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Morley Callaghan

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

Photo Source - Unknown

When you reach the north end of the Glen Road footbridge over Rosedale Valley Road, you will notice a planted area. In the bushes is this 1992 Toronto Historical Board plaque about the celebrated author. It says:

Coordinates: 43.673490 -79.375030

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Morley Callaghan wrote 18 novels and over 100 short stories, all about Canadians. Critically acclaimed around the world, he has been compared with Chekhov and Turgenev. He sold his first story while attending Riverdale Collegiate and worked as a reporter for the Toronto Star during his student years at the University Of Toronto. In 1928 he published his first novel, Strange Fugitive and in 1929 he married Loretto Dee. They lived in Paris - where they were befriended by Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Joyce - then in New York and Pennsylvania until the early thirties, when they returned to Toronto. Callaghan moved to Dale Avenue in 1951. Neighbours often saw and talked to him as he crossed this bridge with his wife and dog, Nikki, then with his dog, then alone until he died in 1990.

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> Posted March 16, 2018
My grandfather and Morley were first cousins. My grandfather gave Morley a job at his brick company in his early years. (My grandfather is mentioned in the novel "My Summer in Paris".) I met Morley when he attended my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary party held in our home.

> Posted May 31, 2010
I just visited this place the other day. Beautiful view from the bridge. It was about 8:30am and the sun was reflecting shadows from the bridge to the road.

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