Toronto Municipal Farm for Men opened at Falstaff (now Thornhill) in 1912 (85/96)
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we had relatives that lived across the road from here
Thank you for sharing! Would like to know more.
it was a minimum security facility for inebriates, first offenders, and petty criminals, an alternative to the dreaded Don Jail. But in 1913, and for years afterwards in the memory of local residents, it was simply “The Jail Farm.””
Was that on Bayview hwy 7 area ? I remember a building there with a guard tower
I think that was an old pow camp we use to mess around in the old building
I grew up on Duncan Rd in the early 70’s. It was the northern border of The Jail Farm. At the time, it was no longer a jail, but it was still owned by the city of Toronto and leased to the Turtleberry family. We used to jump the fence regularly and swipe corn for corn roasts and occasionally get chased by Mr. Turtleberry who often carried a 12g shotgun on his tractor loaded with saltshot and he had no problem with blasting a kids behind with a cartridge. That stuff stung!
That sounds like a Beatrix Potter story. 🤣🤣
lol, I rember the farmer and the corn roast field parties…
My Grandfather, Orville Bellamy, was hired to work at the Jail Farm to look after the boilers sometime around 1945. At that time he moved north from Toronto to a nearby property on Birch Avenue, on the eastern portion of Birch which is divided by a ravine. The immediate area was known as Richvale. I was lucky enough to have access to the Jail Farm property in 1980 to wander and take pictures.