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Building Photo Year of construction Original location Architectural style Relocated Opened Notes Apple storage cellar c. 1850 Edgeley: Field stone and brick 1976 1976 The building was dismantled at its original site and reconstructed at Black Creek Pioneer Village. Bolton Shop 1865 Bolton: 1968 1973 Originally used by a merchant tailor.
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]
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 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 ...
[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.
Several of the original buildings in the community have been moved to other locations. The Laskay Emporium, built in 1856, [4] was moved to Black Creek Pioneer Village on 19 February 1960. In August 2017, Laskay Hall was moved from its original site to the grounds of the King Township Museum in King City. [5]
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The first European settlement in the area was the town of Strangford established at what is today the intersection of Victoria Park and St. Clair in 1863. Another small town named Mortlake was established in 1865. The town's main building, the Halfway House Hotel, survives today at Black Creek Pioneer Village where it was moved in 1962. The ...