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save pioneer home near new mall the tribune may 17 1973 3a start to talk about the old scott house on progress avenue u scarborough a solid throestorey fieldstooe built in 1 and before you know it youre deep into just about the whole history of the borough with its crisscrossing marriages between the thompsons the purdies the pattersons the mccowans and many more the house is the only original structure still standing in the area and barely survived the building of the adjoining scarborough town centre it stands just to the north of the rerouted progress avenue a tranquil oasis between the rushing highway 401 and the bustling activity of supply trucks and builders and shop owners preparing for the may 2 opening of the centre which will have more than 130 stores the owner of the house now is the t eaton co which with simp sons and miracle marl is a prominent tenant in the new centre eatons want to save the house from destruction and are reviewing a variety of uses for it which would preserve its character yet allow it to perform a useful function george scott who built the house im migrated from dornach parish in dumfriesshire southwest scotland a hilly farming county on the border with england and the home of robbie burns and thomas carlyle like his an cestors he was a farmer and may have fled to the comparative peace of upper canada because of the frequent clashes back home he was able to hire good craftsmen to build the house and to fill it with curlymaple fur niture cut from his own bush apparently no one survives of george scotts progeny largely because they were not expecially the marrying kind george who died in 1865 at the age of 70 had six children only one of whom francis 1832- 1901 married two died in infancy a girl died at age 17 and john 18411914 and helen 18431890 never married then francis or uncle frank as he is still remembered by some married elizabeth lambie 18421917 and had five children but again two died in infancy and only one married george 18691939 he and his wife margaret jane bell 18711950 apparently had only one son alan of whom there is no record alan is believed to have married but had no children he moved away and is thought to have died in the 1950s the last of the line the other children of uncle frank were the last of the family to occupy the scott house margaret born in 1870 who died in 1941 and her younger sister agnes 18771943 neither of them married but mrs jennie mccowan remembers that they had adopted a brother and sister fror the childrens aio society len and dorothy jenkins when agnes died the house went to their adopted children and as far as mrs mc cowan knuws dorothy married and moved away and len sold the property in 1952 to a mr lou sherry and moved to brilidsh columbia mr sherry lived in the house for a time then sold it to the late ernest ridout a real estate man even tually it passed to mrs zena bomba thence to eatons mrs bomba still lives there with her daughter yvonne a map of scar borough for 1860 shows that the land now oc cupied by the scar borough town centre was owned by george scott another map dated 1878 which was 13 years after george died shows it registered in the names of frank and john georges two surviving sons while below ellesmere directly south is another 100 acres in the name of frank the maps are interesting because they also record the properties of the secors and thompsons and john bushby after whose family by the way one of thenew streets leading to the shopping mall was named mrs mccowan was born janet purdie in a general store run by her father at markham road and sheppard avenue she always called it the third concession i remember margaret scott and uncle john scott she says margaret belonged to the womens institute and was president of the agincourt branch just after world war i mrs mccowan prizes a picture taken in 1911 of st andrews old girls showing maggie scott as margaret was always called and her sister agnes and mrs geordie george scott another photo taken in 1910 shows about 40 members of the st andrews church all of whom were children when the church still standing was built in 1849 and prominent among the bearded men in the back row is john scott son of the patriarch who is 80 visited the girls frequently and has a gift from then pillowcases on which they had crocheted the initial h her maiden name was heron it was a fine old house she says full of lovely china and silver the girls had enough to live com fortably they had a horse and buggy early in the century and after the first world war they drove a ford twoseater they enjoyed company and many remember the large well furnished living room which stretches from front to back of the house with two windows at either end ideal for en tertaining there was a croquet lawn to the north of the house and mrs mccowan was one of the ladies in white dresses who played there she remembers the scott girls had nice gowns and early in the century when she visited there the hospitality was great tais 3 cars trucks stationwagons for reservation or free pickup phone 2944302 conlin motors markham hwy 7 markham yardpower for the man who takes more pride in his lawn the scott residence built in 1841 borders on the scarborough town centre north of progress avenue it is the desire of the t eaton co to preserve the house and its character yet allow it to perform some useful function a big or sma ca allischalmers has them all call in today we have sales parts service jordan welding equipment balsam 6492575 get the most for your money datsun sports truck head down the road with a full load of all the best features a pickup can have see dean for datsun ean watson auto sales authorized dattun dealer uxbridge 8526332 and uncle to the spinster sisters mrs mccowan s family gave their names to mccowan road now 77 she vividly recalls that the stand of trees which lias been preserved on the north side of ellesmere avenue just below the new scarborough civic centre was always referred to as scotts bush the developers scarborough shopping centre ltd managed to preserve a stand of seven acres of the bush so that the mature trees could lend a rustic touch to the modern shopping com plex mrs mccowan remembers too that the scott house was always surrounded by trees and many people have told her that they never saw it until recently when the new road was put through it was so buried in the woods miss elspeth newell was a good friend of margaret and agnes in 1939 the scott girls gave her the crane cut of their summer kitchen a black iron bar which miss newell installed in her cottage in two years it will be a century old margaret told her which is how it is known that the scott house was built in 1841 the sisters apparently left no written record of their family or property mrs jean hunter call arrow for your extra trucks hourly daily weekly pickups panels s 12 x 20 vans with tailgates tractors trailers available at low rates markham supertest service 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