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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Aug-10-2010 The Star – Getting to know the King of Casa Loma
Sir Henry Pellatt lived in a world unto himself: lavish, bombastic and out of touch with Toronto
No statue was erected to the man, no arena named for him, no postage stamp printed in his honor.
No statue was erected to the man, no arena named for him, no postage stamp printed in his honor.
If you screamed “Sir Henry Pellatt!” down Yonge St., almost nobody would recognize the name.
Rich out of all proportion, he built Canada’s largest private home – now one of Toronto’s top tourist landmarks – yet he remains almost anonymous. Why?
A reading of Sir Henry Pellatt: The King of Casa Loma, a 1982 biography by Toronto writer Charlie Oreskovich, suggests the man lived apart from the city’s true development and primarily for his own self-aggrandizement.
Champion runner: In 1879, at the age of 20, Pellatt ran the mile in New York, beating the U.S. champion and setting a world record at 4:42.4. That same year, however, Toronto’s Edward “Ned” Hanlon captured the English championship in the far more popular sport of sculling, and
… Read the restAug-9-2010-Star- Sir Henry: Casa Loma king lived in a world unto himself
Rich out of all proportion, Henry Pellatt built a castle for a home — now one of Toronto’s top tourist landmarks — but remains all but anonymous.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CASA LOMA
Henry Pellatt poses in his track uniform in this undated photo. At 19, he won the amateur Canadian mile championship in Montreal. At 20, in New York, he won a race to become North America's top amateur mile runner.
By: John Goddard Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Aug 09 2010
No statue was erected to the man, no arena named for him, no postage stamp printed in his honour.
If you screamed “Sir Henry Pellatt” down Yonge St. almost nobody would recognize the name.
Rich out of all proportion, he built Canada’s largest private home — now one of Toronto’s top tourist landmarks — yet he remains almost anonymous.
Why?
A reading of Sir Henry Pellatt: The King of Casa Loma, a 1982 biography by Toronto writer
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Aug-3-2010 Globe and Mail – Kiwanis rejects city’s demand to fire Casa Loma chair
By Kelly Grant
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
August 3, 2010
Service club risks being evicted from castle as deadline passes
The Kiwanis Club is refusing to fire the chair of Casa Loma’s board, a move that could lead the city to evict the service organization from the castle.
Council set a deadline of July 31 for the Kiwanis Club – which has operated the interior of the city-owned attraction since 1937 – to replace Richard Wozenilek, a lawyer who allegedly directed $218,938 in castle legal work to himself over 18 months.
But the deadline has passed and Kiwanis has decided to back Mr. Wozenilek.
“The Kiwanis Club continues to maintain its full support behind Mr. Wozenilek as chair of the Casa Loma Board, and it understands the members of the Board also fully support him,” Joachim Gerschkow, the president of the Kiwanis Club of Casa Loma, said in a statement Tuesday.
At the beginning of July, council ordered … Read the rest
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