Scadding Cabin

Scadding Cabin was built around 1794 for John Scadding, who served as estate manager for John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, on land near the Don River that Simcoe had granted him. The simple log cabin is generally recognized as the oldest surviving building within the City of Toronto, predating most of the town of York's early formal construction by only a few years.

Saved by relocation

As the city grew and threatened the cabin's original site, the York Pioneer and Historical Society arranged to move the structure to the Exhibition Place grounds in 1879, preserving it as a historical exhibit rather than letting it be demolished for development. It has remained on the CNE grounds ever since, maintained as a small museum piece and one of the few physical links to Toronto's very earliest settlement years still standing in the city today.

Sources

• York Pioneer and Historical Society — Scadding Cabin
• Wikipedia — Scadding Cabin

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