CPR Canadian Holiday Train will be in the Junction Saturday, December 01, 2012

 



 

The Canadian Holiday Train will be in the Junction

Saturday, December 01, 2012

5:30 p.m., 750 Runnymede Rd,

in front of CP Lambton yard office,

Entertainers on the Canadian train include Doc Walker, Miss Emily, and theBrothers Dube.

 

 

Morrow Ave. the most beautiful redefined street in the greater Junction Area?

Morrow Ave has been transformed over the last 15 years from the industrial street it was to a series of redefined buildings. These buildings now redeveloped house an art gallery of much merit, a loft development project and a series of other thought based businesses types. Oh yes and wonder Home Hardware.

This avenue is really worth a stroll particularly in Sunday's when it's quite quiet and the parked car and weekday business bustle is absent.

Here a little photo tour.



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Old Canada Bread factory photo grouping of opening up of formerly bricked up back windows.

1st much thanks to reader Jimi Fir alerting the blog to this.

The factory now being converted into artist studios has a wonderful transformation at its rear.

The windowed bricked up
For so long are being shod of their bricks.


Inside the northern most space.


Inside looking towards the CPR tracks at doors that once held the opening for the waste doors for the bakery.


Track side view

Hounslow Heath Rd, the twists, turns and shapely buildings

Hounslow Heath Rd is a rare street in the Greater Junction Area, it twists and turns as a few other street sin the area do Law Aves, being one.  Hounslow Heath Rd has the beauty a twist  or two in a street can offer during a walk - simply through dispelling the though and vision of where you are going than straight street soften do.

Hounslow Heath Rd has a great assortment of houses from simple straight ups to older style duplexes, 1st and second floor closed in verandas. Open verandas, some houses with driveways others without.  Walk-up verandas and straight to the road walkways.

Roof styles of just about every type common in the Junctions.

If you like viewing the mosaics of street housing this road is worth a walk.



 

 Update from a comment left by reader Leo, thanks

Curiosity led me one day years ago to visit the archives to learn more about Hounslow Heath R., the street I grew up on in the 50/60/70 era. Construction of homes began on the south side close to Laughton Ave. about 1912 or so and it progressed west and north to St. Clair before finally beginning on the north side of the street. The street plan was available and it gave a hint as to why the street did not follow the typical Toronto grid. The plan revealed a proposed railway (Northern Railway), which ran a diagonal from Caledonia and Davenport Rd. to Keele St. and St. Clair. I believe there were train stations at both of these locations. The proposed railway would run exactly parallel with the back laneway on the south side of the street. For whatever reason, the railway was never built and a park was granted in it’s place. Osler School built in 1962, took over most of the park for a running track.

Silvano Colour Labs history and specs of the purpose built building currently for sale.

This  building was purposely for the professional printing  firm  Silvano Colour Lab a company that  was very big in the professional photo printing for decades. 1st in a very similar looking building just across the street from this building which the business occupied until its closing.

Silvano Venuto and John Sacilotto created a     colour processing company in Toronto’s west end just south of Roger Rd. On Old Weston Rd. Skilled engineers they built   their own processing machinery, modified equipment all to provide on of the best printing services available.

Silvano Color Labs moved forward with all the changes taking place in their industry for decades, well just over 5 decades.. The technological  sweep of  digital imaging  photography and new forms of sharing photos such as email and online photo services greatly changed the nature of the industry, yet this great company stayed open until February 3, 2012.

This blogger with really miss their SILVANO EASY CROP MASKS.



 

from their website - now down.

 

We've been serving the Photofinishing Needs of Wedding/Social, School, Sports and Industrial/Commercial Photographers, Wedding Couples and Photo Consumers since 1955. We offer a full range of FILM (including C-41, E-6 and B&W) and DIGITAL PHOTO IMAGING services. We also offer Giclée printing and Press Services. You can order on-line through our S.O.S. Order System or our FTP Server. Please visit our Showroom for a large variety of Albums, Scrapbooks, CD/DVD Holders, Folders, Easels, Mounts, Memory Mates, Folios and Photo Packaging. We are based in Toronto Ontario Canada.

 

PDF for their last downloadable price list, its more than price-list though, rather a text and pictorial model of how the professional printing business operated.

 

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The Building.

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Building Area: 84,000 sq ft (above grade + 28,000 sq ft lower level)
Typical Floor: 28,000 sq ft (approximately)
Total Area: 56,628 sq ft – 1.8 acres (mpac)
Frontage: 240.75‘
Depth: 235.2’
T.M.I.: $2.91/ sq ft (2009)
Shipping: 1 X truck level, 5 X drive-in
Zoning: E - General Employment
Elevators: 1 X Freight, 2 X Passenger
Parking: +/-150 surface
List Price: $7,950,000.00 - $94.64/ sq ft

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VENDOR: Silvano and Celestina Investments.
BUILDING AREA: 28,000 sq.ft. – Lower level
28,000 sq.ft. – First floor
28,000 sq.ft – Second Floor
28,000 sq.ft. - Third Floor
112,000 sq.ft. – Total Building area
LOT DIMENSIONS: 240.75’ Frontage x 235.2’ Depth
LOT AREA: 56,628 square feet - 1.8 acres (As per MPAC)
ZONING: “E – General Employment” – allowing a variety of industrial uses, some commercial as well as office uses subject
to municipal approval.
BUILDING: Brick veneer exterior, pored concrete and I-Beam construction;
Triple thermal pane window units;
Flat tar and gravel roof;
27.7 kilo-volts Vendor owned electrical sub-station;
15 X 5/10 ton HVAC Units;
Steel, rebar and poured concrete floors,.
400 sq ft Bay size;
13’ Clear Height; and,
1 X truck level – 5 X drive in shipping doors.
ADJACENT LAND USES: To the north: Public Self-Storage facility;
To the south: Monument manufacturing and Show-Room;
To the east: CN/CP and GO Railway corridor; and
To the west: Residential dwellings and Commercial use.

Silvano 2011 website image.

 

 

207 WESTON RD - old Phantom Industries Inc plant being converted for Self Storage business

 



 



 

Phantom Industries Inc. a long time Junction business manufacturing pantyhose, hosiery, knee-hi's, tights, leotards, bodywear fashions, terry sportswear, support stockings, closed and the modern glass walled front building is now being converted to a self storage use.

Alterations are to include extending the internal mezzanine with the addition of vehicle drive thru ability.

They are to place two static , illuminated wall signs at the north-westerly elevation of the building in conjunction with an existing self storage business operating on the property. All Canadian Self Storage.

Self storage can be one the highest income choices right now producing some $33.oo per square food.

About Phantom Industries Inc...

at one time,

Phantom Facts

• 1 out of every 2 branded hose in Canada is made by Phantom


• Silks is the #1 hosiery brand in Canadian department stores


• Phantom is one of the largest hosiery manufacturer in North America


• Phantom is a wholly-owned, privately held Canadian company


• Phantom is the premier supplier for private label hosiery programs in Canada

The companies products could/can? be found at

• The Bay


• Sears


• Walmart


• Zellers

and a host of specilaity stores.

From the companies now gone website:

Since 1956, we have built a reputation on superior product
quality and renowned for our unparalleled product assortment
and superior quality products, we pride ourselves in bringing you
leading edge styles and innovations in women’s hosiery.

Over 190,000 sq.ft. of space houses our manufacturing
facilities in Toronto, Ontario. Over 400 employees help turn
our vision into a reality.

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Family ownership has always motivated
strong research and development. Further research and
development is the key to continuing to bring you the products
that suit your needs.

130 Cawthra Ave old Canada Bread facility ...nu artist range!

Finally after a few decades of non existent artist and designer  space in the Junction after many decades an abundance of space before the lull the Junction area is getting a purpose renovated building for the purpose. Some interesting changes are taking place with loading docks becoming entryways.

 

Are we getting our 400 Duffern  Ave. Block?

hope so...

 



 



 



 

 

 

Junction Rd / Weston Rd shutdown to last for months more.

The west Toronto Diamond separation projection will keep the Junction Rd / Weston Rd roadway shutdown to last for months more.

This section of the airport rail link involves the construction of a major underpass where one railroad track will pass over another.

Historically the trains traveled over trackage that crossed each other at a level crossing, requiring one train to stop while another passed.

All this construction will remove this rail travel limitation.


The congestion this construction causes it appears to be a major headache for the local police who have to come down to southern part of their division by Keele St only.


The reopening of the Junction Rd / Weston Rd way will allow the police a much quicker travel way into the south end of their division.


So what's the work at the Junction Rd / Weston Rd diamond separate now.

Here are a number of photographs of the site currently. The large round objects are the concrete filled steel tubes that will
form the barrier wall as the dig out the ground to form the underpass.








The following images are of sound deadening shrouds used during the driving in of the steel piles.













The blog intends to put a page of all the image being sent in once the uploading issue presently troubling the blog is fixed.