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CULTURAL HERITAGE SCREENING REPORT:
CONCRETE SILO, BRONTE ROAD AT HIGHWAY 407
(LOT 30, CONCESSION 1 NDS,
GEOGRAPHIC TOWNSHIP OF TRAFALGAR)
TOWN OF OAKVILLE
FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND ENGINEERING
SERVICES FOR THE NEW PARK AND
RIDE LOT AT BRONTE ROAD & HIGHWAY 407
January 2016
Revised September 2016
Prepared for:
MMM Group Limited
Prepared by:
CULTURAL HERITAGE SCREENING REPORT:
CONCRETE SILO, BRONTE ROAD AT HIGHWAY 407
(LOT 30, CONCESSION 1 NDS
GEOGRAPHIC TOWNSHIP OF TRAFALGAR)
TOWN OF OAKVILLE
FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND
ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE NEW PARK AND
RIDE LOT AT BRONTE ROAD & HIGHWAY 407
January 2016
Revised September 2016
Prepared for:
MMM Group Limited
2655 North Sheridan Way
Mississauga, ON, L5K 2P8
Prepared by:
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
540 Runnymede Road
Toronto, ON, M6S 2Z7
Tel: 416-766-7333
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.0
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
1
2.0
STUDY AREA AND LOCATOR MAP
2
3.0
SCREENING METHOLOGY
3
4.0
THEMATIC HISTORY
4.1
Township of Trafalgar
4.2 Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, Trafalgar Township
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4
6
5.0
SCREENING DATA SHEET
8
6.0
SUMMARY SCREENING TABLE
10
7.0.
SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS
13
SOURCES
LIST OF FIGURES
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Figure 1.
Locator map of the study area located in the southwest quadrant
of Bronte Road and Highway 407 in the Town of Oakville.
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Cultural Heritage Screening Report: Concrete Silo, Bronte Road at Highway 407
(Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, Geographic Township of Trafalgar), Town of Oakville
For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
MMM Group retained Unterman McPhail Associates, Heritage Resource Management
Consultants, to undertake a Cultural Heritage Screening Report (CHSR) on behalf of
Metrolinx for the project Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the
New Park and Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407. Metrolinx is proposing to
introduce a new Park and Ride Lot on Bronte Road in the southeast corner of Highway
407 in the Town of Oakville, Halton Region.
Currently, the study area contains a single tower silo, a remnant of a former 19th century
farm complex, and open land. The concrete masonry structure is located on the west part
of the study area and was once accessed from Bronte Road. The silo structure is
cylindrical in shape and appears to date to the first part of the 20th century. The silo roof
has been removed. Farm silos are common, and characteristic structures on farm
complexes in Ontario and are used for the storage of grain, fermented feed known as
silage and high-moisture grains for livestock feeds.
Given the age and potential cultural heritage value of the silo structure, a CHSR was
requested to determine whether a Cultural Heritage Evaluation Report (CHER) is
required as part of the environmental planning process for this project.
Richard Unterman and Barbara McPhail of Unterman McPhail Associates completed this
CHSR on behalf of Metrolinx. Field survey work was undertaken in October 2015 and
the CHSR was completed in November 2015.
The following table summarizes the screening recommendation for the concrete silo.
Summary of Screening Recommendations
Municipal Address
Recommended outcome
CHER recommendation
Bronte Road and Highway 407
(Lot 30, Con. 1 NDS,
Geographic Township of
Trafalgar)
Town of Oakville
This is a not a Potential
Provincial Heritage Property.
A CHER is not required
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For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Metrolinx retained MMM Group Limited (MMM) to complete the Environmental
Assessment (EA), Preliminary and Detail Design for a New Park and Ride / carpool lot
facility at the southeast corner of the Bronte Road and Highway 407 Interchange (Town
of Oakville, Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario).
This project is following the Transit Project Assessment Process (Ontario Regulation
231/08, Transit Projects and Metrolinx Undertakings), which exempts transit projects
from the requirements of Part II of the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act provided
they are planned in accordance with the regulation.
The proposed Park and Ride lot will have the capacity to accommodate 300 parking
spaces, with the capability for expansion to up to 500 spaces in order to accommodate
future commuter and service growth. A six-bay bus platform with passenger shelters will
be provided at the site. Modifications to the existing northbound to eastbound Highway
407 on-ramp will be needed to allow for better access to the lot.
MMM Group retained Unterman McPhail Associates to undertake the Cultural Heritage
Screening process. The primary objective of the Cultural Heritage Screening is to
determine whether built heritage and/or cultural heritage landscape resources are present
within the study area. The screening is based on a review of historic documents and
maps, stakeholder consultation and observations of site conditions during a site
reconnaissance visit conducted on by Unterman McPhail Associates October 23, 2015.
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Revised September 2016
Cultural Heritage Screening Report: Concrete Silo, Bronte Road at Highway 407
(Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, Geographic Township of Trafalgar), Town of Oakville
For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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STUDY AREA AND LOCATOR MAP
The study area is located north of the community of Palermo on the west side of Bronte
Road (Regional Road 25) in the southeast quadrant of Highway 407 in the Town of
Oakville, Halton Region (Figure 1). Specifically, it is situated on the north half of Lot
30, Concession 1 NDS (North of Dundas) in the geographic Township of Trafalgar. It
includes the proposed lot and area adjacent to the Highway 407 on-ramp.
Figure 1. Locator map of the study area located in the southwest quadrant of Bronte Road and
Highway 407 in the Town of Oakville. The star locates the concrete silo [Mapquest, 2015].
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For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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SCREENING METHODOLOGY
The Cultural Heritage Screening will be conducted in accordance with the Metrolinx
Interim Cultural Heritage Management Process (2013), the Standards and Guidelines for
Conservation of Provincial Heritage Properties, the S&G (2010), the Ontario Heritage
Act, the OHA, and the Metrolinx Consultation Guidance for Cultural Heritage Screening
Reports and Cultural Heritage Evaluation Reports document (February 2014).
The CHSR will include the following scope of work.
− Confirmation of previous heritage studies for the site and their review as
applicable;
− Consultation with local, municipal, and provincial bodies and the federal heritage
register to confirm any cultural heritage significance for the site;
− Conduct a site review of the property from the roadside;
− Review of local histories, historical mapping and aerial photographs as required;
− Prepare a summary site history, and;
− Prepare a recommendation on the requirement of a CHER.
The Interim Metrolinx Interim Cultural Heritage Management Process is guided by
existing regulatory requirements and Metrolinx policies including:
o OHA, and any amendments, and its regulations including the S&G and the S&G
for Consulting Archaeologists;
o GO Transit Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Document;
o Ontario’s Transit Project Assessment Process (TPTP) as outlined in the Ontario
Regulation 231/08 Transit Projects and Metrolinx Undertakings;
o Metrolinx Heritage Protocol; and
o Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act (HRSPA) and its regulations.
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
January 2016
Revised September 2016
Cultural Heritage Screening Report: Concrete Silo, Bronte Road at Highway 407
(Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, Geographic Township of Trafalgar), Town of Oakville
For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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THEMATIC HISTORY
4.1
Township of Trafalgar
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The Nassau District was established in 1788, and was renamed the Home District in
1792. Halton County, with Wentworth County, became part of the Gore District in 1816
and included Trafalgar Township. From 1850 to 1854 the United Counties of Wentworth
and Halton operated together for government purposes, but separately administratively.
Halton County became a separate administrative and government units in 1854.
Dundas Street was laid out as a trail in 1793; in 1806, it was surveyed into the regulation
width roadway. On September 6, 1806, the British government received the land deed for
the land purchased from the Mississauga First Nation. The southern part of Trafalgar
Township, named for the Battle of Trafalgar, was surveyed in the same year and became
known as the Old Survey. Settlement began in 1807.
In 1818, after the purchase of more land from the Mississaugas, the northern boundary of
the Old Survey was extended further north and the survey of the New Survey was
completed. Settlement in the New Survey began soon after 1818. The township
developed from subsistence farming in the early 1800s, to a wheat growing area in the
mid-1800s.
Smith’s Canadian Gazetteer (1846) describes Trafalgar Township as being,
…a well-settled township, containing numerous well cleared and cultivated farms,
most of which have good orchards. The landing general with the exception of that
bordering on the lake…is of excellent quality.1
The local road network was not fully established by 1850; however, Tremaine’s map
shows the north-south concession roads and east-west sideroads as open road allowances
by 1858. Dundas Street became an important east to west transportation route and Second
Line, now Bronte Road, linked Bronte and Milton. It travelled along the sideline between
Lots 30 and 31 and through the village of Palermo. Small villages and hamlets developed
as service centres for the local population at strategic places along the roads and near
watercourses within the developing agricultural landscape of the northwest part of the
township.
The historical hamlet of Hagersville, later renamed Palermo, was established in the early
19th century at the intersection of Dundas Street and Bronte Road. It prospered as a
stagecoach stop for travellers and as a service centre for the surrounding agricultural area.
The first settlers arrived in 1806. A circuit rider for the Methodist Church preached in
Palermo as early as 1808, and by 1812, the first Methodist meetings where held in local
1
Wm. H. Smith, Smith’s Canadian Gazetteer (Toronto: H. & R. Rowsell, 1846) 197.
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Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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homes. In 1818, land was purchased for a Methodist cemetery and for a future meeting
house and schoolhouse as required. The Palermo Chapel was built in 1824.2 The Palermo
post office was opened prior to 1839, sometime around 1835.3 In 1836, the Wesleyan
Methodists acquired the earlier property and the Methodist Episcopalians built a separate
church in Palermo. A schoolhouse was built in 1844. The Lawrence Foundry and
Agricultural Works was established in 1842. By the late 1870s, Palermo was described as
having a population of 300 people. Located on the Second Line, it was a stopping place
between Milton and Bronte. The village included a wagon shop, blacksmith shop, harness
shop, a hotel, a schoolhouse, several churches, a telegraph company and a large drill
shed.4
Wheat was the principal agricultural crop grown in Trafalgar Township prior to 1870.
Fall wheat planting predominated until the 1860s, and then spring wheat became more
important. From the 1850s to the 1890s, there was a consistent increase in the acreage of
cultivated township land. Generally, Ontario farmers, including those in Trafalgar
Township, had diversified to higher cost cash crops and animal husbandry by the later
1870s. The Illustrated Historical Atlas (1877) shows numerous farmsteads with orchards
and describes Trafalgar Township as an area of well-tilled farms, beautiful residences,
with all that constituted a thriving and well-to-do community.
As shown by 20th century topographic mapping, Trafalgar Township remained largely
rural in use and character north of the lakeshore into the latter part of the 20th century
when residential subdivision and development began. By the end of the 20th century,
there has been a noted loss of barns and other agricultural structures in the study area
landscape as the land made a transition from agriculture to other urban uses.
Dundas Street was designated as Provincial Highway 5 in 1920. The Milton to Palermo
Road, now Bronte Road, was designated as Provincial Highway 25 in 1927. Sections of
both highways were downloaded to Halton Region in the late 1990s.
In 1973, part of Trafalgar Township was incorporated into the Town of Oakville in the
newly formed Regional Municipality of Halton.
The toll highway, Highway 407, was opened through the Bronte Road area in 2001 as a
privately owned toll highway.
2
Trafalgar Historical Society, Palermo. Access: --<http://www.tths.ca/palermo.html> (November 2015).
LAC, Philately and Post Office History, Postmasters and Post Offices. Palermo, Halton (Ontario).
Access:--<http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/post-officespostmasters/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3547&> (November 2015).
4
Illustrated Historical Atlas of County of Halton, Ont. (Toronto, Ont.: Walker & Miles, 1877) 59.
3
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Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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North Part Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, Township of Trafalgar
The Tremaine Map (1858) shows John R. Hart, who emigrated from Ireland in 1819,
owned the northern part of Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS in 1858. The Census Return of
1961 records 66 year-old farmer John R. Hart, with his wife Mary (49 years) and their
four children in 1861, John H. Hart (24 years), James W. Hart (21 years), Mary R. Hart
(20 years) and Thomas E. Hart (15 years), lived in a one storey frame house built in 1837.
Hart is noted as the occupant of Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS in 1862.5 John R. Hart died
on December 11, 1866, and is buried in the Palermo Cemetery. The county directory for
1869-70 still includes a listing for John Hart and Thomas E. Hart, both freeholders of
land on Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS.6 The family appears in the Census Return for 1871 as
a household in Trafalgar Township.
The Illustrated Historical Atlas Map depicts John Marshall as the owner of the northern
parts of both Lots 29 and 30, Concession 1 NDS in 1877. A house and an orchard are
depicted on the west side of the property facing the Second Line, now Bronte Road. John
Marshall Jr. was born on June 30, 18447 as the son of John Marshall and Margaret
Archibald who had settled on Lot 33, Concession 2 NDS, Trafalgar Township. John
Marshall Jr. married Deborah Alberta Book in Palermo in 1878.8 Their son John Roy
Marshall was born in 1880. The Census Return for 1891 indicates John and Alberta
Marshall lived with their son John R. Marshall in a two storey, eleven room brick house
with a vacant one storey wood house on the property. In 1894 and 1896, John Marshall
Jr. was noted as a freeholder of Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS.9
The Census Return for 1901 indicates the Marshalls lived in a brick house and owned 75
acres of land on the north part of Lot 26, Concession 1 NDS, not Lot 30. However, a
county directory for 1906 notes John Marshall occupied Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS.10
The topographic maps for 1909, revised 1919, depict a brick house on the north part of
Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, facing onto Bronte Road. In 1911, the Census Return notes
John and Alberta Marshall and their son [John] Roy Marshall as a household in Trafalgar
Township; however, a county directory the same year did not record Marshall as the
5
Robert Warnock, A Sketch of the County of Halton, Canada West (Toronto: 1862) 8.
County of Halton Gazetteer and Directory for 1869-70 (Hamilton: James Sutherland, 1868). 70.
7
AO. Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947 County of Wentworth,
Hamilton, #039591, John Marshall, December 4, 1929.
8
AO. Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, County of Halton, Division of Trafalgar, #003461, John
Marshall, and Alberta Book, January 2, 1878.
9
Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) Farmers’ and Business Directory for the Counties of Halton,
Waterloo and Wellington Vol. X. Ingersoll, Ont.: Union Publishing Company of Ingersoll, 1894) 180; and
Morrey's Business Directory - Halton, Waterloo and Wellington, (Ingersoll: Union Publishing Co., 1896)
180.
10
Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) Farmers’ and Business Directory for the Counties of Halton,
Waterloo and Wellington. Vol. XVI. Ingersoll, Ont.: Union Publishing Company of Ingersoll, 1906) 41.
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Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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owner of the subject property. 11 It appears the Marshalls may have moved into Palermo
after leaving the farmstead, possibly c1911, and later, to Hamilton, Ontario.
The county directory for 1915 notes P. W. Stevenson as the owner of Lot 30, Concession
1 NDS.12 The Guidal Map of 1917 depicts R. [P?] W. Stevenson as the occupant of the
north part of Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS. An aerial photograph of the area dating from
1954 shows the farm complex, including a farmhouse, barn and silo, on the east side of
Bronte Road north of Palermo. Twentieth century topographic maps dating to 1968 and
1978 indicate the farm complex on Bronte Road was demolished before 1978, leaving
only the concrete silo found on the site today. Air photographs from 1995 to 1999 still
show a driveway leading from Bronte Road into the former farm complex site. By 2002,
the Highway 407 ramp and a fence had cut through the driveway blocking access to the
site. From 2002 onwards, air photographs show the driveway disappeared as a distinct
element of the site leaving only the silo as a reminder of the former farm complex. The
fields around the silo have continued in agricultural use.
11
Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) Farmers’ and Business Directory for the Counties Dufferin,
Halton, Peel, Waterloo and Wellington. Vo. XIX, Ingersoll, Ont.: Union Publishing Company of Ingersoll,
1911).
12
Vernon's farmers and business directory for the counties of Dufferin, Halton, Peel, Waterloo &
Wellington for the year 1915 (Hamilton, Ont.: Henry Vernon & Son, 1915) 94.
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Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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SCREENING DATA SHEET
DATA SHEET: Concrete Silo, Bronte Road (RR 25)
FIELD
PROPERTY DATA
Municipal Address:
Southeast corner of Bronte Road at Highway
407
(Lot 30, Con. 1 NDS, Geographic Township of
Trafalgar)
Municipality:
Town of Oakville
Metrolinx/GO Transit Corridor:
N/A
PIN:
249280342
Ownership: [Metrolinx, other government, or
private, and any lease]
Ontario Infrastructure and Lands Corporation
(OILC)
Aerial photo showing location & boundaries
Aerial photograph of the subject property and
the concrete silo [Town of Oakville, 2015].
Exterior, street-view photo
A view of concrete silo [UMCA, Oct. 2015].
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For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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DATA SHEET: Concrete Silo, Bronte Road (RR 25)
FIELD
PROPERTY DATA
Date of construction of built resources (known
or estimated, and source)
The concrete silo appears to have been built in
th
the first half of the 20 century as part of the
former farm complex on the subject property.
Date of significant alteration to built resources
(known or estimated)
The farm complex buildings associated with the
th
silo were demolished in the latter half of the 20
century, possibly 1970s.
Architect/designer/builder (and source)
Unknown
Previous owner(s) or occupants
Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS (North of Dundas
Street) Geographic Township of Trafalgar.
o 1837: John R. Hart, Census Return 1861
records a house built in 1837 on the
property.
o 1858 Tremaine Map: John R. Hart shown as
the owner.
o 1877 Illustrated Historical Atlas: John
Marshall shown as the property owner
o 1906 Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and
business directory: John Marshall shown as
property owner.
o 1917 Guidal Map: R [P]. W. Stevenson
shown as the property owner
Current function
Vacant
Previous function(s)
Silo
Heritage Recognition/Protection (municipal,
provincial or federal)
None identified.
Local Heritage Interest
None identified.
Adjacent lands
Highway 407 borders the property on the north,
Bronte Road (RR 25) to the west, open former
agricultural to the east and to the south, a cell
tower site, and a wooded area and the Vaishno
Devi Temple at 3259-63 Bronte Road.
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SUMMARY SCREENING TABLE
PROPERTY NAME: N/A
MUNICIPAL ADDRESS: Bronte Road (RR 25), no municipal address available (Lot 30, Con. 1
NDS, Geographic Township of Trafalgar) Town of Oakville
METROLINX/GO TRANSIT CORRIDOR: N/A
PIN: 249280342
OWNERSHIP: Ontario Infrastructure and Lands Corporation (OILC)
Screening for Recognized Cultural Heritage Value
Y/N
Explanatory Notes
If the property includes a railway station, is it designated under the
Heritage Railway Protection Act?
N
Not applicable with regard to the
subject built heritage resource.
If the property includes a bridge, is it on the Heritage Bridge List?
N
Not applicable with regard to the
subject built heritage resource.
Is the property federally owned, and is a building on it designated
as a Federal Heritage Building?
N
Not applicable with regard to the
subject built heritage resource.
Is the property provincially owed or occupied, and has it been
identified as a Provincial Heritage Property?
N
Meghan House, Heritage Advisor,
MTCS, Culture Division,
Programs and Services Branch,
Cultural Service Unit
November 12, 2015
Is the property a National Historic Site?
N
The Canadian Register, Canada
Historic Places was reviewed for
the identification of national
historic sites and this site was not
identified. Access: -<http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/p
ages/register-repertoire.aspx>.
Nov. 2015.
Is the property commemorated by the Ontario Heritage Trust?
N
Erin Semande, Ontario Heritage
Act Registrar, Ontario Heritage
Trust, November 12, 2015.
Is the property subject to an Ontario Heritage Trust Conservation
Easement?
N
Erin Semande, Ontario Heritage
Act Registrar, Ontario Heritage
Trust, November 12, 2015.
Is the property municipally designated under the OHA, Part IV?
N
Scott Hannah, Senior Manager,
Current Planning and Heritage
Planning Services, Town of
Oakville, November 11, 2015
Is the property part of a municipally designated Heritage
Conservation District under the OHA, Part V?
N
Scott Hannah, Senior Manager,
Current Planning and Heritage
Planning Services, Town of
Oakville, November 11, 2015
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Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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Screening for Recognized Cultural Heritage Value
Y/N
Explanatory Notes
Is the property listed on a municipal register?
N
Scott Hannah, Senior Manager,
Current Planning and Heritage
Planning Services, Town of
Oakville, November 11, 2015
Has the heritage value of the property been identified or protected
by the municipality through other planning documents, easements
or commemorations (e.g., heritage overlay, official plan provisions,
zoning)?
N
Scott Hannah, Senior Manager,
Current Planning and Heritage
Planning Services, Town of
Oakville, November 11, 2015
Is the subject property recognized or valued by an Aboriginal
community?
N
Not applicable with regard to the
silo, the subject of this CHSR.
Screening for Age
Y/N
Explanatory Notes
Does the property have built resources that appear to be more
than 40 years of age?
Y
The concrete silo, once part of a
farm complex, appears to have
been built during the first half of
the 20th century.
Does the property have landscape features that may have been
created or altered more than 40 years ago?
Y
The property was cleared and
cultivated for agricultural purposes
by the mid 19th century. John R.
Hart had built a house on the
property in 1837. A farmhouse
and orchard are depicted on the
property in the Illustrated
Historical Atlas (1877). Twentieth
century topographic maps (1909,
1931, 1968, 1978 and 1999) show
a farm complex was located on
the subject property until about
the mid 1970s. A 1954 aerial
shows the complex included a
farmhouse, barn, silo and possibly
outbuildings. A silo on the site and
the original field patterns are still
visible remnants of the 19th
century agricultural landscape.
Screening for Potential Cultural Heritage Value or
Interest using Ontario Reg. 9/06
Y/N
Explanatory Notes
Does the property, its built resources or it landscape features,
appear to have significant design value because:
i.
It is a rare, unique, representative or early example of a
style, type, expression, material or construction method,
or
ii.
It displays a high degree of craftsmanship or artistic
merit, or
iii.
It demonstrates a high degree of technical or scientific
achievement?
N
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ii.
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Screening for Potential Cultural Heritage Value or
Interest using Ontario Reg. 9/06
Y/N
Explanatory Notes
Does the property, its built resources or landscape features,
appear to have significant historical or associative value because:
i.
It has a direct association with a theme, event, belief,
person, activity, organization or institution that is
significant to a community or
ii.
It yields or has the potential to yield, information that
contributes to an understanding of a community of
culture, or
iii.
It demonstrates or reflects the work or ideas of an
architect, artist, builder, designer or theorist who is
significant to a community?
N
Does the property, its built resources or its landscape features,
appear to have significant contextual value because,
i.
It is important in defining, maintaining or supporting the
character of an area, or
ii.
It is physically, functionally, visually or historically linked
to its surroundings?
iii.
It is a landmark?
N
ii. The silo is considered to have
limited contextual significance
because it is physically, visually
and historically linked to its
surroundings.
Screening for Adjacency to Protected Properties
Y/N
Explanatory Notes
Is the property adjacent to a designated property under the OHA,
Part IV, a Heritage Conservation District, Part V or a property that
is protected by a heritage easement or covenant?
(Use the definition of adjacency in the municipal official plan, or if
there is none, the definition of adjacency in the Provincial Policy
Statement, 2005.)
N
SCREENING OUTCOMES: Concrete Silo, Bronte
Road (RR 25) at Highway 407
Y/N
Potential Provincial Heritage Property
N
Conditional Heritage Property
N
Adjacent Land to a Protected Heritage Property
N
i.
N/A
ii.
N/A
iii.
N/A
Explanatory Notes
Outcome: The silo on the subject property is not a Potential Provincial Heritage Property.
Documentation attached as appendices: There are no attachments of by-laws, SCHV, plaque
texts or easements relating to existing heritage recognition/protection on the property or adjacent
property.
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
January 2016
Revised September 2016
Cultural Heritage Screening Report: Concrete Silo, Bronte Road at Highway 407
(Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, Geographic Township of Trafalgar), Town of Oakville
For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS
Summary of Screening Recommendations
Municipal Address
Recommended outcome
CHER recommendation
Bronte Road and Highway 407
(Lot 30, Con. 1 NDS,
Geographic Township of
Trafalgar) Town of Oakville
This is a not a Potential
Provincial Heritage Property.
A CHER is not required
.
Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants
January 2016
Revised September 2016
Cultural Heritage Screening Report: Concrete Silo, Bronte Road at Highway 407
(Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, Geographic Township of Trafalgar, Town of Oakville
For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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Ride Lot at Bronte Road & Highway 407
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Heritage Resource Management Consultants
January 2016
Revised September 2016
Cultural Heritage Screening Report: Concrete Silo, Bronte Road at Highway 407
(Lot 30, Concession 1 NDS, Geographic Township of Trafalgar, Town of Oakville
For the Environmental Assessment and Engineering Services for the New Park and
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