Tour at the Baby Point Gates, May 12, 2019. Image by Kristen McLaughlin.
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Resource ID
7722
Access
Open
Credit Line
Image by Kristen McLaughlin
Date of Creation
12 May 2019
Keywords
suburban development
Program Category
Tours
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Kristen McLaughlin
Caption
Tour at the Baby Point Gates, May 12, 2019. Image by Kristen McLaughlin.
Description
Tour participants learn about the Baby Point neighbourhood in Toronto's west end. In the 19th century, lawyer James Baby bought the land from the Upper Canada government.
Baby was the elder son of a prestigious family in the Detroit area, and had been educated in the province of Quebec. The family later moved to Windsor. Records show that the Baby family enslaved at least 17 Black and Indigenous people in the late 18th and early 19th century, and James Baby opposed Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe's efforts to prohibit slavery in Upper Canada. In 1815, he was appointed Inspector General and moved to Toronto.
The area is the location of one of the best-known First Nations archaeological sites in the City of Toronto.
In the background, the 1911 stone gates at the intersection of Jane Street and Baby Point Road mark the entrance to the neighbourhood. In its design the neighbourhood was influenced by the garden suburb movement that linked villa-like homes with landscaped public spaces and roads for the emerging middle class.