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A collateral project from the Discussion Island/platform, this temporary exhibition brought together ephemera related to the first settling of Ward's Island as a 'tent city' along with artefacts from the 1980s when houses were lifted and levelled – during the period of 'resettling' prior to islanders campaign to establish a publicly-owned housing trust on the Toronto Islands – and the latest scale-models of the platform.
A collateral project from the Discussion Island/platform, this temporary exhibition brought together ephemera related to the first settling of Ward's Island as a 'tent city' along with artefacts from the 1980s when houses were lifted and levelled – during the period of 'resettling' prior to islanders campaign to establish a publicly-owned housing trust on the Toronto Islands – and the latest scale-models of the platform.
Exhibition, Installation views March 2018
Walkthrough of the Exhibition, March 2018 (3:01 mins)
With thanks to the following:
- Whit for the mallet & tent peg;
- Mary for the before myneigbors coaster, the “tent-to-cabin” print, and house lantern photo;
- Brad for the tent pole, and house lifting & levelling drawings from 1981-83;
- Mitch for tent pole spikes;
- Toronto City Archives for the use of Ward’s Island tent-city image from 1911;
- Gallagher’s Awnings for their email about Pike's tents;
- Tim for Shelter (1973);
- (and to Kathleen and Joe for information on tent-platform dimensions).
Other things in the room:
- 1:32 model of tent-platform, dock-structure and awning;
- 1:12 scale model of a tent-platform and “dock”, from workshop with Mitch, and made by Shawn, Russell and Jeff from a discussion with Jamie, Jim, Brad and Martin;
- 1mm:1inch model – the first “sketch” of the platform;
- Working-diagrams for the Discussion Island platform;
- Enough canvas to make a roof.
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