richardplayter

From Flickr: “Playter, Richard, house, Playter Cres., n. side, at head of southern section of Playter Blvd.; pasture, near Browning Ave.” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

Times sure have changed… gearing up for the TASTE OF THE DANFORTH, we offer you this photo from the turn of the last century. It was taken around 1900 at what is now Playter Crescent, near Browning Ave. (a few blocks east of Broadview, just north of this weekend’s excitement). Read More →

From Flickr: “PLAYTER, RICHARD, house, Playter Cres., n. side, at head of southern section of Playter Blvd.” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

School’s out! Kids are free to play in the park, or maybe in the garden… like Madeline and Mary Playter, pictured here, did in the 1920s. The Loyalist Playter family originally settled the area north of the Danforth between Broadview and Jackman avenues. While thier farmhouse can still be seen Read More →

From Flickr: “PLAYTER, RICHARD, house, Playter Cres., n. side, at head of southern section of Playter Blvd.” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

School’s out! Kids are free to play in the park, or maybe in the garden… like Madeline and Mary Playter, pictured here, did in the 1920s. The Loyalist Playter family originally settled the area north of the Danforth between Broadview and Jackman avenues. While thier farmhouse can still be seen Read More →