto and ran a route from Yorkville Town Hall down to St. Lawrence Market.  The goal was to complement the very successful Williams Omnibus Bus Line which was the first mass transportation system in Toronto, running four buses each capable of carrying six people.

The Williams Line became far too busy to meet the growing demand, and thus the City of Toronto issued a transit franchise for a street railway

The three-storey brick building at 165 Front Street East was built as a stable for the horses that pulled the Toronto Street Railways horse-cars, and later served as electrical generating plant before becoming a warehouse for the Toronto Transit Commission in the company’s infancy.

In 1966, the building was converted to Young People’s Theatre.

The site measures 10,201 square feet, which is big for a downtown site, but the property is designated heritage, so maybe developers will just have to go back to looking at parking lots…

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W.A. Drummond & Company Dairy Supply Warehouse – 1911 204-214 King Street East: Heritage Status: Intention

Heritage Toronto has placed a plaque on the side of the building that says “Adams Brothers Harness Manufacturing Company, 1903,” but the property is listed in the Toronto Heritage Register as being home to the W.A. Drummond & Company Dairy Supply Warehouse, dated 1911.  I’m assuming the former pre-dated the latter!

But if you really want to delve back in time, consider that before the current structure was erected, this was the site of the very first brick home in the Town of York.

Constructed between 1807 and 1811, by a man named Laurent Quetton St. George, whose purpose in building the first brick house in York, a town of 700 people was to impress the parents of a young lady he was courting, to try and win her hand in marriage.

It didn’t work…

The house was torn down a near century later in 1904, and the 7-storey red brick structure that stands today, was built.

This site measures 30,784 square feet, which is 0.7 acres, and that’s massive for downtown!

It sold for over $30,000,000 back in 2008, so we can only guess on what this would sell for now.

City council recommended the building for heritage designation in 1985, and an easement agreement was reached in 2011, but it still remains as “intention” by definition, and thus is not designated.

The site includes the adjacent buildings at 185 Frederick Street and 214 King Street, so I believe there are already enough tenants in these buildings to provide an exceptional return.  I don’t see this building being included in a condominium development any time soon.

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Bank of Upper Canada – 1825 252 Adelaide Street East Heritage Status: Designated

In 1822, there were only 2,000 residents of the Town of York, and thus there was no bank in the town.  Residents who needed to borrow money (I suppose there were no bank accounts at that time, and people stuffed their money in their straw mattresses?) had to travel to other cities such as Montreal, which was the capital of Canada at the time, and the financial hub.

The Bank of Upper Canada opened in July of 1822, and was constructed entirely of white stone blocks.  It continued to function for 48 years as other rival banks started to pop up throughout the town.

In 1870, the De La Salle Institute purchased the building from the bank, and opened a Roman Catholic college for boys.  They also purchased the building next door to the east, which is a red-brick building that served as the first post office in Canada.

There were other tenants over the years, but the building was completely empty by the 1960’s, and like many of the other buildings in the St. Lawrence Market area, it sat boarded up, and decaying.

It was designated as heritage in 1978.

“Post House Condos” was built at 105 George Street, behind the Bank of Upper Canada, and Toronto’s Post Office, so along with the fact that these buildings are heritage, I see zero redevelopment possibilities, at any point.

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These are only five of the many heritage-listed and heritage-designed buildings in the St. Lawrence Market area, and of course, the SLM area is not the only neighbourhood in Toronto that houses the city’s history.

As a reader pointed out on Monday’s blog, there are some heritage-designated buildings that seem to be sitting and rotting, with no end-game, and no visible value in terms of cultural or historical significance.

But then there are some gorgeous buildings, that I personally think are worth preserving.

And buildings like St. Lawrence Hall, which is the black-and-white feature image of this blog, need not even be discussed in this manner, since it should remain in its entirety, and never be demolished or built upon.

But that’s just my opinion.  Let me know if you disagree…

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