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Toronto’s Tollkeeper’s Cottage
Art Cox’s 1875 painting shows the cottage collecting tolls on Davenport Road
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A Humble Home
Built in the 1830s, this structure housed multiple tollkeeper families over the years
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The Families Who Lived Here
Including John Bulman (1861) and others like Frances McCegue, Moses Hanna, and Thomas Brown
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Art Cox’s 1875 Painting
Color version of this rare depiction by local artist Arthur Cox
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Restored to 1861
Furnished with period artifacts including some from the Bulman family and other 19th century pieces
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Meet Our Costumed Docents
Experience daily life as it was for Toronto’s early tollkeeping families
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A Living History Site
One of Toronto’s few surviving examples of early municipal architecture
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Visit the Tollkeeper’s Cottage
Open February-December
Saturdays 12-5pm & first Sunday each month 1-4pm