History

This Scarborough historical marker, The McCowan Log Home, is located in Thompson Park at Lawrence and Brimley, perhaps familiar to folks who have taken their kids to the playgrounds and other recreational opportunities located in the park.

The Guild, as it came to be known, expanded both the main building, increased the number of outbuildings, increased its holdings to cover 500 acres, and spanned almost two and a half kilometers of coastline along Lake Ontario.

The 800 year old ossuary, or cemetery, was inadvert unearthed when soil was being removed in preparation of an overpass for Highway 401 in 1956.

… a name coined by Scarborough renowned artist Doris McCarthy, sits sedately on a plot of land, now part of the Ontario Heritage Trust, (…). It has become a property used for “Artists in Residence” programs administered by the trust.