The Village at Black Creek

This guide to The Village at Black Creek in Toronto follows Daniel Stong and seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Fisher, who arrived on this forested hundred acres in 1816 and felled trees by hand to raise a squared-log cabin. It traces four generations of the Stong family who kept building here, a barn, a smokehouse, a schoolhouse, a church, through a community that grew far beyond one farm. A listening tip: start at the cabin nearest the entrance, where the story begins.