Historical Timeline

Lot 25 Lot 24 Lot 23 Lot 25 Lot 24 Lot 23 Hillcrest Convalescent Home Davenport Spadina Ravenswood Lot 25 Lot 24 Lot 23

Glen Edyth

1851 map (Browne) 1860 map (Tremaine) 1890 map (Goad)

1793 Town of York founded; 1793 - Lot 23 1818 ‘Russell Hill’ 1871-72 ‘Glen Edyth’ 2nd Concession Township Lots granted Lot 23 granted to Peter Russell. After Augustus Baldwin constructs ‘Russell ‘Russell Hill’ burned down; Samuel Nordheimer his death in 1817, his estate was Hill’ on Lot 23 purchased 25.5 acres of Augustus Baldwin’s bought by Admiral Augustus Baldwin. property; constructs ‘Glen Edyth’

Indigenous Settlement

Settlement by the ancestral Huron-Wendat community; Early Settlement & Huron-Wendat conquered by the Carrying Place Haudenosaunee (Five Nations) pf the Seneca Nation; Seneca displaced by the Mississaugas, an Settlement by early 1793 - Lot 24 1818 Baldwin’s ‘Spadina’ 1835 ‘Spadina’ rebuilt 1865 Austin acquires ‘Spadina’ 1867 ‘Ravenswood’ 1889 subdivision hunter-gatherers; ancient Anishinaubeg poeple. trail of the Toronto Carrying Lot 24 granted to William Willcocks. William Baldwin constructs the first Existing ‘Spadina’ house burnt Demolition of second ‘Spadina’; ‘Ravenswood’ house Austin subdivided his Place developed as a trade After his death in 1813, the estate ‘Spadina’ house on Lot 24 down; new smaller ‘Spadina’ new ‘Spadina’ constructed in 1866 for Austin’s daughter western 40 acres of his Lake Iroquois route along what is now was transferred to his son-in-law Dr. 1787 Toronto Purchase rebuilt on the same site constructed adjacent property Davenport Rd. William Baldwin. to ‘Spadina’ Study Area bordered by glacial Lake Iroquois; the North shores of lake shore was what is acquired by the British from now the escarpment the Mississaugas

c13000BCE 3000-1000BCE 1400-1700’s 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1884-86 Gooderham & 1793 - Lot 25 1821 New ‘Davenport’ 1853 Death of Wells; division of estate Convalescent Home Lot 25 granted to Ensign John McGill. Joseph Wells demolished the original Wells’ property was divided equally into three; South portion of Arthur After is death in 1821, his estate was house and built a new ‘Davenport’ inherited by his sons Arthur, Robert, and Wells’ property sold to purchased by Col. Joseph Wells. on the same site Frederick (who received ‘Davenport’ house) William Gooderham; one acre was donated for the c1797 ‘Davenport’ construction of Hillcrest Convalescent Home The first house ‘Davenport’ constructed on Lot 25 by Ensign McGill

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1909 Annexation 1966-71 Spadina Lot 25 Lot 25 Lot 24 Lot 23 Lot 25 Lot 24 Lot 24 Lot 23 Expressway Hillcrest Hillcrest Convalescent Home Study Area annexed by City Connable House Convalescent Home Davenport of Toronto; municipal Hillcrest Convalescent Home Construction of the Spadina Davenport McLean House services delivered to area McLean House Expressway threatens the properties Spadina Stables within the Study Area; proposal Ravenswood cancelled in 1971 thanks to citizen’s Lenwil Spadina grassroots movement led by Jane Glen Edyth Casa Loma Casa Loma Jacobs, Marshall McLuhan and John 1903 map (Goad) Sewell 1913 map (Goad) 1970 map (Toronto Archives) Lot 23 (cont.) c1924 Glen Edyth subdivision 2005 Subdivision of Nordheimer’s property Glen Edyth Spadina City Council identified the area 1924 map (Goad) as the Casa Loma Heritage Conservation District Preliminary Study Area 2016

City Council initiated the study of Casa Loma as a potential Heritage Conservation Lot 24 (cont.) 1903-1905 1908/1911 ‘Ardwold’ 1909-1914 ‘Casa Loma’ 1924-37 Decline of ‘Casa Loma’ 1936 Ardwold Gate 1982-84 District

Henry Pellatt ‘Ravenswood’ sold to Construction of Pellatt’s ‘Casa Pellatt suffers from financial Ardwold demolished; Spadina jointly purchased purchased lots from ; house Loma’ designed by E.J. Lennox difficulties; property vacated; Ardwold Gate by Davenport & demolished, Ardwold acquired by City in 1934; subdivision developed and City of Toronto; Spadina Estates house constructed becomes a tourist attraction in reopened as a museum 1937; Castle View Ave. developed at approximately the same time

1915-16 ‘Connable House’

House for Ralph Connable

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Lot 25 (cont.) c1894 Subdivision c1903-10 1912-14 ‘Lenwil’ c1924 Further Subdivisions c1956 1960 Convalescent Home Demolished

Subdivision of Remainder of Davenport estate Construction of ‘Lenwil’, E.J. Austin Crescent laid out; further Maclean’s property subdivided; Convalescent home demolished, new north portion of subdivided; E.J. Lennox purchased 3 Lennox’s house subdivision of lands Lyndhurst Court developed building constructed; property continues Arthur Wells’ acres from the Davenport Estate to be used as a Rehab Centre property 1905 Hillcrest Community School

1924 Wells Hills Park 1913 ‘Davenport’ Demolished 1906/1910 Maclean House Property owned by Pellatt acquired by City; developed into park Purchase of a southern portion of Davenport Estate; construction of Maclean House