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Toronto Trade Union Badge? 2008-07-08 11:09:00 Is this Toronto
's first trade union badge?The decal shows a balpeen hammer, rivet plyers, a trowel and other instruments on the back, along with the words 'Local 37, March 25th, 1914.'This will be researched in the Toronto Archives under Union
s.Is it the first CUPE trde union badge? Read more:Trade
, Badge
Cleaning Up after Toronto's Caribana Parade 2008-08-03 15:30:00 Scavengers spend Sunday morning sorting through the remains of Toronto
’s Caribana parade. On Sunday Aug 3rd at 9:30 am the entire west Toronto lake shore (a green space bisected by a bike path between Exhibition Stadium and Sunnyside Pavilion) was strewn with ALL MANNER of garbage! It was like the park had a 'hang over'; the desultory scene evidenced a wild party. Toronto’s Caribana revel Read more:Cleaning
, Parade
Paul R. Johnston, A Forgotten Canadian Painter? 2008-07-26 16:54:00 Harold Barrett, the proprietor of Pickwick’s Choice Antiques at 1698 Queen St West spared some time to chat with me and pose for some photos today. This man is a treasure. My Saturday afternoon visits with this colorful character are the high point of my week. Every encounter is different as Pickwick discusses the fascinating trends in his life – I could start an entire new domain on The Life Read more:Johnston
, Forgotten
, Canadian
, Painter
Hunting Bottles in an Old Barn 2008-07-19 07:41:00 On Thursday July 17th The Glove mustered skilled workers to help him repair a weather beaten structure that stands alone on some property he recently purchased, just west of Warkworth Ontario. Dumpdiggers answered the call - but only so we could rummage about in the forgotten history of the old barn.This old barn sits alone on the south side of Hwy 29 which bisects a historic local region known as Read more:Bottles
CORO 1960s Sapphire Flower Brooch - NO SALE 2008-08-15 09:45:00 This beautiful piece of costume jewelry is a CORO vintage Sapphire
Flower brooch with enameled leaves and petals. It was made by this jewelry company in the mid 1960s and features a blue crystal at the tip of the stamina inside the flower blossom. I liked the design a little too immediately, and I confess now to buying the piece on aesthetics (but for a very low price...). It does however bear the Read more:Brooch
Fine Antiques at The Sunday Market in Toronto 2008-08-07 01:07:00 August has five Sunday
s, and that's good news for Dumpdiggers addicted to shopping for high quality antiques & collectibles at The Sunday Market
in downtown Toronto
.Every Sunday, St Lawrence Hall is stuffed full of opportunities for the wise old man that buys and sells history.Dumpdiggers is absolutely obsessed with the idea of buying locally and selling globally on eBay. And now it occurs to Read more:Antiques
New Holes in east Toronto Lakeshore 2008-08-05 23:24:00 new holes toronto2, originally uploaded by Scipio69.Dumpdiggers is just amazed at how much digging is happening on the Lakeshore this summer. This hole evidences an active team tunneling about in the wastelands, or what I like to call the 'Golden Triangle' of old Toronto
.Here's the overgrown aftermath of a good hole. Look at the hackers! There's an ACME brand dairy bottle, shoe polish, cosmetics, Read more:Holes
Vintage Canadian Ephemera at Christina's Company 2008-08-25 16:26:00 Dumpdiggers remembers when Christina
’s Old Prints and Nostalgia was a medium sized booth upstairs at the Harbourfront Antique Market on Queens Quay, Toronto. The cubicle was located on the 2nd floor opposite the stairs in the middle of the complex. It was there from 1982 to 2004, and I suppose it was during those twenty years that Christina's Company built up a dedicated client base of paper art Read more:Vintage
, Canadian
Mother of all Antiques Shows in Chicago, Oct 3 - 6 2008-08-23 17:41:00 Lauren Finch recently emailed Dumpdiggers some kind of praise to compliment the overall caliber of writing and high quality appearance of this blogspot. Turns out she's the Public Relations Manager of the Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc and she would like everyone in North America to know about the next Merchandise Mart International Antiques
Fair™ which features more than a hundred antiques Read more:Chicago
The Robert Simpson Brewery in Barrie Ontario 2008-09-20 09:07:00 Tuesday 16th of September 2008 was a splendid day for Dumpdiggers. Tim Braithwaite and Rob Campbell drove north to Barrie Ontario
to meet Peter Chiodo, the entrepreneur behind the success and steady growth of the RobertSimpsonBrewery
.Peter Chiodo makes the best beer north of the number seven highway - Confederation Ale. The master brewer has evolved a signature malting and fermentation process;
Ace of Spades Digs a Farm Dump 2008-09-13 09:50:00 Dumpdiggers profile: Jason HayterThe Ace of SpadesEx military, tattooed, father of two, Jason Hayter lives in Owen Sound Ontario, a few hours north of Toronto. When Jay isn't looking after his kids, or working on his house, he's digging bottles. He digs for six to eight hours a day, twice a week. Obsessed with finding old glass bottles and early Canadian pottery, Jason sometimes spends whole days
Bottle Dumps on Country Roads 2008-10-15 16:21:00 The autumn landscape is bright yellow, orange and red in Northumberland County. The fall colours excite history hunters and ignite a burning desire to explore crimson forests in search of old stories.
On October 12th, 2008 Dumpdiggers had another outdoor adventure. Armed with a small spade shovel and a garden fork, I wandered the country roads around Dartford Ontario in search of old b Read more:Dumps
, Country
, Roads
SC digger is Saving History on YouTube 2008-10-07 00:01:00 Dumpdigger
s has a friend in Greg Toney, and we recognize him as the web’s most videogenic relic hunter, SC digger. The charismatic college professor has become YouTube
's foremost authority on Civil War metal detecting - his video series SavingHistory
has now collected over 198,000 views, and has 386 subscribers.Although there are hundreds of treasure hunting videos online, Saving History is the
He's Lucky in Toronto 2008-09-30 19:20:00 Fresh from Vancouver, Lucky Peterson is a 30 year old visual artist that just emigrated to Toronto
's prosperous art scene hoping to do more gallery shows, get more commissions and sell more paintings. It’s true, sketching and carving wood are his foremost passions, but when Dumpdiggers visited this guy in September, we were quite surprised to find his art studio is absolutely stacked with
First Table in Dumpdiggers Underground 2008-11-07 00:32:00 Arob's Table
is the first merchant ship in this exciting new social networking site for low tech treasure hunters.The Underground Show and Sale on Dumpdiggers.com is a place where antiques collectors can display those unique items in their possession they'd most like to trade away.The speech bubble windows on the left side of the table allow the seller to pitch products to buyers, and to specify w Read more:First
Vintage Telephone on eBay 2008-10-28 21:59:00
Dumpdiggers,
I'm selling this red plastic Vintage
Telephone on eBay. I started the sale of at $9.99, but I hope the item fetches ten times that amount. It should. Everyone knows the red phone is the hot line.
Once again, I've used Blabble to insert a modicum of story. Forgive me.
The vintage red telephone has "Northern Electric Company Limited G3 made in Canada" on the receiver and on th
Fisher Price Family Fun Jet 2008-10-25 16:14:00 This is a very cool, very vintage Fisher
Price collectible toy. These plastic toys were extremely well made, and every kid knows the airplane and the house boat were the best models.With the Family
Fun Jet, your child can fly the Little People to any vacation spot in the house.After recovering and cleaning this relic, I placed the whole lot for sale. The Fisher Price FAMILY FUN JET lands on eBay!
Cast Iron Cook Stoves For Doll House? 2008-10-24 11:55:00 Here is the first of several curious items that I recovered from the junk filled abyss of Bert Dalmage's historic workshop in Dartford Ontario.Two different sized cast iron stoves for a doll house. The Blabble text box informs buyers that there are 17 separate removable cast iron pieces in this lot.When I found this stuff, in the remains of decaying doll house at the bottom of a wood chute in the Read more:House
Hunting History in Dartford Ontario 2008-10-21 07:42:00 My father sometimes talks about his father, and the work they used to do on the farm, near Dartford Ontario
. Mt grandpa started farming here sometime in the late 1930s. Our family tried everything once, and over time my grandfather erected many buildings with the help of a local builder, Bert Dalmage.Up the road in the village of Dartford there was a grist mill and a post office, butcher and groce Read more:History
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