Gardiner Expressway

to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. From 1873 to 1876 Bell experimented with a phonautograph, a multiple telegraph, and an electric speaking telegraph (the telephone). Funds came from the fathers of two of his pupils; one of these men, Gardiner Hubbard, had a deaf daughter, Mabel, who later became Bell's wife. Inventing the Telephone To help deaf children, Bell experimented in the summer of 1874 with a human ear and attached bones, a tympanum, magnets, and smoked glass. He conceived…

Toronto’s mayor John Tory and his council have been discussing the establishment of tolls on the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway. In order to get support from not only his council but the people of the city, John Tory is asking for help from those living in the 905 “to share the cost of upkeep and transit expansion with people living in the 416.” The mayor hopes that the new toll route will help to cut the amount of traffic/congestion on these highways and to further develop…

With the removal of the current Gardiner Expressway structure, a new ground-level, eight drive lane will be constructed together with new development on Lake Shore Boulevard approximately from Jarvis Street to Don Valley intersection. A continuous connection between Don Valley Parkway and the redesigned Lake Shore Boulevard will be created by a new constructed elevated on/off ramps. This part would eliminate the need to pass through traffic signals of drivers and avoid traffic jams during rush…

This paper highlighted things that I had not thought about prior to this. However, after reading the research I can see now where environmental racialization is a factor. Subsequently, it’s not just a phenomenon present only in the Toronto. I feel it is the root of many cities that I have travelled to in Southern Ontario, and in America as well. When Scarborough was developed I was not around. However, if I were privy to initial planning documentation, I wonder if the developers ask for…