Bedford Park Residents Organization
… your community voice is more important than ever before!
Sketch of the Sun Tavern on Yonge Street, circa 1830, typical of an early 19th century tavern. Illustration courtesy of Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. Thomas Hill opened the neighbourhood’s first tavern – near today’s…
Collaborative letter to North York City Council. BACKGROUND The City of Toronto released their Preliminary Report regarding First Capital’s development proposal for Avenue Road and Lawrence. The report can be seen in our previous posting…
Preliminary Report for the development at Avenue Road & Lawrence. BACKGROUND First Capital submitted detailed plans for their proposed development at Avenue Road and Lawrence on June 9, 2020. PRELIMINARY REPORT BPRO has received a copy…
York Mills plaque, Sam Heron’s Mill. Source torontoplaques.ca. Hauling lumber, McGlashan Road, Hogg’s Hollow, c 1896. Courtesy Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. As the pioneer farmers continued to push the treeline back from Yonge Street,…
Leonard Marsh and Mary Kendrick, Marriage Bonds 1803-1806 (RG 5, B 9, Vol. 13), Public Archives Canada. Attempting to describe what most Bedford Park area properties looked like exactly 200 years ago isn’t too difficult.…
Photos by Jess Hungate & John Mills. In the midst of a pandemic, when all schools (and much of everything) was closed, lawn signs popped up all over the neighbourhood marking where graduates lived. BPRO…
Illustration of Seneca Ketchum’s younger brother, Jesse Ketchum, 1782 – 1867. Reproduced courtesy of the Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. When Seneca Ketchum arrived in the village of York in 1796, he really wasn’t in…
A great big thank you to everyone who has volunteered with us this 2019/20 year. We had a great group of people who have taken on so many tasks: from way back when at the…
Looking northeast to the First Capital development. Image courtesy of First Capital. BACKGROUND In December and January we reported on the development at the corner of Avenue Road and Lawrence, and our initial meetings with…
John Kendrick House in York, Bloor Street West between Avenue Road and Bedford Road. 1897 photo reproduced courtesy of Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. On December 7, 1799, Duke William Kendrick formally announced the launch…