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THE. BIRTH
OF SOARBOROUGH
By S. Nichol
(Research by Robert Boats)
When I chose a bungalow on
Kencliff Crescent and moved to
Scarborough's St. Andrew's
Gardens last summer I was
totally unaware of the areal
rich historical heritage. My main
Considerations were the pract-
ical arrangement of ,mortar and
bricks, the usefUl trappings
Which enhance the interiors ot
most modern homes, and a
generous pie-shaped lot. When
saw the expansive hack yard
my farming instincts
niediately came IA, the fore. vis-
ualized a sprawling pea patch
and red-ripe tomatoes glistening
on the vines - perhaps even a
grape arbour and rose gardens.
What I could not see and did not,
know' was that the green knoll
upon which my house stood was
first to see the light of day when
early settlers came to Scar-
borough to carve homes and
iwehoods out of the virgin,
hardwood forests.
The area, officially designated
as Glasgow Township in 1791,
was renamed, Scarborough, by
Lieutenant - Governor John
Graves Simcoe, in 1793. The bold
three hundred and fifty foot cliffs
fronting it reminded hint of the
cliffs on the Yorkshire coast of
England. fence the name Of
Scarborough Bluffs.
It was the year 1796, and
spring had come to the bleak
forest which crowned the great
Grey bluffs of Scarborough,
rising sheer from Lake Ontario
eight miles to the east of the tiny
two-year-old town of York at the
mouth of the river Don. In a
freshly-cut clearing in the forest
three miles back from the lake
the ground was bare. Amid the
.stum ps end heaps of brisk
which littered this clearing On
the banks of Highland Creek,
(not far from the site of the
present .St. Andrew's Church),
stood a newly-bitilt log cabin,
with gaping door and window!,
still unoccupied. >&11 atternoOn
the swollen creek ran free in
the sunlight through the open
glade. A blaels bear, lean and
hungry after his long winter's
sleep, stood on the bank watch,
ing the salmon leaping up the
stream, and from time to time
he deftly scooped one from the
water. A doe with a spotted, fawn
beside her browsed on the
tender willow shoots ahant a
gurgling spring,
Into the clearing trudged a
titan with an ate on his shoulder,
and a few paces behind came
another leading a bony oxen
which hauled n. sled piled high
with boxes and household effects:
After it plodded wearily a woman
in a mud-spattered plaid cloak
-slit a two-year-old boy In her
arms. Three older childen tole
lowed.
Early that morning David
thomson, with his wife Iltaty,
their four children, and th,fir
trfttuft ita hies Milt taki
I4M4
he had monad rroin Niagara
shortly atter his arrival from. his
native Scotland the pre ;tons
year, and had found enaployinent
as bead mason in the erection of
government buildings in Upper
Canada" new capital. But find-
ing the settlement on the
marshy shores of Toronto hay
plagued by fever, he had sought
a healthier home site in the high
lands of Scarborough Township,
xbich I ac recently seen Sur-
veyed and opened to settlers.
So, following the mouth of the
Don river an old Fluroa Indian
trail which wound north easterly
through the tangled woods (and
which was destined ';o become
our modern Danforth Road),
David Thomson and his family
and friend with thei labouring
oxen bad' struggled on all day
through alternate snow drifts,
slush and mud; and after tWel%.e
long miles they had arrived at
the home which he hal heWtt
fOr them froM. the forest.
Thus the first white settlers
cae to Scarborough and boldly
began to tame the wilderness
previously inhabited only by In-
dians such as those whose bones
lay buried high on Taber's. Hill
at the centre of the Township.
W'2 ,,,u their third year 'Of
privation and peril in the wilder-
ness was past, David and Mary
'Thomson stood at their door one
day in June with new faith in
the rude land to which they had
come singing within them. A
field of tall green vsneat rippled
among the weathered stumps
beyond a luxurious potato patch.
A little two-year-old girl, Janet,
first white child born in. Scary
borough, played with a puppy at
their feet. In the distance *ay
coald hear the ringing ot
and the crash of falling tries Y.
Asa DanfOrth's men WIN* 010
the first road through the taw*
ship, which he had contracted
to cut thirty-three feet wide as
far 115 the mouth of the river
Trent tel ninety dollars a mile.
Nearer at hand they could hear
in the woods the voices of
iktvld's brothers, Andrew and.
ArelliOnUi, who had cone With
their families to join him in hits.
Pioneer adventure and. were
Working in clearings of their
own.
So one by one at first, and
then in twos and threes, the
pioneer families came from the
1321(1Sn Isles and the United
Stetcs to Scarobrough to build
their little log cabins, clear
away the forest, and till the rich
soil beneath, In 1802' there were
only so men, women and cblid,
ren living in the riot township
of 46,000 acres, In 1830 there were
still only little ewer a 1,000 more
But with brave hearts and sturdy
independence they set to work
to meet their daily needs and
build for their children the better,
homeland of their dreams. A
grist mill was needed, so Will-.
ism Cornell drove through the
wintry woods all the way 10
Kingston, bought mill stenos
with a span of colts and drew
them on his sled to Highland
'Greek, Apples were lacking :be
planted out the first orchard
Nails were wanted for a new
frame barn, so 'William KnoWles
built a smithy and made MOM.
his family required clothing; be
grew his own flax and his wife
carded, spun and wove it.
(continued next week)
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