Spadina Museum
Restored Edwardian mansion and gardens tracing three generations of a banking family.
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This guide to Spadina Museum in Toronto starts on a hilltop in 1835, where a doctor's wooden house burned down, and follows the families who built on that same rise. You'll meet Dr. William Warren Baldwin, who named the hill from an Ojibwe word, and the banker James Austin, who arrived in 1866 and made an unusual choice about where his own house would stand. Best heard on the front lawn, looking up at the house.
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