The Evening Telegram
This paper seems conservative with both a small c and a big C and British in the sense of the old Empire. That's how the city was, I'm told there's a 98 year old who has lived in the neighbourhood at least this long, he remembers when there was an annual parade of Orangemen. Every mayor of Toronto in the first half of the twentieth century was an Orangeman. Before the welfare state the order provided a lot of support to Protestant immigrants. Toronto's now one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world, and it's unsettling to remember a time of such open bias, partly because having grown up in Europe this house does not feel old to us. Also I wonder how many of today's decision makers are still patriarchal WASP's.
We're only the third owners of this house. I know renovations, with all their associated dirt and chaos are supposed to be stressful. There is something contrary in the pleasure we've taken in stripping a house down to its bare bones. It's good to be reminded of exactly how your home is held together. I'm glad it's shared this particular secret with us.