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This one-and-a-half-storey log house is one of Toronto’s oldest buildings still standing on its original site. The house features a steeply pitched gable roof, a stuccoed exterior, and a symmetrical design typical of the vernacular Georgian style.…

The community of Lansing developed around the crossroads of Yonge Street and present-day Sheppard Avenue. Joseph Shepard was one of the earliest settlers to Lansing, building a log cabin in 1798 on the north west corner of these crossroads.

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This graveyard is a rare remnant of the time when Willowdale was a small agricultural community centred around this stretch of Yonge Street. Aboriginal peoples hunted, fished, and camped on this land for thousands of years before European settlement…

European farmers settled in this area first in the 1790s. The Golden Lion Inn was built in 1824 at the southwest corner of today's Sheppard Avenue and Yonge Street, which became the centre of a small community. In 1860, a large, brick general store…

The foremost historical organization in the province, The Ontario Historical Society, originally called the Pioneer Association of Ontario, was established on September 4, 1888 largely through the efforts of the Reverend Henry Scadding. It initially…