Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum
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Michael Mulligan
Feb 1st, 2022 -
Andres Watson
Aug 3rd, 2021 -
Maliha Qureshi
Aug 18th, 2020 -
borick
Jan 3rd, 2020 -
tycoon kaiser khan
Apr 28th, 2020
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Questions & Answers
Q Where is Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum located?
A Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum is located at 750 Davenport Rd, Toronto, ON M6G 2B3
Q What is the internet address for Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum?
A The website (URL) for Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum is: http://www.tollkeeperscottage.ca/
Q What days are Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum open?
A Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum is open:
Friday: Closed
Saturday: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Q How is Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum rated?
A Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum has a 4.8 Star Rating from 12 reviewers.
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Tollkeepers' Cottage Museum
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Andres Watson on Google
I helped found the cottage with my mother originally.
They were very receptive to that.
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Maliha Qureshi on Google
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borick on Google
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tycoon kaiser khan on Google
The first tollkeeper's cottage was built in 1820, at the corner of Yonge and King streets, when that intersection was on the outskirts of York, Upper Canada. The tollkeeper system was retired in 1896.
In 1993 what had been tollhouse number 3, one of five tollhouses on Davenport Road was rediscovered. It had been moved, and repurposed, and was about to be demolished. After a long period of restoration it was turned into a museum, and turned into the centerpiece of a park, near its original location, at the corner of Davenport Road and Bathurst Street.
John Allemang, writing in The Globe and Mail, contrasted the poverty of working class citizens, as documented by the cottage, to the luxury of the rich, as documented by two nearby former mansions, Casa Loma and Spadina House, now open to the public. Allemang wrote:
For visitors not entranced by the history of tolls or roads, by the lost stories of the city's French roots, or the shameful betrayals of the Mississauga Indians who once lived here, the cottage can offer up a revealing picture of lower-class existence in 19th-century Toronto. If Casa Loma and Spadina House on the brow of the escarpment represent the aristocratic Upstairs, the tollkeeper's three-room house, with unheated bedrooms where children would sleep three to a bed, is all too clearly Downstairs.
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