This story begins some 13,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, before travelling thousands of years ahead to the early pioneers and the farms they established, and right up to the present day. Readers will learn how the local St. John's Anglican Church welcomed its first worshippers when Beethoven was still performing in the concert halls of Europe. They will meet Cornelius van Nostrand, born in 1730-twenty-six years before Mozart and eleven years before the first performance of Handel's Messiah-and now at rest in St. John's churchyard. This rich history also includes such diverse…mehr
This story begins some 13,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, before travelling thousands of years ahead to the early pioneers and the farms they established, and right up to the present day. Readers will learn how the local St. John's Anglican Church welcomed its first worshippers when Beethoven was still performing in the concert halls of Europe. They will meet Cornelius van Nostrand, born in 1730-twenty-six years before Mozart and eleven years before the first performance of Handel's Messiah-and now at rest in St. John's churchyard. This rich history also includes such diverse figures as Amelia Earhart-who discovered her love of flying at an aerodrome overlooking Hogg's Hollow-and Northern Dancer, the most influential Thoroughbred racehorse in history. Members of the British Royal Family-including two Kings of England-were also regular visitors to the area, staying in later years with E.P. Taylor and his wife Winifred at the Taylors' Windfields Farm, where Northern Dancer was also a resident.
Scott Kennedy's first address was R.R. #1, York Mills, at what is now the corner of Bayview Avenue and Highway 401: the busiest highway in North America. There were still farms in the area when Scott was a boy, and when he grew up he began to feel nostalgic, so in 2010 he began to document the history of vanquished Toronto farmland as best he could. Since then he has written four books on Toronto history, including books on the farms of Willowdale, Don Mills, and York Mills. This new book takes us on a further journey along the timeline of the area, and tells us the stories of homes, built on farmland following the Second World War, that have since been demolished for monster houses. Scott now lives in Toronto's Beaches neighbourhood, in a Heritage Conservation District he helped create in 2004, where houses are protected from demolition.
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