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These r officially gone

The main part (right side) was a far far older house, some sources indicate it may have originally faced Highway 7 and been rotated/moved 90 degrees to front onto Lansdowne when the railway underpass was built in 1929-1930. The addition on the left appears to have been added at a later date. All gone, apartments or condos going in now.

And the drug store trolley too

Just today(March 26th 2024) there is a construction fence that is blocking entrance to the house from Major Mackenzie so the only way you can there now is if you climb from the fence in the neighbourhood street behind the property. However, I would advise against this as there is construction crews in the area who will catch you doing this. Not sure about this as there is a company called Kenaidan who put up fence? I am wondering how they are involved because when I was looking around at documents I did not find Kenaidan anywhere.

Is there a PoE?

There was once a third house (an old log cabin) at the back of this property near the barn, apparently called the "James Calhoun Cabin". It was demolished or collapsed around 2009-2011, a few years before the rest of the property was cleared.

As of 3/17/2024 the front door is still boarded. That being said, it looked like a pretty fresh board and not amazingly secure.

very odd that there are now two seperate cars in forests!

This place is not a bakery anymore as it closed down but a dentist office.

Definitely going to go check this out asap

Woah this is super interesting, that car looks pretty ancient and I wonder what it's doing just out in the woods like that. I'd bet it belonged to residents of that nearby house from way back in the day.

Will be going back whenever I have the time to and taking a lot more pictures of the car, and it's surroundings, I will post them all here :)

yeah. It's horrible that people burnt it and all, but I'm glad it will be better preserved

Update #2, this website has the exact blueprints for what the redevelopment is planned to look like: https://f.tlcollect.com/fr2/318/46655/sold_web_2057_Major_Mackenzie_Dr._W.pdf The blueprints show the suburban cabin right there in the middle, so I think it's safe to say it's not going to be getting demolished. Though people might end up inhabiting it once again eventually. Also, even though it's going to be restored, the second floor does not appear to be returning. So R.I.P to that. Interestingly, blueprints call it the "Joshua Oliver House" which is the first I've heard of that. So I did some even more digging using the new name, and according to a commenter on a historical blog, this house was made in 1837, putting it at 186 years old. One more reason why I hate to see people vandalize sites.

For the longest time I couldn't find the actual address of this property. That was until I was looking around on PLANit and noticed it was on there (2057 Major Mackenzie Drive). It looks like this property is eventually going to be redeveloped with townhouses put on it. It also looks like the building will be retained as it's a heritage building, although I'm not sure how that'll work now that it's been partially destroyed from a fire. I also found these two old photos of the house when I put the address into Google: https://thumbnails.zoocasa.com/9904510-2057-major-mackenzie-dr-vaughan-on-N126258/photo-1.jpg https://cdn1.zoocasa.com/images/listings/6fb2cf3a-9288-43e4-9a20-ba44424d7fda.jpg So from what it seems, the second story wasn't actually a part of the house originally, but was added later on. I looked at satellite imagery, and I think it was added on around 2012, which is quite recent in the grand scheme of things. There isn't a second floor anymore, so it really didn't last long.