Comments on: Lost Passmore Avenue http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/ Random Wanderings and Wonderings Mon, 21 May 2012 15:36:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rick http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-108306 Rick Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:29:18 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-108306 F.F. Passmore was a surveyor as you indicated but he surveyed Scarborough in 1860s not 1960s. F.F. Passmore was a surveyor as you indicated but he surveyed Scarborough in 1860s not 1960s.

]]> By: Phil http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106386 Phil Sat, 02 Jul 2011 04:53:31 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106386 Just visited Littles rd. and Passmore Ave. today. I went last year and thought it would be great to see it again. Took some pictures this time. I actually went down what was once the road way to the race track. The track seemed to be quite visible, however, there is lots of greenery on it now. Excellent post here, Val. Would be great to see a follow-up to this one. Just visited Littles rd. and Passmore Ave. today. I went last year and thought it would be great to see it again. Took some pictures this time. I actually went down what was once the road way to the race track. The track seemed to be quite visible, however, there is lots of greenery on it now. Excellent post here, Val. Would be great to see a follow-up to this one.

]]> By: tim http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106385 tim Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:52:32 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106385 What a great find. Found by searching Gordon Murison. Have been intrigued by the area's past since discovering Google Earth and geocaching. Am currently reseaching anything to do with rail trails and their link to the past. Thanks for the Passmore history. What a great find. Found by searching Gordon Murison. Have been intrigued by the area’s past since discovering Google Earth and geocaching. Am currently reseaching anything to do with rail trails and their link to the past. Thanks for the Passmore history.

]]> By: Jon http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106384 Jon Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:54:44 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106384 Wow, interesting I found this post exactly one year after written by randomly looking up this lonely road named "Gordon Murison". (Quite a few in NE Scarborough!) I have always been wondering about this street. Thankfully you wrote about it! Wow, interesting I found this post exactly one year after written by randomly looking up this lonely road named “Gordon Murison”. (Quite a few in NE Scarborough!) I have always been wondering about this street. Thankfully you wrote about it!

]]> By: Elizabeth Foster http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106383 Elizabeth Foster Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:28:08 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106383 Thank you Anna F.F Passmore was my Great Grandfather Thank you Anna F.F Passmore was my Great Grandfather

]]> By: Joan Grant http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106382 Joan Grant Fri, 08 May 2009 17:40:15 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106382 I saw the article in The Globe and Mail. I lived on the western section of Passmore from Kennedy Road going west. We had ten acres on the north side. Our neighbour at the bottom on our 1/4 mile driveway the Purcell Pony Farm. I lived there in the mid 1950's to the early 1960's when we moved back into the city. I think my mother was tired of the isolation of country living. They did keep the big house and the land until it was sold to Hugh Heron of Heron Homes sometime in the 1970's and he built a suburb there. When we lived there the road was paved but a typical narrow country road. There were farms all around us and the next road to the north was Steeles. Passmore only went as far as the next north/south road (which I cannot remember the name of but it still exists and is a major road now) and ended in fields that we used to explore. Joan I saw the article in The Globe and Mail. I lived on the western section of Passmore from Kennedy Road going west. We had ten acres on the north side. Our neighbour at the bottom on our 1/4 mile driveway the Purcell Pony Farm. I lived there in the mid 1950′s to the early 1960′s when we moved back into the city. I think my mother was tired of the isolation of country living. They did keep the big house and the land until it was sold to Hugh Heron of Heron Homes sometime in the 1970′s and he built a suburb there.

When we lived there the road was paved but a typical narrow country road. There were farms all around us and the next road to the north was Steeles. Passmore only went as far as the next north/south road (which I cannot remember the name of but it still exists and is a major road now) and ended in fields that we used to explore.

Joan

]]> By: Anna http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106381 Anna Fri, 08 May 2009 13:44:28 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106381 Passmore may have been named after F.F. Passmore, a surveyor from Toronto, who was hired to re-survey Scarborough in the 1960's. http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=958497&qryID=5fb6b164-0824-4759-ab49-bf9174ceca27 I miss Passmore Road... Passmore may have been named after F.F. Passmore, a surveyor from Toronto, who was hired to re-survey Scarborough in the 1960′s.

http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=958497&qryID=5fb6b164-0824-4759-ab49-bf9174ceca27

I miss Passmore Road…

]]> By: art rainey http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106380 art rainey Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:59:51 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106380 prior to the 1950 we lived at warden and passmore ave with a postal address of rr#1 milliken but prior to that the name was GORE rd prior to the 1950 we lived at warden and passmore ave with a postal address of
rr#1 milliken but prior to that the name was GORE rd

]]> By: Elizabeth Foster http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106379 Elizabeth Foster Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:15:32 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106379 Thank you very much! Thank you very much!

]]> By: Val Dodge http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106378 Val Dodge Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:16:17 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/12/12/lost-passmore-avenue/#comment-106378 I don't know who it was named after, but old farm roads like Passmore were frequently named informally after farmers whose land they bordered (as in, "the road to Reesor's farm" eventually becomes "Reesor Road."). I can't say for sure whether that's the case for Passmore, but someone at the <a href="http://www.scarboroughhistorical.com/" rel="nofollow">Scarborough Historical Society</a> would probably be able to help you with the origin of the street name. I don’t know who it was named after, but old farm roads like Passmore were frequently named informally after farmers whose land they bordered (as in, “the road to Reesor’s farm” eventually becomes “Reesor Road.”). I can’t say for sure whether that’s the case for Passmore, but someone at the Scarborough Historical Society would probably be able to help you with the origin of the street name.

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