#don valley

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fire in the sky // toronto, canada // october 2018 // ©

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Don Valley

Don Valley

Took a walk from Sherbourne to Broadview over the viaduct a few weeks ago. Some photos are before I got to CastleFrank Station. a bit of fal

[nickstanley]

Don Valley Brick Works Park Lookout

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As The Monkey Nut Put Up The Decs Already, Here Is A (Proper) Crimbo Message From Their Alma Mater!

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In autumn, Don Valley Brick Works transforms into a vibrant tapestry of red and gold foliage. This former brick quarry in midtown Toronto offers a rich blend of naturalized ponds and meadows, making it a serene escape for nature enthusiasts.

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That cocky little pec flex at the end. So fuckin proud of himself

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Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield 1990

Demolished

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“Biting, Kicking Reds Overcome by Police Amid Howls of Mob,” Toronto Globe. October 1, 1931. Page 1 & 2. ---- Toronto’s Mounted Officers Gallop After One Demonstrator to Doors of Theatre, While Another Puts Up Terrific Struggle After Brisk Chase --- REDS SHOW FIGHT FOR FIRST TIME ---- Seven Men Arrested, But Only Three Held - Authorities Avoid Force as Much as Possible, But Use Strong Hand Where Needed --- For the first time since they have attempted to hold meetings in Toronto in defiance of police orders, local ‘Reds’ and their sympathizers ‘showed fight’ last night.

The scene was the vicinity of Dundas Street and Spadina Avenue. The occasion was a meeting called by the Canadian Labor Defense League, an organization, according to police, consisting mainly of Finns, Poles and Ukrainians with communistic tendencies.

Police were present in force to prevent what was feared and which subsequently proved to be one of the ugliest demonstrations of this class of the community. But although uniformed and plainclothes policemen were ready with drawn billies at times to subdue a howling, jeering, truculent mob of cohorts of the leaders of the movement, the officers managed the situation with such tact that the use of these weapons was unnecessary.

Force was needed in the arrests necessitated by the disorder. It took three representatives of the law finally to handcuff one of the disturbers, but the use of violence was avoided by the police in dealing with the mob.

Kicks, Bites Charged Seven persons were taken into custody. All but three were subsequently allowed their freedom. The three kept under arrest are:

Herman Rinda, aged 41, a Finn, living in the Don ‘jungle,’ charged with obstructing the police by kicking at one officer and chewing the finger of another.

John Wilson, aged 23, Canadian, blond giant, whom it took three policemen to handcuff in a struggle on the veranda of a Dundas street residence, and who attempted to start the scheduled meeting from the steps of the Anglican Church of St. Phillip the Apostle, at the southwest corner of Dundas Street and Spadina avenue.

Fred Grant, aged 32, of Port Arthur, also living in the Don ‘jungle,’ who, it is charged, in throwing a brick at Constable Kennedy (640) smashed a plate-glass window of the banking office of E. H. Dworkin, 525 Dundas Street West.

Three other men and one woman were arrested during the hectic melee, but after questioning at No. 2 Station were released. Possibly the Communists and their sympathizers gathered in the neighborhood of Spadina and Dundas around 7 o’clock numbered in the thousands. They were in the nastiest mood they have revealed in all their bluffs at meetings. They were protected on this occasion by darkness, and their ranks were augmented not alone by communistic sympathizers, but by young rowdies and hooligans of the city, hot for excitement.

Met With Restraint It was a nasty situation of the police to meet. But they faced the bellicose demonstration with sternness, restraint and efficiency. It was hours after the scheduled time of the outlaw gathering when the throngs had been dispersed through all those side streets between Dundas and Queen and Spadina and Bathurst. Sporadic outbursts of disorder occurred in several sections when mounted police herded crowds along the sidewalks, assisted by plainclothesmen cruising in cars, motorcycle officers and uniformed constables afoot. ut these outbursts were short-lived and consisted mainly of catcalls and booings, which were soon silenced by the appearance of the police.

Long before the scheduled time of meeting the would-be audience of the radical speakers kept up a promenade along the thoroughfares near Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street. Shortly before 7 o’clock Wilson attempted to speak on the steps of the Church of St. Phillip. The police started to disperse the meeting, and Wilson started to run north. At Queen Street, it is charged, he tripped Detective Sergeant Nursey, causing him to fall. Wilson ran on, a howling crowd of supporters surging in around him. He sought escape through a residence on Dundas Street, but was caught on the veranda by the police. Here, he put up a terrific struggle but was finally overpowered and handcuffed by Plainclothesmen Simpson, Gracey, and Rooney, while other police kept an angry mob at bay about the veranda.

Brick Hurled One of this surging crowd of sympathizers, according to the police, was Fred Grant, who it is alleged threw at brick at Constable Kennedy (640), the missile missing its mark and crashing through a large plate-glass window. Grant, after throwing the brick, rushed through the crowd and sought refuge in a moving-picture theatre across the street. Mounted police galloped through the mob, over the sidewalk to the open doors of the theatre in pursuit. But Grant beat them to the entrance. He was finally caught in an aisle of the theatre by Plainclothesman Crawford, and placed under arrest, charged with doing malicious damage.

While this disturbance was occuring on Dundas Street, polcie were dispersing other sections of the crowd down Spadina Avenue. Near Phoebe Street some of the mob went up a blind alley. Wen the police followed them they turned and showed fight, charging the officers of the law.

Rinda, police say, kicked at Sergeant Dunn. Other police rushed to the sergeant’s aid and there was a general melee in the lane, rioters attacking the handful of police, who were under Inspector Greenwood. Motorcycle Constable McCalls was knocked down and trampled.

Rinda was overpowered by Sergeant Dunn and Constable Peake. In the struggle, the prisoner chewed Constable Peake’s finger, it is charged.

According to the police, it is significant that all three of the men arrested have been living in the Don ‘jungle.’ A brief history of those arrested was given by the police as follows:

Rinda, a Finn, living in the Don jungle; has not worked for two years; came to Toronto from Ashtabula, O., where he had lived for twenty-four years.

Wilson, Canadian, was, until recently, active in the ‘Red’ movement in Winnipeg; has been organizing in communistic circles in Hamilton, and in the Don jungle.

Grant, living in Don jungle, came from Port Arthur.

According to handbills, distributed, the demonstration was called under the auspices of the Canadian Labor Defense League, to demand the release of the Communist leaders and associates arrested in the recent round-up by the Provincial and Federal Governments in August, on charges of nbeing members of an unlawful association.

[AL: As always, the Globe was very anti-Communist, so take the ‘cops weren’t so bad this time’ for what it is: law and order spin.]