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T he Toronto District School Board will name its new elementary school at CityPlace after Jean Lumb (19192002), a downtown businesswoman whose wide-ranging public service earned her an Order of Canada in 1976. During the 1950s, she had successfully argued for the reform of discriminatory immigration rules and she became a leader of the Chinese-Canadian community. This new school is part of a complex by ZAS Architects that will soon fill the last block of the Railway Lands. fife-and-drummar-2017-page 6 Included are another elementary school, a daycare, and a community centre. Bishop Macdonell Catholic Elementary School is being named for Upper Canada’s First Bishop, Alexander Macdonell (1762-1840), a modern bust of Mail: 260 Adelaide St. E., Box 183, Toronto, M5A 1N1 e-mail: info@fortyork.ca
whom now stands outside St Mary’s Church at Bathurst and Adelaide. The City intends to wait for the other spaces to come into use before selecting a name for them. In the meantime, they’ll nod to the adjacent park and simply call the main space Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre. As readers will recall, The Friends had urged the school board to recognize Jean Geeson (1864-1907) for her prescient work in preserving the fort and involving schoolchildren. fife-and-drum-july-2016 pages 3-4 We’ll remain alert to other opportunities in the neighbourhood to highlight our engaging Edwardian activist. website: www.fortyork.ca The Fife and Drum 7
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