Lambton House

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

Back in the 1860s, if you were making the arduous trip west from the town of York (now Toronto) along Dundas Street, one place to stop for the night and have a drink or two was this place, the Lambton House (another is Montgomery's Inn farther west at Islington Avenue). It's located on the north side of what is now Old Dundas Street just before the road crossed the Humber River on a bridge that no longer exists. Today this part of the original Dundas Street is bypassed by the hi-level bridge just to the north. Here's what the 1993 Province of Ontario, City of York and Heritage York plaque has to say:

Plaque coordinates: 43.663075 -79.503658

Lambton House operated as a hotel from its inception, c.1848, until its closing in 1988. Built on Howland land by William Tyrrell to the design of Rowland Burr, it functioned as a stage coach stop and business centre.
William Pearce Howland, who had his mill offices just west of the hotel, was noted for his work as a father of confederation, and served as lieutenant-governor of Ontario from 1868 to 1873.
William Tyrrell, master builder, served 27 years on the council of York and then became first reeve of Weston in 1881.
Rowland Burr, designer and planner, designed a system of canal transportation for southern Ontario.

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