Castle Frank home of Governor Simcoe, built by the Kendrick Brothers, 1795 photo reproduced courtesy of Ontario Digital Archives. The rush was on. The Government of Upper Canada was giving away 200-acre lots flanking Yonge…
1796, The Water Dogs
1794, The Road From Nowhere to Nowhere
This illustration, by CW Jeffreys, shows the Queens’s Rangers under Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, cutting out the original Yonge Street, ca. 1795. Library & Archives Canada, C-073665. Augustus Jones, the deputy surveyor of Upper Canada,…
1793, A Forgotten Trail Inspires Ontario’s Main Street
This John Graves Simcoe portrait was painted by Jean Laurent Mosnier and is reproduced courtesy of the Toronto Public Library’s Digital Archive. On October 13, 1793, North Toronto was an endless maze of beech and…
Avenue Road & Lawrence
A drawing, courtesy of First Capital, of the northeast corner of Avenue Road and Lawrence. The pink area shows all the land now owned by First Capital. The site includes all properties from the new…
Avenue Road & Lawrence
An aerial view of the northeast corner of Avenue Road and Lawrence. More development is coming our way. This is why BPRO was so concerned with 250 Lawrence, because we knew it would set a…
250 Lawrence – Update
Graywood Development at 250 Lawrence. BPRO has voiced our current concerns at the Site Working Group meetings, and has been working in tandem with our Councillor, Mike Colle, on the following issues: To deny lane…
2019 Annual General Meeting & Presentation
BPRO’s first Annual General Meeting was held at Fairlawn Avenue United Church on November 5th, 2019. It was extremely well attended with approximately 70 people in attendance. BPRO is proud of the work we’ve done…
1st Annual General Meeting
Please join us on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 from 7-8:30 pm at Fairlawn Avenue United Church. This will be BPRO’s first AGM and we hope everyone will come out to support our neighbourhood. All residents…
Bedford Park Walk
35-40 people joined the BP Historical Walk, run by the North Toronto Historical Society on Sunday October 6. The focus of the information shared was on the development of Bedford Park from an independent village…
250 Lawrence – Update
Following participation in a City-led site plan working group, we are extremely disappointed to learn that certain deliverables discussed and promised at the LPAT hearing are not happening. The Douglas Greenbelt ravine will not be completed,…