Public Notice

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.