Shawn Micallef: Dundas Sts and Toronto Shacks

shawn micallef: ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE / TORONTO STAR By Shawn Micallef Living Columnist Fri., Dec. 9, 2016 There a quintessential jumble of Toronto shacks on the southeast corner of Church and Dundas Sts, according to The Toronto Star. Cheaply built, like so much of Toronto, the jumble is ugly to unsympathetic eyes. It could soon make way for a residential development. Though awaiting a hearing at the Ontario Municipal Board over design details, the buildings will eventually make way for a proposed residential development. Here just a sliver of it. Yet, this quotidian corner has housed more Toronto life than seems possible in one place.A visit to the deep wells of civic memory stored in the old city directories on the second floor of the Toronto Reference Library, randomly selecting volumes about a decade apart from 1915 until 1993, revealed that life. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.