THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON
BY-LAW NUMBER 86-1995
A By-law to designate property known as 1222 Richmond Road, Plan 99, Part Lots 49 and 55, in the City of Burlington, in the Regional Municipality of Halton, as property having historical and architectural value and interest pursuant to the Ontario Heritage Act.
WHEREAS by Section 29(6)(a) of the Ontario Heritage Act, R. S. O. 1990, chapter 0.18, as amended, the Council of a municipality shall pass a by-law designating property to be of historical and architectural value and interest where no Notice of Objection to the designation has been served on the City Clerk within thirty days after the date of first publication of the Notice of Intention to Designate in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality;
AND WHEREAS Notice of Intention to Designate 1222 Richmond Road was published in a local newspaper and served on the owners of the property and on the Ontario Heritage Foundation by registered mail;
AND WHEREAS the reasons for the said designation are set out in Schedule “A” attached hereto and forming part of this by-law;
AND WHEREAS no Notice of Objection was served on the City Clerk of the City of Burlington.
NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON HEREBY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. THAT 1222 Richmond Road, more particularly described in Schedule “B” attached hereto and forming part of this by-law, be designated as being of architectural and historical value and interest.
2. THAT the City Clerk be directed to cause a Notice of this by-law to be published in a local newspaper having general circulation in the municipality.
3. THAT the City Clerk be directed to cause a certified true copy of this by-law to be served upon the owners of 1222 Richmond Road and the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
4. THAT this by-law shall take effect on the date of its registration in the Land Registry Office for the Land Registry Division of Halton (No. 20).
ENACTED AND PASSED this 14th day of August, 1995.
MAYOR: ______________________________________
CITY CLERK: __________________________________
SCHEDULE “A”
REASONS FOR
DESIGNATION
1222 Richmond
Road
Registered in 1869 as part of James McMurray’s Brant Farm subdivision, this property was sold in that year to Benjamin Eager, the lumber king. Eager removed the timber and drained the swamp along what was then called the Sand Road, producing the sandy loam that was to become the most productive farm land in all of Canada. This vernacular-style brick farmhouse was built in 1874 for Joseph Collinson. It was later owned by Vickers Henry Peart, an early postmaster in Burlington. In Martha Craig’s The Garden of Canada (1902), it is illustrated as one of three Maple Avenue residences owned by members of the Babcock family. The house has been re-oriented so that the north side elevation, with its centre gable with decorative ‘gingerbread’ bargeboard above an arched window, is now the front elevation on Richmond Road. This well-preserved house is a landmark reminder of the architectural heritage of a century of prosperous farming along Maple Avenue.
SCHEDULE “B”
DETAILED
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
1222 RICHMOND
ROAD
ALL AND SINGULAR that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate, lying and being in the City of Burlington, in the Regional Municipality of Halton and being composed of part of Lot Number Forty-nine according to Plan of Survey known as Brant’s Block and registered in the Registry Office for the Registry Division of Halton as Plan Number 99 and which may be more particularly described as follows, that is to say:
COMMENCING at the south angle of Lot 49 where it intersects the easterly limit of Maple Avenue as shown on Deposit #1924, thence continuing northwesterly along the easterly limit of Maple Avenue a distance of 126.66 feet to a solid iron bar; thence easterly two hundred and sixty-seven and eighty-one one-hundredths feet (267.81’) along the southeastern limit of Richmond Road as opened by By-law #1210 (Nelson) which is the point of commencement.
THENCE southeasterly at right angles to the aforesaid southeastern limit of Richmond Road sixty-two feet to a point;
THENCE northeasterly parallel with the southeastern limit of Richmond Road, 10 feet to a point;
THENCE southeasterly at right angles to the aforesaid southeastern limit of Richmond Road, fifty-eight feet more or less to a point in the southeastern limit of the aforesaid Lot Number Forty-nine, the said point being distant two hundred and thirty-seven feet three and three-quarter inches measured northeasterly along the southeastern limit of Lot Number Forty-nine from a stone monument planted at the most southern corner thereof;
THENCE southwesterly along the southeastern limit of Lot Number Forty-nine, seventy-seven feet nine and three-quarter inches more or less to a point;
THENCE northwesterly at right angles to the southeastern limit of Richmond Road one hundred and twenty feet to a point in the aforesaid southeastern limit of Richmond Road.
THENCE northeasterly along the southeastern limit of Richmond Road, sixty-seven feet nine and three-quarter inches more or less to the place of beginning.
AS DESCRIBED in Instrument Number 527462.