Local content in the Toronto Star Newspaper today

Submitted by reader David W. ...thanks David...

Toronto Star Story 1

Architect John Lyle's style is evident in the Runnymede Public Library, on Bloor St. W.

Had the Group of Seven been made up of architects, not artists, John Lyle would have been a member. Lyle, who died in 1945, practised at a time when cultural nationalism was alive and well in the Great White North. He and his cohorts took .....LINK

Toronto Star Story 2

Martin's Flowers  shop still here a blooming century later!

Lynn Martin Freeman is the fourth-generation owner of family's flower shop at same Dundas St. W. location. One of her sons is slated to be next.

Store begun by owner's great-grandfather still operating from same location after 110 year....LINK