Couple fights to rid Toronto home of heritage status
A couple in an affluent midtown Toronto neighbourhood is asking the city to remove the heritage designation from their century home because they say the original owner was racist.
The two-and-a-half storey, 9,000-square foot house in the Yonge and St. Clair area, was built in 1906 for Stapleton Pitt Caldecott, a former Toronto Board of Trade president who was opposed to immigration, a University of Toronto historian says.
… This $5-million house on Woodlawn Avenue West, in the Yonge and St. Clair area, was commissioned by Stapleton Caldecott in 1906, a man who some believe held anti-immigrant views. He died there the following year.
OMG he was opposed to immigration… “Some believe”. Next.
The couple says they were unaware of the home’s heritage designation. That seems highly unlikely.
No connection to Canada obviously. Ungrateful or what?
h/t Patti Jo
