Lost Villages
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Lost Villages: Huttonville
Nestled in the Credit Valley is the hamlet of Huttonville, at the corner of Mississauga Road and Queen Street/Embleton Road in the City of Brampton. Until...
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Lost Villages: L’Amoreaux
The farming hamlet of L’Amoreaux, which straddled the border between the newly surveyed York and Scarborough Townships was settled in 1816...
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Lost Villages: Claireville
Former residential building on Codlin Crescent, possibly an old toll house on the old Albion Plank Road. Today it serves as the office of a truck yard...
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Lost Villages: Erindale
Grange Homestead, Erindale, Mississauga The latest installment in the intermittent “Lost Villages” series takes us west on Dundas Street from...
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Lost Villages: Cooksville
Modern condo towers in Mississauga City Centre and traffic on Hurontario Street overwhelm old Cooksville In 1794, one year after the founding of York...
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Lost Villages: West Hill
West Hill and its neighbouring “lost” village, Highland Creek (featured two weeks ago) share a common early history. Both villages were...
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Lost Villages: Highland Creek and Danforth Road
The Morrish General Store at Kingston Road and Meadowvale; now the home of the Scarborough Historical Society At the dawn of the 19th century, a road was...
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Lost villages: Mount Pleasant
In northwest Brampton, at the junction of Bovaird Drive (formerly Highway 7), Creditview Road (3rd Line East), and the CN Halton Subdivision/GO Georgetown...
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Lost villages: Barbertown
After a lengthy hiatus, I bring you the latest installment in my occasional series on the “lost villages” of the Greater Toronto Area...
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Lost villages: Pickering’s Peculiar Predicament
Pickering Village, at the corner of Kingston Road and Church Street in Durham Region is a great example of a village hidden in plain sight. Thousands of...
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Brougham: A “lost village” in the making
Brougham, a small village at the corner of Highway 7 and Brock Road in Pickering, doesn’t quite make the usual criteria for a “lost...
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GTA’s lost villages: Churchville
Only a mere two kilometres north of Meadowvale, in Brampton, is another “lost” village, Churchville. Both communities share a lot in common...
By Sean Marshall