News Release - Laneway Named After Inspiring Black Woman in Early 1900s Leslieville Unveiled
Luella Price Lane was named after the Eureka Club founder and resident of the Black community in early 1900s Leslieville.
“With water mains on the Danforth — the infrastructure’s so old, it gets ripped up and fixed in so many different places; often when the construction goes on, businesses didn’t really know when it was ready to happen right in front of them,” he said. “Whereas if we’d thought about it ahead of time and there’d been communication, we could be a part of the process.”
STORY BEHIND THE STORY: With businesses struggling during the COVID-19 crisis, David Nickle wanted to find out how the west end of the Danforth would cope with a more “normal” disruption — construction.Luella Price Lane was named after the Eureka Club founder and resident of the Black community in early 1900s Leslieville.
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