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ThksJunctioneer blog 2018 to 2019http://www.blogger.com/profile/16071736905284695888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194850554936551896.post-17154314552760103422020-07-19T12:21:00.001-07:002020-07-19T12:21:13.825-07:00More about Maria Street, Mar 29, 1965 The Globe and Mail<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Young, Scott <div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z3yts6LdZ6c/XxSdKseBAGI/AAAAAAAAA1c/6kK5BNZfXWwbomYN4W7bEzwSv8WHSyxWQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_4070-773847.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z3yts6LdZ6c/XxSdKseBAGI/AAAAAAAAA1c/6kK5BNZfXWwbomYN4W7bEzwSv8WHSyxWQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/IMG_4070-773847.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6851273740198674530" /></a></div> pg. 6</div><div> </div><div>More about Maria Street</div><div> </div><div>By Scott Young</div><div> </div><div>Last Wednesday I was in City Hall checking for background to City Councils decision to expropriate Benny Stark's salvage yard business on Maria St. This busy short old street backs on to the Canadian Pacific Railway freight yards not far from the west-end stockyards and packing plants and is just south of St. Clair off Runnymede Road.</div></div><div> </div><div>One of my conversations was with Alderman Mary Temple. Maria Street is in her ward. She took dead aim on Benny Stark's yard more than five years ago, when Stark bought it. She and a militant group of Stark's neighbors had lost every round until last summer when they began to win.</div><div>I told Mrs. Temple I was interested in how Stark's business could be ruled legal by the Metro Licensing Commission in 1959, by a magistrates count in 1960, by a county court judge in 1961, and by a voluminous police report in 1964 – and still could be expropriated in 1965.</div></div><div> </div><div><div>She wanted to know if I had spoken to any of Stark's neighbors. I had. Stark's business, by its very nature, never will win any Home Beautiful awards. But some of his opponents became his neighbors voluntarily, knowing fully what business he was in. Also, some did not agree with expropriating Stark. And several other businesses on the street are there only because their licenses, like his, pre-date a 1953 zoning bylaw. (This is called a legal non-conforming use, madam).</div><div> </div><div>"He never should have been allowed a license there to start with, you know," Mrs Temple said.</div><div>How did he get it, then? "He had help."</div><div>What kind of help? "You know – under the table. Somebody exerting pressure."</div><div>Who exerted the pressure? "I'd rather not say," she said.</div><div> </div><div>Somebody in City Council? She said yes.</div><div> </div><div>Subsequently I repeated this allegation of influence to Mr. Stark. He denied that anyone at City Hall ever had exerted influence for him that he knew of.</div><div> </div><div>If Mrs. Temple always has believed there was undue influence exerted in granting the Stark license, it may help to explain her dogged pursuit. But if she has any evidence, should she not have offered it to the City Council publicly at the time or in the many times later when the matter has come up?</div><div>I also found disturbing her reaction to the court decisions in Stark's favor. "Those decisions were a laugh," she said.</div><div> </div><div>I got much the same reaction from Alderman Horace Brown, who telephoned me on the matter Friday. He scoffed at the court decision in such a way that I said, "if you are going to call a judge a fool, why don't you do it out in the open and see what happens?" He said he had, but I do not recall the occasion myself.</div><div> </div><div>I should correct one impression given in my capsule account of this strange case Friday. Board of Control was NOT unanimous in voting for expropriation. Controller Herbet Orliffe suggested sensibly that the Planning Board should provide a list of the worst non-conforming uses in the city. He thought Council could use such a list when planning expropriations, instead of shooting the bounders down more or less haphazardly. His amendment was defeated 4-1. Incidentally, Real Estate Commissioner David Alexander says there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of non-conforming uses in the city. But only Benny Stark has his neighbors, and the favorite alderman.</div></div><div> </div><div><div>As a footnote, City Council does not seem to have been given full information in this case before voting for expropriation March 15. Old hands could remember at least some of the background, of course. But the eight freshmen aldermen could only put their faith in the good reputation of Mary Temple. And her reputation is among the best on Council However, in this case it was something like voting old Junius at the top of the page.</div><div> </div></div><p> </p></div></div></div><div class="postie-attachments" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"><a href="http://www.junctioneer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-17-More-about-Maria-St-1.txt"><img src="http://www.junctioneer.ca/wp-content/plugins/postie/icons/silver/default-32.png" alt="default icon">2020-07-17-More-about-Maria-St.txt</a></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> </div></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> </div></div></div></div> Junctioneer blog 2018 to 2019http://www.blogger.com/profile/16071736905284695888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194850554936551896.post-91400759732473468632020-07-19T12:01:00.001-07:002020-07-19T12:01:49.443-07:00Back to Maria, Benny Stark’s scrapyard at 118-122 Maria St. Great quotes<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto">Back to Maria St.</div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"> </div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"> </div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto">Nov 11, 1965; Newspapers: The Globe and Mail</div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto">pg. 6 By Scott Young</div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"> </div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto">There wasn't much public notice on Oct. 27 when Toronto City Council finally passed the bylaw required to expropriate Benny Stark's scrapyard at 118-122 Maria St. Alderman Mary Temple</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">apparently thought no one had noticed. This must have made her feel like the Light Brigade getting to the other end of the Valley of Death and then learning that the press bu had been five miles away, with a flat tire.</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> This expropriation is a victory for her and for a little band of lady vigilantes who are Stark's neighbors on Maria St. By Tuesday Mrs. Temple could stand the silence no longer, so she sent me a copy of the Stark expropriation bylaw with her compliments.</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto">Well, I'd been going to call Benny Stark on the matter anyway. There were great promises made in City Council last spring that he would be helped to find alternative accommodation, including some made in person by Mrs. Temple. I asked Mr. Stark whether there had been any success in this line. The short answer is: not yet. But the expropriation is going ahead anyway. The city has no urgent use for the land, it is a legal business, it is a family's support, but Benny Stark somehow has to go and that is that.</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto">To clear one point in advance, the Stark Iron Metal Co. is no rose garden. But it was there, operating, when some of the complaining neighbors moved in. There are thousands of other legal non-conforming uses in the city.</div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div>I asked Mr. Stark how things had been going. He told me a story that illustrates perfectly the kind of Gilbert and Sullivan life he has been leading.</div><div>"Did you hear a few weeks ago about me ordering an alderman off my place?" he asked.</div><div> </div><div>I hadn't. "Well," he said, "one Saturday morning when I was very busy, Ben Grys came in." Mr Grys is the junior alderman in Ward Seven. "He parked his station wagon in my driveway, with the rear of it across the sidewalk and into the street. He too me and look pointed to a fence and said, "Look Ben, that fence is falling over." I said, "Ben, that fence is not falling over. It was built that way on the plans okayed by the city."</div><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">We were talking back and forth about how I had built that fence myself so the neighbor there wouldn't have to see my scrapyard, when all of a sudden there was a lot of screaming and uproar in front, and one of my neighbors came yelling. "You. Stark and Mr. Grys, come and see what happen here." She was pointing at the sidewalk. There was a crabapple on the sidewalk, from a tree above. She yell at me, "It is your fault, because a truck have to come up on the sidewalk to get by, and dirty up my sidewalk which I just sweep."</div><div>"Which truck?" I ask.</div><div dir="auto"> </div><div>"That one right there!" she say, and point to a brewery truck, making a delivery. Now, it have to go on the sidewalk to get around the end of Ben Grys's station wagon, and being a high truck it hit the crabapple tree and knock one down. I try to ask, how come I am responsible for a brewery truck knocking down a crabapple to get around an alderman's car, but threats were made to hit me or kill me. Because of this, I call police – the first time I have ever called police. The police come, and when I tell them what happened, Ben Gryus interrupt and say, "No, no, no. Ben is not decent to these people, he is the one making all the trouble." And I say, "If I am not decent, get off my property." And he say he had a right to stay, because of complaints, but the police tell him I own the property and if I say go, he should go, so he go."</div><div dir="auto"> </div><div>End of sample joy of running a legal scrapyard on Maria St. in opposition to Toronto City Council. Negotiations will begin Friday on price for the expropriation. Real Estate Commissioner David Alexander said yesterday that he sill hopes a place can be found for Mr. Stark to do business.</div><div>"I have always found him co-operative," Mr. Alexander said, "He really wants to get out." No wonder.</div><div> </div></div><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto"> </div><div class="postie-attachments" dir="auto"><a href="https://www.junctioneer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-17-Back-to-Maria-St.txt"><img src="http://www.junctioneer.ca/wp-content/plugins/postie/icons/silver/default-32.png" alt="default icon">2020-07-17-Back-to--St.txt</a></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> <div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tt6TdMlhAPc/XxSYnZKsZdI/AAAAAAAAA1E/REVTtWZ3PJ0X3VjDeUb6TbwSwy1g4rxOQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_4069-709486.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tt6TdMlhAPc/XxSYnZKsZdI/AAAAAAAAA1E/REVTtWZ3PJ0X3VjDeUb6TbwSwy1g4rxOQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/IMG_4069-709486.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6851268735675426258" /></a><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W3V_bBx00As/XxSYnzh8AFI/AAAAAAAAA1M/Mma-Kfxzc1sgfUGNwX8nCu7B3Wchy9pQgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_4065-711321.jpg"><img 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href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XQdpEaduvfg/XxR8NGpz0bI/AAAAAAAAA0s/yiZGQxFq8Z0PIylToB_lFWdJwogO5_cegCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Resized_20200718_134905-735895.jpeg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XQdpEaduvfg/XxR8NGpz0bI/AAAAAAAAA0s/yiZGQxFq8Z0PIylToB_lFWdJwogO5_cegCK4BGAYYCw/s320/Resized_20200718_134905-735895.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6851237497703485874" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cfQuDvjRfvk/XxR8Nc9pEUI/AAAAAAAAA00/eN83DgegadENMLLJK8hrAtdOsKZvWKixgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Resized_20200718_134901-737094.jpeg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cfQuDvjRfvk/XxR8Nc9pEUI/AAAAAAAAA00/eN83DgegadENMLLJK8hrAtdOsKZvWKixgCK4BGAYYCw/s320/Resized_20200718_134901-737094.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6851237503692247362" /></a></p><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Photographed Sat June 18th 2020 a cooling centre in Toronto, show Social distancing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div> Junctioneer blog 2018 to 2019http://www.blogger.com/profile/16071736905284695888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194850554936551896.post-88321470767592428842020-07-18T21:19:00.001-07:002020-07-18T21:19:42.487-07:00Shelter Bus TTC<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">status: draft</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A shelter TTC bus used to transport to cooling centre in July 2020.</div></div> Junctioneer blog 2018 to 2019http://www.blogger.com/profile/16071736905284695888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194850554936551896.post-86544754345597193562020-07-18T21:13:00.001-07:002020-07-18T21:13:32.811-07:00Regent Park new concrete right of way on lands recovered from late 50's buildings<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SlhFI-_UVWI/XxPIbXcD1sI/AAAAAAAAAzw/aeNvA8COp3UWvq3-0Wfk2MXguLbYW-M9gCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Resized_20200718_142540-712854.jpg"><img 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id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6851039842053631842" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gp2p4RYfp4g/XxPIcnWBTwI/AAAAAAAAA0I/sKFC070WgFQy3yNCwOWP0JXUsTvuLp93QCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/imagejpeg_0-718240.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gp2p4RYfp4g/XxPIcnWBTwI/AAAAAAAAA0I/sKFC070WgFQy3yNCwOWP0JXUsTvuLp93QCK4BGAYYCw/s320/imagejpeg_0-718240.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6851039852083891970" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WqnhlyPQO8M/XxPIdAun5eI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/GN_KUb8bkKAHD1fi_4cGGa-x4LWgqGjagCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Resized_20200718_141902-719862.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WqnhlyPQO8M/XxPIdAun5eI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/GN_KUb8bkKAHD1fi_4cGGa-x4LWgqGjagCK4BGAYYCw/s320/Resized_20200718_141902-719862.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6851039858897970658" /></a></p><div dir="auto">status: draft<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div> Junctioneer blog 2018 to 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The Sanitary Engineer</div>
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Vol IX</div>
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April 1, 1915</div>
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No. 6</div>
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A Sanitary City Home</div>
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Describing the Sanitary and Heating Equipment in the Residence of T. Fussell, Esq., Oakmount Road, Toronto.</div>
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While we often hear it asserted that city people have the advantage of this or that sanitary con-venience, we very seldom analyse the statement.</div>
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Let us ask ourselves whether there are many really sanitary homes in our towns and cities, that is, as sanitary as they might be.</div>
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A residence might have the most modernly equipped bath room and yet be far from sanitary.</div>
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For instance, a home may not be properly heated, or there may be poor provision for ventilating every apartment, and not sufficient windows to give ample light. In such cases it could not by any means be called a sanitary home.</div>
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The Sanitary Engineer visited the residence of T. Fussell. Esq., Oakmount Road, Toronto, recently, and in this article it is proposed to define what one might fairly describe as a sanitary home.</div>
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The very best, though not the most expensive bath room fixtures are installed. Hot and cold water is supplied throughout the whole house by a Ruud automatic gas water heater, which furnishes an unlimited quantity of hot water as required. The moment a hot water tap in any part of the house is turned on that moment a supply of hot water is to be had, this heater is situated in the basement of the house.</div>
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The basement is every bit as well lighted as any other room in the building, plenty of good sized windows being furnished.</div>
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Another very noticeable difference between this residence and most so-called sanitary homes is the conspicuous ab-sence of dust.</div>
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To be strong, well, happy and efficient we must be hygienic in our habits. Soap, water and sanitary plumbing are all to be desired, but poisoned air in the home means toxins in the bodies of the occu-pants — then disease. All disease is unclean.</div>
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Sweeping and dusting are very crude, laborious and primitive operations. Distributing the dust and dirt in the air, it settles upon furniture and other household goods and has to be again wiped off by hand only to be breathed into the lungs, which really means that we inhale so many disease germs into our constitutions.</div>
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However, the reason why dust was so conspicuous by its absence is that Mr. Fussell has bad a TUEC suction cleaner installed. This machiue is situated in the basement. It is electrically driven a 1-9 h.p. motor, which can be operated by a switch at various points throughout the house.</div>
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A 2 1/2 riser pipe extends from the machine throush the central part of the house and is furnished with 2-inch outlets as convenient points. A 30-foot hose length is furnished the fittings of which are arranged so as to make perfect connection to each outlet. The dust is collected into a large tank which is part of the machine. Sanitary engineers vould do well to look into the merits of such appliances, because in these days monney is demanding more actual service than ever before. The ordinary installation has become a staple quantity upon which profits are cut to nil.</div>
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The next subject to take up is the heating. This residence is lieateil by a low pressure steam system and is controlled by a thermostatic controlling device. The temperature can be regulated to whatever degree of heat is resired. Fig. 1 shows the boiler layout, which is worthy of a little careful study. It is very simple, yet about as effective as it could possibly be. One steam main 3-inch diameter is taken off the top of the boiler, and is carried full size round the ceiling of the basement as shown in piping plan Fig. 2. This main, it will be seen, is not reduced in size as is the common practice, but is kept full size until it reaches the boiler again. It is then reduced to 1 1/2 inches as shown in Fig. 1, and drops down to the bottom and is connected into both sides of the boiler. The return main is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. Our readers should notice very carefully how the various connections are made. Let us commence at the boiler. In this case it will be seen that a 1 1/4 inch horizontal check valve is fitted to the same pipe which drips the steam main, then the return is carried up vertically. A Dunham air eliminator is connected here (see Fig. 1.), under which is fitted a tee. Then one return pipe is run along the ceiling to the front and another to the rear of the house. These are 1 1/4 inch and 1 inch respectively. All branches to radiators, both steam and returns, are taken off at 45 degrees, and both the piping and boiler is covered with a good quality insulator.</div>
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Each radiator is fitted with a Dunham, packless graduated radiator valve on the flow, and on the return is fitted a Dunham steam trap. A typical method of radiator connection is shown in Fig. 2. The whole system was certainly working splendidly at the time of inspection. The steam gauge registering exactly two ounces of pressure, one very striking feature was, that because of the mild temperature outside, the radiators were heated at the top portion and became gradually cooler lower down. At the same time, the thermostat and pressurestat were in full control of the whole system. No unsightly air valves are necessary with such a system, because each radiator is under the control of its own individual return trap, while the air is taken care of by the automatic air eliminator.</div>
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For the benefit of our readers we have re-produced an enlarged view of the air eliminator, see Fig. .3. Fig. 4 is a view of the residence. The boiler furnishing steam to the system is a 30.6 Viking, manufactured by Messrs. Warden King Co., Ltd., Toronto and Montreal, and Steel and Radiation, Ltd., furnished the radiators, 21 in number, 830 square feet.</div>
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In the first portion of this article we stated that the basement was well lighted. In Fig. 4 will be seen three of the basement windows, and on plan Fig. 2, there are shown no less than seven windows. These windows not only provide ample light, but are also a great assistance towards keeping the atmosphere pure. Sunlight is one of the finest purifiers known to scientists.</div>
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Mr. Geo. Cooper was chairman of the entertainment committee.</div>
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Mr. Edwin Newsome, editor of The Sanitary Engineer, gave an address, illustrated by chalk and blackboard sketches. The subject was septic tanks and sanitary methods of sewage disposal for rural residences. Great interest was shown, as was evidenced by the number of questions asked. Several members gave their experiences with septic tanks, amongst whom were Mr. Geo. Clapperton, of Messrs. Bennett & Wright Co., Ltd.; H. Hicks, president of the Ontario Association; Geo. Cooper, chairman, and Mr. H. Farthing, chairman of the examination committee.</div>
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A hearty vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. Newsome for his kindness in coming forward to address the members. Geo. Cooper delivered the vote of thanks, which had been moved by Mr. Geo. Clapperton, and seconded by T. B. Smyth, president of the society.</div>
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Mr. Newsome, in replying, stated that it had given him great pleasure to address the members, and that if the others had gained by his address, he too had benefited by listening to the experiences of others. He further urged that the members of the trade send in to “The Sanitary Engineer” any information they had gained upon any subject of interest to the trade, as it was only by the exchanging of one’s experiences that the greatest progress in sanitation could be made.</div>
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The rest of the evening was devoted to “pleasantries.” A game of progressive euchre was played, and two prizes were given. The winners were : First prize (automatic cigar lighter), S. War-burton; second prize (a Tipperary pup), C. B. S. Reed. Master Cooper very ably officiated upon the piano, after which refreshments were served, the members dispersing after having joined in singing the National Anthem.</div>
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All the men employed in the bridge building department of the Canadian pacific railroad shops at the Junction were discharged yesterday and the working fine in the machine and wrecking shops has been reduced to four hours a day.</div>
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Information about this fire in the Toronto Junction is extremely to find, and the one photo the blog has found is simply a black and white blob, where no elements of the site can be seen.</div>
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Fire swept out of control yesterday morning in a west end warehouse, was checked in late afternoon by firemen, then got out of control again about 4:30. Damage was estimated at about $1,000,000.</div>
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the latter from mid 2018 to current are present in the web accessible blog, where you are now. Junctioneer blog 2018 to 2019http://www.blogger.com/profile/16071736905284695888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194850554936551896.post-2152007108995834832019-10-22T03:02:00.000-07:002019-10-22T03:02:06.083-07:00Alfred S. Rogers and the start of a cement company<div dir="auto">
The sales agent of Grey & Bruce was Alfred S. Rogers, a Toronto entrepreneur, who owned a number of companies, among them a fuel supply firm that also sold cement. Rogers joined forces with Lind around 1910, when competition from other cement companies called for substantial investment in modernization.<br />
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One year later, Rogers and Lind led a group of investors who formed a new company on a 500-acre site in the limestone-rich region near St. Marys, Ontario. They called the company St. Marys Portland Cement Company Limited. The plant cost $250,000 and went into production in November of 1912, employing 90 people. It had two 165-foot rotary kilns and its initial capacity was 180 tonnes a day. The product was named "Pyramid Brand" Portland Cement and sold for $9 a tonne. It was an immediate success and the company prospered.<br />
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The house at 28 Valleyanna Dr. has a singular perch in the city – sitting high atop a promontory that slopes down to the Don River Valley below. Over the span of a century or so, the setting has inspired three of Toronto’s most notable architects, with Eden Smith, Gordon Adamson and Raymond Moriyama each adding a layer to the historic estate.<br />
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Records show that the address known today as 28 Valleyanna Dr. was part of a vast farming estate in the 1800s when Robert Jones and his family held the land for 90 years. In 1920, the Jones family sold the estate to Herbert Bruce. Dr. Bruce was a prominent surgeon who founded Wellesley Hospital in 1911 and served as a lieutenant-governor of Ontario in the 1930s. He christened the 110-acre property Annandale in homage to his Scottish roots and commissioned Eden Smith to design a Jacobean-style house.<br />
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Mr. Smith was born in Britain but he made his reputation in Canada by bringing the tenets of Arts and Crafts to this country. The movement rejected the ornamentation of the Victorian era in favour of simplicity and an appreciation of nature. The house sat in a bucolic landscape of gardens, meadows and meandering riding trails.<br />
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In the early 1930s, Dr. Bruce sold Annandale to coal magnate Alfred Rogers. His family was a different branch of the prominent Toronto clan that would include – a few generations later – Ted Rogers of Rogers Communications.<br />
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During Alfred Rogers’s tenure, the family’s coal supply business was one of the largest in the Commonwealth. Mr. Rogers was also a well-known sportsman and equestrian. He took over Annandale during the Depression and spent a lavish $250,000 on expanding the house. Mr. Rogers also hired the landscape architect Lorrie Dunington-Grubb and her husband and business partner, Howard Dunington-Grubb. In addition to working on the Royal Botanical Gardens and Lawrence Park, the couple founded Sheridan Nurseries. A photo of the gardens at Annandale remained on the cover of the Sheridan Gardens catalogue for years.<br />
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Mr. Rogers renamed the estate Uplands and remained its owner until his death in 1953.<br />
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The 1950s was a decade of expansion in Canada and a new owner by the name of James Crothers came along with his own vision for the area.<br />
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Mr. Crothers was an entrepreneur who built his business by establishing a Caterpillar dealership to sell heavy equipment. He became a land developer in Florida and the Bahamas and brought the Howard Johnson Hotels and Restaurants chain into Canada in the 1970s.<br />
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Mr. Crothers purchased Uplands for his family and sub-divided the surrounding land to create Valleyanna Drive, which is a quiet enclave with number 28 at the end of the cul-de-sac. The estate’s Tudor-style gatehouse was sold as a private home and still stands at 2 Valleyanna Dr. today.<br />
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For his own family home, Mr. Crothers wanted to replace the Eden Smith house with a striking new residence. He hired modernist-influenced architect Gordon Adamson.<br />
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“You do not look back. You look forward,” was the credo of the late Mr. Crothers, recalls his son-in-law, George Moore.<br />
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Toronto residents are more likely to be familiar with Gordon S. Adamson & Associates’ roster of industrial and civic buildings, including the Ontario Power Building on University Avenue, the North York Civic Centre and the Redpath Sugar Refinery. But Mr. Adamson took on a few select residential projects.<br />
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Barbara Ann Moore says her father and Mr. Adamson had been friends for years.<br />
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Her mother, the late Irma Crothers, wanted “simplicity, quiet and safety” in a new home, she recalls.<br />
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The new building was situated so that the construction wouldn’t disturb the long-established Dunington-Grubb gardens. Landscape architect George Tanaka was brought in to enhance and extend the landscaping.<br />
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The mid-century house was built with five bedrooms, nine bathrooms and an open plan that allowed one room to flow into another instead of opening onto a hallway. The design puts an emphasis on simplicity and enjoyment of the vistas over the valley. The principal rooms have expansive windows overlooking the valley while the bedrooms and kitchen face the gardens.<br />
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The house, with more than 12,000 square feet on two levels, is set low in the landscape and clad in brick. A two-bedroom coach house is connected by a walkway.<br />
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While Mr. Adamson built an entirely new house, Ms. Moore points out the vestibule doors and walls of solid wood panelling that her mother was determined to preserve from the Eden Smith house.<br />
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The new home had lots of elements that were avant-garde for their day, including a sound-proofed film screening room with 32 seats, a central music system, indoor grills and ensuite bathrooms for each bedroom.<br />
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Ms. Moore says the lower level was designed for the weekly dinners and movie nights her parents held for friends and business associates. Often Mr. Crothers brought in the chef from the popular Lichee Garden restaurant in Chinatown to prepare Chinese food for the guests.<br />
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The curving indoor swimming pool is lined in elaborate mosaic tiles, with a poolside lounge, his-and-hers change rooms and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the valley. A separate spa and beauty salon has a vintage hooded dryer and hair-styling station.<br />
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Outside, Mr. Crothers had one expanse of land turned into a three-hole golf course with a small lake, an island and a footbridge to one of the greens. He hired an emerging star in architecture, Raymond Moriyama, who designed a Japanese-style teahouse gently place on a small hill. Mr. Moriyama was awarded the 1961 Massey Medal for Architecture for the project.<br />
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When Mr. Moriyama won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal in 1997, his convocation address included his memories of designing the teahouse by staying at the site late into the night with Mr. Tanaka, the landscape architect. Mr. Tanaka was an influential mentor, Mr. Moriyama says, and the two spent many hours working out how to achieve a seamless integration of land and building.<br />
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Since Mr. Crothers would mostly be enjoying the outdoors in the evening, the pair wanted to see how the moonlight reflected in the pond, for example, and how the landscape looked under the setting sun.<br />
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The nine-acre property includes a dramatic precipice, formal gardens, tumbling waterfalls and untamed swaths of land.<br />
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On an expanse of table land above the ravine, the manicured Dunington-Grubb gardens still stand surrounded by mature trees. A 1927 magazine article about the estate described elaborate gardens that included Japanese gardens, aquatic plants in the reflecting pool, formal hedges and a rockery.<br />
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Decades later, Mr. Tanaka designed a series of steps, walkways and retaining walls that still wind down the hillside and around a waterfall that originates in a pool next to the terrace and tumbles to the lake before eventually leading into the Don River far below.<br />
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The panoramic vista and storied setting are incredibly rare, says real estate agent Elise Kalles of Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd.<br />
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“It’s just unbelievable,” says of the sightlines from the living room over the treed hillside to the teahouse in the distance.<br />
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At one time the estate continued on the other side of the Don River but Mr. Crothers donated that portion after the deadly Hurricane Hazel hit Toronto in 1954.<br />
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Over the years, improvements have been made to the walkways, patios, water fountains, and retaining walls, and the natural fish pond in the valley has been restored.<br />
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Mr. Moore points to the many mature evergreens and deciduous trees that have been long established on the property.<br />
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“There are three or four Copper beech that are just magnificent.”<br />
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The tranquil landscape is home to lots of wildlife, including foxes and deer. After last week’s snowfall, Mr. Moore spotted prints that showed a rabbit had hopped along the length of a garden path.</div>
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As 1st reported in the <a href="https://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/land-trust-purchases-87-acres-along-eramosa-river/" target="_blank">Wellington Adv. </a></div>
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GUELPH-ERAMOSA – Rare Charitable Research Reserve recently purchased 87 acres on the 7th Line here along the Eramosa River.</div>
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The land trust and environmental institute, formed in 2001, purchased the land for conservation and research for just under $1 million.</div>
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It is the first acreage purchased in Wellington County by the Cambridge-based organization.</div>
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“It was a good opportunity for us … As a land trust that is really focused on conservation, that’s our priority so with the 87 acres we want to keep it intact and in perpetuity,” Rare executive director Stephanie Sobek-Swant told the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Advertiser</span>.</div>
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“We are going to do stewardship to run our research and some of our education programs on that property.”</div>
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The organization had been looking for an area not currently protected where it could branch out its research and conservation principals, one of which is connectivity, in a meaningful way.</div>
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“From a watershed perspective the water connects everything we do and going into the river valleys and along the rivers made perfect sense in that regard to start with,” said Sobek-Swant.</div>
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Guelph-Eramosa Mayor Chris White said it is a great opportunity for the township to be the first municipal host of Rare-purchased land.</div>
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“It’s fantastic because we’re right on the edge of the GTA so some of the pressures that we are feeling here in terms of population growth and urbanization are pretty significant here … so having that happen here is very good,” said White.</div>
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“Unlike some provincial legislation … green belts and so forth that can change, this is a permanent designation by the owners of the property.”</div>
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Rare purchased the land with donations and a provincial grant.</div>
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Riverscape – Land trust and environmental institute Rare Charitable Research Reserve recently purchased 87 acres along the Eramosa River. <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Photo by Tom Woodcock</div>
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“It was an interesting mix of smaller and larger donors coming together, but there is also going to be a grassland bird offset on the side so a developer paid a large amounts of the funds that had to be raised for that agreement,” said Sobek-Swant.</div>
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“It is a good example of how the community and industry and also the government can work together because we also received a $150,000 capital grant from the Ontario Trillium foundation for this property purchase, which was a big boost.”</div>
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The $1-million total covered the purchase price and associated costs for land transfers, legal fees and a 20 per cent stewardship endowment to ensure the organization controls the land in perpetuity.</div>
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The area, which the organization has named the Eramosa River Conservation Corridor, is part of Rare’s larger land securement strategy.</div>
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Already the organization is in discussion with the owners of the former Edgewood Camp in Eden Mills, which would expand the conservation corridor.</div>
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It will have major benefits to the township, according to White.</div>
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“The nice thing about this is it’s at no cost to the taxpayer. [Rare is] preserving <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the property on their own dime,” said White.</div>
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“Typically if we have parks or preserved areas … or even trails, there’s a cost to the municipality and the residents, so in this particular case we get a nice chunk of property preserved at no cost.”</div>
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White added, “We want to thank them for all the hard work they are doing in preserving this land along the river.”</div>
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As a land trust and environmental institute, Rare also <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>looks to the public for support and provides opportunities for the community to get involved.</div>
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While always looking for large and small donations, the organization wants to train what Sobek-Swant called “the next generation of conservationists.”</div>
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“We want to know exactly what species are out there and we have a lot of seasoned advisors in that regard who might also be happy to take people out who have a lesser degree of experience because we kind of want to train [them] …” she said.</div>
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“So there are lots of opportunities to explore and learn things in that regard; help with invasive species removal for example, or planting native species as part of restoration projects.</div>
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“We will be forming little stewardship groups where people can get really hands-on engagement and become part of the whole effort.”</div>
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You can use the required old mobile trailer home, which grown on very big Ontario construction site, they bloom bbq's in the early fall, it is said they grow from discarded beer bottles.Junctioneer blog 2018 to 2019http://www.blogger.com/profile/16071736905284695888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194850554936551896.post-44935666619625707292019-07-31T16:38:00.000-07:002019-08-01T13:47:31.607-07:00Montreal-based AGF Access Group has been selected by Ship tan Constructors to provide access equipment for the construe lon new twin-span stay-cable Sam Houston Ship Channel<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">AGF LANDS MAJOR TEXAS BRIDGE. 1'I\uju-v co net</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Montreal-based AGF Access Group has been selected by Ship tan</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Constructors to provide access equipment for the construe lon</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">new twin-span stay-cable Sam Houston Ship Channel</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">of the massive,</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Bridge in Harris County, Texas. AGF Access Group's major projects</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">along with its Hydro Mobile and Winsafe manufacturing divisions,</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">developed a variety of standard and customized access solutions to be</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">used during the next six years of the bridges construction and demolition.</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hydro Rents, a company within the group, will supply 1 ,000 feet of stairs</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">to access both main pylons and the road deck at different locations;</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">two Raxtar temporary elevators, 525 feet high, for pylon and form work</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">access; four 90-foot custom-designed Hydro Mobile traveling gantries</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">for under-bridge deck operations including stay-cable installation and</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">finishing works; and eight specially adapted Winsafe suspended platforms</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">for pylon construction activities and stay cable installation. The access</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">equipment will improve the efficiency and safety of all workers during</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">the construction of the bridge. The current Ship Channel Bridge will</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">be replaced by two one-way bridges of four lanes each. The new Sam</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Houston bridge will be 500 feet high, 1,800 feet long and have a total</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">of 128 stay-cables, making the bridge the sixth-longest main span in the</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">U.S. and the second-longest in Texas.</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">"Given our track record, and most recently with the execution of</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">several high-profile bridge projects including the new Champlain Bridge</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">in Montreal and the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York, we were in a</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">competitive position to offer these solutions under a single roof," said</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Alex Di Domenico, vice- resident f</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">access solutions from one source 's reproojeoctcajhe ability to supply</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">nd efficient for the</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">customers overall project management."</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">"We are proud to fulfill the access needs for the Sam Houston</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">replacement bridge project," said Rick Harland, regional manager of</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hydro Rents. "We have provided equipment to major projects in Texas</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">before and fulfilled their needs with the same focus on safety and on time</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">execution true to the Hydro Rents reputation."</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">A2cess Group's deliveries are.scheduled for July 201 through</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">ry 020. The bridge will take SIX years to be completed with th</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">southbound bridge set for completion in 2021 and the</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">northbound bridge</span></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">in 2024.</span></p>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Tel: 6475705039<br><br><a href="http://www.roberthilts.com">http://www.roberthilts.com</a><br>@roberthilts<br><br><a href="http://www.junctioneer.ca">http://www.junctioneer.ca</a><br>@junctioneer</div> Junctioneer blog 2018 to 2019http://www.blogger.com/profile/16071736905284695888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194850554936551896.post-75847981284985061192019-07-26T15:14:00.001-07:002019-07-26T15:14:06.529-07:00Molasses ship at Redpath with a wonderful scent. Unusual too is the self loading grab(blue colour in photo) buckets, not common on ship debluking at Redpath<br><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br><br><br><br><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wnoReR-oP1Y/XTt7JLJTF5I/AAAAAAAAAqk/HoPNYAe-M6A6pllO7pyVy2Yl60En8nO_gCLcBGAs/s1600/20190726_180721.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wnoReR-oP1Y/XTt7JLJTF5I/AAAAAAAAAqk/HoPNYAe-M6A6pllO7pyVy2Yl60En8nO_gCLcBGAs/s1600/20190726_180721.jpg" border="0" data-original-width="3264" data-original-height="1836" width="501" height="281" class=" " title="" alt=""></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XpB7fYNza8c/XTt7J0tPX4I/AAAAAAAAAqo/ny9fWm8S1Oc_NmEr9QTBsCVek3IxLYrSwCLcBGAs/s1600/20190726_180654.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XpB7fYNza8c/XTt7J0tPX4I/AAAAAAAAAqo/ny9fWm8S1Oc_NmEr9QTBsCVek3IxLYrSwCLcBGAs/s1600/20190726_180654.jpg" border="0" data-original-width="3264" data-original-height="1836" width="320" height="180"></a></div><br>Molasses in hopper</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/data/user/0/com.bloggerpro.android/cache/PendingUploads/20190726_180654.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XpB7fYNza8c/XTt7J0tPX4I/AAAAAAAAAqo/ny9fWm8S1Oc_NmEr9QTBsCVek3IxLYrSwCLcBGAs/s1600/20190726_180654.jpg" border="0" data-original-width="3264" data-original-height="1836" width="320" height="179" class=" " title="" alt=""></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XL5xU7RjlXE/XTt7Le9dpXI/AAAAAAAAAqw/tNlPs04_TiIMiruCY_rJCFjT195mqkZigCLcBGAs/s1600/20190726_180715.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XL5xU7RjlXE/XTt7Le9dpXI/AAAAAAAAAqw/tNlPs04_TiIMiruCY_rJCFjT195mqkZigCLcBGAs/s1600/20190726_180715.jpg" border="0" data-original-width="3264" data-original-height="1836" width="320" height="180"></a></div>Junctioneer blog 2018 to 2019http://www.blogger.com/profile/16071736905284695888noreply@blogger.com0