Save Sam’s Homestead is dedicated to preservation of Colonel Samuel Smith’s homestead site
On Oct. 26, 2010 we learned, from reading the minutes of a June 23, 2010 board meeting, of plans by the Toronto District School Board to to sell its Parkview School property at 85 Forty First Street.
The site includes an open area – the green space in the midle of the photo above – where the archeological remains of the homestead of Colonel Samuel Smith, who lived from 1760 to 1826, are located.
Sometimes the colonel’s year of birth is listed as 1756. In her 1984 archaeological report based on a preliminary survey of the Smith homestead site, however, historic archaeologist Dena Doroszenko offers evidence suggesting 1760 is the more likely year of birth.
Save Sam’s Homestead is a community group formed in response to news of the sale of Parkview School. The name was chosen as the outcome of extensive community consultation.
