About Me

I'm Alan L Brown, a 62 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 38 years in Toronto. Since 1997 I've also been running a website for kids called Just For Kids Who Love Books. In July of 2006 I began torontohistory.org.

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 A410 3.2-megapixel digital camera.
2) The Plaque Guide posted on-line by the Ontario Heritage Trust.
3) My Pocket Street Atlases and various Ontario maps by MapArt Publishing.
4) A notebook.
5) My Macbook computer.
6) Internet server space with FutureQuest, Inc.

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If you wish to link to this site, feel free to do so.
Please use this URL: http://www.ontarioplaques.com

All photographs on this site were taken by me unless otherwise acknowledged. My photos are freely available to whomever wishes to download them as long as the source is acknowledged with the words "Photo used with permission from the website www.ontarioplaques.com." underneath the photo.

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