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Kew Gardens is a large park in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The park stretches from Queen Street East to Lake Ontario at Kew Beach.. The park began as a private 20.7-acre (8.4 ha) farm owned by Joseph Williams in the 1850s.
CivicAction was created by David Pecaut following a 2002 summit of business and community leaders. [1] Pecaut led a 40-member committee that generated Enough Talk: An Action Plan for the Toronto Region, which provided the roadmap for the organization's focus on issues where there was consensus for action and where it felt progress could be made quickly.
The neighbourhood is located to the East of Toronto's downtown, from Coxwell east to Victoria Park. The lakefront is divided into four sections; Woodbine Beach to the west, Kew Beach and Scarboro Beach in the centre, and Balmy Beach to the east. It is four beaches which give the neighbourhood its name and defining principal characteristic.
The Kew Society, founded in 1901 as the Kew Union, [146] is a civic society that seeks to enhance the beauty of Kew and preserve its heritage. It reviews all planning applications in Kew with special regard to the architectural integrity and heritage of the neighbourhood, and plays an active role in the improvement of local amenities.
The Scarborough Civic Centre is a civic centre located in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It was designed by architect Raymond Moriyama during the development of Scarborough City Centre and initially opened as the city hall of the former borough of Scarborough by then mayor Albert Campbell and Queen Elizabeth II in 1973.
The area of Toronto City Hall and the civic square was formerly the location of Toronto's first Chinatown, which was expropriated and bulldozed during the mid-1950s in preparation for a new civic building. [9] The location of City Hall itself was also the site of the 1917 Land Registry Office.
The York Civic Centre is a government building in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] It is located at 2700 Eglinton Avenue West in the neighbourhood of Beechborough-Greenbrook . The building is used by the Toronto West Court Office and was the seat of the municipal government of the former city of York , Ontario .
Law Society of Upper Canada Medal 1998 Kew Dock Yip (葉求鐸; pinyin : Yè Qiúduó; 1906–2001) was community leader in Toronto's First Chinatown , the first Canadian lawyer of Chinese descent, and played a critical role in helping repeal the Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act in 1947.