Opening of the Cottage July 1
2008
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This is Anne...
THE TOLLKEEPER'S COTTAGE WALKS
ARE BACK!
OUR NEXT WALKING TOUR IS
SEATON VILLAGE, Sunday
SEPTEMBER 24 AT 10:00 AM
This Walk is
based on our previous
Seaton Village Walk, but with
added emphasis on the rich
Black
History of the area.
Please sign up, as we need a minimum
of 4 people to do the walk and we
limit the group to
15 walkers,
so everyone can hear and be heard.
Send us an email
at
tollkeeperscottage@gmail.com
to get on the list.
If you consider Sunday at 10 coffee
and pyjamas time, we will be offering
other walks on
some Sundays and
Fridays at 2, before the snow flies!
POSSIBILITIES:
the Christie Pits area
(the Riot, Garrison Creek, Koreatown ....)
the West Annex
(Jane Jacobs,
Canlit, the Massey murder ...)
the ever popular Wychwood Park
Seaton again.
If this sounds like your kind of
thing, send us an email!
Our walking tours are a benefit of
membership in the Community
History
Project.
Members may go on any or all of our walks
– and bring a friend! Not a
member?
That is easily remedied. Membership
is $20/year ($35 for a family)
and
entitles you to an income tax receipt.
You can pay by e-transfer
to
tollkeeperscottage@gmail.com, or
bring cash or cheque to your first walk
– or in
advance when you visit us some
Saturday at the museum.
(Cheques to Community History
Project.)
WE HOPE TO BE WALKING WITH YOU SOON!
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Don't forget to join us for the
following Indigenous events:
TEA AND BANNOCK
AND
INDIGENOUS STORIES
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23 AT THE COTTAGE
FOR 12:00-5:00
WHY WE
WEAR ORANGE FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 30
AT THE TOLLKEEPER'S PARK FOR STORIES,
HAND DRUM
AND DANCE 3:30-5:00
Tiny knitted orange t-shirt pins and
regular t-shirts (shown below)
are
available for sale this Saturday at
the Tollkeeper's Cottage.
RAMP AND
ROOF: If you've walked or
cycled past the Cottage lately, you've seen workers on top! YES, we have a new roof! using
cedar shakes, nailed in by hand.
OUR FORMERLY WEAK AND
UNSTABLE RAMP HAS BEEN PARTLY REBUILT: thanks to volunteers Tony
and Margaret Reyes, Max Gross and Board Member Ed Janiszewski. Thank you for helping us to
remain securely wheelchair accessible.
THE
DETERIORATING TOLL GATE HAS BEEN REBUILT: If you peak through the construction fencing,
you'll see a freshly painted sparkling white toll gate, rebuilt thanks to our Board Member
Bill Kindree and former Board Member Terry Marescaux. Great
work!
.Our membership year is now January to December. Your membership fee of $20 individual or $35. per family will get you one whole year of membership, voting at the Annual Meeting in March or April, and an opportunity to run for the Board of Directors. Any questions, please email us at tollkeeperscottage@gmail.com.
There is a sign cottage open , on the lawn when the cottage is open..
Take a tour of the cottage..
Jane Beecroft our founder, passed away Oct 10 2021.
We have some slide shows on the site!. Please check them out here.
We also added two little buttons next to this
scroller so you can go back if this scroller is too fast for you!
Please keep us in mind
during this season. If you would like to make a donation or pay a membership
fee, you can now do it in the modern way online! We can now receive an e-transfer at our email address! Donations and
membership fees will receive an income tax receipt in February.
Send us an Email to tollkeeperscottage@gmail.com . Thanks for your support..
The Community History Project that manages the Tollkeeper's Cottage Heritage site has various
collections of materials in its archives focusing on local history, places and people. We have restored
and run the cottage museum for 12+ years and our not-for-profit; charitable organization.
We can still use help of our supporters in the heritage community in
locating a more permanent, more economical space of 500 to 1000 sq feet to house our collections or your
help with increased donations to help pay for the temporary storage.
Educational class tours (in English or French) or Educational adult tours can be arranged.
(teachers and administrators may wish to print out the brochures referenced)
The Tollkeeper's Cottage
The oldest structure
of its
kind in Canada - now
a museum about tolls, roads,
and nineteenth century life
owned, restored and
operated
by the
Community History Project
(now a charitable
organization).
Located at the corner of
Bathurst St. and Davenport Rd.
(Toronto,
ON)
in The Tollkeeper's Park.
Community groups can use the space for meetings also
Look for the Blue Canoe near our commemorative birch trees. Thanks to the wonderful people at City of
Toronto Parks Department, the David Suzuki Foundation, and the Mississaugas of the Credit for making this
possible.
There are gift-type items for sale at
the museum such as: books on local history, hand-made pure soap, knitted wear, walking tour guides, recipe
collections.
We have Tollkeeper's Cottage Tee shirts for sale
We have just started selling
hand-made dolls' clothes suitable for American Girl and other 18 inch dolls.
Volunteers wanted eg we need a spinner volunteer-- so people can watch
us spin yarn.
See a video tour and a virtual tour of the
Cottage
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