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 kowalski
   
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< on 8/5/2007 4:56 AM >
|  | | | I was in a drain in North York today (Roman Numerals, discovered last year by Siologen), when I came upon this incredible impression in an access chamber.
A.E. LePage was the company that ultimately merged with Royal Trust's real estate division in 1984 to become the Royal LePage juggernaut we all know today. It's namesake was apparently the first full-time real estate agent in Canada, founding the company in 1913. This drain, which straddles Finch Avenue, was laid between 1967-1970. The construction crew may have scavenged this sign from nearby farmland that was slated to become the industrial subdivisions and tank farms that now dominate the area, or it may have simply been part of a consignment of scrap boards that they brought to the site. Either way, it ended up as the centrepiece of the wood forms into which the concrete walls of this room were poured.
It's also possible that this was a patch made after the room was laid --- half a kilometer further upstream, a nearly identical room has a wooden patch in this same location.
For those who are having trouble making out the text of the sign, it reads:
A.E. LePage
Limited Realtor
481-4333
The impression is about five feet wide and two feet tall.
[last edit 8/5/2007 5:18 PM by kowalski - edited 2 times]
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Stewie
   
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Gender: Male
kill your idols
| |  | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 1 on 8/5/2007 4:43 PM >
| | | | Wow. That's awesome.
> The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit. |
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Axle
Location: Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
| | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 2 on 8/5/2007 6:13 PM >
| | | | Pretty damn awesome find there!
Celer at Audax
Para la Victoria Siempre Alemanes! |
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mike16
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Gender: Male
"I AM the sign"
| | | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 3 on 8/5/2007 7:31 PM >
| | | | Yeah, there's a pretty sweet find for Toronto's history! It's all the better that it's wood too!
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Voodoo
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 4 on 8/6/2007 2:22 PM >
| | | | Amazing history for us fossils that can actually remember that far back. Thanks for sharing.
Voodoo
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Wiccan
Location: Hamilton Ontario
Gender: Female
| | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 5 on 8/6/2007 3:26 PM >
| | | | I still remember the commercial jingles for that company,neat find!
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Timdog
Location: THE HAMMER
Gender: Male
DEADMAN
| | | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 6 on 8/6/2007 4:50 PM >
| | | | Cool find thanks for sharing.
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Silent Knight
Location: Niagara region
Gender: Male
Kastle Archives Productions Inc. (since 1999)
| | | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 7 on 8/10/2007 3:59 PM >
| | | | Facinating find. Nice work.
You can always tell when you're watching Canadian television - the actors in the show are the same ones doing the commercials. |
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videonerd
| | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 8 on 8/15/2007 3:27 PM >
| | | | noooo the picture isn't working!!
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Wu
Location: here
Gender: Female
Locked to the Rock since '94
| | Re: The Ghost of A.E. LePage
<Reply # 9 on 8/16/2007 12:57 AM >
| | | | cool
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