Alice and Dan Heap Commemorative Plaque, 2016
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5218
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Open
Address
29 Wales Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 1J3
Credit Line
Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
2016
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Alice and Dan Heap Commemorative Plaque, 2016
Description
Alice and Dan Heap were life-long community organizers, trade unionists, and socialists dedicated to providing jobs and housing for all and to achieving peace in the world. Both were active in the Student Christian Movement where Alice (1925-2012), born in Quebec, met Dan (or Don, 1925-2014), born in Manitoba. After they married in Montreal in 1950, Dan was ordained in the Anglican Church and became a worker-priest. In 1954, they moved to
Toronto, where Dan worked in a cardboard box factory and was later elected a Toronto City Councillor (1972 to 1981) and then New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Trinity–Spadina (1981 to 1993). In 1965, in support of the civil rights movement, Dan marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, while his family in Toronto joined sit-ins in front of the U.S. Consulate. Alice steadfastly organized for many social justice and international solidarity causes, and participated in the co-op housing movement. The Heaps lived in this house with their seven children from 1968 to 1990. Their home was a centre for political activism where the door was always open to people needing shelter. In 1990, Alice and Dan sold this house to the Homes First Society for considerably less than its market value. Heritage TORONTO 2016
Marker lat / long: 43.652955, -79.402795 (WGS84)