Vintage Caledon is a virtual museum and archive of the architecture, landscapes, people, ancestral roots here and abroad, and stories and lore of Caledon, Ontario, Canada and MeetUps and Popups posted and hosted by Caledon Heritage Foundation and our Heritage Partners

Thursday, May 29, 2014
Leave Caledon Community Complex at 9:00 am sharp
Tickets: $40 each
Includes morning snack and lunch at Spirit Tree Cidery
Reserve tickets by calling Fay at 519-927-5370 or emailing Fay at f.mccrea@sympatico.ca
A fundraising project for Caledon Heritage Foundation

3rd annual Caledon Heritage Foundation Bus Tour
May 16, 2013
Hosts and Historians:  Fay McCrea and Heather Broadbent
Featuring:  Heritage Landscapes throughout the Town of Caledon

CHF is pleased to provide the  outdoor large event tent for the St. Andrew's Stone Church Scottish Afternoon on June 22, 2013 beginning at Noon.  A great event is planned by the Friends of St. Andrew's.

CHF IS PLEASED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE RE-LOCATION OF THE CALEDON EAST ORANGE LODGE.
The Orange Lodge has been dismantled and is awaiting re-construction near the Town Hall in Caledon East.

Below are some pictures which were taken during demolition.

3rd annual Caledon Heritage Foundation Bus Tour
May 16, 2013
Hosts and Historians:  Fay McCrea and Heather Broadbent
Featuring:  Heritage Landscapes throughout the Town of Caledon

Tour will commence at 9:00 a.m. from Caledon Community complex and hopefully returning by 3:30 p.m.

Morning Snack and Break approx. 10:30 a.m. (tba) with a possible slide show of some landscape features no longer visible or accessible.

Lunch will be approx. 12:30 p.m. at Spirit Tree Estate Cidery on Boston Mills Road (compliments of John Grogan).

This year will be a slightly different tour giving an overview of how Caledon evolved, and the special features in this area – the Niagara Escarpment, the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Peel plain.

We will be explaining how and when this area was surveyed and the measurements and instruments used to accomplish this.

Grand brick houses were built in the Chinguacousy area as a result of successful wheat farmers, stone houses where stone was readily available, stone fences, cedar rail fences, rock and red clay formations, etc.

We will not actually be going into any buildings – it will be just a lovely relaxed ride in an air conditioned coach on a glorious spring day while you hear an explanation of what you are actually seeing!!

Sound like fun?

Tickets $35 each.

Please call or email.

We promise it will be a memorable day!!

Fay 519 927 5370, Heather 905 951 3571
f.mccrea@sympatico.ca 

Last year’s tour sold out quickly, so please make your reservation soon!

Kerr Log House circa 1840

The Kerr Log House has been dismantled from its site of origin on and is in storage awaiting its reconstruction and new life at  at Albion Hills Community Farm as a place for learning.  This is a project that requires the cooperation of Town of Caledon, Caledon Heritage Foundation, Albion Hills Community Farm, and Toronto Region Conservation Authority.

A Brief Summary

• The Kerr Log House is one of a small number of 1840s squared log, two storey houses left in Caledon
• It was dismantled and donated to the Town in 2001
• Since being dismantled it has been stored under tarpaulins in Public Works Yard 3
• Once reconstructed, the house merits designation under the provisions of the Ontario Heritage Act
• In 2007, the Caledon Heritage Foundation retained ERA Architects to conduct a Redevelopment Feasibility Study
• As reported to Council, the Redevelopment Feasibility Study recommended that the Kerr Log House be reconstructed on the Town Hall campus in Caledon East for use as a multi-purpose public facility
• The preferred site for the Kerr Log House was subsequently allocated for the new OPP station, requiring the Caledon Heritage Foundation to explore other options
• In April 2011, because of concerns about the condition of the logs in storage, Tony Jenkins, Restoration Contractor, inspected the logs and he reported that there had been no significant deterioration in their condition
• Late in 2011 discussions commenced regarding reconstruction of the Kerr Log House at the Albion Hills Community Farm on Toronto Region Conservation Authority lands
• In the spring of 2012, the Albion Hills Community Farm board approved support for using Kerr Log House as the farm house at Albion Hills Community Farm
• Also in the spring 2012, the Caledon Heritage Foundation board approved a motion to recommend to Caledon Council that ownership of the Kerr Log House be transferred from the Town to Toronto Region Conservation Authority for use of the building by Albion Hills Community Farm as its farm residence
• With the transfer of ownership, the Town will have no financial obligations in either the reconstruction process or ongoing maintenance of the Kerr Log House
• The costs for reconstruction and ongoing maintenance will be born by Caledon Heritage Foundation (engineering and reconstruction) and Albion Hills Community Farm (reconstruction and ongoing maintenance).