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Hello! I'm Alan L Brown, a 58 year old retired school librarian living in Toronto, Canada. After having been in the profession for 28 years in a K-5 school, I retired on June 30, 2002. I've lived for the last 23 years in central Etobicoke. Since 1997 I've been running a website for kids called 'Just For Kids Who Love Books'. My interest in plaques all stated in mid-February 2004 when, just browsing the stacks at the Richview branch of the Toronto Public Library in the Ontario travel section, a came across the book 'A Guide to Provincial Plaques in Ontario'. As I looked through it, I realized I had seen a lot of these plaques around and decided to borrow the book. After reading a bit of it, I got out my map of Ontario and began marking many of the plaques' locations. Then I did the same on my Toronto map. That's when the idea came into my mind to start a project of photographing the plaques and maybe put together a website. Tracking down all the plaques would give me an excuse to explore the city and province and learn a bit of history at the same time! My tools of the trade are: 1) My Canon PowerShot A40 2-megapixel digital camera set to take 640 x 480 sized pics. 2) The On-Line Plaque Guide posted on-line by the Ontario Heritage Foundation. 3) My Pocket Street Atlases and various Ontario maps by MapArt Publishing. 4) A notebook. 5) My Mac Mini computer. 6) 400 MB of internet server space with FutureQuest, Inc. Privacy Policy If you send me an email, I use your email address only to reply to you. It is not used for any other purpose. If you wish to link to this site, feel free to do so. Please use this URL: http://www.ontarioplaques.com All photographs and text on this website are freely available to whomever wishes to download them. your comments, questions, suggestions, or opinions. I reply within 24 hours. |
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