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Annie Maria Farndale
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Ontario,
Canada
1889
Annie Maria Farndale,
daughter of John George and Elizabeth (nee Sanderson) Farndale (FAR00337), was born in York, Ontario, Canada on 25 October 1889. (Letter)
1891
1891 Census of Canada - Etobicoke, York West,
Ontario
John G Farndle,
52, a farm labourer, methodist
Elizabeth Farndle, 39
Charles Farndle,
10
George Farndle,
8
Albert Farndle,
7
Mark Farndle,
5
Martha T Farndle,
3
Anne M Farndle, 1
Jonathan Farr, 25, domestic
Sarah B Farr, 22, his wife
1920
Annie Maria Farndale, married Dan Kirk and lived
at Huttonville, Ontario.
(Letter). Annie Maria
Farndale, 30, daughter of George G Farndale and Elizabeth Sanderson Farndale,
married Thomas Ernest Kirk at Peel, Ontario on 30 June 1920.
Nestled in the Credit
Valley is the hamlet of
Huttonville, at the corner of Mississauga
Road and Queen Street/Embleton Road in the City of Brampton. Until just a few
years ago, it retained a splendid isolation from the suburban
frontier, several kilometres west of urbanized Brampton and north of the
sprawling business parks in northwest Mississauga. As such, Huttonville
maintained its historic character until quite recently, despite the addition of
a 1970s exurban subdivision on its north side.
When I was growing up in
Brampton, our family would visit one of the many apple orchards for
“pick-your-own” apples, which featured a tractor wagon ride. There were also
strawberry and raspberry fields that also had popular “pick-your-own” seasons.
But during the last five
years, residential and industrial sprawl crept ever closer to the historic
community, to the point that Mississauga Road and Queen Streets are now both
being widened, and the remaining farms nearby have those telltale white development
notice signs posted in front. Huttonville will likely
retain some of its historic character, but
will be lost in a sea of tract houses and big box shopping.
Huttonville was first settled in the
1820s, and was known as such names as “the Wolf’s Den“,
“Bully Hollow” and Brown’s Mills, after the last name of the founder of a grist
mill there. In 1855, a James Hutton bought the mills and renamed the
settlement Hutton’s Mills; the establishment of a post office decided the
permanent name, Huttonville.
Huttonville United Church, on a still-rural Embleton
Road The
apple orchards that once dominated this area are disappearing The
Reid Farmhouse
The Beatty Farmhouse, prior
to demolition Cleve
View Farm, on Mississauga Road north of Huttonville . How much longer will it last?
Like nearby
Churchville, Huttonville had its own
volunteer fire station, until it was closed last year when a fire hall
staffed by a professional crew opened nearby, closing both. Huttonville
still has a rural elementary school and a church on Embleton Road. Nearby are
several nursery greenhouses (the last gasp of Brampton’s once-dominant
greenhouse industry) and apple orchards.
The most interesting
landmark is the former McMurchy Woolen Mill and generating station. The mill is
boarded up, yet most of the rooftop signage remains intact. The dam and
reservoir that powered the mill was also tapped to provide hydro-electricity
to the community and to nearby Brampton, a busy railway and industrial town.
As elsewhere in Toronto’s
suburban frontier, the landscape is littered with vacant houses; exurban ranch
houses from the 1950s and 1960s, and old Victorian and Edwardian farmhouses.
Most of these vacant homes are demolished to make way for new subdivisions and
industrial parks, or because they stand in the way of road widening schemes.
Two late Victorian
farmhouses in the Huttonville area experienced very
different fates. The Reid Farmhouse,
which sat on Mississauga Road, facing west since 1894, was moved to a new
location, facing east on
Royal West Drive, a new residential street. The relocation
was to make way for a Wal-Mart and Home Depot. The plan is to restore the
farmhouse as a private residence, next to new single-family houses on
a residential street.
The Beatty farmhouse,
built in 1897, was located on
Steeles Avenue west of Mississauga Road. Last year, the local
heritage board fought for its preservation, as it sat on land designated for
industrial uses. The developer offered the house to the city, and secured
the perimeter to keep out vandals, squatters and arsonists. But,
unfortunately, the house was demolished in
December last year, as the city refused to cover the costs of moving and
maintaining it.
Like nearby
Churchville, Huttonville boasted its own
volunteer fire hall, both since replaced by a new professionally-staffed fire
station to the south on Mississauga Road.
Saskatchewan
1936
Died Annie Maria Kirk, 419
Ninth Street, Saskatchewan died in 1936 and obituary on 7 November 1936.