Jane Barr - She is the, "Jane", of Jane Street. - The street was named after Jane Barr by her husband, James. They immigrated from [Glasgow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow) in 1907, and a few years later James became a real estate developer in the region north of then York or Toronto. James named numerous streets in the development after his children, but the most important was named after his wife Jane. (Wikipedia)
Photo: Trafalgar Township Historical Society Digital Collections
Leftbridge Johnny "Finch Avenue was named after hotel owner John Finch, who operated John Finch's Hotel at the northeast corner of Finch Avenue and Yonge Street."
The Old Town of York which was the original name of Toronto but located around the St. Lawrence Market area...and the City of York that was located just north of Old Toronto, south of North York & East of Etobicoke.
Accirding to Marlin Hilton Barr, Jane and James were her husbands grandparents James was Vice President at Wrights Limited Real Estate and Town Builders Toronto from 1915 until his death in 1939.He named several streets in Mount Dennis after several family members.
1850 Old Town Incorporated
1954 changed region Metropolitan Toronto fron York Country
One particular form of Hermetic teaching is the religion-philosophical system propounded by a specific subgroup of Hermetic writings known as the 'religion-philosophical' Hermetica, the most famous of which are the Corpus Hermeticum (a collection of seventeen Greek Hermetic treatises written between c. 100 and c. 300 CE) and the Asclepius (a treatise from the same period mainly surviving in a Latin translation).This specific, historical form of Hermetic philosophy is sometimes more restrictively called Hermetism, to distinguish it from the philosophies inspired by the many Hermetic writings of a completely different period and nature.
What are the 7 principles of hermetic philosophy?
1"Everything is dual; 2.Everything has poles; 3. Everything has its pair of opposites; 4. Like and unlike are the same; 5. Opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; 6.All truths are but half-truths; 7.All paradoxes may be reconciled."
Compare the benefits Hermetic philosophy with the result of bloody wars ambitiously waged by self-extracting tyrans whom history applauds as heroes but whom we consider as butchers.
Hermes Trismegistus did not originate but gave his name to a philosophy. This school of thought has survived because has the quality which never dies the truth.
What is hermetic philosophy? According to Wikipedia Hermeticism or Hermetism is a philosophical and religious system based on the purported teachings of Hermes Trismegistus (a Hellenistic conflation of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth).These teachings are contained in the various writings attributed to Hermes (the Hermetica), which were produced over a period spanning many centuries (c. 300 BCE – 1200 CE) and may be very different in content and scope
In Hermetic thought, the movements of the planets are believed to have meaning beyond the laws of physics and actually hold metaphorical value as symbols in the mind of the All, or God, which have influence upon the Earth, but do not dictate our actions; wisdom is gained when we know what these influences are.
Modern Philosophy of which chemistry is but a fragment draws
its sustenance from the prime facts which were revealed in ancient Egypt
through Hermetic thought.
A Projection of the natural mental faculties into an advanced state of
consciousness called the wisdom faculty constitutes the final possibility of
alchemy.
Once attaining this wisdom the individual would not have material obstacles but
would attain mortal perfection and get omniscience through illuminated
understanding.
Many alchemical philosophers existed who lived for the good of the world in an
atmosphere above the materialistic world.
Eirenaeus Philalethes born in 1623 lived contemporary with Robert Boyle was on of the alchemical philosopher. During his time there were people looking for the Philosopher Stone using solvents and studied their influences on the Earthly bodies. Others during his time researched the influences of Astrology and Magic on human body.
The philosopher's stone, or more properly philosophers' stone (Arabic: حجر الفلاسفة, romanized: ḥajar al-falāsifa; Latin: lapis philosophorum), is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold (chrysopoeia, from the Greek χρυσός khrusos, "gold", and ποιεῖν poiēin, "to make") or silver. It is also called the elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and for achieving immortality; for many centuries, it was the most sought-after goal in alchemy. The philosopher's stone was the central symbol of the mystical terminology of alchemy, symbolizing perfection at its finest, enlightenment, and heavenly bliss. Efforts to discover the philosopher's stone were known as the Magnum Opus ("Great Work")
Geber created the alchemist school.
Other alchemists that left record of their work were: Rhasis born in 850 that first mentioned orpiment, borax, compounds of Iron, Cooper, arsenic and other similar substances. It is said that he discovered the art of making brandy.
Alfarabe (killed in 950) a great alkimist in Siria.
Albert Magnus (born in 1214) a man of extraordinary ability. His mind penetrated into nature's laws. He told us facts about science and facts that kie beyond science that modern philosophers cannot grasp. He was believer in the Hermetic philosophy. He believed the Philosopher Stone to be a reality. He believed the secret of indefinite prolongation of life has the source in alchemy. He asserted that Aristotle 's "Secret of Secrets " pure gold can be made; gold even purer and finer that what men know as Golld. He asserted that is possible to construct cars which may be set in motion independent of horses and other animals. He declared that the ancients had done this and the art might be revived.
Raymond the ephemeral (died in 1350). Nicholas Flamel of France (1350) loved by people for his charities, this wonder if his age on the account of vast fortune he amassed without visible means or income outside of alchemical lore.
Johannes Rupecissus (1357) reprised by Pope Innocent VI and imprisoned.
Basil Valentine (1410) the author of many works and the man who introduced antimony into medicine.
Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb and atomic number 51. A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite. Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were powdered for use as medicine and cosmetics, often known by the Arabic name koh.
Antimony compounds are used to make flame-retardant materials, paints, enamels, glass and pottery. Antimony and many of its compounds are toxic. Antimony is not an abundant element but is found in small quantities in over 100 mineral species.
Isaac of Holland who with his son skillfully made artificial gems that could not be distinguished from the natural.
Bernard Trevision (born 1406) who spent $30,000 in the study of alchemy.
Jacob Bohme (Born 1575) was a Christian alchemist and theosophist.
Robert Boyle alchemist and philosopher in 1662 published a book " Defense of the Doctrine touching the Spring and Weight of the Air" a series if experiments. Boyle's Law was defined 14 years before Mariotte's work "Discours de la Nature de l'Air" but French and German scientific men gave credit for this law to Mariotte who stole Boyle's ideas and aparatus.
Parcells (1493) taught occultism or esoteric philosophy and was superior to experimental chemistry and taught transmutation off-base.metals in gold and silver.
Gueppo Francusco (born 1627) wrote treaties on "Elementary Spirits" whinwas copied without credit by Compte de Gabalis.
Count Cagliostro or "Joseph Balsamo" (born 1743) combined alchemy, magic, Astrology, sleight of hand, mesmerism. He raised the Hermetic art to new heights., was a visionary, a poet. He perished in prison.
The world owes more to Hermetic heroes and alchemists than to all other influences combined for our present civilization.
Source: Valiant Thor's The Hellier Below Venus Aphrodite and Syncronicity în the Legendary Caverna of Etidorhpa Ingrid Cold with Terry Wriste.
What were the inventions of the Pan-American Exposition?
A central focus was the massive Electric Tower, which measured 410 feet tall and acted as a great light beacon. In addition to showcasing electricity, other technologies newly invented at the time, such as incubators for infants and X-ray machines, were on display along with many types of machinery.
What did the Pan-American Exposition highlight?
The Pan-American Exposition, staged in Buffalo, New York, presented in microcosm all of the trends, developments, innovations, and attitudes of the McKinley years. The great and colorful buildings along the Grand Canal, built in ersatz Spanish colonial style, symbolized American suzerainty over the hemisphere.
Liberal Art Building
Temple of Music
Seat capacity 2,200
Have you ever seen something like this?
Manufacturers and Liberal Art Building
The Agricultural Building
500 feet x 150 feet
Electricity Building
The purpose of this building was to show humanities most recent technological Mastery.
The color scheme are those of the Moors.
The Machinery and Transportation Building and the Electricity Building were adjacent to a landscaped Mall known before and after the exhibition as Amherst Street
The setting fornthe Electricity Building was the most pitoresque on the ground.
The Electrical building was the largest electrical exhibit ever gathered in United States.
Thomas Edison had a display with a new storage battery, a refinements of the phonograph. The manufacturers of various forms of new arc and incandescent lighting contended for recognition and commercial acceptance.
Buffalo Bell company had a display of central switchboard.
Pan America Time Saver had on display a transformer that. Converted 11000 V to 1800 V yelding 5000 horsepower used in the grand illumination grounds at night.
The Electric Tower.
Rhe colorate spread to a with of 255 feet at the base of the tower terminating at each end with pavilions.
The shaft of the great Tower was 80 feet square at the base constructed in steel framework, the Tower had a height of 410 feet from its base tonthe tip of the touch held by a 18 foot tallnstatue ofñthe Goodess of Light.
More than 40,000 lights showed through as part of the display illumination.
The Tower had 2 elevators reception room offices restaurants and amusement halls.
The elevators brought tourists up to 252 feet. The rooftop was considered high in location and price.
It could have been a permanent Landmark but it was demolished because of the small minds of few people.
Justification fornthendemolition was that the Lan was leased from then Rumsey farmland and after exhibition the land had to be returned to its original state.
Now there are houses on that land so no farmland use.
Or it is possible that the buildings were older and some parasitar thinkers wanted the old world destroyed.
A corner of the stadium.
The stadium accommodated 12000 people was originally conceived for 25000 peoples.
It was advertised horse show, grand automobile tournament.
Entrance building 170nfeet × 52 feet
Running track 660 feet × 450 feet
And all was built in 2 years?
The Propylea
Tiffany & Co exhibited precious stones, swords of honor and Yacht trophy with $10,000, stainless glass featured in household decorations., various pictures including a mosaic of the Last Super, and house andntabke furnishing in colored and cut glass. Some of these objects might be found in New York collections and museums.
When the fair ended, the contents of the grounds were sold to the Chicago House Wrecking Company of Chicago for US$92,000 ($2.81 million in 2022 dollars).Demolition of the buildings began in March 1902, and within a year, most of the buildings were demolished. The grounds were then cleared and subdivided to be used for residential streets, homes, and park land. Similar to previous world fairs, most of the buildings were constructed of timber and steel framing with precast staff panels made of a plaster/fiber mix. These buildings were built as a means of rapid construction and temporary ornamentation and not made to last.Prior to its demolition, an effort was made via public committee to purchase and preserve the original Electric Tower from the wrecking company for nearly US$30,000 ($1.06 million in 2022 dollars). However, the necessary funding could not be raised in time.
The site of the exposition was bounded by Elmwood Avenue on the west, Delaware Avenue on the east, what is now Hoyt Lake on the south, and the railway on the north. It is now occupied by a residential neighborhood from Nottingham Terrace to Amherst Street, and businesses on the north side of Amherst Street. A stone and marker on a traffic island dividing Fordham Drive, near the Lincoln Parkway, marks the area where the Temple of Music was located.
The New York State Building, located in Delaware Park, was designed to outlast the Exposition and is now used as a museum by the Buffalo History Museum. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, it can be visited at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Nottingham Avenue. The Museum's Research Library has an online bibliography of its extensive Pan-American holdings.Included in the Library collection are the records of the Pan-American Exposition Company.[
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery was intended to serve as a Fine Arts Pavilion but due to construction delays, it was not completed in time.
At least one engine from the miniature railway that carried visitors around the fair was preserved. It is currently privately owned and operated in Braddock Heights, Maryland.
The first objects visible in this film, which was taken at night, are the glowing light globes that outline the buildings closest to the camera position. The camera slowly pans, encompassing the complete area of the exhibit buildings, and the outlines of all the buildings are clearly discernible. Edwin S. Porter maintained that this was the first motion picture taken at night by incandescent light in America"-- Early motion pictures. "A most perfect picture of the Pan-American Exposition buildings, including the Electric Tower and Temple of Music, as they appear at night. 50 ft."-- Edison catalog.
Becoming a townRecords from 1885 describe Aurora as the "largest village in the county" an "enterprising and stirring business community" with several factories and mills, five churches, a school house with 210 students, and two weekly newspapers. The population in 1881 was 1540. The population reached 2,107 by 1888.
Aurora was founded in 1854 and incorporated as a town in 1888. The first merchant was Richard Machell, when in 1804, he opened his business at Yonge and Wellington, which became known as Machell's Corners.
The city of Aurora, Ontario, is home to "the longest street in the world" and a tree that's more than 200 years old—and these are just a couple of the fun facts about Aurora.
What Indigenous land is Aurora Ontario on?
the Chippewas of Georgina Island
We acknowledge that in Aurora we are on the traditional and treaty territory of the Chippewas of Georgina Island, who are Anishinaabe peoples, and one of the First Nations reserves in Ontario. We are grateful to them for sharing their lands with us.
Who were the first nations in Newmarket?
That us the city north of Aurora.
The Town of Newmarket acknowledges that we are situated on the traditional territories of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe peoples, whose presence here continues to this day.
In Ontario, there are 13 distinct groups of First Nation peoples, each with their own languages, customs, and territories. These Nations are the Algonquin, Mississauga, Ojibway, Cree, Odawa, Pottowatomi, Delaware, and the Haudenosaunee (Mohawk, Onondaga, Onoyota'a:ka, Cayuga, Tuscarora, and Seneca).
Pre-1880s, the Native American record:The Algonquian were a tidewater people who lived along the sounds and in coastal areas. A few sub-groups of the Algonquian people inhabited the area (and nearby) of what is now Aurora, were the Pamlico ("Pomouik"), Bear River (or Bay River), and Machapunga tribes.
The Aurora Site, also known as the "Old Fort," "Old Indian Fort," "Murphy Farm" or "Hill Fort" site, is a sixteenth-century Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on one of the headwater tributaries of the East Holland River on the north side of the Oak Ridges Moraine in present-day Whitchurch–Stouffville, approximately 30 kilometres north of Toronto. This Huron ancestral village was located on 3.4 hectares (8.4 acres) of land and the settlement was fortified with multiple rows of palisades.
The Rouge River trail, used by the Huron and then later by the French to travel between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe / Georgian Bay, ran through the Aurora Site.
Perhaps the busiest and best documented of these routes was that which followed the Humber River valley northward ... although another trail of equal importance and antiquity and used earlier than the former by the French, extended from the mouth of the Rouge River northward to the headwaters of the Little Rouge and over the drainage divide to the East Branch of the Holland River at Holland Landing.
Rouge Trail Map, ca. 1673 by Louis Jolliet
The Aurora Site was indiscriminately looted by collectors throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. An 1885 report on Whitchurch Township notes that two thousand interments took place on the site, and that another smaller burial site was found two hundred yards from the site beside a large pond.[5]
The self-trained archaeologist William Brodie wrote two archaeological reports on his findings at the Old Fort Site (1888; 1901) dating to his first visit in 1846. In reference to the Old Fort Site, Brodie wrote in 1901:
To say that a ton of archaeological material was collected from the County of York sites, is a moderate estimate. Some of it is in European museums, some in the States, and some of it in Laval University, some of it is still in the hands of amateur collectors, and a little of it has been secured for the Provincial Museum, but the greater part of it, once in the keeping of private collectors, is gone, being collected and lost, as private collections often are.[7]
A complete map of the site was produced in 1930 by the amateur archaeologist Peter Pringle.[8]
The Aurora Site was completely excavated in 1947 and 1957 by the University of Toronto. The 1947 dig was the first student excavation by the university, and it was led by John Norman Emerson.[9] Emerson's doctoral work was largely based on the excavations of the Aurora Site.
This excavation contributed to the conclusions of archeologists and anthropologists that the Wendat coalesced as a people in this area, rather than further east in the St. Lawrence River valley, as was thought at one time. Findings in the late twentieth century at the Ratcliff Site and in 2005 at the Mantle Site have provided more evidence of sixteenth-century settlements by ancestral Wendat in this region.The use of technological and analytic advances, such as radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis, has resulted in new conclusions about the occupancy of these varied sites. Some researchers now believe that the Mantle Site was occupied 1587 to 1623; this view is controversial, and other researchers have disputed these findings.
,The Ratcliff or Baker Hill Site is a 16th-century Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on one of the head water tributaries of the Rouge River on the south side of the Oak Ridges Moraine in present-day Whitchurch–Stouffville, approximately 25 kilometers north of Toronto. The Ratcliff Site is located on the east side of Highway 48, south of Bloomington Road in Whitchurch–Stouffville. The ravine on the village site was infilled during the early 1950s to allow for the expansion of a neighboring quarry
Ratcliff Site
Location within Ontario today
Location
Whitchurch–Stouffville, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada
Region
Regional Municipality of York, Ontario
Coordinates
43°59′48″N79°17′6″W
History
Periods
Late Precontact Period, ca. 1550–1615
Cultures
Huron (Wendat)
Ancestral Huron Feast of the Dead in which remains were reburied in an ossuary, J.-F. Lafitau, 1724
The village occupied approximately 2.8 hectares on the brow of a hill overlooking a steep ravine on the west side.
The artifacts found on the site in the mid-19th century included stone-axes, flint arrows and spear heads, broken crockery, many earthen and stone pipes, bears' teeth with holes bored through them, polished teeth of beaver, deer and moose for decorative use; bone needles, and fish-spears made of deer shoulder-blades, as well as millstones used by the women for crushing corn. A human skull was found "perforated with seven holes, and had evidently been held as a trophy, the holes being the score of enemies slaughtered in battle by the wearer."
The ceramics found on the site indicate that the local community must have had some contact with other Iroquoian groups living in present-day upstate New York and in the St. Lawrence Valley. The large quantity of both ground and chipped stone indicates that the Wendat Village was involved with the production and distribution of stone artifacts.The presence of some contact-period (European) artifacts, such as black glass and copper beads, suggest that the site was inhabited between the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
About 400 meters north of the Ratcliff Site on lot 10 in concession 8, a mass grave with "many hundreds" of Huron skeletons was discovered and removed in the late 1840s In ancient Huron tradition, the dead would be initially buried in a temporary grave. Every ten years the accumulated bones would be moved to a mass grave in an elaborate ceremony.
The inhabitants likely came here from the so-called Mantle Site, located five kilometers to the south-east in Stouffville, when the latter was abandoned in the early 17th century. The Ratcliff Site was occupied at the same time as the so-called Aurora Site, four kilometres north-west of Ratcliff, also within the boundaries of what is today Whitchurch–Stouffville.
Today the site is still occupied by a quarry. Farms surround the site itself.
How did town of Aurora get its name?
Originally called Machell's Corners after a local merchant, the name was changed by postmaster Charles Doan in 1854 for Aurora, the Greek goddess of dawn.
Aurora got its start with the opening of Yonge Street in 1796 by Governor John Graves Simcoe. The first settlers were refugees from the new United States of America: Loyalists, who had sided with the British Crown, and Quakers, who had sided with no one. In both cases, the newcomers proved to be both industrious pioneers and exceedingly loyalto their adoptive homeland.
Aurora’s big boostcame when Richard Machell settled along the corners of Yonge and Wellington Street in 1804. He was soon joined by other settlers and soon, as was common in those days, a thriving hamlet sprung up around this busy crossroad. The community took the name, Machell’s Corners, in honour of its first settler.
In 1853, and to much excitement, the tracks of Ontario’s first railway arrived in the village. The railway provided a direct link to Toronto and encouraged growth in population and industry in Aurora. On the eve of the railway’s arrival, a mere 100 people lived in the village. By1878, that number had risen to 1500. Aurora had become an important industrial town, home to two farming implement factories, three sawmills, two cabinet factories, and other business enterprises.
In a very real sense, the arrival of the railway heralded the dawn of anew age for the community. Sensing that, postmaster, Charles Doan,decided to rename the village Aurora, after the Greek goddess of the dawn. The new name became official on January 1, 1854.
Unfortunately, by the end of the century modern industries were being driven away from small towns into larger cities. Aurora began to lose its role as a factory town and increasingly reverted to its agricultural roots. Slow growth continued, but it wasn’t until the rise of suburbia in the wake of the Second World War that Aurora was rejuvenated.
