Tour on Baby Point Crescent, May 12, 2019. Image by Kristen McLaughlin.
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Resource ID
7721
Access
Open
Credit Line
Image by Kristen McLaughlin
Date of Creation
12 May 2019
Keywords
Indigenous History, suburban development, house
Program Category
Tours
Rights
Kristen McLaughlin
Caption
Tour on Baby Point Crescent, May 12, 2019. Image by Kristen McLaughlin.
Description
Tour participants learn about the Baby Point neighbourhood in Toronto's west end. In the background, a grand five-bedroom, four-bathroom residence named Tooraweenah, appears. In 1932, businessman Tom McGillivray hired architects and tradesmen to build this house for his family at 49 Baby Point Crescent.
The house sits near the location of one of the best-known First Nations archaeological sites in the City of Toronto. In the 17th century, the Seneca's lived here in an agricultural village "Teiaiagon" of perhaps 1,000 people, surrounded by fields of corn, beans, and squash.
The village sat on a strategic location allowing its occupants to control the southern end of the Carrying Place trail, an important trade route linking Lake Ontario to the upper Great Lakes through Lake Simcoe.
In 1999, the excavation of a trench for a new gas line through the front
yard of this property disturbed the burial site of a Seneca woman. In her twenties, she was buried with a number of items including a carved antler comb.