IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO
HERITAGE ACT
R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER O.18 AND
CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
4150 YONGE STREET
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO DESIGNATE
THE PROPERTY
TAKE NOTICE that Council for the
City of Toronto intends to designate the property, including the lands, buildings
and structures thereon known municipally as 4150 Yonge Street under Part IV,
Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.18, as amended, as a
property of cultural heritage value or interest.
Reasons for Designation
The property at 4150 Yonge Street is worthy of
designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for its
cultural heritage value and meets Regulation 9/06, the provincial criteria for
municipal designation.
Description
The subject property at 4150 Yonge Street is
located on the west side of Yonge Street, north of Wilson Avenue, within the
York Mills neighbourhood of North York. Constructed circa 1860, the property
contains a pair of single-storey vernacular Ontario Cottage style workers
cottages that were relocated to their present location between 1985 and 1987.
The subject buildings were residential until their relocation, and have since
1987 operated as a restaurant, featuring a contemporary addition at the rear and
are today connected by a single-storey link.
Statement of Cultural Heritage Value
Design and Physical Value
The property at 4150 Yonge Street has design and
physical value as the two workers cottages are representative examples of the
vernacular Ontario Cottage style within the community of York Mills. The
Ontario Cottage style was a Regency-inspired vernacular style prevalent
throughout Southern Ontario in the nineteenth century. At its simplest form,
the style is comprised of a single-storey, hipped- or side-gable roof house
with a symmetrical front façade comprising a single door flanked by windows.
The cladding material (brick, stone, or wood board), and the extent of
ornamentation, reflected both local conditions and materials, and the economic
means of the builder and/or inhabitant. Both workers cottages located on the
subject property maintaining their single-storey massing, symmetrical front
façade, and side-gable roof. The 1985-1987 relocation and rehabilitation of
both structures restored period-appropriate features and elements of the
design, including the roughcast cladding, wood window and door trim work,
shutters, cedar shake roof, and stone foundation.
Historical and Associative Value
The property at 4150 Yonge Street has historical
and associative value as it has direct associations with the Hogg family of
York Mills, being two of the three workers cottages that were constructed on
the Hogg’s Hollow Subdivision Plan that was filed by John and William Hogg in
1856. While the plan of subdivision was ultimately not successful, it
represented a period of development and vision on the part of the Hogg family
for the growth of York Mills, and the two remaining workers cottages are
representative of the optimism and development of York Mills in the
mid-nineteenth century.
The preservation of the two cottages as part of
the office park project in the 1980s undertaken by Cadillac Fairview and London
Life, including their rehabilitation for commercial use, was a significant
development at the time and evidence of their value to the community of York
Mills and North York as they reflect the neighbourhood’s milling and industrial
history, as well as serve as reminders of the working class history and
residents that lived in York Mills from the nineteenth and through the twentieth
century.
Heritage Attributes
Design and Physical Value
Attributes that contribute to 4150 Yonge Street
being a representative example of the vernacular Ontario Cottage style:
·
The scale, form, and
massing of the subject buildings, containing two formerly detached
single-storey house form buildings located west of Yonge Street on the south
side of a private road
·
The low-pitched
side-gable roofs with cedar shake shingles, each with a brick chimney
protruding from the western side of their roof peaks
·
The symmetrical
arrangement of the front façades, comprised of two two-over-two wood frame
windows on either side of a simple single front door
·
The wood front doors
at centre, both set within simple wood door frames and below rectangular
transom windows
·
The roughcast stucco
cladding on both structures and on all visible facades
·
The exposed stone
foundations
·
The deep side-gable
overhangs on the north and south facades
·
The "ell"
extension extending from the rear (south) of the former 26 John Street, with
covered porch and a shed roof extending from a cross gable roof punctured by
two brick chimneys
·
The east façade of
the former 26 John Street facing towards Yonge Street, with a single off-centre
six-over-six hung wood window within a wooden window frame
·
The west façade of
the former 22 John Street, with returned eaves and roughcast cladding
·
The “ell” extension
extending from the rear (south) of the former 22 John Street, with cross gable
roof punctured by a brick chimney at the roof peak
* The stone addition extending from the rear of
both houses and the link connecting the two front facades are not identified as
heritage attributes
Notice of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate
Notice of an objection to the Notice of
Intention to Designate the Property may be served on the City Clerk, Attention:
Registrar Secretariat, City Clerk's Office, Toronto City Hall, 2nd Floor West,
100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N2.; Email: RegistrarCCO@toronto.ca within thirty (30) days
of June 26, 2026, which is July 27, 2026. The notice of objection to the Notice
of Intention to Designate the Property must set out the reason(s) for the
objection and all relevant facts.
Getting Additional Information:
Further information in respect of the Notice of
Intention to Designate the Property is available from the City of Toronto at:
https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.PH31.15.
Dated at the City of Toronto on June 26, 2026.
John D. Elvidge
City Clerk