In their book Modest Hopes Don Loucks and his co-author Leslie Valpy highlight the stories of the people who built and lived in the worker cottages. See them speak on Saturday, November 27, 2021 at the Urbanspace Gallery....
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Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Too often, workers’ cottages are characterized today as being small, cramped, poorly built, and disposable. But in the late 1800s, to have worked and saved enough money to move...
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After almost two years of research, writing and sketching, Don and his co-authour Leslie Valpy have just completed and submitted the manuscript for their book, Modest Hopes, to Dundurn Press. This passage below is from Chapter 1. As our city evolves it is critically...
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