The vigil began at dusk. We gathered at the site, carrying lanterns, and hugged and cried with our neighbours and sang a couple of songs. People tied blue ribbons to a security fence which had been erected after the fire.
We’re a community of fewer than 700 people living on an island just 10 minutes by boat from downtown Toronto. Actually, the Toronto Islands are an archipelago: If you picture a banana, Ward’s Island is at one end, to the east, there’s an amusement park in the middle , and at the western end, you’ll find Hanlan’s Point . In its heyday, there were more than 8,000 people living on the islands, until the 1950s when Metro Council began evicting people and tearing down homes.
Every generation of islander has a different set of memories of the place, but all of us associate the clubhouse with our annual Gala Day which predates the building itself. We hold a midway, a masquerade, a beer garden with a different live band each day, an outdoor community dinner, a dance with another live band and two nights of the liveliest Bingo anywhere .
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