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The best way to tell you something about myself is to list the articles (besides DAB pages, redirects, etc.) that I have created. Obviously, it tells only a small part of my overall contributions to Wikipedia, but it does give you an idea where my interests lie.
[edit] Canadiana
- Archives of Ontario - This one is still a stub
- Capitol Cinema (Ottawa) - Arguably once the most beautiful cinema in Canada, it was demolished in 1970 and today too many residents of Ottawa have no idea it ever existed
- Dr. William D. Young Memorial - I always wondered why this elaborate drinking fountain was built in Toronto's Kew Gardens - once I found out, I created the article
- Edward Drake Building - Fantastic modernist building in Ottawa - the photo in the article does not do it justice (although kudos to the editor who took the photo - it's now a high-security building, and it is not easy to get close to it)
- F.W. Micklethwaite - His photos of 19th century Toronto are fantastic
- Grand Opera House (Toronto) - When the Four Seasons Centre was built, many people said "finally Toronto has an opera house." Turns out it had already had one.
- Ivor Lewis - Were it not for Ivor, whose toe would Canadians have rubbed for good luck?
- Ontario Heritage Act - Created this one because I saw so many references to the statute in other articles
- United Way of Canada - This one still needs expanding
- William Davies Company - Once one of the largest pork producers in the British Empire, this company gave Toronto its nickname of "Hogtown"
- Withrow Park - To accompany the archival photos I uploaded to the Commons
[edit] Family-related
- Lakhva - My great-granparents once lived here, before escaping the pogroms; as the site of one of (if not the) first ghetto uprisings of the Second World War, it needed its own article
[edit] Department store-related
- Caplan's - I always remember my jewish grandparents talking about shopping here
- Eaton Centre - I figured that Wikipedia needed an article on the concept, in addition to the specific malls
- Eaton's Annex - Where Torontonians went for bargains before Honest Ed's, Zellers and Wal-Mart
- Eaton's Building (Saskatoon) - Saw the photo on the Commons, thought it needed an article to accompany it
- Eatonville, Ontario - It's a boring Toronto suburb today, but Eaton's once owned it back in the day when department stores owned their own dairy farms
- Freimans - There once was a time when the local department stores were so good, they kept the national chains out of Ottawa for decades
- Murphy-Gamble - Another long-gone local Ottawa department store
- Ogilvy's - My WASP grandparents shopped here - yet another long-gone local Ottawa department store
- Spencer's (department store) - I think Vancouverites felt the same way about Eaton's replacing Spencer's in the 1940s, as Chicagoans today feel about Macy's replacing Marshall Field's
[edit] Railway hotels
- Canada's grand railway hotels - An overview; I keep meaning to go back and do a better job on this one - this version is more of a placeholder
- Château Montebello - It was kind of shocking that there wasn't already an article on this one
- Place Viger - I always wondered about the story behind this building in Montreal, now an office building stranded next to a highway
- Windsor Hotel - Once THE hotel in Canada
[edit] Efforts
Lately, much of my work has been directed towards uploading public domain images onto Wikimedia Commons, transfering images from Wikipedia to the Commons, and organizing the Toronto category over at the Commons.
