I got out for a few hours on Sunday morning before it got too humid. 🥵 I first detected this site in 2012, this property is now in the process of being developed for residential housing. The old barns will likely be coming down this week… I feel bad for all the birds that have used this barn as their home over the years. Detecting was a challenge here due to the amount of trash in the ground, as this house has been continuously occupied from 1850 until 2009. Nothing too exciting in the finds category, a suspender part, a flat button and a square silver-plated ‘what’s-it’. I thought the bricks looked old, so I brought a couple home and will re-purpose them in our back garden. 
Thanks very much for looking,
Dave
Ontario Paving Brick Company - Toronto
Original Location: Part of the brick and tile industry located along Weston Road between St. Clair and Eglinton Avenues, which began in 1856 with the coming of the Grand Trunk Railway. The east side of Weston Road, south of Rogers Road, roughly opposite the block between Cayuga and Seneca Avenues. The CN rail line is behind it to the east. In Canada, brickmaking in an open yard was not a year-round activity. The season in Toronto usually opened in late April each year, once the local sand and heavy clay were workable and the days were dry and sunny enough for the bricks to air dry for several days before they were fired.
This company went into production in 1894 and in 1906 was still the only paving brick company in the province. The paving brick was used in the construction of the Union Stock Yards, which was entirely brick paved. It was used between the tracks of the Toronto Street Railway lines and for brick paving throughout the city. The company’s gray building brick was also used in stockyards construction. In 1902, William Pears, former Mayor of Toronto Junction (1894/95) was elected president of the company. He also became general manager. Mr. Pears lost all his property and business interests in the Depression of the 1930s. Although technically in York Township at the time, the company is described in directories and publications as being in Toronto Junction.
The first and only factory of its type in the province at the turn of the century gives it importance. In 1906, the company produced five million paving bricks and four million building bricks per year, along with an undisclosed number of sewer and sidewalk bricks.
Map Included: The 1899 Goad’s Atlas of Toronto shows the extensive brick fields of Carlton West and York Township. In 1906, the Might’s Directory of the Toronto Junction listed eight brick makers in the area. Richard Maxted worked for Titley & Frost, the brickmaker closest to McRoberts. It was just on the other side of the railroad tracks, at St. Clair, west of Campbell Avenue (now Prescott).
Thanks very much for looking,
Dave
Ontario Paving Brick Company - Toronto
Original Location: Part of the brick and tile industry located along Weston Road between St. Clair and Eglinton Avenues, which began in 1856 with the coming of the Grand Trunk Railway. The east side of Weston Road, south of Rogers Road, roughly opposite the block between Cayuga and Seneca Avenues. The CN rail line is behind it to the east. In Canada, brickmaking in an open yard was not a year-round activity. The season in Toronto usually opened in late April each year, once the local sand and heavy clay were workable and the days were dry and sunny enough for the bricks to air dry for several days before they were fired.
This company went into production in 1894 and in 1906 was still the only paving brick company in the province. The paving brick was used in the construction of the Union Stock Yards, which was entirely brick paved. It was used between the tracks of the Toronto Street Railway lines and for brick paving throughout the city. The company’s gray building brick was also used in stockyards construction. In 1902, William Pears, former Mayor of Toronto Junction (1894/95) was elected president of the company. He also became general manager. Mr. Pears lost all his property and business interests in the Depression of the 1930s. Although technically in York Township at the time, the company is described in directories and publications as being in Toronto Junction.
The first and only factory of its type in the province at the turn of the century gives it importance. In 1906, the company produced five million paving bricks and four million building bricks per year, along with an undisclosed number of sewer and sidewalk bricks.
Map Included: The 1899 Goad’s Atlas of Toronto shows the extensive brick fields of Carlton West and York Township. In 1906, the Might’s Directory of the Toronto Junction listed eight brick makers in the area. Richard Maxted worked for Titley & Frost, the brickmaker closest to McRoberts. It was just on the other side of the railroad tracks, at St. Clair, west of Campbell Avenue (now Prescott).
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