Walter Spanner House, Lake Front, west of Waverley Road, Toronto, Ontario

Original Toronto Star caption: Exiled to back street--"One step near er the grave" Wm. [i.e. Walter] Spanner, aged 97, father of eight children, built his own home at 100 Lake Shore Beach [i.e. Lake Front] in 1907, when he was 73 years of age. For 23 years he lived there and drank in the life-giving breeze off Lake Ontario, and now in his own words, this is what happened: "The city is putting me out-I have to move-and it is one step nearer the grave. I have to leave the lake shore I have loved for 33 years and live on a back street." Mr. Spanner, who is shown ABOVE, with his house he built himself, is forced out by operations of the Beaches developments. With one daughter and five pet cats he is moving to Kenilworth Ave.
 
Image published in the Toronto Daily Star, 24 September 1930, page 1, with article, "Lake Shore Lover of 97 Turned from Home".  Portrait of Walter Spanner included.