Don Mills (eBook)

From Forests and Farms to Forces of Change

Scott Kennedy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
248 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3684-9 (ISBN)

Infos

As recently as 1970, wheat crops were grown at Don Mills — and no small amount, but enough to line Toronto’s grocery-store shelves with baked goods. Single-herd milk was also commonplace, thanks to this last vestige of the city’s agricultural past. By 1980, it had been paved over, but Scott Kennedy offers a glimpse of the way things used to be.

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How Toronto's own city farms were crowded out.First settled in the early nineteenth century, the area now known as Don Mills retained its rural character until the end of the Second World War. After the war, population growth resulted in pressure to develop the area around Toronto and, in a relatively short time, the landscape of Don Mills was irreparably altered.Today, the farms are all gone, as are almost all of the barns and farmhouses. Fields and forests have been replaced by the industries, homes, and shops of Canada s first subdivision. In Don Mills: From Forests and Farms to Forces of Change, author Scott Kennedy remembers Don Mills as it was and takes great care to make sure that the farms and farmers are not forgotten.

Autor

Scott Kennedy witnessed the farms surrounding his North York childhood home being planted with a new cash crop of buildings. He joined the Toronto Musicians’ Association in 1969, but as a professional musician he never lost his passion for history. He traces the evolution of a Toronto neighbourhood in his book Willowdale. Scott lives in a Heritage Conservation District he helped create in Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood.

Inhalt

Introduction
Background
1. Moatfield Farm
2. Henry Duncan’s Farm
3. Charles Sauriol 
4. John Coulson’s Farm 
5. The Gray Family Farms
6. The Hogg Family of Don Mills 
7. Don-Alda Farms 
8. Maryvale Farm
9. Cloughton Grange Farm
10. The Farms of O’Sullivan’s Corners
11. Robert Nash’s Farm 
12. Frank Johnston and the Underground Railroad
13. Donlands Farm and the Taylor Family
14. Oriole Lodge Farm 
15. The Locke House 
16. The Goodwin House 
17. The William Armstrong Farm and Wynyates 
18. Alexander Milne and Milneford Mills
19. Spruce Grove Farm
20. The Bond Family Farm 
21. John Duncan’s Farm
22. The Richard Harris Farm
23. Silas Hill and Sons
24. The Hunter/McDonald Farm 
25. Spruce Lane Farm
26. The Scrace Family Farms 
27. The Hunter Family Farms and Graydon Hall
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index
About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2017
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3684-2 / 1459736842
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3684-9 / 9781459736849