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Happy days: an odd jumble of small homes north of the Junction, Mount Dennis doesn't have the kind of history you find in guidebooks ...
THE TV BOLTED TO THE CEILING IN THE BEVERAGE room of the Mount Dennis Legion is tuned to History Television. George C. Scott plays Patton to an audience of two men in their 50s, one tending bar while the other nurses a bottle of Canadian. Charlcie Mae Stickley, a past Legion president, walks ahead of me to the old "ladies lounge," pulls up a chair and says: "We're kind of dying on the vine here."
She's referring to the Legion, but the same could be said for Mount Dennis, a little-known blue-collar neighbourhood that sits astride Weston Road, just north of the Junction. When Charlcie and her new husband moved here in 1947, amid the bloom of post-war prosperity, ...
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