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"A homelike atmosphere" is the goal at the Metro East Detention Centre, says architect Istvan Lendvay. The new jail, one of two being built in Metro, is expected to open in February. Passers-by in Scarborough have mistaken it for a new apartment building, but there are bars on the windows, placed horizontally to be less conspicuous.

Picture, 1976
"Bathing" At Hanlous [Hanlan's] Point, Island, Toronto

Picture, 1909
"Billy" Sunday, Nov. 22, 1915, usher, Team 8 ribbon

Ephemera, 1915
"Commotion in St. James town: Police wearing gas masks drag a handcuffed man from Wellesley St. building last night, after someone threw furniture from a 12th-floor apartment. Tear gas was used to stun a knife-wielding man before police burst in as a crowd of about 100 gathered outside. A 35-year-old man will be held for psychiatric examination, police said."

Picture, 1990
"Divided it stands: The owner of this house at 600 Parliament St. demanded $100,000 in the late '60s from developers of the sprawling St. James Town complex. So the developers simply built around the house, which stood (right) dwarfed for a decade. But now there's a new owner, new look (left) and new life for the house that refused to die."

Picture, 1985
"Does a folk mass count as a real mass?" People sometimes ask Rev. Ed Bader, left, Director of the Catholic Information Centre on Bathurst St. "Because we used folk hymns (provided here by Frank Ash on guitar and his wife, Donna, singing) they thought somehow it wasn't a real mass," he says. Folk masses are symbolic of the revolution in the church which includes allowing secular dress for priests and some nuns.

Picture, 1970
"Ellensden, Toronto, c.1890?

Picture, 1950
"I Gave Up", says Mrs. Francis Berghofer, owner of this home and last holdout in her area on Sherbourne St. against selling her house to be levelled for the proposed new St. James Town West high-rise apartments. "It was no use arguing any longer" after all her neighbors had sold, she explains. So, she will move out at end of month. "Next place I move to will be the cemetery," she adds with a smile.

Picture, 1971
"João Rocha and Ney Gonçalves Fontes entry, City Hall and Square Competition, Toronto, 1958, architectural model "

Picture, 1958
"KOZYKOT", Long Branch.

Picture, 1906
"Moss Park", the Residence of William Allan, Toronto, Ont.

Picture, 1842
"My Heart Bleeds," says David Beatty for the people who can't afford to buy a house, but you have to take into account "the appearance of the thing."

Picture, 1974
"Old Mill" On the Humber River. Toronto

Picture, 1913
"Old Stone Church", St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Beaverton, Ontario, 1908?

Picture, 1913
"Prince", 5 year old chestnut gelding; Matthews, Toronto

Picture, 1911
"Progress of Canada"

Ephemera, 1862
"Rosedale", the Residence of William Botsford Jarvis, Toronto Ont.

Picture, 1835
"Rosedale", the Residence of William Botsford Jarvis, Toronto, Ont.

Picture, 1835
"Strange School"

Picture, 1941
"The friendly town" is the nickname of Almonte, Ontario

Picture, 1988