Seasons Greetings Friends and Neighbours!  Our limited edition 2025 Baby Point Heritage Foundation Wall Calendar has just been released and can be purchased for $20.00 on our store by following the link below.  This beautiful and wildly popular calendar makes a wonderful holiday gift for family, friends, and colleagues.  Titled Picture the Past: Scenes of Baby Point and Nearby, our new calendar features local historical photography, postcards and other materials from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, around the time when Robert Home Smith began to develop the community. They provide a glimpse into the lives of local people, lost landscapes, local businesses, and early transportation and encourage us to imagine what it would have been like to have lived here about a century ago. We hope these scenes inspire pride and curiosity in the Baby Point community, past and present.

The Baby Point Heritage Foundation wall calendar series began in 2017 with the release of its first issue. We hope you enjoy this calendar! As you flip through the pages, please give a moment of reflection and appreciation to the generations of individuals whose cultivation and care have contributed to the preservation of this magnificent place we call home.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO ACCESS OUR STORE FOR THIS PRODUCT.  THE PRICE OF THE CALENDAR IS $20.00 WITH A DELIVERY FEE INCLUDED IN THAT PRICE AND NO HST.

http://babypointheritage.com/initiatives/robert-home-smith-collection/.

 

Founded in early 2010, the Baby Point Heritage Foundation (BPHF) began as a collaboration of neighbours with common interests and a shared goal: to preserve and protect the built heritage of this exceptionally unique neighbourhood. Concerned by interest in demolishing or radically modifying the exterior of homes and streetscape in Baby Point, and catalysed into action by the proposed demolition of a heritage Arts & Crafts home, the group decided to form the BPHF with the view to educate and inform residents and the public of the heritage of the neighbourhood, which is historically, architecturally and archaeologically significant to the history of the City of Toronto, to the province of Ontario, and to Canada.

The Foundation was formally incorporated in August, 2010 as a non-profit, federally-charted organization.

Our Mission:

The focus of BPHF efforts involve three core interests:

• to educate and inform residents and the public of the heritage of the neighbourhood, which is historically, architecturally and archaeologically significant to the history of both Ontario and Canada
• through education and awareness programs, help foster local interest in maintaining Baby Point’s historical atmosphere and architectural integrity
• to make application to the City of Toronto for designation of Baby Point as a Heritage Conservation District (HCD) as laid out in a formal submission

Update on HCD

July 12, 2018 – City of Toronto, Toronto Preservation Board Item:  Proceeding from Study to Plan Phase for the Proposed Baby Point Heritage Conservation District (please click on link below):

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2018.PB36.12