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There are over forty 19th-century buildings at Black Creek Pioneer Village, all of which are decorated and furnished according to the styles of the 1860s, some with the building's original furnishings. Several of the buildings were originally constructed at their current location. The others were relocated from other communities in Ontario.
The Village at Black Creek, previously Black Creek Pioneer Village, and before that Dalziel Pioneer Park, [1] is an open-air heritage museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The village is located in the North York district of Toronto, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. [2]
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In 1960, the MTRCA opened Black Creek Pioneer Village on the Stong Farm, at the corner of Jane and Steeles on the Black Creek, which expanded on the Dalziel lands. It subsequently added other pioneer buildings relocated from around the Toronto area. The village became a popular tourist destination in its own right.
The board and batten blacksmith shop originally built in Nobleton in the 1850s was moved to Black Creek Pioneer Village. [3] The village takes its name from Joseph Noble, an early settler of the town, and local tavern keeper. The slow urbanization of Nobleton began in the 1950s and the 1960s, with development of portions of the village's southwest.
[3]: 72 The schoolhouse, which was constructed in 1861, was later relocated to the Black Creek Pioneer Village. [3]: 73, 75 John Dickson's grist mill was constructed possibly as early as 1837 or as late as 1844, and may have been preceded by a sawmill that had been built by Jacob Grove as early as 1831.
The Dalziel Barn is an architecturally distinctive log barn built in 1809 and situated in Vaughan just north of Toronto's Black Creek Pioneer Village. Among its features, the barn had a large gable roof with a double slope on one side. Two gable roofed cupolas sat on the ridge. Although the windows and cupolas are often thought of as extraneous ...
The creek continues south in the vicinity of Jane St., before passing under Highway 7, Highway 407 and Steeles to reach Toronto at the eponymous Black Creek Pioneer Village open-air historic museum. It passes the main York University campus and heads into the Downsview area in a forested ravine.