[URBAN NOTE] Joe O'Connor of the National Post on change in The Junction, Toronto
Joe O'Connor had a nice post about a Maltese-Canadian couple who are set to move from their old home in The Junction. O'Connor describes their changing lives and neighbourhoods quite nicely.
Joe Scerri used to tease Mary Borg about her boyfriend, a handsome young buck with a motorcycle. But what, Joe would ask, was a motorcycle in comparison to what he and Mary could be as a couple if she would just do what her heart was truly telling her to do and pick him instead?
Then, one day, she did.
“I picked a good one,” says Mary, patting Joe’s arm.
They were married in September 1958 near their family homes in Rabat, Malta. Two months later, they were on a boat to Canada. Joe’s older brother, Paul, was living in Toronto, three blocks from where Joe and Mary live now on Clendenan Avenue, in the neighbourhood around Dundas Street West known as The Junction.
[. . . Their house, bought in 1963,] cost $17,000, a sum the couple recently recouped many times over when they sold the four-bedroom property for $870,000. Moving day is Aug. 27.
Joe Scerri used to tease Mary Borg about her boyfriend, a handsome young buck with a motorcycle. But what, Joe would ask, was a motorcycle in comparison to what he and Mary could be as a couple if she would just do what her heart was truly telling her to do and pick him instead?
Then, one day, she did.
“I picked a good one,” says Mary, patting Joe’s arm.
They were married in September 1958 near their family homes in Rabat, Malta. Two months later, they were on a boat to Canada. Joe’s older brother, Paul, was living in Toronto, three blocks from where Joe and Mary live now on Clendenan Avenue, in the neighbourhood around Dundas Street West known as The Junction.
[. . . Their house, bought in 1963,] cost $17,000, a sum the couple recently recouped many times over when they sold the four-bedroom property for $870,000. Moving day is Aug. 27.