Ed and Anne Mirvish Parkette

I BLOGged in January about a movement afoot to name an area parkette in honour of Ed Mirvish, best-known as the founder of Honest Ed's department store at Bathurst and Bloor.

Well, a flyer landed in my mailbox yesterday with formal notification: the city powers that be would like the parkette at the foot of Albany Avenue, adjacent to the Bathurst subway station, renamed Ed and Anne Mirvish Parkette. There's a good online article with background about the decision, if you'd like more details.

Any feedback about the proposal needs to be in by this Monday. Send it here:

Yasmin Carter

Operations Support Officer

Parks, Forest and Recreation

Scarborough Civic Centre

150 Borough Drive

Toronto, ON

M1P 4N7

Fax: 416.396.4957

email: ycarter@toronto.ca

Cheers,

Vanessa

Parkette Named For Honest Ed?

Whether you think it's a tacky monstrosity, or one of the best discount shopping stores in Toronto, there's no denying that Honest Ed's on the corner of Bloor and Bathurst is a Toronto landmark.
"Honest" Ed Mirvish opened it 60 years ago and there's also no doubt that both he and his family have had a large impact on Toronto, including the arts and theatre community.
There's a movement afoot to have a local parkette named after him. The article says the parkette is at Bloor and Bathurst near the subway, so it must be the tiny green space wedged between a laneway just north of Bloor and the last of the houses at the south end of Albany. It does, indeed, have a spectacular view of the Bathurst subway station. Seems fitting, in a way...
Anyway, if you want to lobby on either side of the issue, contact our councillor, Adam Vaughan.
Cheers,
Vanessa