Walkerside Dairy

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• Excellent -- thanks. I always notice the ghost of Jefferson -- now will look for the ghost of Pilette.

• I keeping looking at John's 1880s map. Amazing to see where the French landuse system collides with the British concession one. Am I correct in reading it like this?

• i'm pretty sure you're reading that right Shawn.

  so Andrew, according to this....we would have had to pay a toll at Howard and Grand Maris? LOL!
  this is so interesting! if you look to where there what looks like a burn mark, there's what i'm assuming is windsor grove cemetary, then the little section of st. alphonses cem. Ellis street is rediculously older then i thought, the whole city ends at Giles!
  also, do you see near walker and techumseh the name C. Swan next to a black square? i wonder if that was the walker farms managers home that was recently taken down?
  there's also a home labled with L. Maillioux. I wonder if this is that big green home at i think Curry and Techumseh. but that looks a little newer. it could be where the chinese buffet is alittle further west on Techumseh. if you look at the roof of the chinese buffet you'll see there's a house in the middle of it with (now, i don't know the term) the style of roof common to 19th c , victorian homes (i think)where it would come to a really steep point in the front or sides of the home. it looks ancient anyways.

  ok that's enough.....i could go on forever with this thing lol

• so nice to see something left of Walker Farms, a great landmark in its day
  They should preserve that but, like everything else, it will be gone and forgotten

• Oh yeah, oops I was thinking of Jefferson.

• Does anyone remember the colours of the Walkerside Dairy?Also what were their dates and when would they have had an ice cream division?I have an old milk can that is from that section.
  Also does anyone have pictures of any of the milk wagons?

• I don't have a milk can, but I do have a 1 gallon Walker Orchards Sweet Apple Cider bottle. The colours on the label are mostly red. I suspect to go with the red apples. Even has a WALKERS label that is in red font

• Would the cider bottle be from the barn fruit market operatrd by Frank Remark, he had a buisnes next to the Shrine Club before the expressway cosled E C Row. In 1978 or 79 he had a fire,but reopend after.
  Remark store on Howard Av. is operated by his nephews.
  The Remark brother had apple orchards in Kingsvile.

• My parents leased what was left of some of the barns in the early 70's (72-75) and we kept, trained and boarded Standardbred race horses there. We lived in a mobile home back in this area but many of the homes around the circle were still being used. I have so many good memories of living at Walker Farms even though it's hayday had long since past. I remember coming across a library book one time that showed good pictures and layouts of what the farm used to be like but that was many years ago and I have never been able to come across anything like it since. The quality of what the farm once was, was stil very evident even then. Floors in the barns were wooden bricks, the lofts in some of the barns were floored with lapboard and still other were done in nice tongue-n-grooved wood fit for any quality home. There used to be the remnants of an old fire ladder truck at the back of one of the barns we would play on, and we would climb up to the top of the mill that was there playing hide and seek, not really worrying about falling through something or breaking something. I could go on and on about Walker Farms, it was a great place when your a 12 year old boy!

• On November 17 2012 there was a reunion of the families that grew up on Walker Circle in the 60's / 70's till it was acquired for the supposed expressway.
  Here is a Facebook link to the event. https://www.facebook.com/events/266471700135741/304048739711370/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity