Baby Point

At the south-west corner of Baby Point Road and Baby Point Crescent can be found a 1949 plaque erected jointly by the York Pioneer and Historical Society, the Municipal Corporation and the Board of Education of the Township of York. Here's what it says:

This area includes the site of Taiaiagon Iroquois Village at the foot of the Toronto Carrying Place (Le Portage de Toronto). This way passed Étienne Brûlé, first white man to see Lake Ontario, 1615; René Robert Cavelier de la Salle, explorer of the Mississippi 1680 and 1681; John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, 1793. These lands now known as Baby Point were purchased by Honourable James Baby, member of the Legislative and Executive Councils, 1820.

Location Co-ordinates: 43.657231 -79.493959

Photo by Alan L Brown - July 2007

Related page from my 'Ontario's Historical Plaques' website:
James Baby 1763-1833

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