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Fire at 282 Jarvis July 30, 2022 Photo of the north face of 282 Jarvis at 12:07 AM July 31. The fire broke out just before midnight. Fortunately Fire Services got it under control quickly. I spoke with a firefighter still on the scene this morning and he said it started in a second floor...

I've just emailed you pics of dozens of slides, negatives and prints of this house that the Toronto Archives have from the 1970s through the 2000s. Unfortunately they don't seem to have anything earlier than this.

Amazingly, a security guard onsite says that they're going to keep at least the facade of the burned house. Construction work going on inside the house's shell would seem to corroborate this.

Pre-construction activity is definitely picking up, no doubt spurred by the return of squatters in the historic Sheard house, and an accompanying small fire a couple of weeks ago. As of last week there is overnight security on the site and the house has been re-boarded up. Yet despite this, a...