About Me
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'.
This is a personal web site, run as a hobby. It does not contain any advertisements and it does not sell any products or services.
My interest in plaques all stated in mid-February 2004 when, just browsing the stacks at the Eatonville 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!
I did a Google search for Ontario plaques and ended up at the Ontario Heritage Foundation website. From there I went to their office on Adelaide Street in Toronto and bought the book and the appendix.
My tools of the trade are:
1) My Canon PowerShot A40 2-megapixel digital camera set to take
640 x 480 sized pics. At that resolution and with the memory I have
in it the camera will hold 832 pics.
2) The book 'A Guide to Provincial Plaques in Ontario' compiled by
Mary Ellen Perkins published by the Ontario Heritage Foundation © 1989.
3) The booklet 'A Guide to Provincial Plaques in Ontario'
Appendix 1988-2001 published by the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
4) My Pocket Street Atlases and various Ontario maps by MapArt Publishing.
5) A notebook.
Here are the programs I use to update this site each day:
EditPad Pro for text work.
Macro Magic for time-saving macros.
Irfanview for graphic work.
CSE HTML Validator Pro for validating web pages.
Xenu Link Sleuth for checking links.
FutureQuest for hosting this site.
Web Publisher for uploading to the FutureQuest server.
Advanced Find and Replace for quick global find and replace.
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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