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Diefenbaker family home in Todmorden, Ontario

Numbers 388, 386 Don Mills Road, Todmorden, Ontario. Diefenbaker family lived there from 1901 to 1903. Hand written identification on back of photo. At bottom of photo is typed: "Mrs. Ash of Toronto was in Saskatoon and came to Prince Albert to leave this picture with someone who would deliver it to you. It is a picture of the second home of the Diefenbaker family in Todmorden. They lived on the right-hand side. On the back it says the family lived there from 1902-1910, but this is incorrect; they lived there from 1901-1903. Picture was taken in 1905." On back is written: "386 and 388, the houses shown on the other side were torn down about 1950. In their stead and to the rear were built apartments, three stories in height. In 1967, they were still apartments there, immediately south of the Ina Gage Grafton Home. 386 and 388 Don Mills Road, Todmorden about 1905. Don Mills Road was later named North Broadview Avenue as far north as O'Connor Drive. Todmorden was incorporated into East York in 1925. For a short time the Diefenbaker family lived at 388. Don Mills Road (sometime between 1903 and 1910). Correct 1901-1903 Jonny was a very young school boy at the time, probably about eight years of age. His father was principal of (Donlands Public School) The Plains School, later named Donlands situated among the market gardens a mile or so East of Don Mills Road. - In 1976, the name of the former Prime Minister of Canada was bestowed upon the school, that is, the Diefenbaker Public School. The people shown at 386 never rose to fame. They are Mrs. C. F. Ash, wife of the Manager of the Don Valley Paper Mills; her sister, Miss Minnie Scott; her niece (distant cousin of Toronto's Mayor Bert Wemp) Lillian Wemp; her daughter, Edna A. Ash. The dog is Minto, a Dalmation, expressed along with Sport, from Newburgh, Ontario, by Mr. John Scott. On the left, at the rear of the house, are hop vines grown for shade. On the right is a patch of rhubarb and the pump from which three families got excellent drinking water."

Veteran's Land Act

Map, "State of Settlement Veteran's Land Act, Saskatchewan", in file 1724-B, Ottawa, unknown date.

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