Ashbridge Estate Toronto
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Ashbridge Estate Toronto
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
The Ashbridge Estate is an historic home in the east end of Toronto. The building is located on Queen Street East near Coxwell Avenue in the Ashbridge's neighbourhood, Toronto between Leslieville and The Beaches. It is the earliest known site of residential inhabitation in the east Toronto area.
The Ashbridge family came from Pennsylvania to what was then an area outside of York. Sarah Ashbridge was the head of the household and brought with her an extended family, 2 unmarried sons, 3 daughters--one unmarried--2 with husbands and family in tow. Sarah Ashbridge was a widow. They were granted some 600 acres (2.4 km2), stretching from Lake Ontario to Danforth Avenue. After clearing the land, it became a profitable farm. The family remained on the site until 1997, the only family in the history of Toronto to have retained the same property for more than 200 years.
As the city of Toronto expanded eastward and encroached on the estate, the Ashbridges sold off much of their land. The Duke of Connaught Public School (1912) and S.H. Armstrong Community Recreation Centre were built on land that had been the Ashbridge's orchard. Woodfield Road, on the east side of the current property, was originally the farm lane going to the fields farther north.
By the 1920s the property owned by the family had shrunk to the 2 acres (8,100 m2) that now make up the estate. It was donated to the Ontario Heritage Trust by the family in 1972, but the last member of the family continued living there until 1997.
A number of localities in the area are named after the Ashbridges. Just to the south of the house is Jonathan Ashbridge Park, while slightly to the east is Sarah Ashbridge Avenue. The bay that marked the southern edge of the property is now known as Ashbridge's Bay. On the east and north sides of the bay is the large Ashbridge's Bay Park. Ashbridge's Bay Park North, to the north of the bay, is the site of the Ashbridge's Bay Skate Park, opened in 2009. The west side of the bay is the location of the Ashbridge's Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant, Toronto's main sewage treatment plant. Edited from Wikipedia
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