Tour of the Baby Point neighbourhood, May 12, 2019. Image by Kristen McLaughlin.
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Resource ID
7724
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Open
Credit Line
Image by Kristen McLaughlin
Date of Creation
12 May 2019
Keywords
urban planning, suburban development, house
Program Category
Tours
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Kristen McLaughlin
Caption
Tour of the Baby Point neighbourhood, May 12, 2019. Image by Kristen McLaughlin.
Description
Tour participants learn about the Baby Point neighbourhood in Toronto's west end.
Participants stand in front of 3 Baby Point Road. Its design and the area's 20th century development owe much to Robert Home Smith (1877-1935)-lawyer, businessman, financier, civic planner, and real estate developer. Around 1911, this area was mostly wilderness dotted with mills and farmhouses. However, Home Smith envisioned an exclusive neighbourhood of expansive homes for businessmen. He purchased more than three thousand acres of land along both banks of the Humber River. Plans for the development were known as the Humber Valley Surveys, still considered one of the most ambitious planned development proposals in North America.
There were to be no semi-detached or multiple dwellings. To ensure an architecturally harmonious neighbourhood, as a condition of sale, lots included thirty year covenants that required that building plans be approved by one of Home Smith’s architects, with Tudor or English styles preferred.